December 4th 2025
What happens when middle-class families merge into lower-income settlements? This podcast explores how social dynamics—from role modeling and aspirations to economic spillovers—can transform marginalized communities into thriving socio-economic and architectural spaces.
December 1st, 2025
The story of Colombo’s Urban Regeneration Project (URP) and the broader history of housing in Sri Lanka. From colonial-era settlements to Premadasa’s revolutionary Million Houses Programme, and finally to the controversial high-rise relocations of the 2010s, we explore how the promise of “development” often came at the cost of dispossession.
November 16th, 2025
Sri Lanka’s urban housing crisis is getting worse—and for many middle-income families, the dream of owning a home is slipping out of reach. In this episode of Copilot Podcasts, we dive deep into the numbers, the policies, and the emerging solutions shaping the future of housing in Sri Lankan cities.