Table 2. Summary of the process.

Steps	Action	No.	Explanatory notes
S1	Preliminary steps		Setting and piloting the parameters of the systematic searches (e.g. choice of databases, searching fields, type of reference, discipline, publishing timeline, geography).
S2	Retrieved	154	Systematic searched in SCOPUS and Web of Science (January 10, 2023). References exported in an EndNote database.
S3	Unique references	120	EndNote automatic removal of 34 duplicates.
S4	Manual check for relevance (in titles, abstracts and full text)	27	93 references excluded due to: language misfit (n=1), inaccessibility (n=6), unrecognised duplicates (n=7), country misfit (n=13) and thematic or methodological misfit (n=66).
S5	Boosting the sample with manual searches	62	35 new references were added following searches conducted between January 17 and 20, 2023. (Housing Studies, International Journal of Housing Policy, Geoforum, Habitat International, Urban Studies), and Google Scholar.
S6	Reviewing the reference lists of selected retrieved publications	77	15 references were added after the decision was made to focus the analysis on the regions of Eastern Europe, Western Africa and the Indian sub-continent.

Note: * The final samples at stage S4 and S5 were refined during stage S6, differing slightly from that reported in in Soaita (2023) ( https://zenodo.org/records/7566096).