This paper explores the potentials and challenges of organising in (and at times against-and-beyond) social housing. Drawing on extended research across the UK with a range of tenants, activists, and housing staff we illustrate the need for fine-grained and spatially attuned analysis. In particular we adopt an autonomist Marxist ‘spatial composition analysis’, arguing that this… Read MoreExploring the spatial composition of UK social housing » The post Exploring the spatial compositio...| Radical Housing Journal
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This paper examines the strategic alliance between the Tenant Solidarity Working Group (TSWG)—a graduate-student tenant union—and CUPE Local 3906, representing Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Research Assistants (RAs) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Situated within Hamilton’s ongoing economic shift from manufacturing, specifically steel production, toward increased real estate speculation, financialization, and intellectual labour, this study… Read MoreHomes and hands unit...| Radical Housing Journal
This paper reinterprets urban vacancy in Greece not as market failure, but as a calculated tool for profit. Focusing on Thessaloniki, it argues that vacancy is produced, maintained, repurposed, and removed by financial actors to maximize returns. These actors withhold properties from circulation, controlling the timing of their reintegration into the market to sustain speculation… Read MoreFinancialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy » The post Financialization, p...| Radical Housing Journal