Radical Housing and Environmental Struggles To date, the Radical Housing Journal has published texts related to the manifold economic, social and political crises of/in housing. This call for papers proposes a special issue that will open up research, debate and discussion on what radical housing means in times of environmental and climate crises. We speak… Read MoreCall for papers: New special issue of the RHJ »| Radical Housing Journal
We pen this editorial amidst growing authoritarianism and violence around the world, from the Israeli state’s continued genocide in Gaza to the unfurling fist of the Trump administration quashing immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. It seems we are experiencing what Nancy Fraser (2019)—paraphrasing Antonio Gramsci—refers to as an era in which “the old is… Read MoreHousing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence »| Radical Housing Journal
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
This piece is an update on the community-based design process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s (AEMP) interactive digital story map documenting housing (in)justice during the Covid-19 pandemic. As housing insecurity escalated amid global lockdowns, AEMP volunteers began tracking housing protection legislation, justice actions, and eviction data while simultaneously collecting oral histories from tenants as acts… Read MoreCrafting computational counter-media » The post Crafting...| Radical Housing Journal
This Update explores Martin Heidegger’s concept of dwelling to elucidate the significance of my illustrated work Sterker Door Strijd (Stronger through effort) within the contemporary urban landscape. By situating Heidegger’s notion of dwelling as a meaningful engagement with one’s environment rather than merely residing in physical structures, Sterker investigates the complexities of urban living by… Read MoreMay I dwell? » The post May I dwell? appeared first on Radical Housing Jou...| Radical Housing Journal
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