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An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Issue 8.1 is out in June 2026! radicalhousingjournal.org

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What does it take to keep people housed when the courts keep filing evictions, even under a federal moratorium? This #update from the field examines the Renter's Emergency Subsidy for Eligible Tenants (RESET) project in Clayton County, Georgia.
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What happens when feminist organising meets the tenant movement under authoritarian financialisation? 🔗 Read the full conversation: radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/feminis...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Housing is never just one thing: a fundamental human need, a critical resource, a pillar of urban economies, and a claimed human or social right. The radical claims through housing struggles illuminate new facets of the ongoing crisis while functioning as meaning-making practices in their own right.
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Are rent strikes more like labour strikes or consumer boycotts? It's a deceptively simple question, and this #longread answers it through the lens of Marxian political economy, comparing all three forms of collective action. 🔗 radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/what-is...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Housing mobility is usually understood as the product of individual or household needs and decisions – or studied through its spatial outcomes, like #segregation. But what if mobility is also a discursive device, doing political-economic work of its own?
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The discursive formation of housing mobility in Sweden: » Radical Housing Journal
Over recent decades, great attention has been paid to housing mobility, emphasizing it as the result of individual/household needs and decisions or its spatialised outcomes such as segregation. By exa...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Homelessness is often framed as a social problem demanding state intervention and welfare provision. But what if homelessness is also socially constructed, shaped by historically and spatially specific narratives about who belongs where? 🔗 radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/the-dis...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Based on ethnographic-inspired research in Belo Horizonte's metropolitan periphery, this #longread moves beyond formal/informal binaries to show how real estate shifts between formality and informality, adapting to families' changing social reproduction. 🔗 radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/transit...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Authors Tubridy, de Tymowski and Bresnihan reflect on a collaborative project with the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) at the Cromcastle Court public housing estate in Dublin, which contributed to material improvements in tenants' living conditions. 🔗 radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/from-da...
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From data collection to direct action: » Radical Housing Journal
This paper examines the role of research in supporting tenant organising through reflecting on a collaborative project undertaken with the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) in the Cromcastle Court...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
In our new editorial @spthompson.bsky.social and Solange Muñoz examine how generative AI extracts, exploits, and commodifies our collective knowledge while perpetuating the myth of individual success. radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/is-resi... #openaccess #global #radical #housing #scholarship
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Issue 8.1 Fuelling collective work in the face of AI is out! Check out our latest issue: radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-... #openaccess #global #radical #housing #scholarship
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our new Issue 8.1 launches this week, edited by Solange Muñoz, Samantha Thompson, Derick Anderson, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Maria Karagianni, Saila Maria Saaristo, and Elara Shurety. #openaccess #global #radical #housing #scholarship
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Radical Housing Journal website is currently undergoing updates and improvements. Thank you for your patience while we tidy things up behind the scenes. If you need to reach us in the meantime, we’re very much here: Email us at collective@radicalhousingjournal.org Or send us a DM on our socials
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
In his #bookreview of Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (2025), Antoine Lovell engages with Bernadette Atuahene’s powerful analysis of the ways in which legal systems are used to dispossess Black homeowners. Read it here: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/plundered
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
What happens when housing movements take the law seriously, and radically? In this #bookreview, our editor Solange Muñoz engages with Joanna Kusiak’s “Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future,” Available in #openaccess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/radical... #berlinhousing #RHJ
Image of the cover of the book, Radically Legal
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This #conversation brings together Aland Castro and Cristina Cabello from the Movimiento de Pobladores Ukamau in Santiago, #Chile, in dialogue with Marcos Ancelovici. Read the interview here radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/the-str... Available in English, Spanish, and French
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
New #Conversation between Alfredo Rodríguez and Ana Sugranyes with Camila Cociña Twenty years of ‘Los con techo’ A conversation on the unpaid debts of Chile’s housing policy Read the full text in #openacess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/twenty-... #Housing policy, #Chile, #Conversation
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Twenty years of ‘Los con techo’ » Radical Housing Journal
Two decades after the publication of the book Los con techo (Those with a roof, 2005), its authors Alfredo Rodríguez and Ana Sugranyes reflect on how this emblematic study of Chile’s social housing mo...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New #LongRead by Céline Drieskens Spaces of resistance: Re-activating archives through community exhibitions for housing justice. Read the full text in #openacess radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/spaces-... #LongRead #HousingJustice #CommunityArchives #Exhibitions #UrbanResistance
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
New #LongRead by Anushka Dasgupta Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin... #LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
New #LongRead by Clark Lilley, Lauren A. Morgan, Abhirupa Dasgupta & Terri Lewinson Hotel housing: The past, the present, and the future Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/hotel-h... #HotelHousing #ExtendedStayHotels #HousingCrisis #LowIncomeHousing #HousingContinuum
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
New #LongRead by Thijs Meeusen & Abigail Friendly Challenging gentrification: Community struggle in CLT H-Buurt, Amsterdam Read the full text in #openaccess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/challen... #LongRead #CommunityLandTrusts #Gentrification #UrbanCommons #RightToTheCity #HousingJustice
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice. Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke. Read the editorial and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
A graphic that introduces issue 7.2 of the Radical Housing Journal. It is titled The longue durée of housing justice. The byline reads "The long work of housing justice, then, is not defined by its speed but by its perseverance and its ability to hold open the possibility of transformation in the midst of exhaustion". 

The issue is edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.

Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice. Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke. Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
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The longue durée of housing justice » Radical Housing Journal
This editorial frames housing justice as a question of spatial and temporal struggle, engaging the longue durée of dispossession, endurance, and collective transformation. From the weaponisation of sp...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🎉Issue 7.2 is live! "The longue durée of housing justice," edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila-Maria Saaristo, Melora Koepke, and Andy Crosby. Read the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org. #HousingJustice #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #SpatialPolitics
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The Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) is an orientation, a praxis for doing research and action. It seeks to critically intervene in pre and post-crisis housing experiences and activist strategies from ar...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🌍🏠 One month left! Submit your abstract for the RHJ special issue on radical housing & environmental struggles by 1/10. #RadicalHousing #EnvironmentalJustice #HousingJustice #CFP For more information: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/call-fo... Please share & spread the word!
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Call for papers: New special issue of the RHJ » Radical Housing Journal
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 p...
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mariakaragianni.bsky.social @mariakaragianni.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🌍🏠 One month left! Submit your abstract for the RHJ special issue on radical housing & environmental struggles by 1/10. Please reshare & spread the word! #RadicalHousing #EnvironmentalJustice #HousingJustice #CFP
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Call for papers: New special issue of the RHJ » Radical Housing Journal
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 p...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
RHJ editors at the #ENHR2025 launched a #CallForPapers for a special issue on Radical Housing and the Environment: How are housing injustices entangled with climate and environmental crises? #HousingJustice #ClimateJustice #Decarbonisation more info: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/call-fo...
Radical housing journal panel on affordable housing decarbonisation and financing in Europe at the European Network for Housing Research 2025
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This 7.1 #Updates piece presents the launch of the “Hub for housing justice: Promoting anti-discriminatory, radically democratic, sustainable and caring housing futures”, a collaboration of international civil society networks & research organisations radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/hub-for...
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Hub for housing justice » Radical Housing Journal
This Update describes the recently launched Hub for Housing Justice, a collaborative space led by a group of international civil society networks and research organisations. By bringing together such ...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#Updates piece “Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act in Washington DC: A Brief History” discusses a key #housingjustice legal tool enabling working-class tenants to collectively purchase their homes, increasingly undermined by funding cuts & policy rollbacks radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/tenant-...
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Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act in Washington DC: » Radical Housing Journal
This update looks into the history and the current contestation of Washington, D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA). TOPA provides tenants of rental housing with the right of first refusal...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#Update by Tânia Cardoso "May I dwell?: Update on the city illustration project Sterker Door Strijd" investigates drawing as activism that highlights the tension between #Rotterdam’s architectural advancements & the housing insecurity faced by its residents radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/may-i-d...
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May I dwell? » 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. ...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#Update 'Crafting Computational Counter-Media: Spatial Story Design of Housing (In)justice and Archival Challenges' by @bretthalperin.bsky.social on the community-based process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's interactive digital story map #Covid19 radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/craftin...
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Crafting computational counter-media » 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 pandem...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Issue 7.1 #Reflection by HARTA on "The politics of vacancy: Housing struggles and collective action in rural Greece" asks: how can land and residential vacancies be reclaimed as terrains of social justice and collective agency in rural Greece? radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/the-pol...
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The politics of vacancy » Radical Housing Journal
This article traces the political and activist journey of HARTA, a collective born in the small municipality of Naousa, Greece, amid a crisis of housing precarity, migrant displacement, and rural decl...
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Nikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Vacancy isn’t just empty space—it’s a money-making machine. In this piece for @radicalhousing.bsky.social, I break down how landlord power, state policy, and Greece’s deep-rooted attachment to family ownership turn vacancy into one of the country’s most profitable ventures.
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
❤️‍🔥 Issue 7.1 of the @radicalhousing.bsky.social out today! ❤️‍🔥 It's been a pleasure & a privilege to work with the RHJ collective & some very talented authors on producing this rich issue. Check out some of the articles within, and read our editorial here: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/editori...
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Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence » 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 immi...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#LongRead "Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy" @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social reinterprets vacancy as a tool for profit, reinforced by state policies, landlord lobbying & #Greece’s entrenched system of possessive #familialism. radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
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Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy » 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 re...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Homes and Hands United" examines the strategic alliance between a graduate-student tenant union & Teaching and Research Assistants at McMaster University, Hamilton #Ontario #housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/homes-a...
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Homes and hands united » Radical Housing Journal
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 A...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Issue 7.1 #LongRead by Luisa Gehriger "Between normalisation, critique and contestation: Why tenants threatened by displacement resist or comply with landlords' plans" draws on a five-years research with tenants facing renovation and demolition in #Basel radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/between...
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Between normalisation, critique and contestation » Radical Housing Journal
Drawing on five years of ethnographic research with tenants facing mass cancellations due to renovation or demolition in Basel, Switzerland, this paper analyses the relation between landlords’ plans a...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
In Issue 7.1 #LongRead "Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing", Nick Clare, Joe Kearsey & Shaun French discuss the challenges of organising in, against-and-beyond social housing, through insights from successful & unsuccessful campaigns. radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
From the #Editorial of issue 7.1 "..at the heart of authoritarianism is a desire for absolute control over people, land and territory—a desire closely tied to questions of property and who has rights to dwell and inhabit in which place." To read more: radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
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Issue 7.1 » Radical Housing Journal
Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁 "Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-... #housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
Cover of the Radical Housing Journal Issue 7.1 showing a collage zine.
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hello #radicalhousing readers & supporters! 🥁 Next week the RHJ collective will launch its new issue 7.1 bringing together insights & reflections from scholars and activists across the world on #housingprecarity, #tenantsorganizing, land and property #vacancy, & #resistance to #displacement!
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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱 We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation. 📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
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Jennie Gustafsson @jiegson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This conversation with @hamishkallin.bsky.social, Neil Gray and others in Radical Housing Journal sets light on different forms of rent control/regulation, with me, Maria Persdotter & Maria Wallstam contributing about the Swedish experience radicalhousingjournal.org/2024/rent-co...
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Rent controls in comparative perspective: » Radical Housing Journal
A reflection from activists and academics who participate in an international symposium in Edinburgh on living with or fighting for rent controls from across Europe and North America.
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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Radical Housing Journal @Radical_Housing has a new issue out, full Open Access and great critical views on housing issues and struggles around the world. A debate on rent controls now is an additional value! radicalhousingjournal.org #urban #sociology
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Ro @rowanalogue.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My review of the incredible heartbreaking and empowering edited collection by Doorways Project exploring women, homelessness, trauma, and resistance, in the Radical Housing Journal radicalhousingjournal.org/2020/book-re...
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Book review of 'Doorways: » Radical Housing Journal
Rowan Tallis-Milligan reviews 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance' (2019) by Bekki Perriman.
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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Resharing here my (first ever!) peer-reviewed paper from 2021, published in the Radical Housing Journal: radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/securin... It argues property guardianship is a method of not only building security but also dispersed policing in urban spaces (particularly regenerating ones).
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Securing the city, making the city: » Radical Housing Journal
This article discusses property guardianship, a type of building security by live-in occupants, as a growing method of dispersed policing.
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