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Issue 7.1 is live! "Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by @camilacocina @elaraks Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-7-… on #housingstruggles against rampant authoritarianism & violence (btw, we're leaving X!)

Issue 7.1 #Update "Crafting Computational Counter-Media: Spatial Story Design of Housing (In)justice and Archival Challenges" on the community-based design process behind the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s interactive digital story map during #Covid19 radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/crafting-…

As we all mourn Benito, I wanted to share a glimpse of his brilliant refusal of state power published in one of our @ChallengeIneq articles in @Radical_Housing : radicalhousingjournal.org/wp-content/upl…

Yesterday at #ENHR2025 we 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 here: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/call-for-…

#Updates by Jessie Speers, David Madden, & the Housing Squeeze workshop participants “Introducing the Housing Squeeze zine”, which combines interview, maps and collage to respond to the ongoing pressures of shrinking #domesticspaces experienced worldwide radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/introduci…

Issue 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-h…

Issue 7.1 #Updates “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, now undermined by funding cuts & policy rollbacks radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/tenant-op…

Issue 7.1 "May I dwell?: Update on the city illustration project Sterker Door Strijd" by Tânia Cardoso investigates #drawing as activism, highlighting the tension between #Rotterdam’s architectural advancements & its urban residents' #housinginsecurity radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/may-i-dwe…

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-polit…

The #LongRead "Financialization, possessive familialism, and the politics of vacancy" by @Vrantsis1 reinterprets vacancy as a tool for profit, reinforced by state policies, landlord lobbying & #Greece’s entrenched system of possessive #familialism radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financial…

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-and…

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-n…

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 #socialhousing, through insights from successful & unsuccessful campaigns radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/exploring…

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." read further👇🏾 radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/editorial…

Dearest #radicalhousing readers, contributors & allies, as we put the final touches on our #newissue 7.1 - out this week! - we are slowlyly but surely migrating to other platforms (to begin with: bsky, IG, LinkedIn). Check our biog & keep following us!

Khushboo Jain reviews the #book 'Housing, Homelessness, and Social Policy in the Urban North' (2024) critiquing the neglect of rural communities impacted by colonial policies radicalhousingjournal.org/2024/book-revi…

#Reflection by Daniel Manyasi @LorettaCLees & Ashley West on Single Mothers Association of Kenya (SMAK) fight to stay put @ZiwaniNairobi against the redevelopment (#gentrification) of one of the first East African public housing under colonial rule: radicalhousingjournal.org/2024/single-mo…