Radical Housing Journal
@radicalhousing.bsky.social
An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Twelfth issue out June 2025!
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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
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#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
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#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
🌍🏠 One month left!
Submit your abstract for the RHJ special issue on radical housing & environmental struggles by 1/10.
#RadicalHousing #EnvironmentalJustice #HousingJustice #CFP
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Submit your abstract for the RHJ special issue on radical housing & environmental struggles by 1/10.
#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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September 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
🌍🏠 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!
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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🌍🏠 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
#RadicalHousing #EnvironmentalJustice #HousingJustice #CFP
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...
radicalhousingjournal.org
September 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🌍🏠 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
#RadicalHousing #EnvironmentalJustice #HousingJustice #CFP
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...
How are housing injustices entangled with climate and environmental crises?
#HousingJustice #ClimateJustice #Decarbonisation
more info:
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/call-fo...
July 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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...
How are housing injustices entangled with climate and environmental crises?
#HousingJustice #ClimateJustice #Decarbonisation
more info:
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/call-fo...
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
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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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June 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/hub-for...
#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
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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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June 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#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-...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/tenant-...
#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
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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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June 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#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...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/may-i-d...
#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
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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...
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/crafting-computational-counter-media/"
June 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#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
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radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/craftin...
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?
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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...
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/the-politics-of-vacancy/"
June 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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?
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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.
#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.
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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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June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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❤️🔥 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...
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...
June 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
❤️🔥 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...
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...
#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...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
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...
radicalhousingjournal.org
June 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#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...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/financi...
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
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#housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing
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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...
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/homes-and-hands-united/"
June 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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...
#housingaffordability & #labourstruggle in #studenthousing
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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
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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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June 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/between...
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.
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June 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...
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:
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"..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-...
Issue 7.1 » Radical Housing Journal
Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence
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June 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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-...
"..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-...
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
"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
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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
"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
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!
🥁 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!
June 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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!
🥁 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!
🧱✨ 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...
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...
May 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🧱✨ 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...
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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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
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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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November 14, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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...
radicalhousingjournal.org/2024/rent-co...
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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
October 28, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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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My review of the incredible heartbreaking and empowering edited collection by
Doorways Project exploring women, homelessness, trauma, and resistance, in the Radical Housing Journal
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Doorways Project exploring women, homelessness, trauma, and resistance, in the Radical Housing Journal
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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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November 12, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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...
Doorways Project exploring women, homelessness, trauma, and resistance, in the Radical Housing Journal
radicalhousingjournal.org/2020/book-re...
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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).
It argues property guardianship is a method of not only building security but also dispersed policing in urban spaces (particularly regenerating ones).
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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December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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).
It argues property guardianship is a method of not only building security but also dispersed policing in urban spaces (particularly regenerating ones).