What happens when feminist organising meets the tenant movement under authoritarian financialisation? 🔗 Read the full conversation: radicalhousingjournal.org/2026/feminis...

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.

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...

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?

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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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...

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...

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...

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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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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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🎉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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🌍🏠 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!

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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🌍🏠 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

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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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...

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...

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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#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-...

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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#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...

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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#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...

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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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...

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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