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An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Thirteenth issue out November 2025!

https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
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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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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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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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December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
November 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New #LongRead by Clark Lilley, Lauren A. Morgan, Abhirupa Dasgupta & Terri Lewinson

Hotel housing: The past, the present, and the future

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#HotelHousing #ExtendedStayHotels #HousingCrisis #LowIncomeHousing #HousingContinuum
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🎉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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November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🌍🏠 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...

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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
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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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September 2, 2025 at 8:10 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:
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July 4, 2025 at 7:05 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

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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
#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
#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 '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
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
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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.
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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...
June 19, 2025 at 10:58 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.

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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 7:41 AM
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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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 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
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
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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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
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
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 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!
June 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM