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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌍🏠 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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mariakaragianni.bsky.social @mariakaragianni.bsky.social · Sep 2

🌍🏠 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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jul 4

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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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 · Jun 30

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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 28

#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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 27

#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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 26

#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/"

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 26

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/"

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Nikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social · Jun 24

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.

Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 24

#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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Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social · Jun 19

❤️‍🔥 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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 24

#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...

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 · Jun 23

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/"

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 23

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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 20

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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 19

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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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 19

Against a backdrop of rampant #authoritarianism & #violence, this issue demonstrates how tenants, social movements, and other housing organisers continue to #resist neoliberal, exclusive, classist and xenophobic housing markets and practices locally & through international networks and coalitions.

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

Cover of the Radical Housing Journal Issue 7.1 showing a collage zine.

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · Jun 12

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 · May 13

The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.

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Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social · May 13

🧱✨ 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 · Nov 14

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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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · Oct 28

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 · Nov 12

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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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 · Dec 13

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).

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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