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Issue 7.2 // November 2025

The Longue Durée of Housing Justice

In the current global moment, marked by deepening uncertainty, intensified financialisation, and rising authoritarianism, it is crucial to reflect on the temporality of housing struggles themselves. As Olufemi (2021) reminds us in her reflections on experimentation and tactics, the pursuit of justice demands ‘tactical patience’: the capacity to endure, to improvise, and to persist even when progress feels imperceptible. The long work of housing justice, then, is not defined by its speed but by its perseverance and its ability to hold open the possibility of transformation in the midst of exhaustion.

This issue invites readers to consider housing justice as both a spatial and temporal project. Its contributors engage with different manifestations of this long struggle: from protest and legal documentation to solidarity networks, artistic practices, and collaborative research. Together, they show that justice is not a fixed achievement but a process continually remade across different sites and scales. Publishing work that ‘speaks from below’ remains vital to this collective effort. It keeps the realities of dispossession and inequality at the centre of scholarly and public debate, while opening space for alternative formulations of rights, ownership, and belonging. By foregrounding the intertwined spatial and temporal dimensions of these struggles, we aim to sustain a conversation about the endurance, creativity, and hope that define the longue durée of housing justice.

http://doi.org/10.54825/XITV9733

Issue editors: Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby and Melora Koepke

Cover photo: Eva Tarrida

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