Issue 4.2
Lived realities versus state rationalities: Mobilizing within and against housing injustices
The contributions in this issue of the Radical Housing Journal evidence the historical and contemporary evolution of struggles against structural pressures impacting housing and everyday precarity, as well as mobilizing efforts based on particular local, gained or ancestral knowledge. We outline four main themes emerging in the articles featured in this issue, all situated both within and against the lived realities of housing injustices. We hope this issue triggers analyses, questions, approaches and praxis for housing activists, researchers and practitioners everywhere to continue to imagine and co-produce transitions that move beyond our current realities to those founded on true security and justice.
doi.org/10.54825/UOGO5149
Cover image: Ishita Chatterjee
Cover design: Felicia Berryessa-Erich
Editorial
The Long Read
What is home?
Wisdom from nêhiyawêwin
Cheyenne Greyeyes and Celina M. Vipond
Tent encampments in Toronto, Canada
Excavating Northern housing informalities
Allison Evans
Organizing for expropriation
How a tenants campaign convinced Berliners to vote for expropriating big landlords
Lisa Vollmer and Daniel Gutiérrez
Mapping displacement through lived experiences
Countermapping transit-induced gentrification in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
Brian Doucet, Faryal Diwan, William Turman, Neelu Mehta and Aleksandra Petrovic
Beyond efficiency in low-income housing provision
Everyday negotiations of nonprofit staff and the limits to caring through marketized housing in Buffalo, New York
Gillian Prater-Lee
No city for Khori Gaon residents
Forced eviction during a pandemic in the name of forest conservation
Ishita Chatterjee
Make-work methodology
Canadian homelessness research and its role in austerity
Sophia Ilyniak
Conversations
Housing justice, mobilization, and financialization
A Conversation from the Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice
Sonja Coquelin, Joanna Kusiak, Jaime Palomera and Samuel Stein in conversation with Rae Baker, Emanuele Belotti, Aysegul Can and Elsa Noterman
Housing Futures
An experimental get-together for a rekindled housing movement
Setareh Noorani, Katía Truijen and René Boer
Community-Led housing in the UK
Learning from Black British and migrant histories
Claude Hendrickson and Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia
You promised me a city
A conversation about assuming responsibilities
Judith Keller and Anne Morlock
Updates
Housing and Reincorporation Strategies in post-Conflict Colombia
Mismatch of micro-level visions and macro-scale approaches
Daniela Sanjinés and Natalia Quiñónez
Refugee migration from Ukraine to other parts of Europe
Challenges to the housing-integration intersection at the city level
Annegret Haase, Harriet Allsopp, Ivette Arroyo, Yvonne Franz, and Karlis Laksevics
The Housing Question a century and a half later
Notes from New York City
Jaime Jover
Book review
Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People: Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain
Maka Suarez
Book review
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
Joe Rees