housing justice

Interviews

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City

Jonathan Silver & Isaac Rose - 24 June 2025

Jonathan Silver interviews author and tenant organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in...

From the Field

A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland

Deike Peters & Sam Lutzker - 18 March 2025

As housing crises become increasingly entangled with environmental crises, the question of just outcomes requires...

From the Field

Dusting off the Archives: Connecting Historical Renters’ Activism to Contemporary Housing-Justice Efforts

Céline Drieskens - 5 March 2025

Drawing parallels between the first renters’ union in Brussels and the contemporary efforts of WUUNE, a newly formed...

Series

Horizons in the Housing Struggle

Jaime Jover & Kristen Hackett - 14 February 2025

We are living through a polycrisis, a multidimensional, interlinked series of capitalism’s structural problems...

Debates

When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York’s 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future

Oksana Mironova & Samuel Stein - 10 September 2024

How did New York housing policy fare with Democratic control of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of...

Essays

A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization

Jaime Jover - 23 June 2021

Financialization enables a wealthy transnational class to accumulate capital through land, enhances inequalities...

From the Field

Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective

Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins - 13 April 2021

Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice...

Interviews

Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore

Nicole Fabricant & Carlos Sanchez & Terriq Thompson - 16 March 2021

Two Baltimore youth organizers discuss the importance of community land trusts, for housing and beyond. ----...

From the Field

The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment

Valerie E. Stahl - 10 November 2020

The New York City Housing Authority, faced with a capital shortfall of nearly $40 billion, is pursuing a series of...

Debates

What Does a Just Housing Plan Look Like? NYC and National Housing Movements Show the Way

Oksana Mironova & Sylvia Morse - 22 October 2019

How could we develop a housing plan that is not rooted in capitalism? Oksana Mironova and Sylvia Morse describe how...

From the Field

Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition

Avi Garelick - 15 October 2019

Avi Garelick describes how the imperative for realism in affordable housing production conflicts with the goals of a...

From the Field

When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements

H. Jacob Carlson & Marnie Brady & Gianpaolo Baiocchi - 13 November 2018

Progressive governments are often pulled away from their campaign promises by local growth-coalition interests or for...

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City

A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland

Dusting off the Archives: Connecting Historical Renters’ Activism to Contemporary Housing-Justice Efforts

Horizons in the Housing Struggle

When Rising Expectations Meet Rising Reaction: New York’s 2024 Housing Policy Fight and the Prospects for the Future

A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization

Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective

Fighting for Housing Justice: An Interview with Two Youth Organizers in Curtis Bay, Baltimore

The Contestations and Contradictions of the New York City Housing Authority’s Plan for Mixed-Income Redevelopment

What Does a Just Housing Plan Look Like? NYC and National Housing Movements Show the Way

Community Movements and Housing Liberalism: Reflections on the Bank of America Low‑Income Housing Competition

When Progressive Mayors Aren’t Enough: Homes for All and Trans-Local Social Movements

Series

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