Radical Housing Journal

The Radical Housing Journal website is currently undergoing updates and improvements. Thank you for your patience while we tidy things up behind the scenes.

If you need to reach us in the meantime, we’re very much here:
Email us at collective@radicalhousingjournal.org
Or send us a DM on our socials

In his #bookreview of Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (2025), Antoine Lovell engages with Bernadette Atuahene’s powerful analysis of the ways in which legal systems are used to dispossess Black homeowners.
Read it here: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/plundered

Image of the cover of the book, Radically Legal

What happens when housing movements take the law seriously, and radically?

In this #bookreview, our editor Solange Muñoz engages with Joanna Kusiak’s “Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future,”

Available in #openaccess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/radical...

#berlinhousing
#RHJ

This #conversation brings together Aland Castro and Cristina Cabello from the Movimiento de Pobladores Ukamau in Santiago, #Chile, in dialogue with Marcos Ancelovici.

Read the interview here radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/the-str...

Available in English, Spanish, and French

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...

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

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

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

New #LongRead by Clark Lilley, Lauren A. Morgan, Abhirupa Dasgupta & Terri Lewinson

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

Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/hotel-h...

#HotelHousing #ExtendedStayHotels #HousingCrisis #LowIncomeHousing #HousingContinuum

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

A graphic that introduces issue 7.2 of the Radical Housing Journal. It is titled The longue durée of housing justice. The byline reads "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". The issue is 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

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

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...

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

Home » Radical Housing Journal % 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...

🎉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

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...

🌍🏠 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...

Please share & spread the word!

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...

🌍🏠 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

Radical housing journal panel on affordable housing decarbonisation and financing in Europe at the European Network for Housing Research 2025

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:
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/call-fo...

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 ...

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

radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/hub-for...

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...

#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

radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/tenant-...

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. ...

#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

radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/may-i-d...

@bretthalperin.bsky.social

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...

#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
radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/craftin...

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...

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?

radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/the-pol...

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.

❤️‍🔥 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...

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...

#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...

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...

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

radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/homes-a...

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...

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

radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/between...

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.

radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/explori...

Issue 7.1 » Radical Housing Journal Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence

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:
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...

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.

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

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

radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...

#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance