NEW: The ABC majority just voted to decimate the strong social housing requirements on developments in the Downtown Eastside / Oppenheimer District. ABC ignored the feedback of 100s of residents & advocates who spoke over several days warning of displacement and land speculation. #vanpoli

Powell Rooms SRO set to become a unique model of community-owned housing: www.vancitylookout.com/p/exclusive-...

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan themainlander.com/2025/12/08/h...

How do we ensure housing is a right for all? A new op-ed co-authored by CCJ Housing Research Project post-doc Samantha Thompson talks about the disconnect between declaring housing a human right while eliminating policies that make housing possible. Read Here: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025... #bchousing

🎉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

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

Update: Motion passed unanimously. HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT.

The Radical Housing Journal is now on Bluesky - follow for updates about when our journal issues are out, new articles, and other info!

Feeling lucky that I had already planned to vote in my old neighbourhood of Champlain Heights, with its short(er) voting lines today.

Here’s a little ‘By-election basics’ I did with Gloria Macarenko on Friday #vanpoli On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Vancouver by-election 101 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Proposition 1A grabbed nearly 58% of the election night vote tally, signaling social housing is on the way to victory in Seattle. The measure would tax big businesses to raise over $50 million annually to fund social housing. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/11/s...

Really love how prominent Housey has been in this campaign. I miss that mascot.

I am grateful @spthompson.bsky.social for her review of my book @dukepress.bsky.social in @antipodeonline.bsky.social "I suspect that for me and many others, this monograph will become a consistent bookshelf companion that we return to time and time again" antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...

I have a new review out now in @antipodeonline.bsky.social of @michelelancione.bsky.social 's excellent work, For a Liberatory Politics of Home. There is much to think with in this book and it's one I'll be coming back to for a long time. antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...