#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...

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New paper by Fraser Curry @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @urbanfutures.bsky.social from his masters' dissertation - amazing stuff on property guardianship in urban Senegal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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.

#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...

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...

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...

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-...

❤️‍🔥 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...

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

Hello #radicalhousing readers & supporters! 🥁 Next week the RHJ collective will launch its new issue 7.1 bringing together insights & reflections from scholars and activists across the world on #housingprecarity, #tenantsorganizing, land and property #vacancy, & #resistance to #displacement!

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.

🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱 We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation. 📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...

The Radical Housing Journal is now on bsky – follow us here @radicalhousing.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 The RHJ is an independent, international, open-access journal focused on critical housing issues, insights on how contextual housing movements are organised worldwide, and hands-on strategies for action.

The giant housing association Clarion Housing Group is trying to victimise those who complain of service failures, but our members are fighting back and won't be intimidated. #ShacAction shaction.org/2025/02/19/c...

@kwajo.bsky.social I am a PhD student looking to interview Eastfields, High Path, & Ravensbury residents (past and present) who have experienced damp and mould. Would you consider sharing this poster? Thank you!

Shocking aerial images of urbicide in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

Accurate portrayal of me working from home (emails nominally open, lounging about and ignoring them)

MOULD. It's political. Important new open access paper by Elara Shurety on housing, mould and toxicity Elara is a King's College London PhD candidate I supervise with Phil Hubbard (@gypjh2000.bsky.social) in the Urban Futures research group journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Seeing as it's the new year, I'll begin by resharing my paper which was published at a very inopportune time (Xmas Eve) – on mouldy housing, race, slow violence, and "toxic" black mould 🦠🦠. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You know when PhD students spend a few months at a different uni (often in different countries) – how do they get to do this? What are they doing? Are there specific programmes? Where do you find them? Etc (AKA, it's the first Monday of January and I'm looking for ways to leave the UK...)

I demand to be named as a co-author… (seriously though, looks like an important piece!)

Published over xmas (thanks publishers!) but very excited to see Elara Shurety's first paper from her PhD studies of domestic mould. Important stuff and there is a lot more to come! bsky.app/profile/elar...

SHAC on Sky News: Disrepairs Sky News exposed appalling disrepairs & reported on increased complaints to the Housing Ombudsman. A failure of govt enforcement. LAs suffer budget cuts, but HAs have a surplus of £4.4 billion. Rents are up. They can't plead poverty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3x7...

Interesting new paper in Progress in Environmental Geography by @elaraks.bsky.social, interpreting damp and moldy housing through the lens of toxic geographies to understand (slow) violence and harm in/through housing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🦠 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🦠 'Moldy homes: #Toxicity, #race, and the geographies of domestic #mold' by Elara Shurety journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @elaraks.bsky.social

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in @progenvgeog.bsky.social examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nearly 160,000 children in England will wake up on Christmas Day homeless and in temporary accommodation It is not families who are failing, families have been failed Just pressed submit on book manuscript landing in 2025 #homelessness #temporaryaccommodation #debt #England

Here's an essay about how civil society organising has become dominated by NGOs and the projectariat @damagemag.bsky.social The failed Participatory City project in London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is our example 'Bodiless Bodies: The Rise of Para-Institutions' damagemag.com/2024/06/24/b...

ALWAYS thinking about these pics I came across in @bencampkin.bsky.social 's Remaking London (from the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre) of model fleas, rats, bedbugs, and cockroaches being burnt during slum clearances in Somers Town, 1929 ...🪳🪳

This article is harrowing and a difficult read, but really neatly evidences the key structural issue facing the housing crisis: namely slum landlordism and the grip on the political and social narrative in the UK /🧵

Really great article from @shacaction.bsky.social on Awaab’s Law, outlining the troubling barriers set to restrict residents’ ability to access the justice the Bill purports to provide

Have been trying to find people to follow here for the past few days & been absently wondering why I seem to be coming across a higher proportion of US accounts than I do elsewhere … but only just remembered why that might be the case due to events in recent months lol

Less than 30% of tenant complaints to LA EHOs even result in an inspection. And that is English national average. Half of all inspections were carried out by just 20 authorities out of 295. So the odds of getting a response, let alone enforcement, are, depending on area, very poor indeed.

'State-led gentrification'? New on Substack, part II of my post on Southwark's Aylesbury Estate looks at its controversial and long-running regeneration: open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

Resharing here my (first ever!) peer-reviewed paper from 2021, published in the Radical Housing Journal: radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/securin... It argues property guardianship is a method of not only building security but also dispersed policing in urban spaces (particularly regenerating ones).