GLST 660: Housing in an Inequitable World Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Introduction to Housing as an Area of Study (Weeks 1–3)


From A. Roy & H. Malson (Eds.). Housing justice in unequal cities , please read “Housing justice: Towards a field of inquiry,” by Ananya Roy AND one other chapter of your choice.
Madden, D. & Marcuse, P. (2016). Introduction. In Defence of housing: The politics of crisis. Verso.
Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in Madden, D., & Marcuse, P. (2016). In Defence of Housing. Verso.
Malenfant, J., & Brais, H. (2023). An anarchist approach to addressing housing precarity: Implementing anarchist strategies to program efforts for housing justice. Housing, Theory & Society, 41(4), 450–468.

Unit 2: Housing in the Canadian Context (Weeks 4–5)


Porter, L., & Kelly, D. (2023). Dwelling justice: Locating settler relations in research and activism on stolen land. International Journal of Housing Policy, 23(4), 817–835.
Cooper, S. E. (2024). The right to housing in a neoliberal and colonial context. Planning Practice & Research, 39(6), 1012–1031.
Listen: Two episodes from Demystifying community housing [Audio podcast]. Policy Options. policyoptions.irpp.org

Unit 3: Housing in the Transnational Context (Weeks 6–7)


Financialization
Aalbers, M. B., Rolnik, R., & Krijnen, M. (2020). The financialization of housing in capitalism’s peripheries. Housing Policy Debate, 30(4), 481–485.
Watch: Gertten, F. (Director). (2019). Push [Film]. WG Film. dailymotion.com
August, M. (2020). The financialization of Canadian multi-family rental housing: From trailer to tower. Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(7), 975–997.
Gentrification
Cocola-Gant, A., & Lopez-Gay, A. (2020). Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of “foreign only” enclaves in Barcelona. Urban Studies, 57(15), 3025–3043.
Dooling, S. (2009). Ecological gentrification: A research agenda exploring justice in the city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(3), 621–639.
Hoover, J. (2023). The injustice of gentrification. Political Theory, 51(6), 925–954.
Tenant Mobilization
Nettling, P. (2022). Tenant activism and the demise of urban renewal: Tenants, governance, and the struggle for recognition at Habitations Jeanne-Mance in Montreal. Journal of Urban History, 48(3), 523–540.
Tubridy, F. (2024). Militant research in the housing movement: The Community Action Tenants Union Rent Strike History Project. Antipode, 56(3), 1027–1046.
Listen: Rosenthal, T. & Vilchis, L. (2024, October 29). Abolish rent: How tenants can end the housing crisis [Audio podcast episode]. Rev Left Radio. revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com
Intersectional Approaches
Wolifson, P., Maalsen, S., & Rogers, D. (2023). Intersectionalizing housing discrimination under rentier capitalism in an asset-based society. Housing, Theory and Society, 40(3), 335–355.
Gutiérrez-Cueli, I., J. Gil, Martínez, M., & García-Bernardos, Á. (2023). The housing struggle of working-class migrant women in Spain through a double horizon of political temporality. Housing Theory & Society. 1–21.
Vichiato Breda, T. (2023). The role of black women in urban housing struggles in Brazil: From land occupations to the institutional policy. Radical Housing Journal, 5(1), pp. 53–73.
Carcerality
Rodriguez, J. (2024). Carceral connections: The role of policing in the management of public housing in New York City. Urban Studies, 61(3), 513–530.
Reosti, A., Kurwa, R., & Bartram, R. (2024). Rental housing and the continuum of carcerality. Theoretical Criminology, 0(0).
Bonds, A. (2019). Race and ethnicity I: Property, race, and the carceral state. Progress in Human Geography, 43(3), 574–583.

Unit 6: Reflecting on Experiential Learning (Weeks 12–13)


Chatterjee, P., Sisson, A., & Condie, J. (2024). How can scholarship contribute to housing justice? Three roles for researchers. Housing, Theory & Society, 41(5), 591–607.
Acorn Canada. (n.d.). Housing / tenant Unions. (Read about how some people are organizing in Canada on housing issues.)
Radical Housing Journal. (Choose any article from this site.)