Reconceptualising the right to housing in times of crises. A comparative analysis of housing struggles in three European cities
Objectives
This project aims to reconceptualise the right to housing by examining the ways in which the continuum of crises since 2008 has impacted and transformed the fields of housing provision and housing struggles in European cities. To serve this aim, the project has two objectives: (a) to develop novel conceptual tools towards the re-theorisation of the housing question in the context of the multiple, intersecting recent crises; and (b) to perform an innovative comparative analysis of contemporary housing struggles in three European cities: Athens, Glasgow and Barcelona. Conceptually, the project builds upon two key concepts, the continuum of crises and their intersection, and housing struggles as urban political struggles.
Through the notion of the “continuum” of crises the HouSinC project will examine in the necessary breadth and depth how the different crises intersect to produce the housing landscape and struggles, by exploring how housing struggles are articulated today in European cities; how housing solidarities are forged and maintained; what are their claims and demands; and what repertoires of actions housing movements mobilise.