Glasgow has long been associated with a strong tradition of housing activism, a reputation that was firmly established in the early twentieth century.
Today, Glasgow’s repertoire of housing struggles is hybrid and granular. Neighbourhood branches, collective casework, legal case navigation and “everyday repairs politics” sit alongside escalations—eviction blockades, anti-raids defence, door-knocks and targeted landlord pressure.
Each crisis condensed existing contradictions while opening specific organising opportunities. Glasgow’s case underscores that rights are produced in practice before they are codified in law: through the infrastructures of branches, casework, defence, and alliances that make homes livable and life possible under scarcity. Crises have not only stressed these infrastructures; they have revealed them as the substrate of urban reproduction.