The next installation in our Horizons in the Housing Struggle series is up! Using Cross-Class Politics to Challenge Urban Housing Inequality in Islamabad, Pakistan by Hafsah Siddiqui buff.ly/ETLVOED

Geolocation practices among teenagers are ambivalent, combining aspects of both play and surveillance. Yann Bruna examines Snap Map use, which exposes girls in particular to new forms of vulnerability online and in urban spaces. buff.ly/S0yyLMm

When redevelopment schemes target a city’s poor for removal, how can poor residents assert a right to their home? In Islamabad, Hafsah Siddiqui shows how cross-class politics can be the basis for the poor to maintain a right to the city. buff.ly/bDp4NMC

Geolocation Among Teenage Peers: Between Play, Control, and Gendered Vulnerability | by Yann Bruna buff.ly/pTXJL5t

Benjamín Nahoum presents the case of the Uruguayan cooperative movement that started in the 1960s. Through the years, the movement has shifted but the principles of mutual aid and self-management remain as it became one of the primary housing tenures. buff.ly/Sd99oR3

Las cooperativas de vivienda uruguayas. El milagro de los “comunes” | Benjamín Nahoum buff.ly/6fGCxtG

The Uruguayan Housing Cooperatives: The Miracle of the “Commons” | by Benjamín Nahoum buff.ly/Sd99oR3

In the midst of a deep housing crisis, more than 100,000 families in Chile are currently living in informal settlements. Santiago Castillo examines the rise of land occupations and the state responses that have only deepened the conflict. buff.ly/fWX0ORI

In Argentina, the reforms promoted by the libertarian government represent an offensive of capital on labor. Nicolás Trivi shows that the rental market is one of its battlefields. buff.ly/19Aod5p

Massive Evictions and Housing Crisis in Chile | by Santiago Castillo Braithwaite buff.ly/fWX0ORI

Argentina: The Rental Issue in the Milei Era | by Nicolás A. Trivi buff.ly/19Aod5p

Using the case of Kolkata’s tram system, Tathagata Chatterji shows how two distinct political strategies—populism and clientelism—operate in a symbiotic relationship to circumvent formal planning processes in India’s third-largest city. buff.ly/iVVv9fn

Policy efforts in Argentina to reduce housing inequality have been met with Milei’s chainsaw. Facundo A. Corti shows how the state has made the fight for housing equality a one-sided struggle. buff.ly/diiI5Z9

Planning in the Age of Political Populism: Kolkata’s Tram Debate | by Tathagata Chatterji buff.ly/iVVv9fn

Integration or Chainsaw: Some Reflections on the Policies of Cruelty in Milei’s Argentina Based on the ReNaBaP Case | by Facundo A. Corti buff.ly/diiI5Z9

Next week, we'll be publishing another article in our 'Horizons in the Housing Struggle' series. Take some time to get caught up before our next installation in the series. buff.ly/7rczxSl

Can valuing a home for its use value constitute a form of resistance to housing financialization? Considering the case of housing in Hegang, China, Yimeng Yang argues that the grassroots rejection of the logic of financialization is a form of resistance. buff.ly/IukHddi

Settling on the Financial Periphery: Alternative Housing Practices in Hegang, China | by Yimeng Yang buff.ly/IukHddi

Jonathan Silver interviews author and organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in Manchester, The Rentier City. They discuss the motivations for writing the book, how theory informs practice, and the influences that guided Rose. buff.ly/MnjHbje

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City | by Jonathan Silver & Isaac Rose buff.ly/MnjHbje