The working group addresses housing precarity, as well as the urban spaces and everyday practices it produces. The lack of affordable housing, cuts to social security, rising unemployment, and increasing living costs influence people’s housing opportunities. Homelessness has also been on the rise in Finland. At the same time, new housing solutions are being developed and tested within institutions, urban development, activism, and everyday practices.
The working group invites presentations that examine urban housing precarity. Contributions may address, for example, homelessness, housing institutions, democracy, housing policy, activism, and the relationship between housing insecurity and urban space, social inequality, as well as people’s lived experiences and modes of action. Alternatively, presentations may highlight successes, hope, and future visions related to housing insecurities. We welcome theoretical contributions, empirical findings, and methodological experiments regarding urban housing and its complex conditions and spaces.
Abstracts in English.
Chairs
Päivi Kymäläinen
Tampereen yliopisto
Paulina Nordström (Contact person)
Tampereen yliopisto
paulina.nordstrom@tuni.fi