Housing Justice Organizing in the Time of COVID-19
View our digital repository of the legal, political, and public health arguments that movement leaders and critical scholars are making to support the public during COVID-19.
Rent debt and the specter of eviction has disproportionately impacted low-income communities of color during the COVID-19 pandemic. View regularly updated estimates of rent debt and its impacts across the U.S.
Though many people have faced eviction during COVID-19, settlement evictions in Delhi have displaced communities for years. The Missing Basti Project is an initiative that documents these evictions to mobilize communities against future displacements.
THE NETWORK
With partners in India, Brazil, South Africa, Spain, and the U.S., the Network aimed to bring together organizations, individuals, and ideas around creating housing access and housing justice through legal frameworks, cooperative models of land and housing, and community organizing.
MISSION
The Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Network was funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1758774) from 2018 through 2023. The Network brought together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examines established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax). In doing so, it consolidated housing justice as a field of inquiry and set the stage for future research in geography and urban studies. Learn more.
