Publications by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park LakeMarch 23, 2022
We Do Not Forget: Stolen Lives of LA’s Unhoused During the COVID-19 PandemicDecember 1, 2021
Who Profits from Crisis? Housing Grabs in Times of RecoveryOctober 16, 2020
Unhousing the Poor: Interlocking Regimes of Racialized PolicingAugust 25, 2020
Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter CrisisAugust 7, 2020
For the Crisis Yet to Come: Temporary Settlements in the Era of EvictionsJuly 21, 2020
Hotel California: Housing the CrisisJuly 9, 2020
UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los AngelesMay 28, 2020
Methodologies for Housing Justice Resource GuideApril 29, 2020
Data for Democracy: Housing Inequality in Los AngelesApril 27, 2020
Neighborhood Inequality in Shelter-in-Place BurdenApril 22, 2020
Housing Justice in Unequal CitiesJanuary 31, 2019
Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities Conference ReportApril 26, 2018
Publications by Network Members
- Geography’s Abolitionist Turn: Notes on Freedom, Property, and the State
AUGUST 17, 2023 – Article via Progress in Human Geography authored by #UnequalCities Network member Madeleine Hamlin
- From the Squat to the Neighbourhood: Popular Infrastructures As Reproductive Urban Commons
JUNE 20, 2023 – Article via Geoforum co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Melissa García-Lamarca and Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
- "The Echoes of Echo Park": Anti-Homeless Ordinances in Neo-Revanchist Cities
MARCH 22, 2023 – Article via Urban Affairs Review co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Christopher Giamarino and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
- Law, Urban Space, and Precarious Property: The Governance of Poor People’s Possessions
MARCH 2023 – Article via Fordham Urban Law Journal co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Nicholas Blomley, Alexandra Flynn, Marie-Ève Sylvestre, and Nicholas Olson
- Housing Justice, Mobilization, and Financialization: A Conversation From the Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice
DECEMBER 2022 – Article via Radical Housing Journal co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Sonja Coquelin, Joanna Kusiak, Jaime Palomera, Samuel Stein, Rae Baker, Emanuele Belotti, Aysegul Can, and Elsa Noterman
- A Typology of Informal Housing in the United States: Lessons for Planners
NOVEMBER 13, 2022 – Article via Journal of Planning Education and Research by #UnequalCities Network members Claire W. Herbert, Noah J. Durst, Deyanira Nevárez Martínez
- Speculative Urban Worldmaking: Meeting Financial Violence with a Politics of Collective Care
NOVEMBER 2022 – Article via Antipode co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Brandi T. Summers and Desiree Fields
- Landlord Technologies of Gentrification: Facial Recognition and Building Access Technologies in New York City Homes
OCTOBER 2022 – Report authored by #UnequalCities Network partner the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- Densifying Berkeley: Potential Impacts on Displacement and Equity
OCTOBER 2022 – Report authored by #UnequalCities Network partner the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- Fighting for Housing Justice in the Americas
SEPTEMBER 2022 – Issue of NACLA Report on the Americas edited by #UnequalCities Network Steering Committee member Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
- Blueprint for the Future: Unhoused Tenant Organizing in Los Angeles
JULY 2022 – Article via the Radical Housing Journal authored by #UnequalCities Network members the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective
- Continuum of Carcerality: How Liberal Urbanism Governs Homelessness
JULY 2022 – Article via the Radical Housing Journal authored by #UnequalCities Network members the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective
- The Homeless Industrial Complex: A Syllabus for Fighting Back
JUNE 20, 2022 – Syllabus co-edited by #UnequalCities Network members Tracy Rosenthal and Annie Powers
- Grammars of the Urban Ground
JUNE 2022 – Book via Duke University Press co-edited by Ash Amin and #UnequalCities Network member Michele Lancione
- Digital Cartographies of Displacement: Data as Property and Property as Data
MAY 2022 – Article via ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies authored by #UnequalCities Network Core Partner Erin McElroy
- Racial Regimes of Property: Introduction to the Special Issue
APRIL 7, 2022 – Article via Environment and Planning D: Society and Space co-authored by Malini Ranganathan and Anne Bonds
- Corporate Landlords and Market Power: What Does the Single-Family Rental Boom Mean for Our Housing Future?
APRIL 2022 – Report co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Desiree Fields and Manon Vergerio
- Inhabiting Dispossession in the Post-Socialist City: Race, Class, and the Plan, in Bucharest, Romania
MARCH 30, 2022 – Article via Antipode authored by #UnequalCities Network member Michele Lancione
- Automating Gentrification: Landlord Technologies and Housing Justice Organizing in New York City Homes
MARCH 28, 2022 – Article via Environment and Planning D: Society and Space co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Erin McElroy and Manon Vergerio
- Spatial Segregation and the Right to Adequate Housing
MARCH 4, 2022 – Report via United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council authored by #UnequalCities Network member Balakrishnan Rajagopal
- The Reemergence of Land Contracts in Chicago: Racialized Class-Monopoly Rent as a Recursive Objective in Capitalist Property Markets
MARCH 2022 – Article via Geoforum authored by Benjamin F. Teresa
- Social Housing for All: A Vision for Thriving Communities, Renter Power, and Racial Justice
MARCH 2022 – Report via The Center for Popular Democracy and Renters Rising authored by #UnequalCities Network member Amee Chew
- Collectively Organized Endurance Through Space and Time To Transform Debt Relations
JANUARY 24, 2022 – Book review via Dialogues in Human Geography authored by #UnequalCities Network member Melissa García-Lamarca
- Rethinking the Homeless Crisis: Black Spatial Visions for Los Angeles
JANUARY 24, 2022 – Article via Antipode authored by #UnequalCities Network member Deshonay Dozier
- Property and Policing in Louisville, KY
NOVEMBER 18, 2021 – Storymap produced by #UnequalCities Network partner Root Cause Research Center
- La PAH: A Handbook
NOVEMBER 15, 2021 – Report via Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung authored by João França with forward by #UnequalCities Network member Leilani Farha
- Property, Personhood, and Police: The Making of Race and Space through Nuisance Law
OCTOBER 27, 2021 – Article via Antipode co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Terra Graziani, Joel Montano, Ananya Roy, and Pamela Stephens
- Inequity in the Permanent Supportive Housing System in Los Angeles: Scale, Scope, and Reasons for Black Residents’ Return to Homelessness
OCTOBER 2021- Report via California Policy Lab co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Earl Edwards, Norweeta G. Milburn, Dean Obermark, and Janey Roundtree
- Who Are the Homeless? Centering Anti-Black Racism and the Consequences of Colorblind Homeless Policies
SEPTEMBER 2021 – Article via Social Sciences authored by #UnequalCities Network member Earl J. Edwards
- Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
AUGUST 21, 2021 – Book via PM Press authored by #UnequalCities Network partner the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- Pushed to the Margins: A Quantitative Analysis of Gentrification in London in the 2010s
MAY 28, 2021 – Report co-authored by the Center for Labour and Social Studies and #UnequalCities Network organization The Runnymede Trust
- “A Program, Not the Projects”: Reentry in the Post-Public Housing Era
MAY 26, 2021 – Article via the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Madeleine Hamlin and Gretchen Purser
- Racialized Geographies of Housing Financialization
APRIL 30, 2021 – Article via Progress in Human Geography co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Desiree Fields and Elora Lee Raymond
- The Missing Basti Project
APRIL 13, 2021 – Collective mapping project co-produced by #UnequalCities Network Steering Committee member Gautam Bhan
- Not Just a Landlord Bailout: Choosing Emergency Relief and Long Term Impact
MARCH 2021 – Report via Urban Democracy Lab co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Marnie Brady, Ned Crowley, Sara Duvisac, H. Jacob Carlson, and Gianpaolo Baiocchi
- Beyond Wall Street Landlords: How Private Equity in the Rental Market Makes Housing Unaffordable, Unstable, and Unhealthy
MARCH 2021 – Report via Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) authored by #UnequalCities Network member Alexander Ferrer
- The Neighborhood Context of Eviction in Southern California
DECEMBER 2020 – Article via City & Community co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Michael Lens and Kyle Nelson and Ashley Gromis and Yiwen Kuai
- Plantation urbanism: Legacy, property and policing in Louisville, Kentucky
DECEMBER 2020 – Article via Radical Housing Journal by #UnequalCities Network members Josh Poe and Jessica Bellamy
- Corporate Windfalls or Social Housing Conversions?: The Looming Mortgage Crisis and the Choices Facing New York
NOVEMBER 2020 – Report via Community Service Society co-authored by Celeste Hornbach, #UnequalCities Network members Oksana Mironova and Samuel Stein, and Jacob Udell
- The Case for a Social Housing Development Authority
NOVEMBER 2020 – White paper via Urban Democracy Lab at NYU co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Gianpaolo Baiocchi and H. Jacob Carlson
- Why Do We Always Talk About Immigrants with a Language of "Difference"? Neighborhood Change and Conflicts in Queens, New York
OCTOBER 30, 2020 – Article via Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member James DeFilippis
- Opposing and Policing Racial Integration: Evidence from the Housing Choice Voucher Program
OCTOBER 30, 2020 – Article via Du Bois Review authored by #UnequalCities Network member Rahim Kurwa
- Community Solar as Energy Reparations: Abolishing Petro-Racial Capitalism in New Orleans
SEPTEMBER 2020 – Article via American Quarterly co-authored by Nikki Luke and #UnequalCities Network member Nik Heynen
- The Vacancy Report: How Los Angeles Leaves Homes Empty and People Unhoused
SEPTEMBER 2020 – Report via Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and UCLA School of Law Community Economic Development Clinic coauthored by #UnequalCities Network members Terra Graziani and Jacob Woocher and Alexander Ferrer and Zachary Frederick
- The New Man in the House Rules: How the Regulation of Housing Vouchers Turns Personal Bonds Into Eviction Liabilities
AUGUST 3, 2020 – Article via Housing Policy Debate authored by #UnequalCities Network member Rahim Kurwa
- COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles
AUGUST 2020 – Report via UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and USC Lusk Center for Real Estate co-authored by Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, #UnequalCities Network Steering Committee Member Michael Lens and Richard K. Green
- The Financialization of Housing in Capitalism’s Peripheries
JULY 17, 2020 – Article via Housing Policy Debate co-authored by Manuel B. Aalbers, #UnequalCities Network member Raquel Rolnik, and Marieke Krijnen
- Evictions in Boston: The Disproportionate Effects of Forced Moves on Communities of Color
JUNE 30, 2020 – Report via #UnequalCities Network organization City Life / Vida Urbana
- Lively Lands: The Spatial Reproduction Squeeze and the Failure of the Urban Imaginary
JUNE 27, 2020 – Article via the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research authored by #UnequalCities Network member Asher Ghertner
- Nobody’s Coming to Save Us: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Skid Row
JUNE 24, 2020 – Report via #UnequalCities Network organization Los Angeles Community Action Network
- Clashing Power-Geometries: Geographic Thought and the Transformation of Centrality in Caracas
JUNE 2020 – Paper via LSE Papers in Urbanisation, Planning, and Development: Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series authored by #UnequalCities Network member Ryan Centner
- Real estate crisis resolution regimes and residential REITs: emerging socio-spatial impacts in Barcelona
MAY 26, 2020 – Article via Housing Studies authored by #UnequalCities Network member Melissa Garcia-Lamarca
- A Plantation Can Be A Commons”: Re-Earthing Sapelo Island through Abolition Ecology
MAY 25, 2020 – Article via Antipode by #UnequalCities Network member Nik Heynen
- Data for Justice: Tensions and Lessons from the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s Work Between Academia and Activism
APRIL 15, 2020 – Article via ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographers feat. #UnequalCities Network members Terra Graziani and Mary Shi
- Second Chances in the City: Public Housing and Prisoner Reentry in Chicago
APRIL 15, 2020 – Article via Environment and Planning D: Society and Space featuring #UnequalCities Network member Madeleine Hamlin
- Property as Technology: Temporary Entanglements of Race, Space, and Displacement
APRIL 8, 2020 – Article via CITY authored by #UnequalCities Network member Erin McElroy
- Wealth Accumulation Through Homeownership: The Painful Myth of Housing Tenure, and What to Do About It
MARCH 31, 2020 – Article via City authored by #UnequalCities Network member Peter Marcuse
- Taking Back Vacant Property
MARCH 26, 2020 – Article via Urban Geography featuring #UnequalCities Network member Elsa Noterman
- Beyond Safety: Refusing Colonial Violence Through Indigenous Feminist Planning
JANUARY 11, 2020 – Article via Journal of Planning Education and Research co-authored by Laura Harjo and #UnequalCities Network member Heather Dorries
- Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People
JANUARY 2, 2020 – Book co-authored by Marie-Eve Sylvestre, #UnequalCities Network member Nick Blomley, and Céline Bellot
- Fair Chance Housing Ordinance Policy Brief
DECEMBER 19, 2019 – Policy brief via Just Cities co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Margaretta Lin
- It’s Time to End Single-Family Zoning
DECEMBER 6, 2019 – Article via Journal of the American Planning Association co-authored by Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, and #UnequalCities Network member Michael Lens
- “Until the Lord Come Get Me, It Burn Down, Or the Next Storm Blow It Away”: The Aesthetics of Freedom in African American Vernacular Homestead Preservation
DECEMBER 2019 – Article via Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum authored by #UnequalCities Network Core Partner Andrea Roberts
- Intersecting Hazards, Intersectional Identities: A Baseline Critical Environmental Justice Analysis of Homelessness
DECEMBER 2019 – Article via Environment and Planning E: Nature & Space authored by #UnequalCities Network member Erin Goodling
- Victories from Insurgency: Renegotiating Housing, Community Control, and Citizenship at the Margins
NOVEMBER 12, 2019 – Article via Antipode co-authored by Claire Cahen, Jakob Schneider, and #UnequalCities Network member Susan Saegert
- Precarious Territory: Property Law, Housing, and the Socio-Spatial Order
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 – Article via Antipode by #UnequalCities Network member Nick Blomley
- A National Homes Guarantee
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 – Briefing book via People’s Action co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Sofia Lopez
- Hedge Papers No. 69: Billionaire Corporate Landlords are Exacerbating California’s Housing Crisis
SEPTEMBER 2019 – Report via ACCE, The Center for Popular Democracy, and Hedge Clippers, coauthored by #UnequalCities Network member Sofia Lopez
- Tenant and Resident Militancy for Housing Justice: An Exchange Between Amanda Huron and Neil Gray
SEPTEMBER 2019 – Article via Radical Housing Journal coauthored by #UnequalCities Network member Amanda Huron and Neil Gray
- Defensive and Expansionist Struggles for Housing Justice: 120 Years of Community Rights in New York City
SEPTEMBER 2019 – Article via Radical Housing Journal by #UnequalCities Network member Oksana Mironova
- Permanent Transitoriness and Housing Policies: Inside São Paulo’s Low-Income Private Rental Market
SEPTEMBER 2019 – Article via Radical Housing Journal co-authored by Felipe Villela de Miranda, #UnequalCities Network member Raquel Rolnik, Renato Abramowicz Santos, and Regina Dulce Lins
- Interrogating Structures, Struggles, and Subjectivities of Rent
SEPTEMBER 2019 – Editorial via Radical Housing Journal co-authored by Camila Cociña, Catharina Thörn, Jasmine S. Palmer, Mara Ferreri, and #UnequalCities Network member Melissa García-Lamarca
- From Gatekeepers to Gateway Constructors: Credit Rating Agencies and the Financialization of Housing Associations
AUGUST 22, 2019 – Article via Critical Perspectives on Accounting co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Desiree Fields
- Victories from Insurgency: Re-Negotiating Housing, Community Control, and Citizenship at the Margins
AUGUST 1, 2019 – Article via Antipode co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Susan Saegert
- Gentrification and Health in Two Global Cities: A Call to Identify Impacts for Socially-Vulnerable Residents
JULY 29, 2019 – Article via Cities & Health co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Melissa García-Lamarca
- Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, and the Right to Non-Discrimination in this Context
JULY 17, 2019 – Report via United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council by #UnequalCities Network member Leilani Farha
- Remixing as Praxis: Arnstein‘s Ladder Through the Grassroots Preservationist’s Lens
JULY 1, 2019 – Article via Journal of the American Planning Association co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Andrea Roberts
- The Contribution of Manufactured Housing to Affordable Housing in the United States: Assessing Variation Among Manufactured Housing Tenure and Community Types
JUNE 11, 2019 – Article via Housing Policy Debate co-authored by Noah J. Durst and #UnequalCities Network member Esther Sullivan
- Radical Housing: On the Politics of Dwelling as Difference
MAY 28, 2019 – Article via International Journal of Housing Policy by #UnequalCities Network member Michele Lancione
- Meanings of Limited Equity Homeownership in Community Land Trusts
MAY 8, 2019 – Article via Housing Studies co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member James DeFilippis
- City as Borderland: Gentrification and the Policing of Black and Latinx Geographies in Oakland
MAY 1, 2019 – Article via Environment & Planning D: Society and Space authored by #UnequalCities Network member Margaret M. Ramirez
- Automated Landlords: Digital Technologies and Post-Crisis Financial Accumulation
MAY 1, 2019 – Article via Environment and Planning A: Economy and Spae authored by #UnequalCities Network member Desiree Fields
- Closing the Loopholes: What Six Rental Histories Tell Us About Fixing Rent Regulation in New York
MAY 2019 – Report via Community Service Society by #UnequalCities Network members Oksana Mironova and Jeff Jones
- Just Housing is an Intersectional Struggle
APRIL 22, 2019 – Article via Progressive City co-authored by #UnequalCities Network organization Right to the City Alliance
- Affordable Housing and City Welfare
APRIL 10, 2019 – Paper via Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-77 by Jack Favilukis et al.
- Imploding Activism: Challenges and Possibilities of Housing Scholar-Activism
APRIL 2019 – Article via Radical Housing Journal by Pratichi Chatterjee et al.
- Building the Digitally Gated Community: The Case of Nextdoor
APRIL 2019 – Article via Surveillance & Society by #UnequalCities Network member Rahim Kurwa
- ‘Post-2008’ as a Field of Action and Inquiry in Uneven Housing Justice Struggles
APRIL 2019 – Article via Radical Housing Journal co-edited by #UnequalCities Network member Erin McElroy
- Deracinated Dispossessions: On the Foreclosures of "Gentrification" in Oakland, CA
MARCH 22, 2019 – Article via Antipode by #UnequalCities Network members Erin McElroy and Alex Werth
- Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown East Side
MARCH 15, 2019 – Report via Canadian Observatory on Homelessness by Louise Boilevin et al.
- A Rural Gentrification Theory Debate for the Global South?
FEBRUARY 26, 2018 – Article via Dialogues in Human Geography by #UnequalCities Network member Ernesto López-Morales
- On Visible Homelessness and the Micro-aesthetics of Public Space
FEBRUARY 15, 2019 – Article via Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology by #UnequalCities Network member Alison Young and James Petty
- On the Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts in the United States
FEBRUARY 12, 2019 – Article via Antipode co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member James DeFilippis
- Autogestão in an Era of Mass Social Housing: The Case of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades Programme
FEBRUARY 8, 2019 – Article via International Journal of Housing Policy co-authored by Kristine Stiphany and #UnequalCities Network member Peter Ward
- What’s at Stake in Contemporary Anti-Gentrification Movements
FEBRUARY 6, 2019 – Essay via Society & Space co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Kimberly Miranda
- Housing Squats as "Educational Sites of Resistance": The Process of Movement Social Base Formation in the Struggle for the House
FEBRUARY 3, 2019 – Article via Antipode by #UnequalCities Network member Carlotta Caciagli
- Our Homes Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
FEBRUARY 2019 – Report via Right to the City, PolicyLink, and Center for Popular Democracy co-edited by #UnequalCities Network member Sarah Treuhaft
- Moving Beyond Marcuse: Gentrification, Displacement, and the Violence of Un-Homing
FEBRUARY 2019 – Article via Progress in Human Geography co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Loretta Lees
- Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA
JANUARY 20, 2019 – Article via IJURR authored by #UnequalCities Network member Deshonay Dozier
- Access to Justice for the Right to Housing
JANUARY 15, 2019 – Report via United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council by #UnequalCities Network member Leilani Farha
- Notes on a Southern Urban Practice
JANUARY 2019 – Article via Environment & Urbanization by #UnequalCities Network member Gautam Bhan
- The Territorialization of Property in Land: Space, Power and Practice
2019 – Article via Territory, Politics, Governances authored by #UnequalCities Network member Nick Blomley
- Ripping the Heart Out of Ancoats: Collective Action to Defend Infrastructures of Social Reproduction Against Gentrification
2019 – Article via Antipode co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Maria Kaika
- In Bodies and Homes: Gendering Citizenship in South African Cities
2019 – Article via Urbani Izziv co-authored by #UnequalCities Network member Sophie Oldfield
- Rooted in Home: Community-Based Alternatives to the Bay Area Housing Crisis
NOVEMBER 2018 – Report via Urban Habitat and the East Bay Community Law Center co-authored by #UnequalCities Network members Mashael Majid, Tony Roshan Samara and Seema Rupani, and Leslie Gordon and Fernando Echeverria
