Introduction

Precarity by design: Global perspectives on precarious housing

Section 1: Key issues of precarious housing amidst rights, informality and justice

1. Causes of precariousness in housing

2. The making and unmaking of housing and urban precarity

3. Housing precarity and the financialization of renting

4. Housing, Climate Change and Informal Settlements: Pathways for Adaptation, Mitigation and Climate Justice

5. Precarious housing in the unequal city through the lens of Johannesburg and the Stjwetla ‘informal’ settlement

6. Informality as governance technology: Precarious housing and the politics of differentiated citizenship

7. How four housing policy instruments affect housing precarity

8. Housing justice: Towards an actionable agenda to tackle housing precarity

Section 2: Tenure security

9. Evictions and precarious housing

10. Subprime masculinities: Gendering homeownership, mortgage debt and default in 21st century Spain

11. Fragility of homeownership: State-led urban redevelopment and housing precarity

12. Caretaking as tenure: Maintenance as a strategy for precarious inhabitation

13. Flexible planning and the institutionalization of housing precarity: Temporary housing in the Netherlands and Switzerland

Section 3: Homelessness and health

14. At the far end of precarity: Homelessness in the US and responses from the San Diego region

15. Precarious initial reception and refugee shelter insecurity in Toronto

16. Beyond treatment: The failing politics of care and housing precarity among PALOP patients in Portugal

17. Precarious housing and the risk of Chagas disease transmission in rural areas in a Colombian municipality

Section 4: Infrastructure provision

18. Housing and infrastructure precarity

19. Precarity at the housing-water nexus

20. Urban mobility and housing: The role of mobility on urban precariousness

21. Energy and transport poverty as drivers of housing precarity: A multidimensional analysis

22. The intersections between water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and housing access in urban slums in Pune, India

23. Between precarious housing and data precariousness: How Rio de Janeiro’s favelas organized themselves to survive the Covid-19 pandemic

24. The infrastructural life of rental housing: Landlord mediation and the production of precarity

Section 5: Climate change

25. Intersectionality of climate risk, precarious housing and social (in)justice in Indonesia

26. Invisible climate warriors: Women and LGBTQIA+ experiences against climate displacement in favelas and land occupations

27. Reclaiming space, rights and resources: Climate adaptation in Curitiba’s precarious housing between global agendas and local realities

28. Heat, Housing, and Harm: The Structural Violence of Indoor Thermal Precarity in Colombia

29. Rethinking post-disaster recovery through Sen’s Capability Approach: Housing Reconstruction after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Section 6: Predatory actors and practices

30. Precarious housing and Crime

31. Housing volatility in the making of the new capital city in Indonesia

32. Housing microfinance in precarious urban communities: Narratives, actors and contradictions

33. Gentrification and gentefication in post-disaster Puerto Rico: Stories of resilience and struggle

Section 7: Social movements and collective action

34. From precarious housing squatters to city makers: The Movimento per Il Diritto AllÁbitare in Rome

35. Housing precarization and the struggles of tenants: Building solidarities in times of crises

36. Peripheral struggles for housing in Chile: The Pobladores Movement

37. Beyond evictions: Analysing tactics and strategies of international anti-eviction movements

Section 8: Equity, justice, and inclusion

38. Imposed impermanence: Housing precarity, property, and racial capitalism

39. Racial discrimination and housing precarity in U.S. peri-urban areas: The case of a North Texas unincorporated subdivision

40. Precarious housing expanded: Materiality, bureaucracy, and climate in remote Australia

41. Housing precariousness in Sweden: Highlighting the experiences of women with temporary housing solutions

42. Un/earthing phantom homes: LGBTQ+ student-imaginaries transforming othered home-worlds into being

43. Students and housing precarity

44. Urban village and migrant housing in Shenzhen, China

45. Growing housing precarity amongst older people in homeowner nations

Section 9: Solutions to precarious housing

46. A remedy to housing precarity? The potential and limitations of social housing

47. When owning a home is not enough: The promises and pitfalls of subsidized homeownership in Chile

48. Precarious improvements: Lessons from state-sponsored slum upgrading in Southeast Asia

49. Brazilian favelas: Background and policy challenges

50. Addressing housing needs for low income households in Africa: Lessons from experience

51. From precarity to permanence: Housing rights, resistance and renewal through the Caño Martín Peña community land trust in Puerto Rico

52. Collaborative housing as a strategy to address housing precarity and restore housing as a fundamental human right

Conclusion

Precarious housing: Towards a shared conceptual grammar