Recent events have brought attention to the millions of Americans who struggle to find and
pay for housing. Housing has historically been of interest to sociologists, but it has long been …

Studies showed that rapid urbanization creates encumbrance for affordable housing in
many developing world cities. Community participation has been proved as a successful …

Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal
reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades. Claire Herbert …

In this study, I investigate a unique sheltering strategy employed by the urban poor to satisfy
their housing-related needs–an individualistic squatting in public housing (Esposito & …

Squatting as contentious politics has been well studied globally, expanding knowledge of
how everyday people resist injustices, strive to remake cities, and respond to local/regional …

In this article I question notions of urban liminality by foregrounding the temporal, spatial and
experiential dimensions underpinning their formations. I focus on liminal practices of …

Recent research has documented the prevalence of informal housing across urban and
suburban contexts in the United States. While there have been some efforts to theorize …

Homeownership is often tied to cultural conceptions of model citizenship, yet African
Americans have long faced structural barriers to owning a home. Credit discrimination has …

The high development cost of Malaysian low-cost houses (LCH) remains one of the major
encumbrances towards wide-scale development, and the worst hit is the low-income group …

Ecological evidence suggests that neighborhoods with more tax foreclosures also have
more adverse birth outcomes. However, whether neighborhood-level tax foreclosures …