Background Housing insecurity can be understood as experiencing or being at risk of
multiple house moves that are not through choice and related to poverty. Many aspects of …

Urban scholars have traditionally associated displacement in cities of the global North with
gentrification, generally understood as a class-based process of neighbourhood change …

This paper assesses how gender, housing, austerity and the right to the city inter-relate with
reference to female lone parents from East London, the site of the 2012 Olympic Games. In …

This article reflects on an occupation led by single mothers to contest the destruction of
social housing in post-Olympics East London. In the process, it argues for a more gendered …

This paper examines youth homelessness, precarity and poverty via a critical account of
'Generation Rent'–that young people are living in the private rental sector (PRS) in …

Recent housing welfare reform in Britain has left many younger welfare claimants with no
choice but to move into a shared rental property with strangers. In this paper we take an …

This chapter argues that feminist comparative urbanism can inform a theorization of the
urban as constituted by everyday struggles over social reproduction that exceed capitalist …

The home is a central place where women's identity as' mother'is socially constructed and
negotiated. Social policy is inexorably implicated in (re) producing these dominant visions of …

Background: Housing insecurity can be understood as experiencing or being at risk of
multiple house moves that are (1) not through choice and (2) related to poverty. For …

This paper provides an insight into social tenants' lived experiences in post-Olympics East
Village, exploring how they are shaped by new forms of neoliberalism embedded into …