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Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home

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  • Adriana Mihaela Soaita

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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home’s severe inadequacies, which take a particular intensity in the various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across the globe. It is now timely to deliberate what it takes for a rented property to be made home, and in that debate tenants’ voices should be heard. Taking the UK as a case-study and drawing on data collected through an online qualitative questionnaire, the paper focuses on a group of tenants theorised as ‘everyday activists’ to address the empirical question of what they demand from the government for the sector to improve. Considering participants’ legitimising narratives and assertions for self-representation in policy construction, the paper then proposes a reading of the demands made through the ‘Right to Home’, a concept carefully grounded in Henri Lefebvre’s Right to the City. The Right to Home calls for home-ing and democratising current de-radicalised understandings of the right to housing in order to craft more transformative futures.

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  • Adriana Mihaela Soaita, 2024. "Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(6), pages 1422-1443, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:39:y:2024:i:6:p:1422-1443
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2036329
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