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 âinformalâ 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 Janeiroâs 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 Curitibaâs 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 Senâs 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 Allbitare 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 Ca±o Martn Pe±a 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
