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TODAY: Issue 6.2 is live! In the ongoing crises of displacement, dispossession, & state-sanctioned violence, we highlight the need to bear witness by 'Archiving the Housing Conjuncture' radicalhousingjournal.org edited by @ju_urbanista Samantha Thompson Ana Vilenica Erin McElroy

🧵Imagine getting into debt because you can't afford your rent. Then being evicted and made homeless. Then told by your local council that you will stay homeless because of your debt? That's the situation that mother-of-one Orla* finds herself in... inews.co.uk/news/housing/c…

🚨🧵With Mel Nowicki & Fraser William Curry I have been uncovering the scandal that are local authority rules on housing allocation which are banning thousands of indebted homeless families in England from social housing. Thanks Vicky Spratt for exposure: inews.co.uk/news/housing/c…

Delighted to share my new paper on contractual geographies with Geography Compass. My thoughts on contracts within legal geographical research methods. #legalgeography doi.org/10.1111/gec3.7…

The biggest lessons are that fascism is not, in fact, exceptional, but very much a constant presence in mainstream politics in the postcolonial world, and that liberal politics in practice are ill-equipped to deal with any of our many crises, and often every bit as brutal.

New episode | Displacement Urbanism podcast 🎙️ Romola Sanyal & Deen Sharp talk about how cities & conflicts continuously reshape each other. They talk about the technologies & materials of urban conflict and the consequences for urban displacement. zurl.co/znNa

New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by Dallas Rogers, @SophiaMaalsen and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows:

New paper! 📣 We find that household access to running water is getting worse -- not better -- in some of the most affluent and expensive US metros, published today in Nature Cities. Link to full article: nature.com/articles/s4428…

So excited to share the first paper from my PhD! This new #openaccess paper in Progress in Environmental Geography examines the UK’s mould crisis through literature on toxic geographies – revealing the racial logics and temporal dynamics of “toxic” household mould journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

Important new paper by elara k shurety on housing and mould in Progress in Environmental Geography. Please share! Elara is a King's College London LISS-DTP doctoral researcher with me and Phil Hubbard in Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

Councils spend £1.6bn a year on 'temporary accommodation' for homeless families - which includes some of the worst housing conditions in the country. But who is getting the money? A joint investigation between me, Vicky Spratt and Stephen Delahunty tried to provide an answer...

People are making tens of millions from Britain's homelessness crisis. But, who are they? A joint investigation between The i Paper & Inside Housing has found that companies profit from emergency housing. Here's why it matters... inews.co.uk/news/private-f…

Opinion: Angela Fonso, a parent and Safer Play, Better Day Campaign Safer Play, Better Day campaign member writes about her concerns over Ealing Council Ealing Council’s proposals to close children’s centres in Southall and across the borough. ealing.news/news/opinion/o…

📢Launching our new research project "Sensory Lives: Neurodiverse Children and Families in Temporary Accommodation" supported by The Leverhulme Trust at KCL Urban Futures, King's College London with Rosalie Warnock Check out our website with accessibility plug-in: sensorylivesproject.org

New article from one of my PhD chapters is now out in Antipode. Here I propose the notion of the ‘spectacular fix’ to describe how Indonesia’s new capital city is mobilised by the state. King's Geography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Today we remember Gurdip Singh Chaggar, an 18-year-old student, stabbed to death in 1976 by racists in Southall. National Front leader Kingsley Read responded to the murder by saying: ‘One down, a million to go’ Between 1976-1985, there were 35 racist murders in Britain. 🧵

👏 Congratulations to MSc Urbanisation and Development alumnus, Fraser William Curry, on the publication of his paper "Entangled lives: Land, property and guardianship in a changing Dakar", based on his LSE dissertation research. 🔴 zurl.co/3zulu