This Radical Housing Team achieved all of the five project objectives and produced substantive scholarly and practical outputs. In relation to each objective, this is a summary of the main results:
1. Intersectional history: Researchers carried out a foundational, intersectional analysis of the historical lineages of housing injustice (focusing on class, gender, race and coloniality). Although this objective had no standalone deliverable, its findings underpinned all other work and inform our forthcoming edited volume Housing Justice. Situating Structures, Struggles and Politics (Manchester University Press).
2. Structures and politics of activist networks: Work by Ana Vilenica, Rayna Rusenko, Veda Popovici and Oluwafemi Olajide engaged with organising forms and politics across regions. Vilenica analysed tenants’ organising and internationalism across the Americas (Antipode; Radical Housing Journal conversations); Rusenko produced influential work on the coloniality of home/homelessness in Asia (Antipode; edited book on Malaysia); Popovici analysed European networks (outputs feeding collective research); Olajide’s Lagos work was curtailed by career changes but was important in informing team reflection.
3. Radical inhabitation practices: City-level ethnographies and case studies were completed by Rodrigo Castriota (popular economies and housing in Belo Horizonte, IJURR), Daniela Morpurgo (housing and sex work in three Italian cities, EPD, IJURR), Daniela Cacciotti (afterlife of eviction in Rome, IJURR), Devra Waldman (planning and housing in Delhi’s urban extension, PiHG), Mara Ferreri (decommodification of housing and grassroots housing action in Barcelona, EPD) and myself (homelessness policy and working-class housing struggles in Naples). Despite COVID-19 and border-instability limiting some international cases, these studies produced monographs, IJURR and other journal articles, policy-facing interventions and—in Ferreri’s case—contributed to a successful ERC Consolidator application.
4. Trans‑local knowledge exchange: The Beyond Inhabitation Lab and a programme of summer schools (Turin, Lisbon), workshops (Paris, Sheffield), seminars and conference panels established strong global exchange between scholars and a wider community of interest. See next section for details.
5. A new theoretical agenda: The project advanced conceptual thinking on ‘home’, ‘homelessness’ and housing through single‑author publications by team members, the edited collection, and my solo monograph For a Liberatory Politics of Home and a forthcoming co‑authored monograph with AbdouMaliq Simone, Beyond Inhabitation. Housing and Desire at the Edge (both with Duke University Press). These works set out interdisciplinary conceptual grammars for radical dwelling and housing justice.
Overall, the project delivered substantial empirical, theoretical and public‑facing outputs, strengthened international networks, and positioned new research agendas that link scholarship with activist and policy engagement.
A list of all published works is available at:
https://www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/10/20/results-of-the-erc-inhabiting-radical-housing-2020-2025/(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) or at
https://beyondinhabitation.org/publications/(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
