Zohran Mamdani won last month’s New York City Democratic primary promising radical solutions to the city’s cost-of-living crisis. But the real difficulties…

ONE Northside in Chicago is celebrating two hard-won victories: the city just passed a Green Social Housing Ordinance, which will spur the…

Mamdani’s campaign, featuring rent stabilization, fare-free transit, universal no-cost child care, and municipal groceries, offers immediate relief while addressing NYC’s affordability crisis.…

In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced to vacate Oregon’s Deschutes National…

Washington state has a progressive reputation. On the surface, this image might seem plausible: after all Democrats have continuously controlled the state…

The Block and Build framework has been a key component of Right to the City Alliance’s  strategy development over the past couple of…

Thirty-one years after the fall of administrative apartheid, South Africa stands at an uneasy juncture between the promise of a rights-based democracy…

Outrage over property profiteering and government inaction showed its strength and mobilising power on 5 April, with 42 demonstrations demanding lower rents…

“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San…

The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Defining displacement Gentrification is commonly understood as…