In person icon Re-Centring the Housing Question in the Land Question

Abstract

The housing crisis has reached the top of the political agenda across much of the world. But the politics of housing is inextricable from the politics of land. The ideologies, ownership structures and governance regimes of land fundamentally determine how housing is produced, exchanged and accessed. Exclusionary regimes of land regulation, dispossession and consolidation continue to shape housing distribution and justice, determining who lives where and how. In many countries, the expanding ownership and control of land by both local and global private market actors is resulting in new and intensified issues of housing affordability and inequality. Too often, however, mainstream debates on the housing crisis side-step the fundamental structuring force of land. . Seeking to ground the housing question within the land question, this panel will critically examine the politics of housing land. The panel will explore the role of land in both driving and providing alternatives to contemporary housing crises, covering topics including: ⁃ The re-politicisation of the land question via housing ⁃ The outcomes of land privatisation, financialisation and assetisation for housing ⁃ Strategies and practices of market actors in housing land (e.g. investors, landowners, developers; land hoarding/banking, emerging speculative practices) ⁃ The role of land in political constructions of the housing crisis (e.g. NIMBYs, YIMBYs and how land features in debates on housing supply) ⁃ Alternative approaches to land ownership and control for progressive housing initiatives (e.g. emerging examples of community and public ownership) ⁃ The role of land politics in housing movements ⁃ Discriminatory land regulation/governance regimes and implications for housing justice

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