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Leveraging Land and Housing Ocuupations
Author(s)

Amanda Ricketts; Claire Herbert

Publisher

Fernwood Publishing

Publication Year

2025

ISBN: 9781773637273-05

Categories:

  • Social Work → Activism & Social Movements
  • Sociology → Gentrification
  • Sociology & Anthropology → Homelessness & Housing
  • Urban Studies → Homelessness & Housing
  • Public Policy → Homelessness & Housing
  • Sociology & Anthropology → Land Use

 
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In this chapter, Ricketts and Herbert examine how grassroots housing occupations in Philadelphia during early 2020 advanced the rights of homeless mothers and children.

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Contributors

Amanda Ricketts

Rae Baker is a critical geographer, policy practitioner, and researcher focused on community-led inquiry and action. Their research and activism address housing inequality, land rights, and racial injustice and surveillance technology. They are an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati in the Research for Social Change and Education and Community Action Research graduate programs. They contribute community-driven research to Urban Praxis Workshop.

Claire Herbert

Alexander Ferrer is a PhD student and movement-based researcher in Los Angeles. He works with Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, the Debt Collective, and the UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

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Canada Council for the Arts
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Nova Scotia

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.

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