Publication date: 1 March 2027
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781806552849
Number of illustrations: 39
Fighting to Stay Put
Learning from the global struggle against gentrification and displacement
Loretta Lees (Editor), Japonica Brown-Saracino (Editor), Stefano Portelli (Editor), Kenton Card (Editor)
Fighting to Stay Put shows how grassroots communities and their coalitions collectively reclaim their spaces and places, forestall gentrification and resist displacement. Marginalized residents work together with academics, community organizations, workers’ unions, political parties and elected officials against pro-gentrification policies and planning efforts to reclaim the right to stay put in secure affordable housing. While there have been cross-class coalitions working on these issues for some time, the accounts featured in this book suggest that gentrification no longer simply pits the working class against the middle class.
The chapters showcase different strategies employed to claim the right to ‘stay put’ in local neighbourhoods, not only by mobilizing people and community but also through memory, art, law, documentaries and a caravan. Each local example is presented through the lens of a specific strategy of struggle, analyzing what has worked and what has not worked. This structure allows readers to focus on the local evolution of the strategy, allowing other activists to adopt, in full or part, the specific strategy in their local context. The examples allow readers to compare the implications, strengths, contradictions and shortcomings of each of the strategies illustrated, and to consider how strategies emerge from local context and global dynamics.
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Fighting to Stay Put
Learning from the global struggle against gentrification and displacement
Series: Engaging Communities in City-making
Publication date: March 1, 2027
Open Access PDF ISBN: 9781806552849
Paperback ISBN: 9781806552832
Trim size (paperback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Fighting to Stay Put shows how grassroots communities and their coalitions collectively reclaim their spaces and places, forestall gentrification and resist displacement. Marginalized residents work together with academics, community organizations, workers’ unions, political parties and elected officials against pro-gentrification policies and planning efforts to reclaim the right to stay put in secure affordable housing. While there have been cross-class coalitions working on these issues for some time, the accounts featured in this book suggest that gentrification no longer simply pits the working class against the middle class.
The chapters showcase different strategies employed to claim the right to ‘stay put’ in local neighbourhoods, not only by mobilizing people and community but also through memory, art, law, documentaries and a caravan. Each local example is presented through the lens of a specific strategy of struggle, analyzing what has worked and what has not worked. This structure allows readers to focus on the local evolution of the strategy, allowing other activists to adopt, in full or part, the specific strategy in their local context. The examples allow readers to compare the implications, strengths, contradictions and shortcomings of each of the strategies illustrated, and to consider how strategies emerge from local context and global dynamics.
