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Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings

What Is Happening to Housing?

Edited by Kelly Greenop and Johanna Brugman Alvarez

Published

Apr 1, 2025

Page count

240 pages

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Global Discourse

ISBN

978-1529243857

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Apr 1, 2025

Page count

240 pages

Browse the series

Global Discourse

ISBN

978-1529243864

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press
Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings

Kelly Greenop is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Community Development Lead at the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Johanna Brugman Alvarez is Lecturer in the School of Built Environment at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Introduction – Kelly Greenop and Johanna Brugman Alvarez

1. Aboriginal Social Housing in Remote Australia: Crowded, Unrepaired and Raising the Risk of Infectious Diseases – Paul Memmott, Nina Lansbury, Carroll Go-Sam, Daphne Nash, Andrew Martin Redmond, Samuel Barnes, Patrick (Pepy) Simpson, and Patricia Narr

- Reply to Memmott et al: It Is Time for Healthy Living Priorities to be Integrated Into Indigenous Housing Policy and Practice – Daphne Habibis

2. Informal Housing and Residents’ Well-Being in Caracas and Sydney: A Comparative Study of Residents’ Experiences – Gabriela Quintana Vigiola

- Reply to Gabriela Quintana Vigiola: Informal Housing Residents’ Well-Being in Cities of the Global North and South – Kazi Nazrul Fattah

3. Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums – Mark L.G. Jones

- Reply To Mark L.G. Jones: Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums – Vigya Sharma

4. COVID-19 and Precarious Housing: Paying Guest Accommodation in a Metropolitan Indian City – Sai Rama Raju Marella, Krishna Priya, and Pooja Vincia D’Souza

- Reply to Raju Marella, Priya and Vincia D’Souza: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tenants and Operators in Marginal Housing Forms – Zahra Nasreen

5. Empowerment Through Design? Housing Cooperatives for Women in Montreal – Ipek Turelli

6. Housing Temporalities: State Narratives and Precarity in the Global South – Ruchika Lall

- Reply to Lall: Foregrounding Livelihood and Mobility in the Struggle for Pro-Poor Urban Housing – Redento B. Recio

- Reply to Lall: Housing Temporalities of the Aspiring Global City – Banashree Banerjee

7. The Attributes of Social Resilience: Understanding Refugees’ Housing Choices – Francesca Perugia

- Reply to Perugia: Social Resilience and Refugee Housing: Questioning the Shift in Responsibility for Settlement – Iris Levin