Dispatches from the Threshold

Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart

“The authors remind us that housing crises are one of many routinized catastrophes of capital, and yet reading this book is not to drown in crisis but to rise with the power of tenants. Read it, and get organized.”

David Madden, co-author of In Defense of Housing

“This book merges the energy of a housing protest with the analytic insights of critical social science. It offers a clear perspective on our current crisis and a much-needed picture of what tenant power looks like.”

Ricardo Tranjan, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and author of The Tenant Class

“The fight for housing justice is gaining momentum, but individual battles are geographically dispersed, immersed in local dynamics, and not always visibly related. This volume compiles rich accounts of many of these battles. Unrestricted by theoretical or political frameworks, the authors describe housing struggles as they happen on the frontline. Each story is unique. Yet, the forces behind tenant exploitation and displacement are the same everywhere, and the political responses of organized tenants share many similarities. If capital is an international force, tenant power is pushing new boundaries. This book documents this process and helps advance it.”

Nick Bano, barrister and author of Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis’

“A multi-point perspective like this is exactly what we’ve needed to understand the struggle for adequate housing. This work is a rich, collectively woven tapestry. It is not just a record of a unique and useful moment of crisis, but it is crammed with wisdom and experience. It is full of hope, insight, and vital lessons in how to have each other’s backs.”

Josh Akers, Urban Praxis

“This collection illustrates the audacity of collective action in the face of our most difficult obstacle: insecurity. It captures the struggle for immediate relief and the gift these movements and their participants provide us all—a glimpse of more just, humane, and radical urban futures and the imagination, language, and tools to realize it.”

Raquel Rolnik, former UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing

“This book is an essential document for this dystopian century, a powerful account of collective resistance, imagination, and thinking that can provide hope and illuminate possible futures.”