The Housing and Urban Justice Project
The Housing and Urban Justice Project (HUJ) brings together researchers from IBF and other research environments, as well as representatives from civil society and interest organizations, to collaboratively explore how our cities can be made into better and more equitable places to live.
Drawing on various critical theories, the group focuses on examining different forms of injustice, such as poverty, inequality, discrimination, and oppression. They also investigate how various groups are included in housing provision and urban planning, considering factors such as class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, and ability. An important task for the research group is to monitor the resistance and strategies people use to drive change and to find hope, solidarity, and dignified living conditions.
Collaborating organisations and universities
The researchers in The Housing and Urban Justice Project collaborate with a range of other universities and organisations.
- COSMÓPOLIS (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
- Grupo de Estudios Críticos Urbanos (GECU) (Madrid, Spain)
- Red Conflictos Urbanos (Latin America, Spain, Portugal)
- The Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (Barcelona, Spain)
- The Nordic Urban Political Economy Network (NUPE) (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland)
- Beyond Inhabitation Lab (Turin, Italy)
- The Institute for Urban Research (IUR) (Malmö, Sweden)
- UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy (Los Angeles, USA)
- The Urban Institute (Sheffield, UK)
- Laboratório Direito à Cidade e Espaço Público (São Paulo, Brazil)
- Cultural Interaction Researcher Network KULTVA (University of Turku, Finland)
- Instituto de la Vivienda (INVI) (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Contact
- Irene Molina, Professor in Human Geography
- irene.molina@ibf.uu.se
- Miguel A. Martínez, Professor in Sociology
- miguel.martinez@ibf.uu.se