Informal Housing in the Global North

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List of contributors

1. Introduction - Perspectives on housing informality in the 'North'
Jakub Galuszka

Part I: Encroachment
2. Formal/informal continuum? Secondary dwelling production and digital rental markets in Sydney, Australia
Zahra Nasreen, Pranita Shrestha and Nicole Gurran
3. Navigating Hong Kong's informal housing: Stakeholders' interactions on spatial quality in subdivided homes
Maggie Ma Kingsley and Jen Lam

Part II: Solidarities
4. Otherness and informality: everyday tactics of social inclusion among Oxford boating community
Jakub Galuszka
5. Refugee access to housing in fermany: (In)formal restrictions and opportunities
Nihad El-Kayed

Part III: Struggles and appropriation
6. For a spatial politics of dwelling. Awareness, contestation and homemaking in the individual occupations of public housing in Naples, Italy
Emiliano Esposito
7. Making a platz in the city: How Roma families appropriate urban space to have a home in Paris suburbs
Celine Veniat

Part IV: Gatekeeping
8. Unpacking everyday management in a City Improvement District: property caretakers as street-level bureaucrats in Ekhaya, Hillbrow, Johannesburg
Thembani Mkhize
9. Living in someone else's place: an exploration of subletting practices in Berlin
in Times of Housing Crisis.
Lucas Elsner, Minou Boucheri, Olga Lojewska and Anna Potanina
10. Concluding remarks and way forward
Jakub Galuszka

Index