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Deprivation-based squatting as a choice from necessity: The housing pathways of low-income squatters in public housing in Naples, Italy
Abstract In this study, I investigate a unique sheltering strategy employed by the urban poor to satisfy their housing-related needs – an individualistic squatting in public housing (Esposito & Chiodelli, 2021). People with low income and no connection (or partial) to social movements or housing activists frequently engage in this practice. Such occupations are among the forms the most recent literature has defined as ‘deprivation-based’ or ‘survival’ squatting, stressing housing precarity/desperation as the main driving force. To enrich the existing debate on the latter phenomenon and by exploring a deep ethnographic work in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples (Italy), I propose that individualistic squatting can be a routinised housing option among others. In some cases, squatting is not the last-resort strategy of the urban poor who choose to squat, aiming at materialising long-term solutions within a highly unstable housing context.
Highlights Squatting in public housing is a practice that urban poor employ to satisfy their housing needs and desires. Squatting in public housing is an highly constrained option among other housing solutions. The urban poor materialise long-term housing solutions by squatting in public housing. Squatting in public housing is a search for and making of an ontological stability against various forces that make their housing conditions unstable.
Deprivation-based squatting as a choice from necessity: The housing pathways of low-income squatters in public housing in Naples, Italy
Abstract In this study, I investigate a unique sheltering strategy employed by the urban poor to satisfy their housing-related needs – an individualistic squatting in public housing (Esposito & Chiodelli, 2021). People with low income and no connection (or partial) to social movements or housing activists frequently engage in this practice. Such occupations are among the forms the most recent literature has defined as ‘deprivation-based’ or ‘survival’ squatting, stressing housing precarity/desperation as the main driving force. To enrich the existing debate on the latter phenomenon and by exploring a deep ethnographic work in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples (Italy), I propose that individualistic squatting can be a routinised housing option among others. In some cases, squatting is not the last-resort strategy of the urban poor who choose to squat, aiming at materialising long-term solutions within a highly unstable housing context.
Highlights Squatting in public housing is a practice that urban poor employ to satisfy their housing needs and desires. Squatting in public housing is an highly constrained option among other housing solutions. The urban poor materialise long-term housing solutions by squatting in public housing. Squatting in public housing is a search for and making of an ontological stability against various forces that make their housing conditions unstable.
Deprivation-based squatting as a choice from necessity: The housing pathways of low-income squatters in public housing in Naples, Italy
PhD Esposito, Emiliano (author)
Cities ; 124
2022-01-26
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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