Essay #80: Jayne Malenfant & Hannah Brais, 'An Anarchist Approach to Housing Precarity'

Anarchist Essays

In this essay, Jayne Malenfant and Hannah Brais unpack an anarchist approach to confronting housing precarity by bringing together existing anarchist scholarship while proposing housing interventions that support agency, anti-colonial work, and justice. They confront the inadequacy of existing housing interventions and propose an alternative vision that aligns with anarchist values of solidarity, agency, prefigurative politics, and harm reduction.

Jayne Malenfant is an Assistant Professor at McGill University in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal. Their work focuses on housing, homelessness, community-led research and anarchist education.

Hannah Brais is a doctoral candidate at McGill University in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Her work focuses on improving practices and policies for people experiencing homelessness.

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