An Introduction to the Special Issue – Housing in Hard Times: Marginality, Inequality and Class

Forced homeward: the COVID-19 implications for housing

“…Access to housing in the UK has been fraught with perennial inequalities, regardless of the disciplinary lenses we look through (McKee and Muir, 2013). The pandemic has taken everybody by surprise, with some being ill-prepared yet otherwise 'house-rich' and some of us being unprepared and 'house-poor' due to our socio-economic conditions.…”

Cities, Crime, and Carcerality: Beyond the Ecological Perspective

“…Fortunately, the carceral works reviewed in this article offer an excellent companion to existing scholarship in advocacy and equity planning (Metzger 1996; Briggs 2005; Varady 2005; Ryan 2012; McKee and Muir 2013). These strands of planning focus on mobilizing public opinion, representing the working poor, and working within policy circles makes them ideal sites to introduce carcerality to urban debates about crime.…”