Cities around the United States are bracing for federal funding cuts to social services. Yet, as Brenden Beck explains, cities have long been cutting social-service spending while increasing police spending, even as crimes rates have fallen.

The last article in our Horizons in the Housing Struggle series is now available! The Fight for Community Ownership in Los Angeles Chinatown via the LA Chinatown CLT | by Amy Zhou.

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Defunding Social Services: Housing, Parks, and Libraries are Being Cut to Make Way for Larger Police Budgets | by Brenden Beck.

CLTs are one strategy to stem displacement in Chinatowns across North America. Yet, as Amy Zhou demonstrates through her work with the LA Chinatown Community Land Trust, these efforts must address multiple challenges to realize their potential.

Unleashing Finance Capitalism in the City: An Interview with Isaac Rose, Author of The Rentier City | by Jonathan Silver & Isaac Rose.

Jonathan Silver interviews author and organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in Manchester, The Rentier City. They discuss the motivations for writing the book, how theory informs practice, and the influences that guided Rose.

Settling on the Financial Periphery: Alternative Housing Practices in Hegang, China | by Yimeng Yang.

Can valuing a home for its use value constitute a form of resistance to housing financialization? Considering the case of housing in Hegang, China, Yimeng Yang argues that the grassroots rejection of the logic of financialization is a form of resistance.

Next week, we'll be publishing another article in our 'Horizons in the Housing Struggle' series. Take some time to get caught up before our next installation in the series.

Integration or Chainsaw: Some Reflections on the Policies of Cruelty in Milei’s Argentina Based on the ReNaBaP Case | by Facundo A. Corti.

Planning in the Age of Political Populism: Kolkata’s Tram Debate | by Tathagata Chatterji .

Policy efforts in Argentina to reduce housing inequality have been met with Milei’s chainsaw. Facundo A. Corti shows how the state has made the fight for housing equality a one-sided struggle.

Using the case of Kolkata’s tram system, Tathagata Chatterji shows how two distinct political strategies—populism and clientelism—operate in a symbiotic relationship to circumvent formal planning processes in India’s third-largest city.

Argentina: The Rental Issue in the Milei Era | by Nicolás A. Trivi .

Massive Evictions and Housing Crisis in Chile | by Santiago Castillo Braithwaite .

In Argentina, the reforms promoted by the libertarian government represent an offensive of capital on labor. Nicolás Trivi shows that the rental market is one of its battlefields.

In the midst of a deep housing crisis, more than 100,000 families in Chile are currently living in informal settlements. Santiago Castillo examines the rise of land occupations and the state responses that have only deepened the conflict.

The Uruguayan Housing Cooperatives: The Miracle of the “Commons” | by Benjamín Nahoum.

Las cooperativas de vivienda uruguayas. El milagro de los “comunes” | Benjamín Nahoum .

Benjamín Nahoum presents the case of the Uruguayan cooperative movement that started in the 1960s. Through the years, the movement has shifted but the principles of mutual aid and self-management remain as it became one of the primary housing tenures.