Chiara Valli is a critical geographer (PhD Uppsala University, 2017) and senior lecturer in Urban Studies at Malmö University. The underlying interest driving her research is the political economy of housing and urban change and its consequences in terms of inequalities, social justice, the right to home, and the right to the city. Chiara has conducted research on: housing, housing financialisation, gentrification, segregation, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), smart cities, labour precarity, urban activism, participatory and visual research methodologies. Currently, she is PI of the project Financialization of everyday life in Sweden. Intersectional perspectives on housing and labor precarity (Formas 2020), and is active in the project Women in social and structural homelessness: negotiations about responsible housing provision and how social and geographical exclusion can be prevented (Formas 2023).
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The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…