Introducing the Housing Squeeze zine

In cities across the globe, housing is being squeezed as families and individuals are relegated to increasingly smaller domestic spaces. The housing squeeze is far from new, but a variety of shrinking pressures have deepened in the wake of the 2008 global financial crash. In May 2025 a group of fifteen scholars researching shrinking domesticity in diverse contexts—from street shelters in India to micro-apartments in Hong Kong—came together to produce a zine called The Housing Squeeze. Merging data, interviews, maps, collage, and multilingual reflections, this zine proposes radical housing futures inspired by decolonial, grassroots, and transnational insights. This creative academic collaboration contributes to the broader genre of radical housing zines, which has roots in underrepresented communities and countercultural movements.