Renters unions against the neo-liberal city: can new renters' organisations in Barcelona and London build mass movements?

该项目旨在了解租户工会的崛起及其建设大规模住房搬迁组织的能力，以反对新自由主义对城市的重塑。它以巴塞罗那的SINDIAT de Llogater和伦敦租房者联盟为案例，询问为什么这种新颖的组织形式在最近几年会出现。它使用比较分析的视角来关注两个租户工会部署的政治叙事，以询问为什么声称对巴塞罗那的城市权利似乎比伦敦更先进。住房危机和租户工会的增长近年来伦敦和巴塞罗那都遭受了住房危机，其标志是私人租赁部门成本增加和不安全(Kemp，2015；GLA，2015)。伦敦的住房危机导致住房6/11活动团体激增(Walker and Jeraj，2016；Watt and Minton，2016；Edwards，2016；Watt，2018)。尽管流行的“自由市场”模式明显失败，正如2008年金融危机所证明的那样，但新自由主义叙事仍然主导着公共话语。伦敦和巴塞罗那的租房者工会是整个欧洲私人租房者组织的新运动的例子，到目前为止，文学作品中很少有人关注这一运动。尽管政策环境往往不太友好，但租户工会已经开始讲述财产制度的重大变化，迅速吸引了会员基础。然而，在英国，租户工会规模较小，由相对较少的专职活动家组成。伦敦租房者联盟(Londonrentersunion.org，2018年)是伦敦增长最快的住房运动组织，但(截至2018年11月)有750名成员，远不是一场群众运动。与此同时，巴塞罗那有更发达的住房运动组织(Eizaguirre、Pradel-Miquel和Garcia，2017)。市政政府，其中包括基础广泛的非洲平台(PAH)的参与者，现在的目标是保护租房者免受市场力量的影响，马德里政府仍在推动这一力量。PAH的创始人现在帮助建立了一个新的租户联盟，Sindat de Llogater(Palomera，2018)。这两个不同政治背景下的新租户联盟将从内部人士的角度进行审查，生成关于这些新的城市社会运动及其与他们居住的城市的互动的反思性数据。

The project seeks to understand the rise of renters unionsand their capacity to build mass housing movementorganisations in opposition to the neoliberal re-shaping ofcities. It takes as case studies Sindicat de Llogaters inBarcelona, and London Renters Union, and asks why thisnovel form of organising has emerged in recent years. Ituses the lens of a comparative analytical focus on thepolitical narratives that the two renters unions deploy to askwhy claiming a right to the city appears to be more advancedin Barcelona than London.Housing crises and the growth of renters unionsBoth London and Barcelona have suffered housing crises inrecent years, marked by increased costs and insecurity inthe private rented sector (Kemp, 2015; GLA, 2015). Thehousing crisis in London has resulted in a surge of housing6 / 11campaign groups (Walker and Jeraj, 2016; Watt and Minton,2016; Edwards, 2016; Watt, 2018). Despite evident failures ofthe prevalent 'free market' model, as demonstrated by the2008 financial crisis, neo-liberal narratives still dominatepublic discourse. Renters unions in London and Barcelonaexemplify a new movement of private renters organisingacross Europe, to which little attention has so far been paidin the literature. Despite the often unsympathetic policyenvironment renters unions have begun to offer narratives ofmajor changes to the property regime, quickly attracting amembership base.In the United Kingdom however renters unions haveremained small, composed of relatively few dedicatedactivists. London Renters Union (londonrentersunion.org,2018) is the fastest-growing housing movement organisationin London but at 750 members (at November 2018) is stillfar from being a mass movement. Barcelona meanwhile hasmore developed housing movement organisations(Eizaguirre, Pradel-Miquel and Garcia, 2017). The municipalgovernment, which includes participants in the broad-basedPlataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), now aims toprotect renters from market forces, still promoted by theMadrid government. The founders of the PAH have now beeninstrumental in founding a new renters union, Sindicat deLlogaters (Palomera, 2018).These two new renters unions in differing political contextswill be examined from an insider's perspective, generatingreflexive data on these new urban social movements andtheir interactions with the cities they inhabit.