The politics and contestations of Argentina’s tenant organisations: legislative activism in a homeownership society

• Authors: Joseph Palumbo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In recent years, the situation of renter households has emerged as a pressing social issue in Argentina, leading to the growth of tenant organisations around the country. This article examines the experience of grassroots tenant organisations in their attempts to influence local and national legislative agendas related to rental housing. It critically analyses these organisations’ concrete aims and achievements, as well as the other effects of this social movement. These include the emergence of novel forms of political mobilisation centred around the identity of ‘tenant’ in a country that still imagines itself as a homeownership society despite shifts in patterns of housing tenure and a budding ‘generation rent’.

Keywords

EN

rental housing; generation rent; tenant organisations; Argentina

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Critical Housing Analysis
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 73-88
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Joseph Palumbo

• Critical Housing Analysis, redakce,Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic