The relationship between precarious living in cities and property guardianship

What is it about?

Property guardianship (PG) is a relatively new form of insecure urban dwelling, existing in the grey area between informal occupation, the security industry, and housing. But how do guardians experience and narrate their everyday precarious geographies? Our study of property guardianship shows the city as a site of intensified insecurity where uncertain work, life and housing co-constitute and reinforce new forms of urban precarity.

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Why is it important?

The case study of property guardianship shows the normalisation of wider dynamics of precarious work and life in the transformation of housing in London and cities in the global north more broadly.