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August 20, 2026Alternative Law JournalOpen Access

Older women, housing precarity and climate change: Democracy, relationality and rights

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LELisa Ewenson

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Conceptual analysis demonstrates how housing precarity and climate impacts undermine democratic participation among older women, indicating the need for lived-experience policy reform.

Key Points

  • To examine how housing precarity, lifelong undervaluation of caregiving labor, and climate change intersect to impair civic participation and democratic rights among older women.
  • Conceptual and socio-legal framework analysis evaluating the systemic causes and democratic implications of housing insecurity among older cohorts.
  • Housing precarity in older women stems largely from cumulative, lifelong undervaluation of care work and is magnified by unequal climate change impacts.
  • Unstable living conditions compromise fundamental democratic rights by presenting practical barriers to civic engagement and voting.
  • Effective legal, social, and policy interventions require community-embedded, life-course research centered on the lived expertise of affected women.

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Lisa Ewenson (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86b5ff8a91293e6a1cd947https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969x261476793
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