Recentering property’s relations: An agenda for geographies of homelessness

Property is of concern to human geographers because of how it shapes the social circumstances and physical conditions of places. Given property’s role in structuring the socio-spatial conditions of homelessness, geographic research on homelessness has analyzed property for decades. However, with advances in property scholarship emerging within the broader discipline, geographies of homelessness can recenter property in its analyses. To do so, this paper promotes a relational approach to analyzing property by highlighting key features of property’s formations: home-making, race-making, and political subject-making, formations that cannot only inform and guide homelessness research, but research concerned with the puzzle of possession in shaping more just geographies.