Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home’s severe inadequacies, which take a particular intensity in various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across globe. It is now timely to deliberate what it takes for rented property be made home, and that debate tenants’ voices should heard. Taking UK as case-study drawing on data collected through an online qualitative questionnaire, paper focuses group of tenants theorised ‘everyday activists’ address empirical question they demand from government sector improve. Considering participants’ legitimising narratives assertions self-representation policy construction, then proposes reading demands ‘Right Home’, concept carefully grounded Henri Lefebvre’s Right City. Home calls home-ing democratising current de-radicalised understandings right order craft more transformative futures.