Debbie Humphry
Biographic Data
| ID | 6690555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debbie Humphry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debbie |
| FAMILY NAME | Humphry |
| SIGNATURE | HUMPHRY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5589-5150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Very’ selective licensing – An exploration of English local authorities’ adoption of a discretionary landlord licensing scheme, 2006-2019
Since 2006 English Local Authorities (LA) have had discretionary powers to implement a type of landlord licensing scheme, Selective Licensing (SL), in the private rental sector. The scheme is intended to improve housing standards in areas marked by antisocial behaviour, poor housing conditions, low housing demand, and high levels of migration, deprivation, and crime. Yet up to 2019, only 15% of LA had adopted SL. We examine temporal, socio-econom…
Women in the centre
Community action, counter-professionals and radical planning in the UK
This paper reconsiders the roles of ‘counter-professionals’ (Goodman 1972) in urban social movements, focusing on the generation of students, activists and planners involved in the UK’s community action movement from the late-1960s. The paper therefore provides the first historical account of the ways community action stimulated the development of a distinctive counter-tradition of radical planning in the UK, inspiring experimentation with new, a…
I’ve always felt these spaces were ours’
This paper reflects on City’s interview with the UK activist group, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), examining their practices of resistance within the broader structural frame of austerity capitalism. This enables an exploration of how capitalism has constructed disability as an exclusionary category over time to support the accumulation of wealth, from urban industrialisation to austerity capitalism. The paper also engages with Gargi Bhatta…
Ja! Damit Berlin unser Zuhause bleibt! That Berlin will remain our home! حتى تظل برلين بيتنا Berlin evimiz kalsın diye! чтобы берлин оставался нашим домом Aby Berlin pozostał naszym domem
In this editorial, Anna Richter and Debbie Humphry reflect on the implications of the majority Yes vote for the campaign-initiated referendum on 26 September 2021, when Berliners were asked whether they supported the drafting of a bill to expropriate and socialise housing stock owned by corporate landlords with more than 3000 properties. This vote represented a major victory and precedent for housing justice. This was directed at corporate landlo…
Campaigning in the time of coronavirus
This City editorial explores campaigning in the time of coronavirus, considering what new connections, concepts, practices and potentials are emerging from the technologies of lockdown and the modalities of crisis. The lockdown imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic is generating new forms of struggle and hybrid urbanism, combining online and on-the-streets campaigning to generate a productive dialectic. The editorial speak from my position as a campai…
Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts
The interview with Disabled People Against Cuts campaign group illuminates ways that disabled people in the UK are campaigning on and off the streets against neoliberal austerity measures and, more widely, against the capitalist city. As the development of cities was structured by capitalism, disabled people have, in so many material, organisational and symbolic ways, been excluded by a capitalist city not built in their image. Welfare capitalism…
For the City yet to come
From Residualisation to Individualization? Social Tenants’ Experiences in Post-Olympics East Village
This paper provides an insight into social tenants’ lived experiences in post-Olympics East Village, exploring how they are shaped by new forms of neoliberalism embedded into housing provision. Focusing on allocations policy reform and housing providers’ management strategies in East Village, this paper identifies a shift from patterns of residualisation to individualization, as self-reliant tenants are sought above those most in housing need. Th…
Endpiece
Andrea Gibbons is from Arizona, USA, and worked as a community worker in Los Angeles, which influenced both her short story, 'The El Rey Bar' (2011), and her article 'Linking Race, the Value of Land and the Value of Life' in CITY (this issue). Here Andrea talks to Debbie Humphry about the key themes running through both her fiction and academic work. Debbie is CITY's web editor, a lecturer, research fellow, and photographer, who works on housing,…
The London’s Housing Crisis and its Activisms Conference , associated with City’s Special Feature (issue 20.2)
This conference, organised by Paul Watt (Birkbeck University of London) and Anna Minton (University of East London) was a launch event for their CITY special feature ‘London’s Housing Crisis and it
From Residualisation to Individualization? Social Tenants’ Experiences in Post-Olympics East Village
This paper provides an insight into social tenants’ lived experiences in post-Olympics East Village, exploring how they are shaped by new forms of neoliberalism embedded into housing provision. Focusing on allocations policy reform and housing providers’ management strategies in East Village, this paper identifies a shift from patterns of residualisation to individualization, as self-reliant tenants are sought above those most in housing need. Th…
Ja! Damit Berlin unser Zuhause bleibt! That Berlin will remain our home! حتى تظل برلين بيتنا Berlin evimiz kalsın diye! чтобы берлин оставался нашим домом Aby Berlin pozostał naszym domem
In this editorial, Anna Richter and Debbie Humphry reflect on the implications of the majority Yes vote for the campaign-initiated referendum on 26 September 2021, when Berliners were asked whether they supported the drafting of a bill to expropriate and socialise housing stock owned by corporate landlords with more than 3000 properties. This vote represented a major victory and precedent for housing justice. This was directed at corporate landlo…
I’ve always felt these spaces were ours’
This paper reflects on City’s interview with the UK activist group, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), examining their practices of resistance within the broader structural frame of austerity capitalism. This enables an exploration of how capitalism has constructed disability as an exclusionary category over time to support the accumulation of wealth, from urban industrialisation to austerity capitalism. The paper also engages with Gargi Bhatta…
Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts
The interview with Disabled People Against Cuts campaign group illuminates ways that disabled people in the UK are campaigning on and off the streets against neoliberal austerity measures and, more widely, against the capitalist city. As the development of cities was structured by capitalism, disabled people have, in so many material, organisational and symbolic ways, been excluded by a capitalist city not built in their image. Welfare capitalism…
For the City yet to come
The London’s Housing Crisis and its Activisms Conference , associated with City’s Special Feature (issue 20.2)
This conference, organised by Paul Watt (Birkbeck University of London) and Anna Minton (University of East London) was a launch event for their CITY special feature ‘London’s Housing Crisis and it
Community action, counter-professionals and radical planning in the UK
This paper reconsiders the roles of ‘counter-professionals’ (Goodman 1972) in urban social movements, focusing on the generation of students, activists and planners involved in the UK’s community action movement from the late-1960s. The paper therefore provides the first historical account of the ways community action stimulated the development of a distinctive counter-tradition of radical planning in the UK, inspiring experimentation with new, a…
Campaigning in the time of coronavirus
This City editorial explores campaigning in the time of coronavirus, considering what new connections, concepts, practices and potentials are emerging from the technologies of lockdown and the modalities of crisis. The lockdown imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic is generating new forms of struggle and hybrid urbanism, combining online and on-the-streets campaigning to generate a productive dialectic. The editorial speak from my position as a campai…
Endpiece
Andrea Gibbons is from Arizona, USA, and worked as a community worker in Los Angeles, which influenced both her short story, 'The El Rey Bar' (2011), and her article 'Linking Race, the Value of Land and the Value of Life' in CITY (this issue). Here Andrea talks to Debbie Humphry about the key themes running through both her fiction and academic work. Debbie is CITY's web editor, a lecturer, research fellow, and photographer, who works on housing,…
The London’s Housing Crisis and its Activisms Conference , associated with City’s Special Feature (issue 20.2)
This conference, organised by Paul Watt (Birkbeck University of London) and Anna Minton (University of East London) was a launch event for their CITY special feature ‘London’s Housing Crisis and it
From Residualisation to Individualization? Social Tenants’ Experiences in Post-Olympics East Village
This paper provides an insight into social tenants’ lived experiences in post-Olympics East Village, exploring how they are shaped by new forms of neoliberalism embedded into housing provision. Focusing on allocations policy reform and housing providers’ management strategies in East Village, this paper identifies a shift from patterns of residualisation to individualization, as self-reliant tenants are sought above those most in housing need. Th…
Campaigning in the time of coronavirus
This City editorial explores campaigning in the time of coronavirus, considering what new connections, concepts, practices and potentials are emerging from the technologies of lockdown and the modalities of crisis. The lockdown imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic is generating new forms of struggle and hybrid urbanism, combining online and on-the-streets campaigning to generate a productive dialectic. The editorial speak from my position as a campai…
Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts
The interview with Disabled People Against Cuts campaign group illuminates ways that disabled people in the UK are campaigning on and off the streets against neoliberal austerity measures and, more widely, against the capitalist city. As the development of cities was structured by capitalism, disabled people have, in so many material, organisational and symbolic ways, been excluded by a capitalist city not built in their image. Welfare capitalism…
For the City yet to come
Ja! Damit Berlin unser Zuhause bleibt! That Berlin will remain our home! حتى تظل برلين بيتنا Berlin evimiz kalsın diye! чтобы берлин оставался нашим домом Aby Berlin pozostał naszym domem
In this editorial, Anna Richter and Debbie Humphry reflect on the implications of the majority Yes vote for the campaign-initiated referendum on 26 September 2021, when Berliners were asked whether they supported the drafting of a bill to expropriate and socialise housing stock owned by corporate landlords with more than 3000 properties. This vote represented a major victory and precedent for housing justice. This was directed at corporate landlo…
I’ve always felt these spaces were ours’
This paper reflects on City’s interview with the UK activist group, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), examining their practices of resistance within the broader structural frame of austerity capitalism. This enables an exploration of how capitalism has constructed disability as an exclusionary category over time to support the accumulation of wealth, from urban industrialisation to austerity capitalism. The paper also engages with Gargi Bhatta…
Community action, counter-professionals and radical planning in the UK
This paper reconsiders the roles of ‘counter-professionals’ (Goodman 1972) in urban social movements, focusing on the generation of students, activists and planners involved in the UK’s community action movement from the late-1960s. The paper therefore provides the first historical account of the ways community action stimulated the development of a distinctive counter-tradition of radical planning in the UK, inspiring experimentation with new, a…
Women in the centre
‘Very’ selective licensing – An exploration of English local authorities’ adoption of a discretionary landlord licensing scheme, 2006-2019
Since 2006 English Local Authorities (LA) have had discretionary powers to implement a type of landlord licensing scheme, Selective Licensing (SL), in the private rental sector. The scheme is intended to improve housing standards in areas marked by antisocial behaviour, poor housing conditions, low housing demand, and high levels of migration, deprivation, and crime. Yet up to 2019, only 15% of LA had adopted SL. We examine temporal, socio-econom…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)