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Kathleen Stokes is a postdoctoral fellow on the "Rethinking Urban Vacancy" project at Trinity College Dublin. Her research intersects urban and political geographies, with a particular interest in urban space, infrastructures, labour, and citizenships.
There have been government interventions. But work on vacant homes has been muddled because vacancy is far more complicated than our current understanding captures.
