Right to Housing on a Livable Planet — Tactics and Intersections of the Climate and the Housing Movements

In 2025, the European Action Coalition started working on deepening the dialogue between the climate and housing movements, and this booklet is one result of that ongoing process. It brings together our reflections on the possibilities, tensions and shared ground between the two struggles. Drawing on militant testimonies, interviews and case studies from our own organising experience, we ask how these movements can learn from and strengthen each other.

In the first section, we examine defining tactics of each movement, from Barcelona’s rent strikes to Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion’s non-violent direct actions. In the second, we present concrete intersections in practice, including the Confluence of Struggles in Madrid, public housing organising in Ireland, and a closer look at the limits of collaboration through a Czech case study.

The examination of international coordination, profiling Housing Action Days and our cooperation with the Climate Action Network helped us to work out a comparative analysis of each movement’s strengths, limitations, and complementary forms of leverage, from disruptive visibility to durable local organising.

Rather than offering easy answers, we see this booklet as an invitation: to share tactics, build trust across movements, and imagine joint campaigns that connect planetary urgency with everyday survival. We hope it’s a useful resource for activists, researchers and anyone curious about what solidarity between these struggles could look like.

We hope it’s a useful resource for activists, researchers and anyone curious about what solidarity between these struggles could look like.