ABSTRACT
A form of housing commons that is maintained through dispersed and disputable property rights. Commoning is a political practice of keeping housing out of the speculative real-estate market, which leads to the over accumulation of properties. It involves a community of dwellers collectivizing property. Together, they manage, own, and organize the estate on which they live by way of intense democratic engagement and solidarity. In current growth-dependent economies, the challenge facing autonomous housing is that of maintaining autonomy against the constant threats of state co-optation, commodification, and internal enclaving. The dispersal and disputability of property rights is a condition for the protection of housing commons against these risks. Being skills are the capacities and attitudes of planners that make planning action possible. Planning has long been associated with managing urban growth and associated urban development. The concept of the rural/urban divide illuminates a certain disconnection between urban and rural livelihoods in terms of economic, social, cultural, and political realities.
