Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin.

An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German housing crisis
A novel approach to theorizing the nexus of informality and the state in ways that bridge analytical divides between debates about Northern and Southern states
An innovative account of urban development in Berlin that contributes to the limited discussions of urban informality in Euro-American cities
A theoretical understanding of the ways in which negotiations and transgressions are embedded in the making of urban order
A historically informed narrative of the development of allotment gardens in Berlin with a particular focus on housing practices at these sites

Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION: ALLOTMENT DWELLING AND THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF FORMALITY, INFORMALITY, AND THE STATE -- NEGOTIATING FORMALITIES: INFORMALITY AND THE EVERYDAY STATE -- FOOTNOTES ON THE HISTORY OF HOUSING: ALLOTMENT DWELLING IN BERLIN, 1871 to 2019 -- HOUSING IN THE MARGINS: HALFWAY BETWEEN EXCLUSION AND HOMEOWNERSHIP -- THE COLONY AND THE TURF: PLANNING AND THE POLITICS OF LAND USE CHANGE -- CONSTELLATIONS OF CONSENT: NAVIGATING THE POLITICS OF REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT -- WORKING THE LEGAL THRESHOLD: REGULATION, TRANSLATION, AND BOUNDARY WORK -- CONCLUSION: THE 'GALLIC VILLAGE'.