Debates around the topics of precarious housing and homelessness center around reemerging questions on housing markets and housing (in-)equality. Decreasing housing affordability and increasing tenure insecurity intensified under ongoing processes of commodification and state deregulation in recent years. Not least because of the COVID pandemic and a seemingly permanent state of political and economic crisis, the current housing market situation increasingly puts tenants under pressure. While studies of housing precarity remain highly context-sensitive, broader power relations intensify the vulnerability of tenants along markers of gender, race/ethnicity, or class. Rental driven inequalities not only affect low-income households and migrants, but newly entangle long-time and seemingly secure tenants. Increasing rents and rental arrears displace vulnerable tenants from their homes who find themselves in challenging situations that can result in homelessness and intensify prolonged housing instability. This session will focus on the central significance of newly emerging forms of housing precarity and homelessness as well as tenants’ different experiences in changing urban contexts. Contributions should explore geographies of homelessness and precarious housing which are tied to the commodification of housing markets and increasing housing inequality. The following questions serve as topical guidelines for submissions: How do tenants navigate different forms of precarious housing and ways in, out, through or around homelessness? How do tenants experience housing inequality and respond to their changing housing situations? How do tenants secure their survival and which strategies do they apply to deal with increasing housing market pressures? Who has the right to dwell and benefit from social services, and who is excluded? How do housing policies, public interventions, and different actors on housing markets reposition tenants? And how do these dynamics affect the reconfiguration of urban areas (e.g., segregation, residential mobility patterns)? The aim of this session is, therefore, to apply a holistic perspective to the topics of housing precarity and homelessness. We welcome contributions on empirical studies, conceptual considerations, innovative methodological approaches, or political interventions.