Feminist foresight in housing studies: housing scenarios through care for Brussels 2050

This paper presents four housing scenarios through care drawn from a long qualitative survey in the Brussels Region. The Brussels region is facing a housing crisis that is affecting the most vulnerable people. By combining care studies, housing studies and future studies, the CTRL+H research proposes several exploratory scenarios for the housing conditions in Brussels in 2050. These scenarios are based on a mixed qualitative survey carried out with residents and field workers in 5 collective housing complexes. The scenarios explore four different relations of care and housing in four different societies. They put light on the role of the state, the tech industry, the grass root movements and the inhabitants in carework and housing production. This method is original in several ways. It uses an empirical survey to develop exploratory scenarios that take account of the issues of power and inequality in the futures studies where feminist perspectives are in the minority.