“I hope you can help me”: Impacts of cisheteropatriarchal housing systems on tenant careworkers’ access to local state care infrastructure in Vancouver, Canada
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Abstract
Housing and care relations are deeply gendered. Analyzing these relationships through consideration of cisheteropatriarchal structures facilitates a deeper understanding of systemic contexts shaping tenants' experiences of care in housing crises and the protection of property ownership through normative hierarchies of gender and sexualities. Yet, understandings of how tenants' care work is situated within cisheteropatriarchal relations remains limited. To address this gap, I engage archival materials to analyze interactions between tenants and Vancouver, Canada's Rental Accommodation Grievance Board, a state-led mediator between landlords and tenants that operated from 1969-1975. I theorize the multifaceted approaches through which tenants demanded care from local state infrastructure in housing crises, as shaped by cisheteropatriarchal structures. Tenants provided care work to themselves, landlords, and the state and this labour was shaped by cisheteropatriarchal contexts. Tenants' demands for local state care through landlord-tenant laws often resulted in gender-based landlord violence and harassment towards tenants. Tenants resisted cisheteropatriarchal care norms that categorized their care needs as secondary to the protection of profit and property. I situate these care contexts within a cisheteropatriarchal housing system to argue that the reliance on tenants as careworkers in housing crises exacerbates gendered inequities and harms for those already vulnerable to housing precarity.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".