If “crisis” is a word for the various ways that unequal and unjust power relations and economic conditions are articulated in cities, “crisis urbanism” are the various legal, policy and practical innovations, interventions and shortcuts to encounter crisis - and their justifications. I demonstrate these tendencies through the lens of recent histories of unhoused peoples’ street encampments in Paris, France that have both focused perceptions of various interconnected crises including so-called “migration crises”, drug policy crises, and the ongoing, ever-present generalized housing affordability crisis. They are also understood, through their affective, material, and discursive politics, to be the effects of these crises. Over the last several years of ethnographic engagement and reporting on the phenomenon of encampments in Paris, I have documented various “crisis urbanisms”: Rotating cycles of decampment/emergency sheltering operations and evolving carceral policies and policing practices, as well new forms of municipal humanitarianism and governmental care that bring assistance but also foreclose certain possibilities for rights-claiming and social justice. I begin this new phase of research by showing how encampments, for instance, become articulations of “urban crisis” and instigate various responses in the form of “crisis urbanist” governance solutions, interventions and assemblages. I then explore ways that these autonomous forms of inhabitation, however ephemeral, become spaces of movement, dwelling and possibility for inhabitants caught in the crosshairs of multiple intersecting urban crises that persist and proliferate beyond municipal-technocratic efforts to contain and remove them. I then trace the political and pragmatic purposes of encampments to engender, transform and counter forms of “crisis urbanism”, and how they, in their own capacities as forms of “crisis urbanism” from the margins, work to resist the violence of the permanent temporary and forge hopeful futurities amidst the daily labour of survival in the ruins.