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The Housing and Urban Justice Project

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Diverse research group based in Uppsala University investigating inequalities manifested across urban settings, advocating for urban and housing justice ✊🏠 https://linktr.ee/hujp

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 11h

🎃Halloween turns our streets into shared spaces. For one night, neighbours meet, doors open, and fear gives way to connection.

The Right to the City shouldn’t end when October 31st is over.

#UrbanJustice #RightToTheCity #PublicSpace #Halloween

The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 4d

🏘️ Just out:

Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors
by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969...

#UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · Sep 8

🏠Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism

Holgersen & Blackwell show how urban land is contested between state, capital & communities, tracing resistance & grassroots reappropriation. Read here: shorturl.at/gP8dV
#UrbanJustice

Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism

The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go-to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, ...

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · Jul 1

🏠 Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners & Tenants
How does where (and how) you live shape your rights and visibility in the city?
In a striking chapter, Miguel Martínez explores housing activism in Spain—and the struggle for urban belonging.
📖 Read: bit.ly/3I99WGj

Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants | 5 | Housing Activism and

The transitional period to a recovered democratic regime in Spain during the late 1970s was substantially shaped by large working-class mobilizations in the

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · Jun 30

🏨“Unpacking your Cape Town holiday,” co-authored by HUJP’s Cloé St-Hilarie & Sarita Pillay Gonzalez, critically examines how short-term rentals reinforce spatial and economic inequalities.
👉 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#HousingJustice #UrbanJustice

Unpacking your Cape Town holiday: The unequal, concentrated impacts of Airbnbs

Our careful analysis of available data on Airbnbs in Cape Town, combined with insights from recent peer-reviewed studies about short-term rentals globally, paints a different picture to the one from A...

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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · May 30

Call for Papers: Contested urban policy: breeding concrete utopias. Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2025. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. www.tu.berlin/en/planningt... #urban #sociology

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · May 16

📢"Welfare to the Wealthy – Housing Subsidies for the Rich" by Åse Richard (HUJP) shows how Swedish housing policy now favors wealthy homeowners—while renters face hikes and displacement. A must-read on housing justice.

🔗Read it here!
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#UrbanJustice #HousingJustice #HUJP

Bostadsbidrag till de rika

Är 4 miljarder kronor till ökade ROT-avdrag ett arv från den svenska välfärdspolitiken?

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · May 9

🏙️ Why does sustainability flourish at the urban scale—and what does class have to do with it?

Ståle Holgersen breaks it down in
🔗 CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES
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#housing #urban #justice #climateclasspolitics

CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES: Why is ‘Sustainability’ Most Popular at an Urban Scale?

Class is crucial for understanding why sustainability has become so much more popular at the urban than at other scales. The urban scale is where the capitalist class can most easily colour their inv....

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · May 2

How can we better understand displacement beyond gentrification?🏙️

In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️

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CAPTURING DISPLACEMENT: A Dialectical Mixed‐Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from Sweden

In this article, we seek to contribute to the understanding and measurement of displacement through a dialectical mixed-methods study grounded in a dialogue between quantitative and qualitative appro...

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · Apr 15

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...

Deadline 16th July 2025

USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025

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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · Apr 23

Postdoctoral fellowship to research on "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of Prof. Raquel Rolnik. Apply by: May 7, 2025. academicpositions.com/ad/universit... #urban #sociology