Housing, Theory and Society
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Housing, Theory and Society publishes housing research in regards to wider social, cultural, and economic issues.
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📢 New paper alert!
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
Towards a Typology of Collaborative Housing in Colombia
The renewed interest in collaborative housing in Latin America highlights the need for analytical frameworks that capture regional specificities. This paper contributes to academic and policy debat...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
📢 New paper alert!
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
See all six commentaries on @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin A Woods focus article
”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
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”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
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The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism
Over the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
See all six commentaries on @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin A Woods focus article
”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Greetings from our editorial board meeting at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) in Uppsala, with Hannu Ruonavaara, Timothy Blackwell, @desireefields.bsky.social, @shadeofjuniper.bsky.social, Chris Foye, @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @jiegson.bsky.social!
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Greetings from our editorial board meeting at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) in Uppsala, with Hannu Ruonavaara, Timothy Blackwell, @desireefields.bsky.social, @shadeofjuniper.bsky.social, Chris Foye, @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @jiegson.bsky.social!
🔔 Monday morning commentaries
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism
The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism
Over the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🔔 Monday morning commentaries
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism
🔔 Check out three of our most recent online first publications!
⭐ Dr Simon Hill writes about ethics of hospitality translating into housing stability, security and autonomy in "A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship"
⭐ Dr Simon Hill writes about ethics of hospitality translating into housing stability, security and autonomy in "A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship"
A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship
This paper turns to Emmanuel Levinas’s phenomenology of house and home to propose a Levinasian right to housing. After sketching the phenomenal conditions that Levinas’s phenomenology is grounded i...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🔔 Check out three of our most recent online first publications!
⭐ Dr Simon Hill writes about ethics of hospitality translating into housing stability, security and autonomy in "A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship"
⭐ Dr Simon Hill writes about ethics of hospitality translating into housing stability, security and autonomy in "A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship"
🔔 New book review 🔔
📖 Marja Elsinga offers a reading of @martingrander.bsky.social and Mark Stephens edited book The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare
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📖 Marja Elsinga offers a reading of @martingrander.bsky.social and Mark Stephens edited book The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare
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The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare
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September 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🔔 New book review 🔔
📖 Marja Elsinga offers a reading of @martingrander.bsky.social and Mark Stephens edited book The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare
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📖 Marja Elsinga offers a reading of @martingrander.bsky.social and Mark Stephens edited book The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔔 Two new highlights!
✏️ Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing by Zoë Goodall, Wendy Stone, Kay Cook and Deb Batterham investigating shared private rental housing through the lenses of relationality and housing justice.
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✏️ Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing by Zoë Goodall, Wendy Stone, Kay Cook and Deb Batterham investigating shared private rental housing through the lenses of relationality and housing justice.
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Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing
This article conceptually explores housing justice through the worked example of shared housing in the private rental sector (PRS), where people live with non-family. Drawing on interviews with 25 ...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
🔔 Two new highlights!
✏️ Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing by Zoë Goodall, Wendy Stone, Kay Cook and Deb Batterham investigating shared private rental housing through the lenses of relationality and housing justice.
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
✏️ Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing by Zoë Goodall, Wendy Stone, Kay Cook and Deb Batterham investigating shared private rental housing through the lenses of relationality and housing justice.
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Great piece, defo worth a read
“In Dublin city, of the 3,350 new homes built in 2024, 111 apartments were sold to household buyers and just 44 new scheme houses. That’s it.” @irishtimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Great piece, defo worth a read
We have some new online publications, great readings on home ownership, rentierism, and decarbonized living!
🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism
Over the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We have some new online publications, great readings on home ownership, rentierism, and decarbonized living!
🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We offer some newly published Monday-reading about how to define housing inequalities, by Theo Barry Born, Jenny Preece and David Robinson
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Housing Inequalities: Definitions, Understandings and Approaches
Housing inequalities are a key focus for housing research, yet how inequalities are defined and understood is rarely discussed. Recognising the potential for weak abstractions to limit the framing ...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We offer some newly published Monday-reading about how to define housing inequalities, by Theo Barry Born, Jenny Preece and David Robinson
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We have fresh paper out on digitalization and neighbourhood belonging, and the connection between urban social life and online communities by Nerea Viana Alzola and Maxime Felder
➡️ "'You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ' Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media"
➡️ "'You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ' Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media"
“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media
This article examines how social media shapes expressions of belonging through the analysis of a neighbourhood-based Facebook group as an online local community. While the group’s title suggests an...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We have fresh paper out on digitalization and neighbourhood belonging, and the connection between urban social life and online communities by Nerea Viana Alzola and Maxime Felder
➡️ "'You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ' Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media"
➡️ "'You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ' Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media"
Check out Issue 4 2025 with articles on homelessness, community housing, COVID-lockdown and more
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Housing, Theory and Society
Volume 42, Issue 4 of Housing, Theory and Society
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September 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Check out Issue 4 2025 with articles on homelessness, community housing, COVID-lockdown and more
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Check out our latest publication ✨
🔸 The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach by Gentili & Hoekstra, investigating young people's housing trajectories.
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🔸 The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach by Gentili & Hoekstra, investigating young people's housing trajectories.
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The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach
In Amsterdam, young people face persistent housing difficulties due to soaring house prices and rents, precarious labour conditions, shrinking social housing, and ongoing gentrification. Drawing on...
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August 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Check out our latest publication ✨
🔸 The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach by Gentili & Hoekstra, investigating young people's housing trajectories.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔸 The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach by Gentili & Hoekstra, investigating young people's housing trajectories.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Time to embrace the autumn term 📖 . Visit our three most cited papers published within the last three years to keep you updated:
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Time to embrace the autumn term 📖 . Visit our three most cited papers published within the last three years to keep you updated:
Yesterday, our session at the ENHR Grand Paris-conference, organized by Hannu Ruonavaara and Chris Foye, had interesting paper presentations about communal spaces in housing in Vienna by Anita Aigner and Judith Lehner.
July 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Yesterday, our session at the ENHR Grand Paris-conference, organized by Hannu Ruonavaara and Chris Foye, had interesting paper presentations about communal spaces in housing in Vienna by Anita Aigner and Judith Lehner.
We have two new articles published online❕📖
🔸 Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance written by Matthew Howells and Kristian Olesen
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🔸 Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance written by Matthew Howells and Kristian Olesen
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Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance
This article explores the changing role of housing associations in Denmark. We suggest that an ongoing neoliberalization of urban governance in Denmark has produced new conditions of existence for ...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We have two new articles published online❕📖
🔸 Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance written by Matthew Howells and Kristian Olesen
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔸 Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance written by Matthew Howells and Kristian Olesen
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our most recent book review is Setiawan's and Indriyani reading of Creating Mixed Communities Through Housing Policies: Global Perspectives by Santiago et al (2024)
Creating Mixed Communities Through Housing Policies: Global Perspectives
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June 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Our most recent book review is Setiawan's and Indriyani reading of Creating Mixed Communities Through Housing Policies: Global Perspectives by Santiago et al (2024)
Check out or latest issue, nr 3 in 2025, with papers on tourism-led housing commodification, asylum policies and energy deprivation, residents' spatial perceptions of gentrifying areas and more: www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/c...
Housing, Theory and Society
Volume 42, Issue 3 of Housing, Theory and Society
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June 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Check out or latest issue, nr 3 in 2025, with papers on tourism-led housing commodification, asylum policies and energy deprivation, residents' spatial perceptions of gentrifying areas and more: www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/c...
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June 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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June 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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We have a new article out on how to sustain motherhood during homelessness, pointing to the need for temporary accommodation to align more with mothers' experiences and needs
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Mothering During Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation as Heterotopia
There is an extensive literature on the detrimental impacts on families of living in temporary accommodation. There has been less focus on the experience of mothers within these spaces, and the con...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We have a new article out on how to sustain motherhood during homelessness, pointing to the need for temporary accommodation to align more with mothers' experiences and needs
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Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
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#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
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#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
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#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
New publication: Ma et. al on property development, cultural capital, and design quality in Sydney, Australia
Investor-Occupiers and the Cultural Capital of Architectural Design: The Importance of Architectural Quality and Apartment Design in a Falling Market
This study examines property developers' strategic responses to housing price downturns, focusing on shifting architectural design decisions. When prices dropped, non-occupant investors retreated w...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
New publication: Ma et. al on property development, cultural capital, and design quality in Sydney, Australia
We have three fresh new articles! First, @senjal.bsky.social inquiry into energy sufficiency and energy-saving practices in times of crisis discussing the meanings households' attach to energy savings in their homes
Energy-Saving Practices at a Time of Crisis: Insights for Energy Sufficiency in Homes
Energy sufficiency has gained interest in housing research and policy. The energy crisis in Europe increased awareness of energy consumption in homes and urged, or even forced, many households to a...
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June 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We have three fresh new articles! First, @senjal.bsky.social inquiry into energy sufficiency and energy-saving practices in times of crisis discussing the meanings households' attach to energy savings in their homes
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🏡 Housing inequality among young people is shaped by income and class.
Tomorrow at 11:00, Amber Howard defends her PhD thesis 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀. Supervised by Richard Ronald, Rebecca Bentley & @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
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Tomorrow at 11:00, Amber Howard defends her PhD thesis 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀. Supervised by Richard Ronald, Rebecca Bentley & @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
Watch live 👇 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...
June 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🏡 Housing inequality among young people is shaped by income and class.
Tomorrow at 11:00, Amber Howard defends her PhD thesis 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀. Supervised by Richard Ronald, Rebecca Bentley & @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
Watch live 👇 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...
Tomorrow at 11:00, Amber Howard defends her PhD thesis 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀. Supervised by Richard Ronald, Rebecca Bentley & @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social
Watch live 👇 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...