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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · 9d

CfP ENHR Workshop: Families, Housing, and the Asset Society.
University of Cambridge, UK, June 4-5 2026. Abstract Deadline: Feb 1 2026. Details: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Department of Land Economy @landeconomy.bsky.social · Jul 16

🗞️🏘️👉The Department's @justinkadi.bsky.social has just published a new article on Vienna's housing sector for @theguardian.com. 🔗Read more on our website here: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-just...

Dr Justin Kadi publishes in the Guardian on Vienna's housing policies

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Jul 10

Budapest’s young people are joining the ranks of generation rent: Sell-offs of public housing and the right’s promotion of home ownership has left too many unable to afford accommodation

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Budapest’s young people are joining the ranks of generation rent | Csaba Jelinek

Sell-offs of public housing and the right’s promotion of home ownership has left too many unable to afford accommodation, says urban sociologist Csaba Jelinek

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Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have an article in the Guardian today on how finance capitalism is wreaking havoc on housing across Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · Jul 10

Vienna is regularly cited as the best example of how to do affordable housing, and @justinkadi.bsky.social is *the* Vienna housing expert.

He explains the city's social-rental stock results from structural political commitment + investment (1% levy on salaries)

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Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why | Justin Kadi

Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Apr 2

Now also included in an issue of @housingtheory.bsky.social My take on how Vienna's private rental market has transformed since the 1980s. A story of commodification through deregulation, the entrance of corporate landlords, and the emergence of new strategies to maximize returns 👇

Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Aug 1

New paper: When it comes to housing policy, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification. But the regulated private rental market has undergone significant commodification since the 1980s. I show how. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna

Among housing observers, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification, showcasing the power of politics to tame the profit motive in housing. We argue that this view requires n...

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Mar 19

The Intern. Journal of Housing Policy is celebrating its 25th birthday with a symposium this year. The event "Reflections and Developments in Housing Research: What's next?" will take place on Sep 8/9 at Univ. Glasgow. In collaboration with Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence. Details below

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Feb 5

3 key contributions: 1 Widens geography of research on institutional investment by considering a highly regulated housing market. 2 Demonstrates that a large social housing stock does not per se prevent significant presence of inst. inv. 3 Introduces novel method that may be used in other cases

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Feb 5

This provides unique ownership data for the entire housing market at the property level. We measure inst. Inv. in diff. rental tenures & further distinguish between direct & indirect property owners, between national, EU, and non-EU investors, and conduct a GIS analysis of investment hotspots 4/n

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Feb 5

While scholarly and public attention on institutional investors in rental housing is considerable, studies that quantify the relevance of such actors are still rare. We measure institutional investor ownership in a European city with one of the highest shares of social housing: Vienna, Austria. 3/n

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Feb 5

New paper together with S. Banabak & L. Plank: Institutional investment in rental housing in the city of social housing. Published in European Urban and Regional Studies. / Key points Thread 1/n journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Institutional investment in rental housing in the city of social housing - Justin Kadi, Selim Banabak, Leonhard Plank, 2025

While scholarly and public attention on institutional investors in rental housing is considerable, studies that quantify the relevance of such actors are still ...

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Jan 15

Part of a brand new issue of the International Journal of Housing Policy. Articles on community led housing, low-income homeownership, renovation and rent increases, tenant-landlord relationship, pets and private renting, tenancy law and decommodification, .... www.tandfonline.com/toc/reuj20/2...

International Journal of Housing Policy

Volume 25, Issue 1 of International Journal of Housing Policy

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Jan 15

New editorial in the International Journal of Housing Policy: Housing as an engine of inequality and the role of policy. With @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social and Megan Nethercote
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Housing as an engine of inequality and the role of policy

Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2025)

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Oct 29

Out now also in an issue of Urban Geography: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: evidence from a highly regulated housing system

There is growing evidence of a suburbanization of poverty in the context of accelerating gentrification, particularly in liberal housing systems. To what extent are similar processes occurring in h...

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Oct 21

"The number of uk hospital beds shrank from 2.76 per thousand in 2013 to 2.42 in 2021, compared to 7.76 in Germany and 5.65 in France." newleftreview.org/issues/ii148...

Tom Hazeldine, Neo-Labourism in the Saddle, NLR 148, July–August 2024

Still lagging its G7 peers in recovery from the 2008 crisis, and faced with the impasse of Brexit, Britain is haunted again by the spectre of decline. As Labour returns to office, tight-lipped about i...

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Martin Michaelis (he/him) @martmichaelis.bsky.social · Oct 20

"We find tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term. In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment."
#EconSky #PoliSky

The economic consequences of major tax cuts for the rich

Abstract . The last 50 years has seen a dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across the advanced democracies. There is still fervent debate in both politi

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Oct 7

Fascinating paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates

Global warming had long been discussed as an abstract matter of physics and chemistry. Only in the 1990s did the more tangible costs caused by natural…

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Sep 25

Call for Papers - Homeownership, housing, and inequality: Continuity and change, Luxembourg, 10-11 December 2024, ENHR Working Group Homeownership and Globalization www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Call for Papers - Homeownership, housing, and inequality: Continuity and change, Luxembourg, 10-11 December 2024, ENHR Working Group Homeownership and Globalization

PDF | On Sep 23, 2024, Richard Ronald and others published Call for Papers - Homeownership, housing, and inequality: Continuity and change, Luxembourg, 10-11 December 2024, ENHR Working Group Homeowne...

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Sep 9

I've finally said good bye to X. I agree with the argument that we, as academics, should be more cautious about the platforms we are on and make sure not to support dubious and politically regressive projects. So from now on only Blue Sky.

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Aug 1

New paper: When it comes to housing policy, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification. But the regulated private rental market has undergone significant commodification since the 1980s. I show how. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna

Among housing observers, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification, showcasing the power of politics to tame the profit motive in housing. We argue that this view requires n...

www.tandfonline.com

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Jul 22

Auch Adam Smith sah schon die Notwendigkeit öffentlicher Infrastruktur 👇

Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Jul 22

Der Staat hat "Pflicht, bestimmte Anstalten und Einrichtungen zu gründen und zu unterhalten, die ein einzelner oder eine (..) Gruppe aus eigenem Interesse nicht betreiben kann, weil der Gewinn ihre Kosten niemals decken könnte, obwohl er häufig höher sein mag als die Kosten für das (..) Gemeinwesen“

Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Jul 22

Der Staat hat "Pflicht, bestimmte Anstalten und Einrichtungen zu gründen und zu unterhalten, die ein einzelner oder eine (..) Gruppe aus eigenem Interesse nicht betreiben kann, weil der Gewinn ihre Kosten niemals decken könnte, obwohl er häufig höher sein mag als die Kosten für das (..) Gemeinwesen“

Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · May 22

Looking forward to giving a plenary speech at the conference "The contested provisioning of care and housing" tomorrow at WU Vienna. My somewhat bold title: Good housing for all? Strategies and barriers. Read about the conference here: www.contestedcareandhousing.com

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · May 4

Impliziert die Schwierigkeit in der Einhebung einer Vermögenssteuer, dass es sie nicht geben sollte? "Wir sagen auch nicht: "Es ist unmöglich, alle Straßen zu kontrollieren, weshalb haben wir überhaupt eine Maximalgeschwindigkeit" "
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Ökonomin Martínez: "Administrativer Aufwand ist kein Argument gegen Vermögenssteuern"

Die Schweizer Verteilungsökonomin Isabel Martínez erklärt die Vor- und Nachteile einer solchen Steuer und was sie von einem staatlichen Grunderbe hält

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Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Guter Text: "Der Begriff des Anthropozäns verdeckt mehr, als er enthüllt. Wir benötigen einen Alternativbegriff, der die ungleichen Verantwortlichkeiten nicht nur benennt, sondern auch historische Erklärungen anbietet. " www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Adieu Anthropozän – willkommen im Kapitalozän!

Wir befinden uns also doch nicht im Erdzeitalter des Menschen, behaupten Fachleute. Doch leben wir seit 200 Jahren in einer Wachstumsgesellschaft, die ihre eigenen Grundlagen untergräbt

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