📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣

🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.

🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

A reminder of the deadline for this Call for Papers coming up:

“Depuis quelques années, « le coût du logement devient un facteur beaucoup plus important dans la production de l’itinérance », ajoute Nick Revington [ @nickrevington.bsky.social ]
professeur d’études urbaines à l’Institut national de recherche scientifique.”

📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question

ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025

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I can't look away!

This is, in our view, a crucial dynamic in understanding the emergence of "total-life landlordism" and the increasing attention to "beds sectors" by real estate investors.

We draw on the case of the co-living sector in Brussels to argue that we are witnessing a process of life course segmentation - a form of class monopoly rent - enabling rent extraction across a wider swath of the life course, but also deepening the extraction of rent at each life course stage.

Looking forward to speaking about young adults' access to homeownership at the Urban Affairs Association Conference on Friday, specifically, the tensions between the ideologies of homeownership underpinning Canadian housing policy and the homeowner ideologies of those looking to buy a first home.

Mental health concerns were an overriding reason for moving, followed by physical wellness. Some, but not all, outcomes of moves differed by gender, race, and students’ geographic origin.

We found that non-male respondents and non-Québec residents were more likely to effectuate pandemic-related moves, and that moves were also associated with financial precarity.

Our long-overdue article on students' residential mobility in Québec during the COVID-19 pandemic is finally published!

Free e-prints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NA9PN...

Left and right, sure. Middle... not so sure.

Housing advantage, hidden curriculum, habitus: students’ past and future housing pathways revisited
Nick Revington
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Montrealers! I'll be speaking at the Department of Geography at McGill next Friday (Feb 28) on studentscapes, student bubbles and studentification, or what student geographies of housing can tell us about urban space.

Details here: www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

My article on students' housing experiences in Waterloo, with some reflections on how student housing pathways are theorized, now has an issue number in the Journal of Youth Studies! @youthstudies.bsky.social
E-prints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IEXRW...

Amazing, congrats!

Stupid for a lot of reasons, and this is nowhere near the top, but the assumption that we (Canadians) would vote for the Dems and not, say, a third party that exists solely for regaining independence seems... underappreciated.

🥚: fried (sunny side up)
🥩: medium-rare
🥛: definitely not in tea or coffee, ok on its own but rarely drink it
🍷: a crisp, refreshing lager or full-bodied red wine like malbec
☕️: tea, strong and black
🥤: iced/sweet tea or ginger ale

Félicitations encore une fois, Guylaine!

Tip for Academic Success:
Do nothing today. It’s Sunday.

Of all the astonishingly brutal stats that have emerged over the course of the genocide in Gaza the one that pops into my mind everyday is that Israeli attacks are the 4th leading cause of violent deaths for kids under 5 in the whole world. Heartbreaking and beautifully illustrated by Mona Chalabi.

The full article is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There's a new @houspoldebate.bsky.social blog, and one of the first posts is this nice little summary of my article with AJ Wray about planning for student housing in Ontario:
www.housingpolicyblog.org/student-hous...