Housing, Theory and Society

"a significant intellectual contribution in the form of a solid framework for housing and welfare ... the book is a must-read for researchers, graduate students, policymakers, and specialists in fields such as housing studies, welfare policy, public policy, sociology, and urban planning"

The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

🔔 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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Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

📖 Book review by Henrik Gutzon Larsen of Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State, authored by Mika Hyötylainen

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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 ...

🔔 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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Great piece, defo worth a read

“I Can’t Imagine Living Anywhere Else”: A Qualitative Longitudinal View of Low Carbon Home Residence There is an identified need for housing to decarbonize, yet new technical configurations of homes have implications for the everyday lives and relationships that unfold within them. Active homes, w...

🔸 Fiona Shirani and others presents a long-temporal view on subjective experiences of living in innovative low-carbon homes
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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 ...

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
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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 ...

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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“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...

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"

Housing, Theory and Society Volume 42, Issue 4 of Housing, Theory and Society

Check out Issue 4 2025 with articles on homelessness, community housing, COVID-lockdown and more

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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...

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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Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness In rich-economy countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand women are increasingly experiencing first-time homelessness in older age. Focusing on the specific case of Aus...

🔸 Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness by Catherine Hastings and Lyn Craig
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Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope The paper examines how people experiencing persistent housing insecurity hold on to or restore ontological security. Conceptually it recognises ontological security as an “ongoing accomplishment” t...

🔸 Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope by Emma Power
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Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society Rental discrimination is a key factor in the reproduction of socio-economic inequality under emergent rentier capitalism within the asset society. Our research into the effects of discrimination in...

🔸 Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society by Peta Wolifson, Sophia Maalsen and Dallas Rogers
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Time to embrace the autumn term 📖 . Visit our three most cited papers published within the last three years to keep you updated:

The session also covered topics on historical collective housing in Chile and governing cities as commons, thanks to all participants!

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.

Technology, High-Rise, and Modern Homes: How Vertical Life Accelerates Domestic Energy Use in Urban China This study employs social practice theory to examine how vertical urbanization in China accelerates domestic energy demand through the interplay of technology and socio-cultural dynamics. Focusing ...

🔸Technology, High-Rise, and Modern Homes: How Vertical Life Accelerates Domestic Energy Use in Urban China written by Xin Li and Minna Sunikka-Blank
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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 ...

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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Creating Mixed Communities Through Housing Policies: Global Perspectives Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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)

Housing, Theory and Society Volume 42, Issue 3 of Housing, Theory and Society

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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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...

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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Cover of the Radical Housing Journal Issue 7.1 showing a collage zine.

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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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...

New publication: Ma et. al on property development, cultural capital, and design quality in Sydney, Australia

Time Perspective and Housing Inequalities Among Czech Young Adults: The Role of Intergenerational Financial Transfers in the Housing Affordability Crisis This article focuses on housing inequalities and the impact of intergenerational housing transfers on the time perspective of young adults in the Czech Republic. Using the Zimbardo time perspective...

Third, Kodenko Kubala et al. investigate intergenerational housing transfers in the Czech Republic.

Against Cultural Competence: Social Housing and Institutional Post-Racism This paper focuses on recent efforts to combat racialized inequalities in English social housing through “cultural competence”. Based on longitudinal, mixed qualitative research it argues that, des...

Second, Clare et al.'s article on problematizing 'cultural competence' and its interlinked policy landscape, in the context of racialized inequalities in English social housing

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...

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

🏡 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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