Housing, Theory and Society

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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Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The other is Lorenzo Vidal's review by Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich by Kockelkorn, Schindler and Hirschberg.

Political Economy of Housing in Chile Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

We have two new book reviews. One on Political Economy of Housing in Chile, reviewed by David Kornbluth by Vergara-Perucic and others

Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

We have a fresh new book review of Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice, edited by Ralph Horne and others, written by Melissa García-Lamarca

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Martin Heidegger’s Philosophical Insights on the Essence of Home: A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan’s Dwellings This study critically examines the integration of Martin Heidegger’s philosophical insights from his seminal essay “Building Dwelling Thinking” (1954) into the architecture and existential experien...

Third, Shareef et al. examine Kurdish domestic spaces using Heidegger’s concept of dwelling, rendering a discussion about architecture and human habitation.
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From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments This study explores the role of the public balcony in collective dwelling culture, focusing on how it varies and is experienced through architectural and everyday practices. It investigates the bal...

Second, Sever et al. depart from Ankara, Turkey, study how the ’public balcony’ functions as a bridge between private and public space.
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Thinking Female Bodyspace and Housing Through Corporeal Feminist Theory This paper considers the intersection between female body, housing, and health, through the lens of corporeal feminist theory. It aims to build theory on the intersecting corporeal, material, and c...

!!! We have three newly published online papers.

First, Nakai Kidd et al. use corporeal feminist theory to analyse the physical, psychological, emotional, and social needs of women living in social housing in Australia.
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Interesting article about the multiple temporalities in renovation projects.

The Collective Meaning of “Sense of Home”: Experiences from a Rental Housing Cooperative in Melbourne, Australia, and Choluteca, Honduras Cities worldwide are facing a “housing crisis” predominantly affecting low- and middle-income renters, leading to issues such as poor-quality living environments and eviction risks, which can resul...

New publication! Guity-Zapata, Stone and Nygaard examine rental housing cooperatives and the fostering of a sense of home in Australia and Honduras. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Low-Income Homeownership and Safety Nets: The Role of Radical Community Practices Nonprofit networks that oversee housing accessibility within urban neighbourhoods emerge as crucial arenas for inducing transformative shifts in policy and practice in the United States. However, c...

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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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Capturing Low Demand Through Long Time-On-Market: Functional Obsolescence and Owner Resignation Among Old Rental Houses In Asian countries, including Japan, the rapid demolition and new construction of housing continues, causing demand for old housing stock to fall. Employing unit-level listing information obtained ...

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Time, Care, and Sustainability: Temporal Conflicts and Housing Renovation This paper contributes to the wider discourse on sustainability and housing by showing how the dynamics of temporality and care plays out in processes of renovation. We explore five empirical cases...

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Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability The concept of affordability in housing policy signalled a critical shift away from the priorities of housing need. This displacement of need by affordability can be understood as an act of economi...

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Housing Limitarianism: What’s Wrong with Owning Excess Homes? There is a growing contention in the Housing Justice movement from activists, theorists, and politicians that not only should everyone have enough housing, but there is something wrong with having ...

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