Justin Kadi

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.

Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

Perhaps Novara Media, or Rethink... ?

Wohnen in Wien für Systemerhalter schwer leistbar In Wien werden Personen in systemrelevanten Berufen, etwa in der Pflege, gesucht. Eine Recherche des Urban Journalism Network unter Beteiligung des ORF und der Wiener Zeitung zeigt, dass die Wohnkoste...

Schöne Story über hohe Mieten am privaten Markt in Wien: wien.orf.at/stories/3327... Eine ähnliche Auswertung habe ich 2021 mit Kollegen von der TU Wien gemacht: mietmonitor.wien (wir hatten etwas bessere Daten, 2011-2019, nicht nur 2019)

In this mini-conference, we are seeking to have a critical debate about land struggles over sovereignty, resources and means of survival. We are inviting folks to submit abstracts (no more than 1000 words) which raise land as the main object of analysis of power in a ‘post-globalisation order’. By seeking to re-centre the Land Question in contemporary socio and political economic debate and scholarship, we aim to illuminate how land and the power it confers shape institutions, create and mediate conflicts, and determine possibilities for both domination and resistance in an era marked by ecological crisis and geopolitical realignment. We are particularly interested in hearing about research which speaks to one of our key themes: 1. Land conflicts and new imperialisms 2. Extractivism and resource conflicts 3. Digital infrastructure and the material internet 4. Institutions and power in the regulation of land 5. Consequences of urban and rural land concentration 6. Land rent and heterodox economics

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July).

sase.org/events/2026-...

Deadline: December 16th

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

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/...

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

🗞️🏘️👉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...

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

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

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

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

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

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)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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 👇

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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/...

International Journal of Housing Policy Volume 25, Issue 1 of International Journal of Housing Policy

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...

Housing as an engine of inequality and the role of policy Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2025)

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....

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...

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

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...

"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...

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

"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

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…

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

(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...

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/...

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.

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...

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....

Auch Adam Smith sah schon die Notwendigkeit öffentlicher Infrastruktur 👇

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“

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

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

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" "
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

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...