Housing, Theory and Society
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Housing, Theory and Society publishes housing research in regards to wider social, cultural, and economic issues.
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📢 New paper alert!
Emma Grimley, Orlando Woods and Lily Kong's article "Public Housing and the Forging of Future Citizens" examines the implementation of smart city urban policy through housing through residents' perspectives.
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Emma Grimley, Orlando Woods and Lily Kong's article "Public Housing and the Forging of Future Citizens" examines the implementation of smart city urban policy through housing through residents' perspectives.
➡️ Read it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Public Housing and the Forging of Future Citizens: Experiencing Convenience, Delay, and Deferral Through the Lived Realities of Singapore’s Smart Nation
This paper considers how Singapore’s pursuit of the Smart Nation within its large-scale public housing programme influences Singaporeans’ imagination, contestation, and actualization of their futur...
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September 18, 2026 at 6:10 AM
📢 New paper alert!
Emma Grimley, Orlando Woods and Lily Kong's article "Public Housing and the Forging of Future Citizens" examines the implementation of smart city urban policy through housing through residents' perspectives.
➡️ Read it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emma Grimley, Orlando Woods and Lily Kong's article "Public Housing and the Forging of Future Citizens" examines the implementation of smart city urban policy through housing through residents' perspectives.
➡️ Read it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
See some of our latest book reviews!
Anne-Cécile Mermet has read Housing under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities by Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anne-Cécile Mermet has read Housing under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities by Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Housing under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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August 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
See some of our latest book reviews!
Anne-Cécile Mermet has read Housing under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities by Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anne-Cécile Mermet has read Housing under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities by Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interested in writing a book review? We welcome submission of review books engaging with housing and housing related issues from multidisciplinary-theoretical perspectives, see more info here: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
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August 18, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Interested in writing a book review? We welcome submission of review books engaging with housing and housing related issues from multidisciplinary-theoretical perspectives, see more info here: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
We are delighted to welcome a new editor to our editorial team at Housing, Theory, and Society! Sukriti Issar from Sciences Po has joined us!
June 15, 2026 at 10:52 AM
We are delighted to welcome a new editor to our editorial team at Housing, Theory, and Society! Sukriti Issar from Sciences Po has joined us!
💫 New publication by Manuel Aalbers on financialization or rental housing 3.0, exploring how niche housing segments, such as mobile homes, informal housing and subsidized housing, are turned into assets.
Read it here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read it here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Financialization of Rental Housing 3.0: Expanding Frontiers in Global Niche Asset Classes
This paper proposes the concept of “Financialization of Rental Housing 3.0” to capture an emergent phase in the global transformation of rental housing into a financial asset. Building on earlier a...
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May 18, 2026 at 8:38 AM
💫 New publication by Manuel Aalbers on financialization or rental housing 3.0, exploring how niche housing segments, such as mobile homes, informal housing and subsidized housing, are turned into assets.
Read it here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Read it here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interested in publishing with Housing, Theory and Society? We welcome multidisciplinary manuscripts explicitly engaging with theory and approaching housing as a complex socio, economical, cultural and political phenomenon.
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Submit your article to Housing, Theory and Society
How to submit your paper to Housing, Theory and Society. Share your work with us to maximise your readership and make your mark in your area of research.
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April 30, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Interested in publishing with Housing, Theory and Society? We welcome multidisciplinary manuscripts explicitly engaging with theory and approaching housing as a complex socio, economical, cultural and political phenomenon.
Find more info about submissions here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...
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🔔 New paper published online!
Rudi Klanjsek and Karin Fisher explore housing related stress and health in their paper: Housing Concerns, Stress, and Youth Health in the Context of Adverse Macro-Structural Housing Conditions: Evidence from Slovenia.
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Rudi Klanjsek and Karin Fisher explore housing related stress and health in their paper: Housing Concerns, Stress, and Youth Health in the Context of Adverse Macro-Structural Housing Conditions: Evidence from Slovenia.
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Housing Concerns, Stress, and Youth Health in the Context of Adverse Macro-Structural Housing Conditions: Evidence from Slovenia
This study examines the link between housing concerns and health among young people (15–29) in Slovenia, using nationally representative data from 2010 and 2020. Guided by the Stress Process Model,...
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April 9, 2026 at 7:41 AM
🔔 New paper published online!
Rudi Klanjsek and Karin Fisher explore housing related stress and health in their paper: Housing Concerns, Stress, and Youth Health in the Context of Adverse Macro-Structural Housing Conditions: Evidence from Slovenia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rudi Klanjsek and Karin Fisher explore housing related stress and health in their paper: Housing Concerns, Stress, and Youth Health in the Context of Adverse Macro-Structural Housing Conditions: Evidence from Slovenia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 Special issue alert: "Housing young people under late neoliberalism"! 📢
See @constanceu.bsky.social, Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta's introducing piece ⬇️
See @constanceu.bsky.social, Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta's introducing piece ⬇️
‘Housing Young People Under Late Neoliberalism’
Between declining access to affordable rental and homeownership, and growing inequalities in housing outcomes for young people, scholars have examined both their housing pathways and “solutions” fo...
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February 26, 2026 at 9:58 AM
📢 Special issue alert: "Housing young people under late neoliberalism"! 📢
See @constanceu.bsky.social, Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta's introducing piece ⬇️
See @constanceu.bsky.social, Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta's introducing piece ⬇️
📢 Publication alert!
Caterina Di Giovanni and Sónia Alves analyze the path dependencies of and divergent trends in Italy's and Portugal's housing policies in the paper "A Century of Housing Policy in Portugal and Italy: A Comparative Process-Tracing Analysis"
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Caterina Di Giovanni and Sónia Alves analyze the path dependencies of and divergent trends in Italy's and Portugal's housing policies in the paper "A Century of Housing Policy in Portugal and Italy: A Comparative Process-Tracing Analysis"
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A Century of Housing Policy in Portugal and Italy: A Comparative Process-Tracing Analysis
This paper compares the evolution of housing policy in Portugal and Italy over the past century through a process-tracing analysis informed by historical institutionalism. While numerous studies ha...
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February 13, 2026 at 8:43 AM
📢 Publication alert!
Caterina Di Giovanni and Sónia Alves analyze the path dependencies of and divergent trends in Italy's and Portugal's housing policies in the paper "A Century of Housing Policy in Portugal and Italy: A Comparative Process-Tracing Analysis"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Caterina Di Giovanni and Sónia Alves analyze the path dependencies of and divergent trends in Italy's and Portugal's housing policies in the paper "A Century of Housing Policy in Portugal and Italy: A Comparative Process-Tracing Analysis"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 Publication alert!
Paula Meth's article "Youth, Work and Housing: A Nexus of Precarity" conceptualizes the nexus of housing and work precarity from the Ethiopian and Sout African contexts, putting the debates in housing studies, labour and youth geographies into conversions.
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Paula Meth's article "Youth, Work and Housing: A Nexus of Precarity" conceptualizes the nexus of housing and work precarity from the Ethiopian and Sout African contexts, putting the debates in housing studies, labour and youth geographies into conversions.
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Youth, Work and Housing: A Nexus of Precarity
Globally, young people’s efforts to secure access to work and housing are characterised by considerable precarity and often impede youth transitions. Contributing to debates in housing studies, lab...
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January 26, 2026 at 1:15 PM
📢 Publication alert!
Paula Meth's article "Youth, Work and Housing: A Nexus of Precarity" conceptualizes the nexus of housing and work precarity from the Ethiopian and Sout African contexts, putting the debates in housing studies, labour and youth geographies into conversions.
Read the article:
Paula Meth's article "Youth, Work and Housing: A Nexus of Precarity" conceptualizes the nexus of housing and work precarity from the Ethiopian and Sout African contexts, putting the debates in housing studies, labour and youth geographies into conversions.
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📖 Check out our recently published book review!
Andrea Lara-Garcia reflects on Joanna Kusiak's Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future.
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Andrea Lara-Garcia reflects on Joanna Kusiak's Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future.
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Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. , No. , )
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January 22, 2026 at 9:26 AM
📖 Check out our recently published book review!
Andrea Lara-Garcia reflects on Joanna Kusiak's Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future.
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Andrea Lara-Garcia reflects on Joanna Kusiak's Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future.
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Housing, Theory and Society accepts the following types of article:
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📰 Focus Article
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Housing, Theory and Society accepts the following types of article:
📰 Research Article
📰 Focus Article
📕Book Review
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Submit your article to Housing, Theory and Society
How to submit your paper to Housing, Theory and Society. Share your work with us to maximise your readership and make your mark in your area of research.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:37 AM
✏️ Interested in submitting your paper to Housing, Theory and Society? ✏️
Housing, Theory and Society accepts the following types of article:
📰 Research Article
📰 Focus Article
📕Book Review
You find more information and instructions for authors here:
Housing, Theory and Society accepts the following types of article:
📰 Research Article
📰 Focus Article
📕Book Review
You find more information and instructions for authors here:
Get to know the last one of our editorial board members: Jennie Gustafsson @jiegson.bsky.social!
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Get to know the last one of our editorial board members: Jennie Gustafsson @jiegson.bsky.social!
Today, we introduce our editor @desireefields.bsky.social, based at University of California, Berkeley.
January 14, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Today, we introduce our editor @desireefields.bsky.social, based at University of California, Berkeley.
Continue getting to know our editorial board members: Chris Foye!
January 13, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Continue getting to know our editorial board members: Chris Foye!
We continue this week with presenting our editorial board members. Get to know Jennifer Mack @shadeofjuniper.bsky.social!
January 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM
We continue this week with presenting our editorial board members. Get to know Jennifer Mack @shadeofjuniper.bsky.social!
Timothy Blackwell is one of our editors who has been with the journal the longest, read about him and his research here:
January 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Timothy Blackwell is one of our editors who has been with the journal the longest, read about him and his research here:
📰 Housing, Theory and Society greats the new year by presenting our editorial board members.
We will post about one editor a day and each editor's bio presents what kind of contribution they would like to see more of in journal.
First off, we have our editor-in-chief Hannu Ruonavaara!
We will post about one editor a day and each editor's bio presents what kind of contribution they would like to see more of in journal.
First off, we have our editor-in-chief Hannu Ruonavaara!
January 8, 2026 at 9:17 AM
📰 Housing, Theory and Society greats the new year by presenting our editorial board members.
We will post about one editor a day and each editor's bio presents what kind of contribution they would like to see more of in journal.
First off, we have our editor-in-chief Hannu Ruonavaara!
We will post about one editor a day and each editor's bio presents what kind of contribution they would like to see more of in journal.
First off, we have our editor-in-chief Hannu Ruonavaara!
📢 📖 New book review!
Mika Hyötyläinen discusses Chua Beng Huat's book "Public Subsidy/Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing" ➡️ "it offers a compelling, accessible introduction to one of the most intriguing alternative models of housing provision".
Mika Hyötyläinen discusses Chua Beng Huat's book "Public Subsidy/Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing" ➡️ "it offers a compelling, accessible introduction to one of the most intriguing alternative models of housing provision".
Public Subsidy/Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📢 📖 New book review!
Mika Hyötyläinen discusses Chua Beng Huat's book "Public Subsidy/Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing" ➡️ "it offers a compelling, accessible introduction to one of the most intriguing alternative models of housing provision".
Mika Hyötyläinen discusses Chua Beng Huat's book "Public Subsidy/Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing" ➡️ "it offers a compelling, accessible introduction to one of the most intriguing alternative models of housing provision".
New paper online: Anna Jørgensen, Andreas Lindergaard Jakobsen, Hanne Louise Jensen, Michelle Voersaa Fisker and Rolf Lyneborg Lund go beyond the label 'ghetto and use mixed-methods to analyze dimensions of community life, collective efficacy and structural conditions i Danish neighbourhoods.
Beyond the Label: A Mixed-Methods Study of Community Life, Collective Efficacy and Structural Conditions in Danish ‘Ghetto’ Neighbourhoods
Recent research has called for a more nuanced perspective on social life in structurally disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach with a combination of Danish register data...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New paper online: Anna Jørgensen, Andreas Lindergaard Jakobsen, Hanne Louise Jensen, Michelle Voersaa Fisker and Rolf Lyneborg Lund go beyond the label 'ghetto and use mixed-methods to analyze dimensions of community life, collective efficacy and structural conditions i Danish neighbourhoods.
📣📣📣Check out our latest issue!📣📣📣
Issue five this year brings together research on energy use and energy saving tactics, sense of home in cooperative housing, feminist theoretical perspectives on experiences of social housing and much more!
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Issue five this year brings together research on energy use and energy saving tactics, sense of home in cooperative housing, feminist theoretical perspectives on experiences of social housing and much more!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/c...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📣📣📣Check out our latest issue!📣📣📣
Issue five this year brings together research on energy use and energy saving tactics, sense of home in cooperative housing, feminist theoretical perspectives on experiences of social housing and much more!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/c...
Issue five this year brings together research on energy use and energy saving tactics, sense of home in cooperative housing, feminist theoretical perspectives on experiences of social housing and much more!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/c...
📢 New paper alert!
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
Towards a Typology of Collaborative Housing in Colombia
The renewed interest in collaborative housing in Latin America highlights the need for analytical frameworks that capture regional specificities. This paper contributes to academic and policy debat...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
📢 New paper alert!
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.
See all six commentaries on @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin A Woods focus article
”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
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”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
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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 ...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
See all six commentaries on @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin A Woods focus article
”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
”The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Greetings from our editorial board meeting at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) in Uppsala, with Hannu Ruonavaara, Timothy Blackwell, @desireefields.bsky.social, @shadeofjuniper.bsky.social, Chris Foye, @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @jiegson.bsky.social!
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Greetings from our editorial board meeting at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) in Uppsala, with Hannu Ruonavaara, Timothy Blackwell, @desireefields.bsky.social, @shadeofjuniper.bsky.social, Chris Foye, @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @jiegson.bsky.social!
🔔 Monday morning commentaries
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism
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 ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🔔 Monday morning commentaries
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism
We have two fresh commentaries to @sjs1869.bsky.social and Gavin Wood's focus article on the edges of home-ownership and rentier capitalism