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On Housing Inequalities, Struggles and Solidarities Across Tenures

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 3h

@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social and Rowan Arundel draw out a three-folded critical reflection in "On Housing Inequalities, Struggles and Solidarities Across Tenures"

Susan Smith and Gavin Wood advance a new framework to understand inequalities and class struggles rooted in housing, proposing a focus on the edges of owner-occupation. They root their contribution...

The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 3h

🔔 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

Over the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...

“Somewhere You Can Be Yourself Proudly”: The Ambiguous Nature of ‘Home’ For Families Living in Substandard Rental Housing in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 3d

⭐ Elinor Chisholm and Amber Logan use Iris Marion Young's theory of home to illuminate tenants' experiences of living in substandard housing, adding more complexity to the notion of home, in “'Somewhere You Can Be Yourself Proudly'..."

A growing body of work shows that creating a sense of home and engaging in homemaking activities is important to people even when in difficult situations such as homelessness or living in temporary...

Managing Work-Home Spillover: Homemaking in China’s Employer-Provided Housing

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 3d

⭐ Yunzheng Zhang, Hazel Easthope and Chris Martin explore the lived experiences of tenants living in employer-provided housing in "Managing Work-Home Spillover: Homemaking in China’s Employer-Provided Housing"

Employer-provided housing constitutes a significant source of accommodation for internal and international migrant workers globally, which is characterized by work-home spillovers. However, the liv...

A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 3d

🔔 Check out three of our most recent online first publications!

⭐ Dr Simon Hill writes about ethics of hospitality translating into housing stability, security and autonomy in "A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship"

This paper turns to Emmanuel Levinas’s phenomenology of house and home to propose a Levinasian right to housing. After sketching the phenomenal conditions that Levinas’s phenomenology is grounded i...

The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 16d

"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"

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 16d

🔔 New book review 🔔

📖 Marja Elsinga offers a reading of @martingrander.bsky.social and Mark Stephens edited book The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 18d

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

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 18d

🔔 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.

➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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 ...

“I Can’t Imagine Living Anywhere Else”: A Qualitative Longitudinal View of Low Carbon Home Residence

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Reposted by Housing, Theory and Society

mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 25d

Great piece, defo worth a read

Mel Reynolds @maoiliosarey.bsky.social · 25d

“In Dublin city, of the 3,350 new homes built in 2024, 111 apartments were sold to household buyers and just 44 new scheme houses. That’s it.” @irishtimes.com

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 25d

🔸 Fiona Shirani and others presents a long-temporal view on subjective experiences of living in innovative low-carbon homes
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

The Edges of Owner-Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 25d

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
➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Over the past half century, housing systems have been reconfigured through processes variously labelled financialization, assetization and rentierization. Unevenly advanced by successive rounds of ...

Housing Inequalities: Definitions, Understandings and Approaches

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Sep 8

We offer some newly published Monday-reading about how to define housing inequalities, by Theo Barry Born, Jenny Preece and David Robinson

➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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 ...

“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Sep 4

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"

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...

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

www.tandfonline.com/toc/shou20/4...

Volume 42, Issue 4 of Housing, Theory and Society

The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Aug 25

🔸 Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness by Catherine Hastings and Lyn Craig
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Aug 25

🔸 Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope by Emma Power
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Aug 25

🔸 Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society by Peta Wolifson, Sophia Maalsen and Dallas Rogers
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Aug 25

Time to embrace the autumn term 📖 . Visit our three most cited papers published within the last three years to keep you updated:

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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Jun 30

🔸Technology, High-Rise, and Modern Homes: How Vertical Life Accelerates Domestic Energy Use in Urban China written by Xin Li and Minna Sunikka-Blank
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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 ...

Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance

Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Jun 30

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
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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 ...