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Housing, Theory and Society publishes housing research in regards to wider social, cultural, and economic issues.

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Thanks to the focus article authors for provoking this important debate and for all the commentating authors for participating and deepening our thinking on housing within rentier capitalism!
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social and Rowan Arundel highlights the importance of spatial scale and context to understand inequalities produced through housing, in ”On Housing Inequalities, Struggles and Solidarities Across Tenures”
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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...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Roger Burrows and Amber Howard’s commentary highlights the significance of algorithmic profiling under platform capitalism, ”Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation”
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Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation
This article offers a critical response to Smith and Wood’s concept of “the edges” of owner-occupation. While the category remains analytically diffuse, we argue that digital infrastructures – part...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Gertjan Wijburg focuses on the concept of home stewardship and temporary ownership in ”Temporary Ownership in a Home Steward Society” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
@ozlemcelik.bsky.social commentary urges for more theorizing around housing in capital circulation, housing as commons, and the role of the state in ”Exploring Alternative Housing Models Under Capitalism: Is Home Stewardship a Viable Alternative?”
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Exploring Alternative Housing Models Under Capitalism: Is Home Stewardship a Viable Alternative?
This article critically engages with the authors’ proposal for home stewardship as an alternative to individual homeownership under financialised rentier capitalism. Their framing of housing as a k...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Martin Duck, @mdemac.bsky.social and @mkonings.bsky.social on the role of states in reinforcing asset-based welfare policies and class positions, in ”The Edges of the Asset Economy: Housing, Class, and Social Change?”
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
@norawaitkus.bsky.social focuses on housing as an infrastructure of care in her comment ”A new Housing class?”
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A New Housing Class?
This comment argues that the concept of the “zone of precarity” offers a valuable lens for rethinking recent housing class dynamics. Smith and Wood propose that individuals striving to own or feari...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Roger Burrows and Amber Howard point to the importance of digital infrastructures and algorithmic risk profiling in their commentary "Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation"
Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation
This article offers a critical response to Smith and Wood’s concept of “the edges” of owner-occupation. While the category remains analytically diffuse, we argue that digital infrastructures – part...
www.tandfonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social and Rowan Arundel draw out a three-folded critical reflection in "On Housing Inequalities, Struggles and Solidarities Across Tenures"
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...
www.tandfonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
⭐ 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'..."
“Somewhere You Can Be Yourself Proudly”: The Ambiguous Nature of ‘Home’ For Families Living in Substandard Rental Housing in Aotearoa New Zealand
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...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
⭐ 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"
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...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"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"
September 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📖 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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Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
🔸 Fiona Shirani and others presents a long-temporal view on subjective experiences of living in innovative low-carbon homes
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“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...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM