Housing, Theory and Society

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...

Petr Kodenko's and @Petr Senuga's paper "Time Perspective and Housing Inequalities Among Czech Young Adults: The Role of Intergenerational Financial Transfers in the Housing Affordability Crisis" investigates the role of intergenerational housing transfers affect young people over time.

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

Martina Gentili & Joris Hoekstra address Amsterdam’s housing situation, how young adults navigate the situation and its affect on educational and labour decisions in their paper "The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach".

Designing Home for and with Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in the Netherlands The number of young adults experiencing homelessness in the Netherlands has increased significantly in the last decade. To address this issue, Dutch municipalities are urged to introduce housing fi...

Oana Druta et al. examine participatory methods to design housing solutions for homeless young people in the Netherlands, including how these acknowledge the values of ’home’ in their paper "Designing Home for and with Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in the Netherlands"

Intergenerational Support and the Financial Strategies of Young Homebuyers in Shanghai While homebuying has become central to the economic security and life-course transitions of younger Chinese adult cohorts, affordability has become an increasing obstacle. With individual savings a...

Junru Cui's and Richard Ronald's article "Intergenerational Support and the Financial Strategies of Young Homebuyers in Shanghai" examines the increasing need for intergenerational support for young adults in Shanghai to become homeowners.

The Construction of Resourceful Tenants in Collaborative Housing for Young People in Milan In Western European countries, approaches to social housing allocation have mainly been shaped by notions of need and choice. In the wake of a renewed interest in collective housing forms, the curr...

Igor Costarelli's paper "The Construction of Resourceful Tenants in Collaborative Housing for Young People in Milan" focuses on how a collaborative housing program, a new form of allocation strategy, addresses ’resourceful’ young residents.

‘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...

📢 Special issue alert: "Housing young people under late neoliberalism"! 📢

See @constanceu.bsky.social, Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta's introducing piece ⬇️

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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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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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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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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Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. , No. , )

📖 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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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.

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!

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!

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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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".

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...

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.

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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!

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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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Daniela Sanjinés Encinales et al. draw out four types of collaborative housing in Colombia: “Eco-Communitarian”, “Developer-led”, “Resistance” and “Political”.

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!

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...

@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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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...

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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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....

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...

@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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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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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...

@norawaitkus.bsky.social focuses on housing as an infrastructure of care in her comment ”A new Housing class?”
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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 ...

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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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!

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...

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"