The erosion of affordable and secure housing in England prompts questions about power and its role in the “housing crisis”. While crucial for understanding housing politics, theory-grounded, actor-...

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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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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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,...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

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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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...

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 ...

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Volume 42, Issue 3 of Housing, Theory and Society

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There is an extensive literature on the detrimental impacts on families of living in temporary accommodation. There has been less focus on the experience of mothers within these spaces, and the con...

This study examines property developers' strategic responses to housing price downturns, focusing on shifting architectural design decisions. When prices dropped, non-occupant investors retreated w...

Energy sufficiency has gained interest in housing research and policy. The energy crisis in Europe increased awareness of energy consumption in homes and urged, or even forced, many households to a...

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