Sign in

The Housing and Urban Justice Project

@hujpuppsala.bsky.social
48 followers 48 following 24 posts

Diverse research group based in Uppsala University investigating inequalities manifested across urban settings, advocating for urban and housing justice ✊🏠 linktr.ee/hujp

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by The Housing and Urban Justice Project
Sociology Department Uppsala University @uusociologydep.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Interested in housing and urban (in)justice? Don’t miss this upcoming conference at Uppsala University. Check out the full programme and find out more about the conference: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
uu.se
Conference programme – Institute for Housing and Urban Research – Uppsala University
021
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happy to have @spatiotempo.bsky.social present their work at the #CCC2026
000
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Housing and Urban Justice Group is very excited to welcome our participants of the second edition of the Common City Conference starting tomorrow until Friday. This year's conference theme is 'Struggling for Urban Justice in a Time of Authoritarianism and Multiple Crises'.
100
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📚 Congratulations to Sarita Pillay Gonzalez on her latest publication! The article examines Johannesburg after apartheid, arguing that its commercial urban landscape emerged through multiple trajectories of spatial change rather than a single process of financialization. doi.org/10.1177/0308...
doi.org
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
010
Reposted by The Housing and Urban Justice Project
Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📣🏆2026 Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award Recipients: Megan Hatch, Elora Lee Raymond, Ben Teresa, & Kathryn Howell urbanaffairsassociation.org/2026/03/30/b... @meganehatch.bsky.social @benfteresa.bsky.social @drkatehowell.bsky.social @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social @eloralee.bsky.social
1147
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The deadline for submitting an abstract to the Common City Conference has been extended to **April 11th**. For those who have not sent in your abstracts yet, there is still time to do so!
010
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Only a few days left to submit an abstract/proposal to one of the 18 sessions of the 2026 Common City Conference at Uppsala University, August 26-28. You can find the book of session on the Conference's official website: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
uu.se
The Common City Conference 2026 – Institute for Housing and Urban Research – Uppsala University
030
Reposted by The Housing and Urban Justice Project
Nikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@hujpuppsala.bsky.social is organising the Common City Conference 2026. A gathering for those who insist that cities are about struggle, labour & the people who build and inhabit them. The programme includes panels on tenant struggles, militant epistemologies and urban conflict: lnkd.in/djAVBWGp
142
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
1/4 📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | The Common City Conference 2026 Our sessions are finalized and we are now accepting abstracts for sessions on topics ranging from:
163
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Reminder that this is the last day to apply for a session proposal for our upcoming Commons City Conference in late August! Details are in the post below ⬇️
022
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
📚 Book launch “Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions Across the World” Edited by Lucas Poy & Hannes Rolf 📅 13 January | 17:00–19:00 CET 📍 Stockholm + Zoom 🌍 English For Zoom access, email: hannes.rolf@historia.su.se
000
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
CALL FOR SESSIONS | Common City Conference 2026 📍 Uppsala, Sweden 📅 Aug 26-28, 2026 Theme: "Struggling for Urban Justice in a Time of Authoritarianism and Multiple Crises" ⏰ Deadline: Jan 30, 2026 🔗 bit.ly/CommonCity2026
bit.ly
The Common City Conference, Uppsala (Sweden), 26-28 August 2024 - Call for Sessions
The next Common City conference, titled “Struggling for Urban Justice in a Time of Authoritarianism and Multiple Crises”, will be held in Uppsala on 26-28 August 2026. This is the follow-up to the fir...
011
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📢 Financialization, housing rents & affordability in Toronto Financial landlords (REITs, private equity, asset managers) charge higher rents, raise them faster, and target racialized, lower-income areas to maximize rent gaps. Toronto’s affordability crisis is financialized. 📖 doi.org/10.1177/0308...
doi.org
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
030
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🎃Halloween turns our streets into shared spaces. For one night, neighbours meet, doors open, and fear gives way to connection. The Right to the City shouldn’t end when October 31st is over. #UrbanJustice #RightToTheCity #PublicSpace #Halloween
010
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🏘️ Just out: Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969... #UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky
doi.org
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
021
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🏠Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism Holgersen & Blackwell show how urban land is contested between state, capital & communities, tracing resistance & grassroots reappropriation. Read here: shorturl.at/gP8dV #UrbanJustice
shorturl.at
Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism
The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go-to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, ...
032
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🏠 Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners & Tenants How does where (and how) you live shape your rights and visibility in the city? In a striking chapter, Miguel Martínez explores housing activism in Spain—and the struggle for urban belonging. 📖 Read: bit.ly/3I99WGj
bit.ly
Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants | 5 | Housing Activism and
The transitional period to a recovered democratic regime in Spain during the late 1970s was substantially shaped by large working-class mobilizations in the
010
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🏨“Unpacking your Cape Town holiday,” co-authored by HUJP’s Cloé St-Hilarie & Sarita Pillay Gonzalez, critically examines how short-term rentals reinforce spatial and economic inequalities. 👉 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... #HousingJustice #UrbanJustice
dailymaverick.co.za
Unpacking your Cape Town holiday: The unequal, concentrated impacts of Airbnbs
Our careful analysis of available data on Airbnbs in Cape Town, combined with insights from recent peer-reviewed studies about short-term rentals globally, paints a different picture to the one from A...
000
Reposted by The Housing and Urban Justice Project
RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Call for Papers: Contested urban policy: breeding concrete utopias. Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2025. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. www.tu.berlin/en/planningt... #urban #sociology
062
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📢"Welfare to the Wealthy – Housing Subsidies for the Rich" by Åse Richard (HUJP) shows how Swedish housing policy now favors wealthy homeowners—while renters face hikes and displacement. A must-read on housing justice. 🔗Read it here! parabol.press/bostadsbidra... #UrbanJustice #HousingJustice #HUJP
parabol.press
Bostadsbidrag till de rika
Är 4 miljarder kronor till ökade ROT-avdrag ett arv från den svenska välfärdspolitiken?
010
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🏙️ Why does sustainability flourish at the urban scale—and what does class have to do with it? Ståle Holgersen breaks it down in 🔗 CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #housing #urban #justice #climateclasspolitics
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES: Why is ‘Sustainability’ Most Popular at an Urban Scale?
Class is crucial for understanding why sustainability has become so much more popular at the urban than at other scales. The urban scale is where the capitalist class can most easily colour their inv....
041
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
How can we better understand displacement beyond gentrification?🏙️ In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️ doi.org/10.1111/1468...
doi.org
CAPTURING DISPLACEMENT: A Dialectical Mixed‐Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from Sweden
In this article, we seek to contribute to the understanding and measurement of displacement through a dialectical mixed-methods study grounded in a dialogue between quantitative and qualitative appro...
062
Reposted by The Housing and Urban Justice Project
Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 15/04/2025
📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025
USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025
03644
The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Postdoctoral fellowship to research on "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of Prof. Raquel Rolnik. Apply by: May 7, 2025. academicpositions.com/ad/universit... #urban #sociology
010