Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

In Wien werden Personen in systemrelevanten Berufen, etwa in der Pflege, gesucht. Eine Recherche des Urban Journalism Network unter Beteiligung des ORF und der Wiener Zeitung zeigt, dass die Wohnkoste...

Sell-offs of public housing and the right’s promotion of home ownership has left too many unable to afford accommodation, says urban sociologist Csaba Jelinek

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi

While scholarly and public attention on institutional investors in rental housing is considerable, studies that quantify the relevance of such actors are still ...

Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2025)

There is growing evidence of a suburbanization of poverty in the context of accelerating gentrification, particularly in liberal housing systems. To what extent are similar processes occurring in h...

Still lagging its G7 peers in recovery from the 2008 crisis, and faced with the impasse of Brexit, Britain is haunted again by the spectre of decline. As Labour returns to office, tight-lipped about i...

Abstract . The last 50 years has seen a dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across the advanced democracies. There is still fervent debate in both politi

Global warming had long been discussed as an abstract matter of physics and chemistry. Only in the 1990s did the more tangible costs caused by natural…

PDF | On Sep 23, 2024, Richard Ronald and others published Call for Papers - Homeownership, housing, and inequality: Continuity and change, Luxembourg, 10-11 December 2024, ENHR Working Group Homeowne...

Among housing observers, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification, showcasing the power of politics to tame the profit motive in housing. We argue that this view requires n...

Die Schweizer Verteilungsökonomin Isabel Martínez erklärt die Vor- und Nachteile einer solchen Steuer und was sie von einem staatlichen Grunderbe hält

Wir befinden uns also doch nicht im Erdzeitalter des Menschen, behaupten Fachleute. Doch leben wir seit 200 Jahren in einer Wachstumsgesellschaft, die ihre eigenen Grundlagen untergräbt