The financing of English local government has become a critical aspect of centre-local relations during a period in which austerity has produced great…

The Week in Housing: 02/10/26

As soaring rents and house prices across Europe​ feed into the political discourse, campaigners believe they have a rare opportunity to force housing to the top of the agenda

The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning; This pioneering book critically examines how governments, industry and civil society use housing, property and planning data, offering a vital refl...

The rise of mindful slop

The assetization of care? A comparative exploration of investor logic in healthcare systems in England, Canada, and the Netherlands

Bulk buyers win double-digit reductions while cautious consumers stay on sidelines

Understanding eviction as a positioning of bodies and loss in a property relation, I argue a critical logistical reading may offer a means of describing the capacity to evict within the economic, rac....

What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early-stage compani...

What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early-stage compani...

Tech billionaires increasingly control our digital spaces, infrastructure, and society. How can we fight surveillance capitalism?

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space

To fix the housing crisis, further reform is needed that shifts taxation away from earnings onto passive assets.

The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community consists of individuals each personally dedicated to reducing consumption, so as to build up financial surpluses that are eventually adequat...

Calls for ‘urgent, sustained action’ over rising number of children who do not have permanent home

Family First said demand had