Although I am a little late with this I still want to briefly reflect about my last academic year. Clearly 2017 has been hectic, not least due to a job change and a subsequent move from Weimar, Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar to Vienna, Vienna University of Technology. 2017 started with a publication of a book chapter on […]
Together with my colleagues Roman Seidl and Leonhard Plank I have wrote a short piece on Airbnb in Vienna. It appeared in the montly journal “Wirtschaftspolitik Standpunkte” of the Austrian Chamber of Labor. We show how Airbnb in Vienna is not so much about “home-sharing”, as it is about commercial real estate development. The piece […]
The new coalition government in Austria has presented their reform plans for the coming years as part of the coalition agreement. In the field of housing, the plans show striking similarities with the current demands of the real estate industry. I have compared the governmental reform plans with the most recent press materials of the […]
Austria has a new government. The coalition proposal also includes plans to reform housing policy. One of the main objectives is to increase the homeownership rate in Austria. I wrote a short comment on the problems of this policy, given the current lack of affordable housing for low-income households. For them, homeownership is no alternative. […]
I had the pleasure to contribute to an inspiring book discussion on tourism & gentrification organized by Yuri Kazepov, Yvonne Franz and Roberta Cucca at the University of Vienna yesterday. The book we discussed, together with the editors Maria Gravari-Barbas and Sandra Guinand, was “Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises“. After an introduction of the […]
I spent the last two days at an inspiring workshop on Airbnb in European cities. It was organized by Christian Smigiel and Angela Hof at the University of Salzburg, Geography Department. I went there together with my colleagues Roman Seidl and Leonhard Plank (TU Wien) to present our research on Airbnb in Vienna (wherebnb.in/wien). The […]
I wrote a short comment on a press release of the Austrian Association of Institutional Investors (in German). They call for an “evidence-based housing policy”, but present incomplete evidence in their press release. Among other things, they suggest that rent increases in Vienna are a “myth”. I’m posting the comment below. It first appeared here: http://urbanizm.net/4890627/der-verband-fur-institutionelle-immobilieninvestoren-und-die-faktenbasierte-wohnungspolitik/ Der […]
I’m happy the following paper is now out: The Revival of Private Landlords in Britain’s Post-Homeownership Society. I have been working on this piece with Richard Ronald (University of Amsterdam) during a short Post-Doc fellowship in Amsterdam. It relates to our ongoing work on asset-based welfare policies and housing property, and how these policies fail, with […]
On December 1st, I’ll be on a panel discussion about the upcoming book “Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises. International Perspectives”. The book was edited by Maria Gravari-Barbas (University Paris 1) & Sandra Guinand (University of Vienna). I’m looking forward to discussing the book together with the editors and Bas van Heur (Vrije Universiteit Brussels). […]
I’m editing a special issue in the International Journal of Housing Policy together with Cody Hochstenbach (University of Amsterdam) and Christian Lennartz (Rabobank NL). The call is available below: The rise of multiple property ownership in times of late homeownership While homeownership has notably grown and spread during the second half of the 20th century […]
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