One of the podcasts I really enjoy listening to and would definitely recommend is the Housing Journal Podcast, inter alia run by Dallas Rogers from the University of Sydney. It is a collaboration of three of the biggest housing journals, The International Journal of Housing Policy, Housing Studies, and Housing, Theory & Society. I’ve been […]
There will be an exciting lecture series inspired by Polanyi’s concept of countermovements in Vienna and Linz in the coming months. I’m posting a short blurb below. More on the series, including the program, can be found here: https://www.vhs.at/de/gegenbewegungen I’ve the honor to act as moderator at one evening entitled: Rehabilitating the Sharing Economy. It […]
Spain is currently preparing a new housing law. In this context, housing policies are widely debated. Vienna is apparently often referred to in these debates and held up as a best practice example. Against this background, I gave an interview for the online newspaper ElDiario, together with my colleague Sarah Kumnig (Vienna University of Economics). […]
It’s call for papers time 🙂 I’m co-organizing an online seminar with Caroline Dewilde (University Tilburg) and Richard Ronald (Universiteit Amsterdam) on “Recent dynamics in homeownership and housing wealth” on May 27. It’s an activity of the Working Group Homeownership & Globalization of the European Network for Housing Research that we are coordinating. I’m posting […]
Together with Matthias Bernt (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space), I’m co-organizing a session at the upcoming DGS Ă–GS Soziologiekongress in Vienna in August 2021. I’m posting the call below. Abstract deadline is April 30. Wohnungskrise – Wohnungspolitik Ad-hoc Session auf dem DGS Ă–GS Soziologiekongress 2021 in Wien, 23.-25.8.2021Matthias Bernt (Leibniz Institut fĂĽr […]
It was a great pleasure to co-organize a seminar on “Multiple-property investment in times of COVID-19” together with Chris Lennartz, PBL Netherlands, and Cody Hochstenbach, Universiteit Amsterdam. The seminar built on a special issue on the rise of multiple property ownership (available here) that we put together in the International Journal of Housing Policy prior […]
Together with Antonia Schneider and Roman Seidl, both TU Wien, I’ve published a short paper how COVID-19 impacts on Airbnb and what this means for housing markets. It appeared in the journal Critical Housing Analysis. Our starting point was that Airbnb has been argued to have major impacts on housing markets prior to COVID. If […]
I’ve a new paper out in the Austrian journal Kurswechsel. It is part of a special issue on urban politics in Vienna, put together by Leonhard Plank and Alexander Hamedinger from TU Wien. My piece is about recent policy reactions to the mounting housing problems in Vienna. It assesses whether they constitute a significant shift […]
I have co-written a short piece with Emma Power from Western Sydney University and Dallas Rogers from the University of Sydney. It is about the dealing with public housing during the current pandemic. Additionally, it discusses a new virtual special issue on the transformation of the sector before and after the global financial crisis of […]
I’ve written a short piece how the pandemic may impact on the Austrian housing market. What do we know already and what can we expect? The short text initially appeared as part of the regular newsletter of the Austrian Association for Housing Subsidy (Verein fĂĽr Wohnbauförderung). The published text is available here: https://www.vwbf.at/die-coronakrise-und-der-wohnungsmarkt-aktuelle-entwicklungen-und-perspektiven/ There’s another […]
