The ENHR working group Homeownership and Globalization that I’m jointly convening together with Caroline Dewilde and Richard Ronald is organizing a workshop in remembrance of the work of Ray Forrest. It will take place in Amsterdam in June. Centred on the notion of late homeownership, we are looking for papers that engage with the transformation […]
I’m very happy that Jan Glatter and Michael Miessner have put together an edited book on gentrification and displacement (in German), which aims to provide an overview of current debates on these issues in the German-speaking context (find the book here). I had the pleasure to contribute a chapter on Vienna’s housing policy. I’ve used […]
How do different European cities intervene in the housing market and what are the consequences for housing conditions? How do five growing European cities (London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna) differ in this regard? I have published a new report on this issue together with my colleagues Harald Baron, Ngoc Doan and Leonhard Plank. It grew […]
Here are some things I recently did: Acted as discussant in the Hot off the press Book Series “The Challenge of Urban Futures”, organized by the University of Vienna. We discussed the book The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There), by Shane Phillips together with the author Co-organized the […]
Anyone wishing to rent privately in Vienna today has to dig much deeper into their pockets than ten years ago. The development of rents on the private market was not only faster than on the rest of the housing market. It has also significantly outpaced inflation and income growth. Renting privately is thus becoming increasingly […]
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 ÖGS Soziologiekongress in Vienna in August 2021. I’m posting the call below. Abstract deadline is April 18. Wohnungskrise – Wohnungspolitik Ad-hoc Session auf dem DGS ÖGS Soziologiekongress 2021 in Wien, 23.-25.8.2021Matthias Bernt (Leibniz Institut für […]
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