I recently contributed to a podcast around urban housing crises, Berlin, Vienna, and what to do about it. It was produced by the German newspaper DerSpiegel in collaboration with the Austrian newspaper DerStandard. I talked about similarities and differences between the German and the Austrian housing system, what the main causes are for the current […]
Identifying areas in the city where gentrification takes place is a key concern for both scholars and policy-makers. For long, however, methods for doing so were rather underdeveloped, particularly those that use systematic, quantitative data. This has changed in recent years with a number of new approaches being developed specifically for the North-American and German […]
I have a new paper on the history of gentrification in Vienna out in the journal City. It’s a collaborative piece I co-authored with the geographer Walter Matznetter from the University of Vienna. We attempt to account for the changing state of gentrification in the city over the last 130 years. Furthermore, we draw three […]
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 […]
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