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 […]
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 […]
