Interested in presenting at the Common City Conference, happening on the 26-28 of August in Uppsala? There are only a few days left to do so! Make sure to check the 18 awesome sessions we have planned:
Down to the last couple of days for helping boost the reach of this great book/resource for housing organizers and researchers
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...
Happy to see Benamor facing consequences but also should be noted how Airbnb/Montreal (allegedly) both had so many reports on how unsafe it was and did nothing
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity provides accessible language for housing scholars and activists.
This book foregrounds the complex entanglements of housing with racial capitalism, migration control, and state violence. Support the KS here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...
1/4 📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | The Common City Conference 2026
Our sessions are finalized and we are now accepting abstracts for sessions on topics ranging from:
If you wish to apply for a session proposal for the Common City Conference at Uppsala University in August, today is the last day! Details below
Approved Housing Bodies - public, private, or not quite either?
I (try to) get at this in my new paper in IJHP on the piecemeal financialisation of social housing provision in post-crash Ireland - 50 free eprints at tinyurl.com/4MPF8U47, but DM me if you're stuck...
My current (excellent) department is hiring an assistant prof in human geography about the climate crisis!
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
Excited to have this out in the world
“Disciplining Through Landlord Technologies: Why the Carceral Logics of Tenant Surveillance Require Abolition”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
Just published!
Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world, the book I edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, is out now from @uclpress.bsky.social
It's OPEN ACCESS, part of the "Work Around the World" series by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
It has come to this because the government has continually blocked the implementation of the 1st referendum (from Sep 2021) where 59.1% of Berliners voted for the socialization of large corporate landlords.
Despite an expert commission handpicked by the government themselves confirming its legality
New (legally binding) referendum coming soon!
Berlin tenants are proposing their own socialization law which would force the government to act.
Socialization would transfer 220,000 apartments from the city's largest landlords to the collective control of the people who live in them!
Violence against Istanbul and strategies for resistance
Aysegul Can
Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
How Montreal’s predatory landlords are turning poverty into profit
A new investigation by @zacharykamel.bsky.social reveals how landlords exploit vulnerable tenants, weaponize housing laws, and leave homes empty—all in the name of return on investment
ricochet.media/justice/hous...
#housingcrisis
📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question
ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025
🏹 Please spread the word!
🏠 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🏠
'Urban political ecologies of housing #decarbonisation: Towards radical housing repair' by Melissa García-Lamarca
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Working on the entanglements of housing injustices and climate and environmental crises?
Check out this @radicalhousing.bsky.social Special Issue Cfp 👇
Workshop “In the cracks of the asset economy. Housing assets and class formation in contemporary property landscapes”. 27-28 November 2025, Barcelona (UAB). Submit abstract by by 14 September 2025. www.iuresearch.se/call-for-pap... #urban #sociology
Like in Berlin, Montreal landlords are using loopholes around subletting to get around rent control and increase tenant precarity www.ledevoir.com/societe/8928...?
Cover of the Radical Housing Journal Issue 7.1 showing a collage zine.
Issue 7.1 is live! 🥁
"Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence" edited by Camila Cociña, @elaraks.bsky.social Melissa García-Lamarca & Solange Muñoz
radicalhousingjournal.org/issue/issue-...
#housingstruggles #tenants #transnationalsolidarity #vacancy #resistance
The Radical Housing Journal is more than a publication — it's a collective project and a space where activism meets critical scholarship.
remember how Berlin citizens voted to take back the city from corporate landlords in 2021? it was an emancipatory promise many applauded.
since then, corporate landlords increased their stronghold on the city to 25% of housing stok, and w it, rents went up by 9% annually.
Mexico City previously tried to solve its housing crisis by courting developers.
Now it’s betting that public construction can undo the damage: jacobin.com/2025/04/mexi...
Congrats Scott (and Steve)! This looks great
Always deeply inspired by the work of CATU!
New job alert!
2-year post-doc in Housing Studies @liser.lu
A chance to develop your research agenda and advance the analyses conducted in the Housing Observatory, a multi-annual collaboration with the Luxembourg Housing Ministry.
Happy to answer questions!
jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...
Really useful website for anyone interested in climate/housing justice. Great work
The deadline has been extended to 2/2 for those interested in submitting to our session on racial capitalism and STS at 4S
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs