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:

Reminder that this is the last day to apply for a session proposal for our upcoming Commons City Conference in late August! Details are in the post below ⬇️

📚 Book launch “Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions Across the World” Edited by Lucas Poy & Hannes Rolf 📅 13 January | 17:00–19:00 CET 📍 Stockholm + Zoom 🌍 English For Zoom access, email: [email protected]

CALL FOR SESSIONS | Common City Conference 2026 📍 Uppsala, Sweden 📅 Aug 26-28, 2026 Theme: "Struggling for Urban Justice in a Time of Authoritarianism and Multiple Crises" ⏰ Deadline: Jan 30, 2026 🔗 bit.ly/CommonCity2026

📢 Financialization, housing rents & affordability in Toronto Financial landlords (REITs, private equity, asset managers) charge higher rents, raise them faster, and target racialized, lower-income areas to maximize rent gaps. Toronto’s affordability crisis is financialized. 📖 doi.org/10.1177/0308...

🎃Halloween turns our streets into shared spaces. For one night, neighbours meet, doors open, and fear gives way to connection. The Right to the City shouldn’t end when October 31st is over. #UrbanJustice #RightToTheCity #PublicSpace #Halloween

🏘️ Just out: Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969... #UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky

🏠Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism Holgersen & Blackwell show how urban land is contested between state, capital & communities, tracing resistance & grassroots reappropriation. Read here: shorturl.at/gP8dV #UrbanJustice

🏠 Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners & Tenants How does where (and how) you live shape your rights and visibility in the city? In a striking chapter, Miguel Martínez explores housing activism in Spain—and the struggle for urban belonging. 📖 Read: bit.ly/3I99WGj

🏨“Unpacking your Cape Town holiday,” co-authored by HUJP’s Cloé St-Hilarie & Sarita Pillay Gonzalez, critically examines how short-term rentals reinforce spatial and economic inequalities. 👉 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... #HousingJustice #UrbanJustice

Call for Papers: Contested urban policy: breeding concrete utopias. Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2025. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. www.tu.berlin/en/planningt... #urban #sociology

📢"Welfare to the Wealthy – Housing Subsidies for the Rich" by Åse Richard (HUJP) shows how Swedish housing policy now favors wealthy homeowners—while renters face hikes and displacement. A must-read on housing justice. 🔗Read it here! parabol.press/bostadsbidra... #UrbanJustice #HousingJustice #HUJP

🏙️ Why does sustainability flourish at the urban scale—and what does class have to do with it? Ståle Holgersen breaks it down in 🔗 CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #housing #urban #justice #climateclasspolitics

How can we better understand displacement beyond gentrification?🏙️ In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️ doi.org/10.1111/1468...

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

Postdoctoral fellowship to research on "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of Prof. Raquel Rolnik. Apply by: May 7, 2025. academicpositions.com/ad/universit... #urban #sociology