My paper on housing inequalities and gentrification at the Luxembourg–France border is now published in Housing Studies. It looks at how housing demand in Luxembourg spills over across borders, and what this means in practice.

👏 Congrats to Dr. Madalina MEZAROS who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Property, Policy, & Place: #Housing #Inequality & #Gentrification Dynamics in #Luxembourg" 👩‍🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu 🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!

Lovely day in Luxembourg then Dudelange then across border into France today with @douccap.bsky.social & @madalinamez.bsky.social learnt so much 😊

today.rtl.lu/news/luxembo... Went to fireworks with @madalinamez.bsky.social in Luxembourg last night, they were amazing, thanks to @liser.lu for inviting me 😊

proud 🌟 you can read our paper in Urban Studies here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for this inspiring talk!

Field trip day! 🌆 @constanceu.bsky.social and I took our 1st-year Econ students from @uni.lu to explore “Living & Working in the City” in Differdange, Luxembourg. (Credits photo: Vincent Lescaut/ @lessentielde.bsky.social)

Looking back on my one-week research stay in New York and Boston, I’m happy (and a bit amazed) to have ticked everything off my list: 🔴 Visit the DUMBO neighborhood in New York City - a place I’ve read so much about in the gentrification literature;

Join us for a special lunch seminar featuring @madalinamez.bsky.social of @liser.lu on Luxembourg's housing crisis, multinational gentrification, and "domino displacement.” When: April 10, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Where: Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 [Open to Public]

Our Urban Studies article is now open access! 🔓 We introduce ‘gentrification regimes’—using 50 years of property data to reveal how Luxembourg’s housing market shifted from ownership-driven to investor-led, with national fiscal policies fueling buy-to-let gentrification. 📖 tinyurl.com/ycyhd6kk

Honestly, this is my reaction to a lot of current events as well.

The nightmare before Christmas, Romanian edition. #Romania #elections

#Luxembourg starter pack. Of course, you can get by with just English (especially in research) or only one of these three languages... but where's the fun in that? #multilingualism

Hello ̶w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Bluesky! Sharing an article @douccap.bsky.social and I wrote a while ago. We put together two timelines: the evolution of three #housing policies and the evolution of the characteristics of apartment buyers over five decades in Dudelange, #Luxembourg. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....