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

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...?

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

Good article about one of the ways landlords seek to avoid rent control. I think it can be thought of in the same light as 'Eigenbedarf' (own-use) evictions or landlords forcing tenants to sign a second contract to rent a kellar space.

Los Angeles landlords are raising rents by as much as 124% after the wildfires.

A new issue of International Journal of Housing Policy is out (2025-1)! We wrote an extended intro about housing as an engine of inequality and basis for class formation. Co-authored with @justinkadi.bsky.social, @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social and Megan Nethercote www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great investigation/example of ongoing under enforcement of Quebec's existing Airbnb/STR regulations. Here is the English version: ricochet.media/justice/hous...

Radical Housing Journal @Radical_Housing has a new issue out, full Open Access and great critical views on housing issues and struggles around the world. A debate on rent controls now is an additional value! radicalhousingjournal.org #urban #sociology

"Housing under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities" new book by Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli @FraArtioli & Claire Colomb. www.ucpress.edu/books/housin... #Sociology #Urbanism

A reminder of #AAG2025 CFP, Data, Housing & Planning, I'm co-organising Juliette Davret, Carla Kayanan & @jtsphd.bsky.social. Closes Oct 11th. Share your insights into data politics & data power of housing & planning in Detroit, Mar 24-28. For full details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=483

Data Stories team members Juliette Davret & Carla Kayanan also organising a #AAG2025 session on #researchcreation and #criticaldatastudies. Closing Oct 11th. Further details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=444

3 year anniversary of Berlin's government refusing to respect berliners' decision to enteignen (expropriate and socialize large landlords)

Always appreciate this one

Call for participating in a Workshop, to be held in Luxembourg on December 10-11, 2024: Homeownership, housing, and inequality: Continuity and change. Abstract Deadline: October 31 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Looking forward to reading this!

Attn housing scholars/planners! Andrea Urbina Julio and myself are organizing a Panel on 'Everyday struggles of tenants across geographies' for the 2024 ACSP conference in Seattle. For full details, see our request for abstracts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This looks great! Appreciate the critique of generation rent which feels like such a limited framing

New publication! radicalhousingjournal.org/2024/in-defe... I argue that tenant organizers, researchers, and policymakers should take seriously the legislative (and other) efforts by landlords and their lobbyists to shirk the term 'landlord.' I conclude that landlord remains the best-suited term.

The Data Politics of Housing and Planning. CFP & travel bursaries. Sept 2nd-3rd, Maynooth University. Closing date for applications 2nd Feb. Details at: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=247 #data #housing #planning #datastories

I am wondering if anyone can recall the name/author of that article about why we should call landlords something else because it hurt their feelings/they wouldn't want to partner with services? It was a journal article, ivy league health professor I think. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Antipode's 9th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Radical Geographies of Social Reproduction", 3-7 June, Minneapolis, MN -- application deadline 31 January antipodeonline.org/2024/01/09/i... @katederickson.bsky.social

Successfully defended my PhD dissertation yesterday. Happy to announce you can call me Dr. Kerrigan. Thanks to everyone who helped me get here!

Canada loves the landlord to housing minister pipeline montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-housi...

Continuing good news out of BC. An Airbnb investor sell-off: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...