🤩On my way back from today's HOUS Committee workshop 'Housing for students and young people in training' at the Brussels European Parliament, where Joris Hoekstra, Yvonne Franz and I presented critical insights on the topic. What a day! Thanks to Sophie Sasse for giving me this great opportunity!

Honoured to be part of this workshop organised by the HOUS EP Committee to provide some insights into the provision of housing for students and young people in training, together with Joris Hoekstra and Yvonne Franz. Link to the WS info & webstreaming here: research4committees.blog/event/hous-w...

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🗳️To my ENHR fellows, I have been nominated as a candidate for the ENHR coordination committee elections. This means a lot to me as ENHR has been my research family since I started my journey in academia. More info on the elections and how to vote here: enhr.net/about-enhr/c...

📢 Job opportunities at LISER! We are recruiting 3 #ResearchAssociates #PostDoc to strengthen its research teams. 🔹 Research Assoc. in #Housing & #Migration 🔹 Research Assoc. in Regional or #MigrationStudies 🔹 Research Assoc. in #Urban or #CulturalStudies 🔗 jobs.liser.lu/search/?crea... #PhDSky

Post-doc opportunity at @liser.lu: Housing and Migration in the long run jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur... In the @fnr.lu funded P(R)OP2 project: Property Data Meets Population Data in Past and Present: Migration and Property Relations in the Long Run (1910-2024) With Machteld Venken @c2dh.uni.lu

One key line: displacement does not simply follow gentrification but can precede and help generate it across borders. Grateful to the @fnr.lu for funding and for making the article open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And on that note, sleep well! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢 Upcoming Seminar at LISER Join us on 7 July 2026 for an engaging seminar on AI & Housing with @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social. 📍 LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval (and online) 🗓️ 7 July 2026, 11:00 – 12:30 🔗 Learn more & register here: www.liser.lu/events/FLARE... @liser-udm.bsky.social

Merci @atrapenard.bsky.social 🙏

Back from the annual gathering of our Housing and Young people ENHR WG - this year as the 'Young People and Housing Precarity' symposium - brilliantly hosted by Oana Druta in Eindhoven. 3 days, 20 papers, 2 panels, stimulating discussions, and much fun! Thanks to Oana & Valentina for organising!

📢 Special issue alert: "Housing young people under late neoliberalism"! 📢 See @constanceu.bsky.social, Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta's introducing piece ⬇️

« La junk food de la pensée » www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Definitely favourite Friday evening song ! youtube.com/watch?v=ahdH...

🤩So happy to see the first output of the HypeRent research project out! In this OA paper, @douccap.bsky.social and I propose an analytical fmwk to make sense of the development and regulation of co-living and STRA, identified as hyper-commodified housing products. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All across Europe, homes are disappearing for ordinary people. Families freeze, students struggle, locals are pushed out — while investors get richer. Sign now to tell EU leaders: Homes for people, not profit.👉 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...

Grateful to have hosted Nicole Gurran last week in the framework of the #HypeRent project. Nicole kindly accepted to deliver a talk and take part in a meeting with colleagues from the Ministry of Housing during her one-week visit. Looking forward to meeting again in Sydney!

La période est terrifiante ! Omar Sy est heureux, Merwane Benlazar fait des blagues et les blancs subissent des contrôles fiscaux !! Pauvre France… @guillaumemeurice.bsky.social est dans La dernière, tous les dimanches en direct sur Nova de 18h à 20h et en podcast : podcasts.nova.fr/radio-nova-l...

🌏I am delighted to host Nicole Gurran (University of Sydney) from 19 to 23 Januaru at LISER in the fmwk of the HypeRent project. 👩‍🏫Nicole Gurran will give a talk on 'platform mediated shared rental markets in Australia' on Wednesday 21. Registration (hybrid event): www.liser.lu/fr/events/RS...

« À rien, si ce n’est à nous aider à nous supporter nous-mêmes et à combattre les pires calamités. » Daniel Pennac

🎉 With Igor Costarelli and Oana Druta, we are delighted to share the publication of our introduction to the SI ‘Housing Young People Under Late Neoliberalism’ in Housing, Theory and Society : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🙏Thanks to the authors in this SI, the reviewers, & the editors of HTS

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

📣 Call for Papers – The ENHR Housing and Young People WG is pleased to invite contributions to the symposium "Young People and Housing Precarity", 2 – 4 March 2026, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). This will be our annual meeting. Abstracts due 16 January 2026, see CfP: lnkd.in/eky6wM8G

Le réveillon de Noël approche ! Et il va falloir se préparer à la confrontation avec votre tata fanzouze de Michel Onfray ! @guillaumemeurice.bsky.social est dans La dernière, tous les dimanches sur Nova de 18h à 20h et en podcast sur nova.fr et toutes les plateformes habituelles d’écoute.

🗞️ LISER in the press! 💡 UDM Researcher @constanceu.bsky.social explains how #co-living works and why its flexibility often comes with higher rents per m². A growing trend that raises real questions about #affordability and regulation. 📰English article: today.rtl.lu/news/luxembo...

🎤Un grand merci à Gaël Arellano de m'avoir invitée à partager mes premiers constats sur le développement du coliving au Luxembourg dans le podcast de la Bulle Immo (RTL). Lien vers le podcast dans l'article ⬇️ infos.rtl.lu/actu/luxembo... @liser.lu @liser-udm.bsky.social

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@desireefields.bsky.social speaking at @liser.lu on platformed finance, investment and what it means for agents and societies.

Delighted to have hosted @desireefields.bsky.social who gave a fascinating talk on fintech, finfluencers & retail investors at @liser.lu. On the same day, the steering committee of the #HypeRent project had its first meeting (and field trip 🤓) 🙏Thanks everyone for the stimulating discussions!

⌛Last chance to register for Desiree Field's seminar on investors' financial subjectivities this Thursday!

🎥 Breaking the Deadlock: Evidence and Collaboration for Housing Reform, featuring: Michel-Edouard Ruben (Fondation Idea) Ketty Dorla (IKO Real Estate) Antoine Paccoud (LISER) Paulette Lenert (Member of Parliament) Luc Biever (Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning) ▶️https://youtu.be/V4QGqgZtFHk

⭐WE ARE HIRING! ✨ Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Social Sciences - Ref: 25-35 ℹ️ Learn more: shorturl.at/YrzIh 📧 Work-related questions: Contact Dr. Magdalena GORCZYNSKA-ANGIULLI | [email protected] 📧 Administrative matters: Contact Mrs. Vanya KIROVA | [email protected]

📃New OA article in European Urban and Regional Studies: 🏦In this paper, I examine the processes enabling shared housing for students and young professionals as a strategic housing segment for the regeneration of post-industrial cities, in flexible institutional frameworks. doi.org/10.1177/0969...

CfP ENHR Workshop: Families, Housing, and the Asset Society. University of Cambridge, UK, June 4-5 2026. Abstract Deadline: Feb 1 2026. Details: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Well, perhaps we’ve had enough dark for now…

🏃On September 28, my sister's beloved partner will be running to support the Kick Cancer Foundation. You can sponsor him using the link below. All donations will be used exclusively for research into paediatric cancer. Thanks so much on his behalf 🙏 team.kickcancer.org/fr/page/sil-...

🏃On September 28, my sister's beloved partner will be running to support the Kick Cancer Foundation. You can sponsor him using the link below. All donations will be used exclusively for research into paediatric cancer. Thanks so much on his behalf 🙏 team.kickcancer.org/fr/page/sil-...

Earlier this week I was honoured to talk about hyper-commodified rental housing in the 2nd plenary on housing futures @IJHP/CaCHE symposium with @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social & @emmabaker.bsky.social (hosted @UniGlasgow) before attending IJHP's editorial board meeting in stunning New Lanark...Grateful

📢 Upcoming Seminar at LISER Join us on 16 October 2025 for an engaging seminar with Prof. Dr. Desiree Fields (UC Berkeley). 📍 Location: LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval 🗓️ Date & Time: 16 October 2025, 11:00 – 12:30 🔗 Learn more & register here: www.liser.lu/events/RSSUD...

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal of Urban Affairs for a Special Issue on "Platform Gentrification: New Urban Inequalities in the Age of Digital Capitalism". Abstract deadline: 15 November 2025. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #urban #sociology

Call for sessions for the RC21 conference in Vienna, 20-22 July, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 6th of October 2025. rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-ses... #urban #sociology

This is incredible messaging. I encourage bike advocates everywhere to use a similar argument. As a side note, laws to limit public smoking were also met with incredible pushback. Now we take them for granted, but these were hard fought public health wins

🏘️ Publication: Residents' preferences regarding #housing policy initiatives in #Luxembourg 📖'Note 42' presents an analysis of residents' preferences & acceptance of 3 major #housingpolicy directions based on data from the 2023 survey “Affordable Housing in Luxembourg”. 🔗 www.liser.lu/news/note-42

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En direct, Gaza : plusieurs centaines d’ONG, dont Médecins sans frontière, Médecins du Monde et Oxfam, alertent sur la « famine de masse [qui] se propage dans la bande de Gaza »

Summer refreshments

Vienna is regularly cited as the best example of how to do affordable housing, and @justinkadi.bsky.social is *the* Vienna housing expert. He explains the city's social-rental stock results from structural political commitment + investment (1% levy on salaries) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...