Great research by colleagues @closthilaire.bsky.social & Martine August featured in today's @thestar.com about how financialized landlords are raising rents more aggressively than others. Important & timely research. About Toronto but relevant across Canada & beyond. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

When housing becomes a financial asset, tenants pay the price. Research by Martine August & @closthilaire.bsky.social, BSH researchers, shows how financial firms are driving up rents & evictions in TO. If it wasn't already obvious, it's time to rethink financialized housing policies. buff.ly/Bo14N5s

New article: Martine August and I's paper on financial landlords and rents in Toronto is out in @economyandspace.bsky.social! We show how financial landlords charge the highest rents, rent premiums, and rent increases out of all types of landlords. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our paper, ‘Capturing Displacement’ is now available as open access and can be read here 💥 lnkd.in/d2nzWq8G 💥. Many thanks to my colleagues/co-authors Marcus Mohall and Irene Molina, from whom I learned so much, and to the tenants who shared their experiences in meetings and workshops over the years

The Beyond Inhabitation Lab recently hosted Dr Mahmoud Hawari on "Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Archeology, and the Appropriation of Cultural Heritage". The recording of his powerful lecture is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU9p... Check the Lab here: beyondinhabitation.org/blog/

Welcome to submit an abstract to the symposium "The political economy of housing production under late neoliberalism" at UCL, May 2025. We anticipate it will lead to a Special Issue in Housing, Theory and Society. Deadline March 3. The link for submitting an abstract: forms.office.com/e/CMBGJcGGQ4

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...