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Adriana Soaita
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Researcher | Author | Writer | Honorary at the University of Glasgow and Bucharest | MSCA fellow | AFFECTIVE-PRS
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📣This paper offers an empirically-grounded reading of rental housing as a service infrastructure of being and becoming along life-projects of personal/family welfare, social reproduction/mobility, identity searching and geographical explorations
Landlords’ and tenants’ pathways into renting: the case of Romania
Taking the case of the emerging private rental sector in the world’s top homeownership society, the paper proposes two theoretical expansions of broader interest to international housing studies. F...
doi.org
doi.org/10.1080/0267...

📣This paper offers an empirically-grounded reading of rental housing as a service infrastructure of being and becoming along life-projects of personal/family welfare, social reproduction/mobility, identity searching and geographical explorations
Landlords’ and tenants’ pathways into renting: the case of Romania
Taking the case of the emerging private rental sector in the world’s top homeownership society, the paper proposes two theoretical expansions of broader interest to international housing studies. F...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🎺 Here is a literature synthesis of qual 📚on tenants/landlords experiences in the Majority World (W Africa, E Europe and Indian subc). We focus so much on the West, time to read about elsewhere! Read through the concept of “structures of feeling” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Structures of feeling in the affective economies of renting in the Majority World: An interpretative synthesis of qualitative research
Recent interest in private rented housing seen as a structural mechanism generator of inequalities of wealth, health and wellbeing has been dominated …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Reposted by Adriana Soaita
Prof Kenneth Gibb outlines how CaCHE research played a key role in shaping Northern Ireland’s new intermediate rental tenure—offering affordable options for those priced out of homeownership and market rent. @housingevidence.bsky.social @kengibb.bsky.social
Professor Ken Gibb: It’s not every day you help create a new housing tenure
Prof Kenneth Gibb outlines how CaCHE research played a key role in shaping Northern Ireland’s new intermediate rental tenure—offering affordable options for those priced out of homeownership and market rent.
www.scottishhousingnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Reposted by Adriana Soaita
Please join us for our next @i-sphere.bsky.social webinar at 11am on March 26th when the brilliant @lynnemcmordie.bsky.social will be speaking about 'Violence against women and homelessness'. All welcome, please share, sign up here: i-sphere.site.hw.ac.uk/event/i-sphe...
I-SPHERE and CHIH March Seminar – I-SPHERE
i-sphere.site.hw.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Funded PhD @uofgussp.bsky.social with Professor Sharon Wright, Professor Charlotte Pearson (and me!) - Exploring the Lived Experience of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability. Deadline 10 April - please get in touch if you want to discuss this opportunity www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
March 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🤞In the spirit of collegiality and transparency, I’ve made my successful MSCA proposal (PART B-1, 10 pages) available as Open Access. Good luck 🍀👇
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My winning MSCA Proposal - AFFECTIVE-PRS
In the spirit of collegiality and transparency, I’ve made my successful MSCA proposal (PART B-1, 10 pages) available as Open Access. I hope it serves as a helpful example for anyone considering submit...
zenodo.org
February 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We have also seen the grey seals and their pups 🦭🤫
January 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
@tataeenr1.bsky.social Ce nota de credibilitate va dati , domnul Ciolacu, cand in august si septembrie ca prim ministru afirmati cu tarie ca exista fonduri pt plata pensilor si ca noua lege aduce predictibilitate pensionarilor, eliberandu-i de factorul politic? Minciuni? Unde va este cuvantul? 💨 👎
December 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Reposted by Adriana Soaita
The way residential property taxes operate is mind-boggling…but negative gearing surely takes the biscuit… www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
One million Australians are negatively gearing, new tax figures show
New Treasury figures show the top tenth of earners are hauling in tens of billions of dollars from tax concessions and loopholes.
www.abc.net.au
December 18, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Reposted by Adriana Soaita
...Just because a group can shout very loudly (from their holiday homes) doesn't mean they're empirically, ethically, or morally right. Indeed, as my own research shows, the middle class are particularly adept at this sort of thing:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
FIN.
The middle-class enjoy definite advantages in public service provision. More critical and extensive research is needed
Annette Hastings and Peter Matthews argue that it is vitally important to better research and address the uneven distribution of public services and the benefits enjoyed by the sharp-elbowed middle…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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episode 7! "Why Does Class Matter?" in which we talk about class struggle as a collective action problem, solidarity as counterculture, and labor market domination. wonderfully, Lillian accuses everyone *else* of being a class reductionist. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7...
7 | Why Does Class Matter?
Podcast Episode · What's Left of Philosophy · 02/12/2021 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:46 PM
🎥 “The ideal rented home” - views from the Romanian public 🇷🇴, project AFFECTIVE-PRS search.app/kzv7hftJFEGX...
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November 29, 2024 at 8:08 PM
“The ideal tenant” views from the Romanian public 🇷🇴 , project AFFECTIVE-PRS search.app/vPQJw7o7npnG...
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November 29, 2024 at 8:04 PM
In a series of 3 videosclips 📽️ the public reflected on the idea of “The Ideal Landord” - views from 🇷🇴 , ptoject AFFECTIVE-PRS search.app/GL6TJbULprhP...
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November 29, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Hello everybody, so nice to be on Bluesky, this pretty 🦋 puts a smiling on my face 😍 I hope to find many of my friends here and, hey, it feels great to have that X guillotine out of my way 👐
November 19, 2024 at 12:17 PM