The Housing and Urban Justice Project
@hujpuppsala.bsky.social
Diverse research group based in Uppsala University investigating inequalities manifested across urban settings, advocating for urban and housing justice ✊🏠
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📢 Financialization, housing rents & affordability in Toronto
Financial landlords (REITs, private equity, asset managers) charge higher rents, raise them faster, and target racialized, lower-income areas to maximize rent gaps.
Toronto’s affordability crisis is financialized.
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0308...
Financial landlords (REITs, private equity, asset managers) charge higher rents, raise them faster, and target racialized, lower-income areas to maximize rent gaps.
Toronto’s affordability crisis is financialized.
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0308...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢 Financialization, housing rents & affordability in Toronto
Financial landlords (REITs, private equity, asset managers) charge higher rents, raise them faster, and target racialized, lower-income areas to maximize rent gaps.
Toronto’s affordability crisis is financialized.
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0308...
Financial landlords (REITs, private equity, asset managers) charge higher rents, raise them faster, and target racialized, lower-income areas to maximize rent gaps.
Toronto’s affordability crisis is financialized.
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0308...
🎃Halloween turns our streets into shared spaces. For one night, neighbours meet, doors open, and fear gives way to connection.
The Right to the City shouldn’t end when October 31st is over.
#UrbanJustice #RightToTheCity #PublicSpace #Halloween
The Right to the City shouldn’t end when October 31st is over.
#UrbanJustice #RightToTheCity #PublicSpace #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🎃Halloween turns our streets into shared spaces. For one night, neighbours meet, doors open, and fear gives way to connection.
The Right to the City shouldn’t end when October 31st is over.
#UrbanJustice #RightToTheCity #PublicSpace #Halloween
The Right to the City shouldn’t end when October 31st is over.
#UrbanJustice #RightToTheCity #PublicSpace #Halloween
🏘️ Just out:
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors
by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969...
#UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors
by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969...
#UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky
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October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🏘️ Just out:
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors
by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969...
#UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors
by Philipp Katsinas, Christina Sakali & Nikos Vrantsis
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0969...
#UrbanJustice #HousingResearch #Financialisation #Thessaloniki #AcademicBluesky
🏠Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism
Holgersen & Blackwell show how urban land is contested between state, capital & communities, tracing resistance & grassroots reappropriation. Read here: shorturl.at/gP8dV
#UrbanJustice
Holgersen & Blackwell show how urban land is contested between state, capital & communities, tracing resistance & grassroots reappropriation. Read here: shorturl.at/gP8dV
#UrbanJustice
Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism
The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go-to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, ...
shorturl.at
September 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🏠Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism
Holgersen & Blackwell show how urban land is contested between state, capital & communities, tracing resistance & grassroots reappropriation. Read here: shorturl.at/gP8dV
#UrbanJustice
Holgersen & Blackwell show how urban land is contested between state, capital & communities, tracing resistance & grassroots reappropriation. Read here: shorturl.at/gP8dV
#UrbanJustice
🏠 Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners & Tenants
How does where (and how) you live shape your rights and visibility in the city?
In a striking chapter, Miguel Martínez explores housing activism in Spain—and the struggle for urban belonging.
📖 Read: bit.ly/3I99WGj
How does where (and how) you live shape your rights and visibility in the city?
In a striking chapter, Miguel Martínez explores housing activism in Spain—and the struggle for urban belonging.
📖 Read: bit.ly/3I99WGj
Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants | 5 | Housing Activism and
The transitional period to a recovered democratic regime in Spain during the late 1970s was substantially shaped by large working-class mobilizations in the
bit.ly
July 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🏠 Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners & Tenants
How does where (and how) you live shape your rights and visibility in the city?
In a striking chapter, Miguel Martínez explores housing activism in Spain—and the struggle for urban belonging.
📖 Read: bit.ly/3I99WGj
How does where (and how) you live shape your rights and visibility in the city?
In a striking chapter, Miguel Martínez explores housing activism in Spain—and the struggle for urban belonging.
📖 Read: bit.ly/3I99WGj
🏨“Unpacking your Cape Town holiday,” co-authored by HUJP’s Cloé St-Hilarie & Sarita Pillay Gonzalez, critically examines how short-term rentals reinforce spatial and economic inequalities.
👉 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#HousingJustice #UrbanJustice
👉 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#HousingJustice #UrbanJustice
Unpacking your Cape Town holiday: The unequal, concentrated impacts of Airbnbs
Our careful analysis of available data on Airbnbs in Cape Town, combined with insights from recent peer-reviewed studies about short-term rentals globally, paints a different picture to the one from A...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
June 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🏨“Unpacking your Cape Town holiday,” co-authored by HUJP’s Cloé St-Hilarie & Sarita Pillay Gonzalez, critically examines how short-term rentals reinforce spatial and economic inequalities.
👉 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#HousingJustice #UrbanJustice
👉 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
#HousingJustice #UrbanJustice
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Call for Papers: Contested urban policy: breeding concrete utopias. Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2025. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. www.tu.berlin/en/planningt... #urban #sociology
May 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Call for Papers: Contested urban policy: breeding concrete utopias. Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2025. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025. www.tu.berlin/en/planningt... #urban #sociology
📢"Welfare to the Wealthy – Housing Subsidies for the Rich" by Åse Richard (HUJP) shows how Swedish housing policy now favors wealthy homeowners—while renters face hikes and displacement. A must-read on housing justice.
🔗Read it here!
parabol.press/bostadsbidra...
#UrbanJustice #HousingJustice #HUJP
🔗Read it here!
parabol.press/bostadsbidra...
#UrbanJustice #HousingJustice #HUJP
Bostadsbidrag till de rika
Är 4 miljarder kronor till ökade ROT-avdrag ett arv från den svenska välfärdspolitiken?
parabol.press
May 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📢"Welfare to the Wealthy – Housing Subsidies for the Rich" by Åse Richard (HUJP) shows how Swedish housing policy now favors wealthy homeowners—while renters face hikes and displacement. A must-read on housing justice.
🔗Read it here!
parabol.press/bostadsbidra...
#UrbanJustice #HousingJustice #HUJP
🔗Read it here!
parabol.press/bostadsbidra...
#UrbanJustice #HousingJustice #HUJP
🏙️ Why does sustainability flourish at the urban scale—and what does class have to do with it?
Ståle Holgersen breaks it down in
🔗 CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#housing #urban #justice #climateclasspolitics
Ståle Holgersen breaks it down in
🔗 CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#housing #urban #justice #climateclasspolitics
CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES: Why is ‘Sustainability’ Most Popular at an Urban Scale?
Class is crucial for understanding why sustainability has become so much more popular at the urban than at other scales. The urban scale is where the capitalist class can most easily colour their inv....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🏙️ Why does sustainability flourish at the urban scale—and what does class have to do with it?
Ståle Holgersen breaks it down in
🔗 CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#housing #urban #justice #climateclasspolitics
Ståle Holgersen breaks it down in
🔗 CLASS, CLIMATE AND CITIES
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#housing #urban #justice #climateclasspolitics
How can we better understand displacement beyond gentrification?🏙️
In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
CAPTURING DISPLACEMENT: A Dialectical Mixed‐Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from Sweden
In this article, we seek to contribute to the understanding and measurement of displacement through a dialectical mixed-methods study grounded in a dialogue between quantitative and qualitative appro...
doi.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
How can we better understand displacement beyond gentrification?🏙️
In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
April 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.
Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...
Deadline 16th July 2025
Postdoctoral fellowship to research on "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of Prof. Raquel Rolnik. Apply by: May 7, 2025. academicpositions.com/ad/universit... #urban #sociology
April 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Postdoctoral fellowship to research on "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of Prof. Raquel Rolnik. Apply by: May 7, 2025. academicpositions.com/ad/universit... #urban #sociology