What a remarkably stupid own goal... 😒

Deux pistes cyclables à Montréal qui compétitionnent avec trois ponts de New York. Je pense que nous ne réalisons pas la chance que nous avons que le vélo prenne une aussi grande place dans notre mobilité collective à Montréal.

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣

🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.

🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

A reminder of the deadline for this Call for Papers coming up:

“Depuis quelques années, « le coût du logement devient un facteur beaucoup plus important dans la production de l’itinérance », ajoute Nick Revington [ @nickrevington.bsky.social ]
professeur d’études urbaines à l’Institut national de recherche scientifique.”

📣 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!

Feel free to share widely…

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We draw on the case of the co-living sector in Brussels to argue that we are witnessing a process of life course segmentation - a form of class monopoly rent - enabling rent extraction across a wider swath of the life course, but also deepening the extraction of rent at each life course stage.

Looking forward to speaking about young adults' access to homeownership at the Urban Affairs Association Conference on Friday, specifically, the tensions between the ideologies of homeownership underpinning Canadian housing policy and the homeowner ideologies of those looking to buy a first home.

Our long-overdue article on students' residential mobility in Québec during the COVID-19 pandemic is finally published!

Free e-prints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NA9PN...

Housing advantage, hidden curriculum, habitus: students’ past and future housing pathways revisited
Nick Revington
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Montrealers! I'll be speaking at the Department of Geography at McGill next Friday (Feb 28) on studentscapes, student bubbles and studentification, or what student geographies of housing can tell us about urban space.

Details here: www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

My article on students' housing experiences in Waterloo, with some reflections on how student housing pathways are theorized, now has an issue number in the Journal of Youth Studies! @youthstudies.bsky.social
E-prints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IEXRW...

🥚: fried (sunny side up)
🥩: medium-rare
🥛: definitely not in tea or coffee, ok on its own but rarely drink it
🍷: a crisp, refreshing lager or full-bodied red wine like malbec
☕️: tea, strong and black
🥤: iced/sweet tea or ginger ale

Tip for Academic Success:
Do nothing today. It’s Sunday.

Of all the astonishingly brutal stats that have emerged over the course of the genocide in Gaza the one that pops into my mind everyday is that Israeli attacks are the 4th leading cause of violent deaths for kids under 5 in the whole world. Heartbreaking and beautifully illustrated by Mona Chalabi.

There's a new @houspoldebate.bsky.social blog, and one of the first posts is this nice little summary of my article with AJ Wray about planning for student housing in Ontario:
www.housingpolicyblog.org/student-hous...