Is construction best left to the capitalist market? No. Let's learn from history and build new non-profit construction companies!

💥 new paper with Maria Wallstam in @housingjournal.bsky.social 💥

I wrote a comprehensive introduction to basic information theory, with added context from social scientists of the cybernetics movement (Gregory Bateson) & later (Katherine Hayles). It covers everything from bit encoding to comparative metrics like cross-entropy.

mikaelbrunila.com/information-...

New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...

If you are interested in data, large language models (LLMs), and historical/critical accounts of technology, go check out @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social's new article out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social!

Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 7 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from municipal structural adjustment and post-entrepreneurial cities to heritage branding and the geography of financial exclusion.

Link and ToC below:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...

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...