OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Housing Theory & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope	44
‘Housing Young People Under Late Neoliberalism’	32
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings	23
A New Housing Class?	22
Investor-Occupiers and the Cultural Capital of Architectural Design: The Importance of Architectural Quality and Apartment Design in a Falling Market	16
Competing Logics in the Affordable Housing Industry: A Comparative Analysis of How Various Types of Professionals in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors Conceptualize Their Work and that of Their Co	15
From Cave to Cage? The Evolution of Housing Complexity and the Contemporary Dead End for the Human Brain	15
“I Think It’s a Shame They are Calling Us a Ghetto, I Don’t Think This a Ghetto.” – Ambivalent Enactments of Living in Underprivileged Neighbourhoods	15
The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach	14
Political Economy of Housing in Chile	14
Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness	14
Residential Alienation and Generational Activism in Hong Kong	13
Assembling Imperceptibility: The Material, Financial and Policy Dimensions of Combustible Cladding in Residential High-Rise	13
Practices of Homing: How People with Temporary Living Arrangements Create Home(s) Through Practices	12
“The House with the Red Roof:” A Migrant-Owned Apartment in Japan and the Surrounding Relations of a “Society with Houses”	12
Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability	11
Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society	11
From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments	10
Exploring Alternative Housing Models Under Capitalism: Is Home Stewardship a Viable Alternative?	9
“It Feels Like Temporary accommodation”: The Impact of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions on Alleged Perpetrators’ Feelings of Ontological Security in Social Housing	9
Behavioural Approach in Housing Market Studies: Past, Present, Future	9
Home Dissatisfaction, Body Image, and Sociocultural Attitudes: An Exploratory Study	9
A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship	9
Designing Home for and with Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in the Netherlands	9
The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality	9

Land, Abstraction, and Housing Provision	8
Belgium’s Successful Ride on the Elephant? The Diverging Effects of High Homeownership Rates on Inequalities	8
Beyond Legal Asymmetry: Economic Inequalities Between Small-Scale Landlords and Tenants in Europe and Housing Configurations	8
Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’	8
Mothering During Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation as Heterotopia	7
Political Economy in Housing Studies: Geography or History?	7
Between Self-organization and Formal Participation: Increasing Tenants’ Influence through Self-management? – A Dutch Case-study	7
Capturing Low Demand Through Long Time-On-Market: Functional Obsolescence and Owner Resignation Among Old Rental Houses	7
The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada	6
“Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala	6
The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare	6
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing	6
The Use of Turning Points in Understanding Homelessness Transitions: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective	6
Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance	6
Exploring Cultural Determinants of Tenure Decisions: Evidence from an Owning-Centric Context	6
Homeownership Habitus and Residential Practice of Highly-Skilled Chinese Migrants in the Netherlands	6
Managing Work-Home Spillover: Homemaking in China’s Employer-Provided Housing	6
Introducing Rhythmanalysis through the Work of Dawn Lyon	5
Living Small in the Big City Under Lockdown: Urban Amenities, Housing Conditions, and ‘Feeling Depressed Because of COVID19´ in Berlin, Germany	5
The Buyer’s Price Programme: State-Led-Neoliberalism and Legitimating a New Mode of Housing in Israel	5
Beyond the Label: A Mixed-Methods Study of Community Life, Collective Efficacy and Structural Conditions in Danish ‘Ghetto’ Neighbourhoods	5
Thinking Female Bodyspace and Housing Through Corporeal Feminist Theory	5
Student Accommodation in Scotland: Home, Emotions and Diverse Experiences	5
Picturing a Home: A New Perspective on Home-Making Through Photo-Elicitation	4
Review of Research Handbook on Urban Sociology	4
How Can Scholarship Contribute to Housing Justice? Three Roles for Researchers	4
Vulnerability and Constructed Precarity in the Canadian Housing Regime	4
Tourism-Led Housing Commodification: Transnational Real Estate Networks and State-Permeated Property Investment in Havana, Cuba	4
Between Stability and Mobility: Mediated Practices of Constructing Home by Young White-Collar Migrants in Shanghai	4
“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media	4
How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts?	4
Understanding the Housing Pathways and Migration Plans of Young Talents in Metropolises–A Case Study of Shenzhen	4
Housing Careers and Housing Pathways: Conceptual Evolution or Confusion?	3
Time Perspective and Housing Inequalities Among Czech Young Adults: The Role of Intergenerational Financial Transfers in the Housing Affordability Crisis	3
Low-Income Homeownership and Safety Nets: The Role of Radical Community Practices	3
Thinking the Fault Lines of Housing Inequality	3
On Ideal Types, Abstraction and Noise in the Political Economy of Housing	3
On Housing Inequalities, Struggles and Solidarities Across Tenures	3
Housing Inequalities: Definitions, Understandings and Approaches	3
Recognitional Relations and Autonomy-Related Vulnerabilities in a Temporary Accommodation Service for Homeless People	3
Review of Stacked Decks : Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	3
Intergenerational Support and the Financial Strategies of Young Homebuyers in Shanghai	3
Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice	2
Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness	2
Older Adults’ Social Lives in In-Between Space in High-Rise, High-Density Housing Estates: An Epistemic Network Analysis	2
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered: Applications and Implications for Housing Research, Policy and Practice	2
From Renters to Investors? Residential Property and the Asset Economy in German Couples’ Lives	2
Tenure Security and Positive Freedom in Social Housing. Tenants’ Subjective Experiences in the Ambiguous Case of Oslo	2
The Growing Intergenerational Housing Wealth Divide: Drivers And Interactions In Australia	2
Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework	2

Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna	2
Just Housing: The Moral Foundations of American Housing Policy	2
Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches	2
Housing Concerns, Stress, and Youth Health in the Context of Adverse Macro-Structural Housing Conditions: Evidence from Slovenia	2
Governance Networks and Accountability Patterns in the Provision of Housing for Migrants: The Case of Central and Eastern European Workers in the Netherlands	2
Reply to Comments on the Edges of Owner Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism	2
Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families	2
Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future	1
Exclusive Spaces - How Gated Communities in Bogotá Threaten Democratic Access and Security for All in the Streets Outside the Gates	1
Can Tenants’ Unions Challenge Neoliberal Housing Governance? The Emergence of a New Movement in Spain and Its Impact on Post-neoliberal Housing Policy	1
Time, Care, and Sustainability: Temporal Conflicts and Housing Renovation	1
Youth, Work and Housing: A Nexus of Precarity	1
Green Neighbourhood Identity: How Residents Use Urban Nature Against Territorial Stigmatization in Finnish Housing Estates	1
Towards a Typology of Collaborative Housing in Colombia	1
Seven propositions about ‘generation rent’	1
Intergenerational Assistance with Home Ownership: Understanding the Relational Development of Financialized Subjectivities	1
Housing Vulnerability, Shared Housing, Informality, and Crowding: The Housing Strategies of China’s Recent College Graduates	1
The Neighbours of Intergenerational Housing: The Institutional Construction of Elevated Neighbour Relations in Student-Senior Housing Projects	1
Are Landlords so Different? Comments on Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework	1
Martin Heidegger’s Philosophical Insights on the Essence of Home: A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan’s Dwellings	1
The Importance of Institutional Capacity and Negotiation Capacity in Affordable Housing Agreements: The Potential for Collective Action in Melbourne, Australia	1
DIY Housing Studies	1
The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County	1
When Smart Technologies Enter Household Practices: The Gendered Implications of Digital Housekeeping	1
Urban Inequality in Finland: Land, Housing and the Nordic Welfare State	1
Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply	1
Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich	1
Correction	1
Housing as an Arena for Change – From Eco-Efficiency to Sufficiency in the Swedish Housing Sector	1
The Edges of the Asset Economy: Housing, Class, and Social Change?	1
On the Injustices of Gentrification	1