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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings	31
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	27
Finding home online? The Digitalization of share housing and the making of home through absence	26
Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope	16
Practices of Homing: How People with Temporary Living Arrangements Create Home(s) Through Practices	15
The Discourse-cognition-society Triangle of Homelessness: A Critical Discourse Study	13
Assembling Imperceptibility: The Material, Financial and Policy Dimensions of Combustible Cladding in Residential High-Rise	12
“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	11
Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness	11
From Cave to Cage? The Evolution of Housing Complexity and the Contemporary Dead End for the Human Brain	11
Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability	9
“The House with the Red Roof:” A Migrant-Owned Apartment in Japan and the Surrounding Relations of a “Society with Houses”	9
Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society	7
Residential Alienation and Generational Activism in Hong Kong	7
Behavioural Approach in Housing Market Studies: Past, Present, Future	7
Pragmatic Socio-economics: A Way Forward?	6
The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality	6
Home Dissatisfaction, Body Image, and Sociocultural Attitudes: An Exploratory Study	6
Belgium’s Successful Ride on the Elephant? The Diverging Effects of High Homeownership Rates on Inequalities	6
From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments	6
Does Sharing with Neighbours Work? Accounts of Success and Failure from Two German Housing Experimentations	5
Land, Abstraction, and Housing Provision	5
Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’	5
Too Pragmatic? A Commentary from Sociology on Lux and Sunega’s Plea for ‘Pragmatic Socio-Economics’	5
“It Feels Like Temporary accommodation”: The Impact of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions on Alleged Perpetrators’ Feelings of Ontological Security in Social Housing	5

Homeownership Habitus and Residential Practice of Highly-Skilled Chinese Migrants in the Netherlands	4
The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada	4
Between Self-organization and Formal Participation: Increasing Tenants’ Influence through Self-management? – A Dutch Case-study	4
Political Economy in Housing Studies: Geography or History?	4
Homeism: Naming the Stigmatization and Discrimination of Persons Experiencing Homelessness	4
Housing Violence in the Post-welfare Context	4
“Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala	4
Capturing Low Demand Through Long Time-On-Market: Functional Obsolescence and Owner Resignation Among Old Rental Houses	4
Pragmatic Socioeconomics: A Way Towards New Findings on Sources of (Housing) Market Instability	4
Introducing Rhythmanalysis through the Work of Dawn Lyon	4
The Use of Turning Points in Understanding Homelessness Transitions: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective	4
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing	4
Understanding the Housing Pathways and Migration Plans of Young Talents in Metropolises–A Case Study of Shenzhen	3
On the Inadequacy of Economics for Understanding Housing Markets – A Pragmatic Response	3
Thinking Female Bodyspace and Housing Through Corporeal Feminist Theory	3
How Can Scholarship Contribute to Housing Justice? Three Roles for Researchers	3
Exploring Cultural Determinants of Tenure Decisions: Evidence from an Owning-Centric Context	3
Living Small in the Big City Under Lockdown: Urban Amenities, Housing Conditions, and ‘Feeling Depressed Because of COVID19´ in Berlin, Germany	2
Tourism-Led Housing Commodification: Transnational Real Estate Networks and State-Permeated Property Investment in Havana, Cuba	2
Low-Income Homeownership and Safety Nets: The Role of Radical Community Practices	2
Review of Stacked Decks : Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	2
Olympic Villages as Heterotopias: Contradictions between Megaevents and Quotidian Urban Life	2
Housing Careers and Housing Pathways: Conceptual Evolution or Confusion?	2
How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts?	2
Vulnerability and Constructed Precarity in the Canadian Housing Regime	2
Recognitional Relations and Autonomy-Related Vulnerabilities in a Temporary Accommodation Service for Homeless People	2
Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches	2
Intergenerational Support and the Financial Strategies of Young Homebuyers in Shanghai	2
How Do Poor Families in Australia Avoid Homelessness? An fsQCA Analysis	2
Picturing a Home: A New Perspective on Home-Making Through Photo-Elicitation	2
On Ideal Types, Abstraction and Noise in the Political Economy of Housing	2
Bridging Economics and Sociology: Responses to a Critique of Pragmatic Socioeconomics	2
From Renters to Investors? Residential Property and the Asset Economy in German Couples’ Lives	2
The Growing Intergenerational Housing Wealth Divide: Drivers And Interactions In Australia	2
Housing Vulnerability, Shared Housing, Informality, and Crowding: The Housing Strategies of China’s Recent College Graduates	1
Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework	1
Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness	1
Just Housing: The Moral Foundations of American Housing Policy	1
Governance Networks and Accountability Patterns in the Provision of Housing for Migrants: The Case of Central and Eastern European Workers in the Netherlands	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
Martin Heidegger’s Philosophical Insights on the Essence of Home: A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan’s Dwellings	1
When Smart Technologies Enter Household Practices: The Gendered Implications of Digital Housekeeping	1
Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice	1
Discipline and Inclusively Repress: The Hybrid Governance of Housing First Tenants	1
Endemic and Diverse: Planning Perspectives on Second-home Tourism’s Heterogeneous Impact on Swedish Housing Markets	1
“You’re Always in Transit, but the House Stays”: Remitting, Restoring and Remaking Home in a Migrant Family House in Cuenca, Ecuador	1
Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply	1
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered: Applications and Implications for Housing Research, Policy and Practice	1
Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families	1
Beyond Affordability: English Cohousing Communities as White Middle-Class Spaces	1

Tenure Security and Positive Freedom in Social Housing. Tenants’ Subjective Experiences in the Ambiguous Case of Oslo	1
Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna	1
Exclusive Spaces - How Gated Communities in Bogotá Threaten Democratic Access and Security for All in the Streets Outside the Gates	1