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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope	35
Investor-Occupiers and the Cultural Capital of Architectural Design: The Importance of Architectural Quality and Apartment Design in a Falling Market	32
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	15
The Discourse-cognition-society Triangle of Homelessness: A Critical Discourse Study	15
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings	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	14
Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness	14
Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability	12
“The House with the Red Roof:” A Migrant-Owned Apartment in Japan and the Surrounding Relations of a “Society with Houses”	12
Political Economy of Housing in Chile	10
Residential Alienation and Generational Activism in Hong Kong	10
From Cave to Cage? The Evolution of Housing Complexity and the Contemporary Dead End for the Human Brain	9
Practices of Homing: How People with Temporary Living Arrangements Create Home(s) Through Practices	9
Assembling Imperceptibility: The Material, Financial and Policy Dimensions of Combustible Cladding in Residential High-Rise	8
From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments	8
Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society	8
Behavioural Approach in Housing Market Studies: Past, Present, Future	7
Belgium’s Successful Ride on the Elephant? The Diverging Effects of High Homeownership Rates on Inequalities	7
Pragmatic Socio-economics: A Way Forward?	7
The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality	7
Too Pragmatic? A Commentary from Sociology on Lux and Sunega’s Plea for ‘Pragmatic Socio-Economics’	6
Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’	6
Between Self-organization and Formal Participation: Increasing Tenants’ Influence through Self-management? – A Dutch Case-study	6
Home Dissatisfaction, Body Image, and Sociocultural Attitudes: An Exploratory Study	6

Does Sharing with Neighbours Work? Accounts of Success and Failure from Two German Housing Experimentations	6
“It Feels Like Temporary accommodation”: The Impact of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions on Alleged Perpetrators’ Feelings of Ontological Security in Social Housing	6
Mothering During Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation as Heterotopia	5
The Use of Turning Points in Understanding Homelessness Transitions: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective	5
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing	5
Capturing Low Demand Through Long Time-On-Market: Functional Obsolescence and Owner Resignation Among Old Rental Houses	5
Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance	5
Homeownership Habitus and Residential Practice of Highly-Skilled Chinese Migrants in the Netherlands	5
Land, Abstraction, and Housing Provision	5
“Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala	5
The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada	5
Political Economy in Housing Studies: Geography or History?	5
How Can Scholarship Contribute to Housing Justice? Three Roles for Researchers	4
Pragmatic Socioeconomics: A Way Towards New Findings on Sources of (Housing) Market Instability	4
Homeism: Naming the Stigmatization and Discrimination of Persons Experiencing Homelessness	4
Introducing Rhythmanalysis through the Work of Dawn Lyon	4
Exploring Cultural Determinants of Tenure Decisions: Evidence from an Owning-Centric Context	4
Living Small in the Big City Under Lockdown: Urban Amenities, Housing Conditions, and ‘Feeling Depressed Because of COVID19´ in Berlin, Germany	4
Thinking Female Bodyspace and Housing Through Corporeal Feminist Theory	4
Vulnerability and Constructed Precarity in the Canadian Housing Regime	3
How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts?	3
Tourism-Led Housing Commodification: Transnational Real Estate Networks and State-Permeated Property Investment in Havana, Cuba	3
Understanding the Housing Pathways and Migration Plans of Young Talents in Metropolises–A Case Study of Shenzhen	3
Bridging Economics and Sociology: Responses to a Critique of Pragmatic Socioeconomics	3
Picturing a Home: A New Perspective on Home-Making Through Photo-Elicitation	3
On the Inadequacy of Economics for Understanding Housing Markets – A Pragmatic Response	3
Review of Stacked Decks : Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	2
Time Perspective and Housing Inequalities Among Czech Young Adults: The Role of Intergenerational Financial Transfers in the Housing Affordability Crisis	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
Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness	2
Recognitional Relations and Autonomy-Related Vulnerabilities in a Temporary Accommodation Service for Homeless People	2
Housing Careers and Housing Pathways: Conceptual Evolution or Confusion?	2
Intergenerational Support and the Financial Strategies of Young Homebuyers in Shanghai	2
Just Housing: The Moral Foundations of American Housing Policy	2
Beyond Affordability: English Cohousing Communities as White Middle-Class Spaces	2
Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches	2
On Ideal Types, Abstraction and Noise in the Political Economy of Housing	2
Low-Income Homeownership and Safety Nets: The Role of Radical Community Practices	2
Olympic Villages as Heterotopias: Contradictions between Megaevents and Quotidian Urban Life	2
Discipline and Inclusively Repress: The Hybrid Governance of Housing First Tenants	2
DIY Housing Studies	1
When Smart Technologies Enter Household Practices: The Gendered Implications of Digital Housekeeping	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
Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families	1
Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice	1
Exclusive Spaces - How Gated Communities in Bogotá Threaten Democratic Access and Security for All in the Streets Outside the Gates	1
Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply	1
Green Neighbourhood Identity: How Residents Use Urban Nature Against Territorial Stigmatization in Finnish Housing Estates	1
The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County	1

Seven propositions about ‘generation rent’	1
Intergenerational Assistance with Home Ownership: Understanding the Relational Development of Financialized Subjectivities	1
Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna	1
Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework	1
Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich	1
“You’re Always in Transit, but the House Stays”: Remitting, Restoring and Remaking Home in a Migrant Family House in Cuenca, Ecuador	1
Housing as an Arena for Change – From Eco-Efficiency to Sufficiency in the Swedish Housing Sector	1
Time, Care, and Sustainability: Temporal Conflicts and Housing Renovation	1
Are Landlords so Different? Comments on Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework	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
Tenure Security and Positive Freedom in Social Housing. Tenants’ Subjective Experiences in the Ambiguous Case of Oslo	1
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered: Applications and Implications for Housing Research, Policy and Practice	1
Martin Heidegger’s Philosophical Insights on the Essence of Home: A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan’s Dwellings	1
Housing Vulnerability, Shared Housing, Informality, and Crowding: The Housing Strategies of China’s Recent College Graduates	1
On the Injustices of Gentrification	1