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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Investor-Occupiers and the Cultural Capital of Architectural Design: The Importance of Architectural Quality and Apartment Design in a Falling Market	35
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	32
Finding home online? The Digitalization of share housing and the making of home through absence	17
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings	17
Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope	16
The Discourse-cognition-society Triangle of Homelessness: A Critical Discourse Study	16
“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
Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness	12
Assembling Imperceptibility: The Material, Financial and Policy Dimensions of Combustible Cladding in Residential High-Rise	12
“The House with the Red Roof:” A Migrant-Owned Apartment in Japan and the Surrounding Relations of a “Society with Houses”	10
Political Economy of Housing in Chile	10
Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability	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
The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach	8
Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society	8
Pragmatic Socio-economics: A Way Forward?	7
From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments	7
Belgium’s Successful Ride on the Elephant? The Diverging Effects of High Homeownership Rates on Inequalities	7
Behavioural Approach in Housing Market Studies: Past, Present, Future	7
Too Pragmatic? A Commentary from Sociology on Lux and Sunega’s Plea for ‘Pragmatic Socio-Economics’	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	6

Between Self-organization and Formal Participation: Increasing Tenants’ Influence through Self-management? – A Dutch Case-study	6
Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’	6
Land, Abstraction, and Housing Provision	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
“Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala	5
Homeownership Habitus and Residential Practice of Highly-Skilled Chinese Migrants in the Netherlands	5
The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada	5
Pragmatic Socioeconomics: A Way Towards New Findings on Sources of (Housing) Market Instability	5
Political Economy in Housing Studies: Geography or History?	5
Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance	5
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing	5
Exploring Cultural Determinants of Tenure Decisions: Evidence from an Owning-Centric Context	5
Capturing Low Demand Through Long Time-On-Market: Functional Obsolescence and Owner Resignation Among Old Rental Houses	5
The Use of Turning Points in Understanding Homelessness Transitions: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective	5
Homeism: Naming the Stigmatization and Discrimination of Persons Experiencing Homelessness	5
Introducing Rhythmanalysis through the Work of Dawn Lyon	5
Understanding the Housing Pathways and Migration Plans of Young Talents in Metropolises–A Case Study of Shenzhen	4
Thinking Female Bodyspace and Housing Through Corporeal Feminist Theory	4
How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts?	4
How Can Scholarship Contribute to Housing Justice? Three Roles for Researchers	4
Living Small in the Big City Under Lockdown: Urban Amenities, Housing Conditions, and ‘Feeling Depressed Because of COVID19´ in Berlin, Germany	4
On the Inadequacy of Economics for Understanding Housing Markets – A Pragmatic Response	4
Review of Stacked Decks : Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality	3
Vulnerability and Constructed Precarity in the Canadian Housing Regime	3
Bridging Economics and Sociology: Responses to a Critique of Pragmatic Socioeconomics	3
Tourism-Led Housing Commodification: Transnational Real Estate Networks and State-Permeated Property Investment in Havana, Cuba	3
“You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ” Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media	3
Picturing a Home: A New Perspective on Home-Making Through Photo-Elicitation	3
Low-Income Homeownership and Safety Nets: The Role of Radical Community Practices	2
On Ideal Types, Abstraction and Noise in the Political Economy of Housing	2
From Renters to Investors? Residential Property and the Asset Economy in German Couples’ Lives	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
Olympic Villages as Heterotopias: Contradictions between Megaevents and Quotidian Urban Life	2
Just Housing: The Moral Foundations of American Housing Policy	2
Time Perspective and Housing Inequalities Among Czech Young Adults: The Role of Intergenerational Financial Transfers in the Housing Affordability Crisis	2
Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches	2
The Growing Intergenerational Housing Wealth Divide: Drivers And Interactions In Australia	2
Intergenerational Support and the Financial Strategies of Young Homebuyers in Shanghai	2
Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich	1
Housing Vulnerability, Shared Housing, Informality, and Crowding: The Housing Strategies of China’s Recent College Graduates	1
The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County	1
Seven propositions about ‘generation rent’	1
Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered: Applications and Implications for Housing Research, Policy and Practice	1
Beyond Affordability: English Cohousing Communities as White Middle-Class Spaces	1
Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness	1
Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply	1
Exclusive Spaces - How Gated Communities in Bogotá Threaten Democratic Access and Security for All in the Streets Outside the Gates	1
When Smart Technologies Enter Household Practices: The Gendered Implications of Digital Housekeeping	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
Post-Carbon Inclusion: Transitions Built on Justice	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
“You’re Always in Transit, but the House Stays”: Remitting, Restoring and Remaking Home in a Migrant Family House in Cuenca, Ecuador	1
Are Landlords so Different? Comments on Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework	1
Time, Care, and Sustainability: Temporal Conflicts and Housing Renovation	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
Discipline and Inclusively Repress: The Hybrid Governance of Housing First Tenants	1
Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families	1
Tenure Security and Positive Freedom in Social Housing. Tenants’ Subjective Experiences in the Ambiguous Case of Oslo	1