OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Housing Theory & Society is 5. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Investor-Occupiers and the Cultural Capital of Architectural Design: The Importance of Architectural Quality and Apartment Design in a Falling Market	40
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	37
A New Housing Class?	24
Insecure Housing and the Ongoing Search for Ontological Security: How Low-Income Older Women Cope	21
Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings	20
The Discourse-cognition-society Triangle of Homelessness: A Critical Discourse Study	14
The Position of Young Adults on the Amsterdam Housing Market. Combining the Housing Pathway and the Capability Approach	14
Residential Alienation and Generational Activism in Hong Kong	14
Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability	13
“The House with the Red Roof:” A Migrant-Owned Apartment in Japan and the Surrounding Relations of a “Society with Houses”	11
“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	10
Assembling Imperceptibility: The Material, Financial and Policy Dimensions of Combustible Cladding in Residential High-Rise	10
Intersectionalizing Housing Discrimination Under Rentier Capitalism in an Asset-Based Society	10
Political Economy of Housing in Chile	10
From Cave to Cage? The Evolution of Housing Complexity and the Contemporary Dead End for the Human Brain	10
Exploring Alternative Housing Models Under Capitalism: Is Home Stewardship a Viable Alternative?	9
Practices of Homing: How People with Temporary Living Arrangements Create Home(s) Through Practices	9
Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness	9
Behavioural Approach in Housing Market Studies: Past, Present, Future	8
Pragmatic Socio-economics: A Way Forward?	8
From Private to Public: The Public Balcony as a Catalyst in Ankara Apartments	8
A Levinasian Right to Housing: What Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of House and Home Can Offer Housing Scholarship	7
“It Feels Like Temporary accommodation”: The Impact of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions on Alleged Perpetrators’ Feelings of Ontological Security in Social Housing	7
Does Sharing with Neighbours Work? Accounts of Success and Failure from Two German Housing Experimentations	7
Belgium’s Successful Ride on the Elephant? The Diverging Effects of High Homeownership Rates on Inequalities	7

Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’	7
Home Dissatisfaction, Body Image, and Sociocultural Attitudes: An Exploratory Study	7
Designing Home for and with Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in the Netherlands	7
Mothering During Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation as Heterotopia	6
“Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala	6
Between Self-organization and Formal Participation: Increasing Tenants’ Influence through Self-management? – A Dutch Case-study	6
The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality	6
Beyond Legal Asymmetry: Economic Inequalities Between Small-Scale Landlords and Tenants in Europe and Housing Configurations	6
Capturing Low Demand Through Long Time-On-Market: Functional Obsolescence and Owner Resignation Among Old Rental Houses	6
Too Pragmatic? A Commentary from Sociology on Lux and Sunega’s Plea for ‘Pragmatic Socio-Economics’	6
Land, Abstraction, and Housing Provision	6
The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare	6
Housing Associations as Urban Entrepreneurs? A New Role for Housing Associations in Danish Urban Governance	5
Managing Work-Home Spillover: Homemaking in China’s Employer-Provided Housing	5
Homeism: Naming the Stigmatization and Discrimination of Persons Experiencing Homelessness	5
Thinking Female Bodyspace and Housing Through Corporeal Feminist Theory	5
The Use of Turning Points in Understanding Homelessness Transitions: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective	5
Pragmatic Socioeconomics: A Way Towards New Findings on Sources of (Housing) Market Instability	5
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing	5
Homeownership Habitus and Residential Practice of Highly-Skilled Chinese Migrants in the Netherlands	5
Political Economy in Housing Studies: Geography or History?	5
The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada	5
Exploring Cultural Determinants of Tenure Decisions: Evidence from an Owning-Centric Context	5