Tim White

Social scientist studying housing, land, property and power.

King's College London / London School of Economics

[Tim White @timwhite100]

The first paper from my PhD, 'Beds for rent', is out in @EconSocJournal! https://t.co/EXsxLJlgEa
It argues that the bed, the thing we sleep on, has emerged as a key unit of valuation/value extraction in financialized housing markets, featuring in the process of assetization

[Tim White @timwhite100]

Out today
@IntellectBooks: 'Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation' w/@CrisisCultures, @melnowicki & Cian Oba-Smith. Through photographic and ethnographic accounts of life in Texas tiny home communities, we examine the politics of 'going tiny'.

[LSE Sociology @LSEsociology]

Why is WeWork’s disgraced founder still so investable?

Read @timwhite100's paper 'The non-death of Adam Neumann: Alt-exiting, serial-founding, and failing up in Silicon Valley venture capital' in @FinandSoc ⤵️

[Tim White @timwhite100]

New in @FinandSoc: ‘The non-death of Adam Neumann’, unpacking the return of WeWork’s disgraced founder. It’s about Silicon Valley’s ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. https://t.co/2ReKUqUOzZ

[LSE Sociology @LSEsociology]

Read @timwhite100's latest piece on how venture capital‑driven real estate start‑ups chase aggressive expansion across global housing markets, and the consequences this produces for tenants⬇️

[Tim White @timwhite100]

What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Find out in my new @IJURResearch article ‘Hyperscaling Housing’

It traces VC-fuelled attempts to aggressively scale real estate start-ups, and how tenants pay the price https://t.co/0m2hLGt2fE

[Tim White @timwhite100]

@davvkamp @BJSociology 👏👏👏

[David Kampmann @davvkamp]

'Is it really too late already to do anything about climate change?' My review essay published in @BJSociology argues that the answer is 'No!', but more importantly: the real question is how to make a radical transition possible: https://t.co/Kr0gogx3GU

[Mel Nowicki @melnowicki]

Excited to say that mine and @K_Brickell's book Debt Trap Nation is out today (#WorldHomeless Day).

In it we expose how UK govt policy is driving families – esp domestic abuse survivors – into debt & homelessness

Proceeds go to #SurvivingEconomicAbuse

https://t.co/9jbua5fVt9

[Adam Almeida @adammarqalmeida]

In the hallowed salmon-pink pages of the @FT today:

My piece for @FTAlphaville on the rise of ‘build-to-rent’ housing in Britain – and the rent inflation that’s followed in the areas where it's being built.

https://t.co/YKUwyJcSVp

[Tim White @timwhite100]

@davidjmadden @guardian Thank you!

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

We look forward to welcoming scholars to the Postgraduate Forum Mid-term Conference 2025 later this month.

We are excited to announce our keynote speakers, @timwhite100 & @jonnyjjt, with an additional speaker to be announced.

Registration is still open.👇https://t.co/GeVTGvjI8H

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

Fifty years ago public investment in local authority housing “peaked in 1974/5 at £2.2 bn — £23.3 bn in 2023/4 prices.”

£2 bn for “affordable” housing is a smaller investment than in recent years. Compared to historic levels, it's a *tiny* fraction.

https://t.co/RPkKwCgqxO

[Tim White @timwhite100]

The loophole isn’t the only thing to blame. It’s part of a broader picture of privatisation, financialisation and corporate power in the city. But it is a key driver of the huge rent increases in recent years.

[Tim White @timwhite100]

I have an article in the Guardian today on the loophole pushing Berlin’s housing crisis to new extremes https://t.co/1hVlXUQCM4

[Sebastian Kohl @sebastianmkohl]

Don't miss today's talk by @timwhite100 on Venture Capital in Berlin's housing market at the @FU_Berlin, see: https://t.co/v3qWxMGigH

[Tim White @timwhite100]

And finally, our editorial where we critique the idea of disruption and point to various conceptual entry points for analysing digital transformations in housing and home.

[Tim White @timwhite100]

New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by @DallasRogers101, @SophiaMaalsen and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows:

[Tim White @timwhite100]

Me on digital experiments in residential rent extraction: how firms seek to optimise yields and enrol tenants into new techno-economic systems.