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
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'.
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 ⤵️
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
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⬇️
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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: