Calendar
2026
12-13 February 2026, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Swiss Habitat Conference 2026
Annual event organised by social scientists, geographers and architects, in a collaboration between the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL) and the Lausanne University (UNIL). Its core objective is to provide researchers with the opportunity to engage with colleagues convened under the broad umbrella of housing justice here and beyond. The conference welcomes new and transdisciplinary epistemological, theoretical, and methodological approaches to housing and habitat research. Ultimately, it aims to build a plural network of researchers and activists, fostering sustained dialogue and the open discussion of ongoing or achieved research projects around housing and habitat.
Find the call for abstracts here. Abstract deadline: 20 October 2025. Send your abstracts to [email protected].
29 April – 2 May, 2026, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
International Conference on Urban Affairs
The 2026 UAA conference will take place at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Abstract submission opens on August 1, 2025.
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10-12 June 2026, Melbourne (Australia)
World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2026 (WSBE26) – Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Who, What and How?
The conference organisers invite individuals or groups to bid for special tracks (e.g. on housing).
Propose Special Tracks by submitting an abstract and then tick a ‘special track’ box. These special tracks may lead to a published paper/s (for example, special issues for journals) or may lead to white paper or thought piece.
See for more information the conference website. Abstracts deadline: 30 September 2025.
4-5 June 2026, Cambridge (United Kingdom), University of Cambridge
Workshop Families, Housing, and the Asset Society
The ENHR Working Group Homeownership and Globalisation, in collaboration with the Lab for Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis (LISA) at the University of Cambridge, is organizing a workshop around various themes surrounding transformations in housing and home ownership, drawing from empirical analyses from across Europe and beyond. A particular focus, nonetheless, is how housing, wealth accumulation and family processes are becoming ever more embedded with each other, as well as the implications of this embedding for family formation and life courses, growing social and economic inequalities, and housing market and urban transformations.
Workshop organisers: Justin Kadi (University of Cambridge), Richard Ronald (University of Amsterdam), Helen Bao (University of Cambridge).
Abstract Deadline: 1 February, 2026. The organisers welcome single case studies and comparative papers, as well as studies focused on the national and the urban/local level. Send your abstracts to Justin Kadi ([email protected]).
See for more details the official call.
30 June – 3 July 2026, Oslo (Norway), Oslo Metropolitan University
Annual ENHR conference ‘Housing and prosperity in the 21st century’
Registration and abstract upload options will be available at the beginning of 2026.
Past ENHR and ENHR related events
30 June – 4 July 2025, Paris – Champs/Marne (France)
ENHR Annual conference: ‘Affordable housing in greening cities’
5-day conference including the New Housing Researchers Conference on 30 June, plenaries, workshops and fieldtrips.
12-13 March 2025
4th Online seminar for new housing researchers
Present your PhD research and ask a peer audience and senior ENHR chair for input and advice.
30 January 2025, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research – LISER (Luxembourg)
Housing young people in the affordability-crisis context: a European view on family support, market supply and policy responses
The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the ENHR Working Group Housing and Young People.
10-11 December 2024, (Luxembourg)
Workshop Homeownership, housing, and inequality: Continuity and change + Call for Papers
The ENHR Homeownership and Globalisation working group, in collaboration with the PROPEL project at the University of Luxembourg, organised this workshop.
26-30 August 2024, Delft (The Netherlands)
ENHR Annual conference: Making Housing Systems work: Evidence and Solutions
5-day conference including the New Housing Researchers Conference on 26 August and plenaries, workshops and fieldtrips.
23-24 May 2024, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Workshop ‘A View from Housing – Contributions of Housing Research to Social and Behavioural Theory’
Workshop at the University of Glasgow, by Critical Housing Analysis and the ENHR Working Group on Comparative Housing Policy.
24-27 April 2024, New York (USA)
Cities on the Edge: Promoting equity and resiliency through research, activism, planning, and policy
Annual Urban Affairs Association conference, this year in collaboration with ENHR and the European Urban Research Organisation (EURA).
11-12 March 2024 (online)
3rd New Housing Researchers online seminar
Present your PhD research and ask a peer audience and senior ENHR chair for input and advice on 11 March (afternoon sessions) and 12 March (morning sessions).
28-30 June 2023, Lodz (Poland)
ENHR annual conference themed ‘Urban regeneration: shines and shadows’
Annual ENHR conference.
16 March 2023
Webinar Southern European housing policies in the 2020s: the farewell to residualisation?
Organised by the Working Group Southern European Housing.
Discussion and review of the state of the art of current housing policies (and their respective narratives – political, media, citizens etc.) in Southern European countries and/or regions and/or cities, problematizing them in the context of the above- mentioned changes.
9-10 March 2023
2nd New Researchers online seminar
Invited to participate were PhD students as well as others that currently are not yet at this stage but have the intention to embark on PhD studies in the future. There was no requirement to submit a full paper.
30 August – 2 September 2022 Barcelona (Spain)
The struggle for the ‘Right to Housing’: The pressures of globalization and affordability in cities today
Annual ENHR conference.
15-16 June 2022 Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Late Homeownership – ENHR Working Group Homeownership and Globalization workshop
The aim of this workshop is to bring together research that revolves around the idea of transformation of homeownership associated with the financialization of mortgage and housing markets.
11 March 2022
New researchers’ on-line seminar
First on-line seminar for for new researchers to present and discuss their work with pears and get feedback on their work from senior members of the ENHR research community.
30 August – 2 September 2021 Nicosia (Cyprus) – online
‘Unsettled settlements: Housing in unstable contexts’
Annual ENHR conference.
27 May 2021
Online seminar Recent dynamics in homeownership and housing wealth
Hosted by Working Group Homeownership and Globalisation.
12-26 February 2021
Housing related impacts of the pandemic
Nine online seminars, most of them organised and hosted by ENHR Working Groups.
28-29 January 2021
Online workshop to share ideas, findings and discuss insights pertaining to housing, migration and family dynamics
Working Group Housing, Migration and Family Dynamics.
20-21 January 2021 Cologne (Germany)
Workshop ‘Recent Trends in European Rental Market Regulation’
Hosted by Working Group ‘Housing Finance‘ and ‘Private Rented Markets‘ in cooperation with the German Economic Institute (IW – Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft).
20 January 2021
Webinar ‘Housing and new technologies: New methodologies and paradigms in housing research’
Organised by the new Working Group Housing and New Technologies.