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UPCOMING DEADLINES
Call for submissions for edited book volume ‘The Right to Housing – Between Utopia and Justiciable Entitlement’: deadline for abstract submission 30th September 2026.
International Conference on Urban Affairs (14-16 April 2027): submissions for individual papers, research briefs, panels, and roundtable sessions to stimulate thinking and re-thinking of urban affairs, as well as to widen intellectual and professional networks: deadline October 1, 2026.
Call for papers for the 11 January 2027 online seminar “Decommodification of land for housing: the role of the public sector”: deadline October 15, 2026.
Call for Papers for the Housing Conflicts and Politics panel (panel 1045) (7-10 September 2027 at the 30th Scientific conference of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) at Leipzig University (Germany): submission deadline 31 October 2026.
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23 September 2026
Call for Papers for the Housing Conflicts and Politics panel (panel 1045)
On 7-10 September 2027 the 30th Scientific conference of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) will take place at Leipzig University (Germany). Theme: ‘A world in transition. Political science too?’
Housing has become a highly topical and contested policy area within political economy and social policy. Comparative housing studies have considered rising housing inequalities and the changing institutional policy landscape (e.g. financialisation), yet the politics behind these trends are still not well understood. We welcome any paper that address the politics of housing and the distributive conflicts around prioritising certain tenure types. Papers with a focus on the following questions are prioritised:
1 What are the partisan preferences for housing policies?
2 How do housing policies differ?
3 Housing policy actors.
Panel chais: Stephan Köppe (University College Dublin) and Eric Neimanns (Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung). They welcome diverse methodological approaches and research designs to address these questions. With the English session theyaim to provide an open forum to discuss German housing politics within an international context.
Submission deadline: 31 October 2026. Upload your paper here.
Link to the panels (in German and English).
Find the Call for papers here.
3 September 2026
Call for papers for the 11 January 2027 online seminar “Decommodification of land for housing: the role of the public sector”
The University of Liverpool, research labs LATTS (Université Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, and Ecole des Ponts), and Lab’urba (Université Gustave Eiffel and Université Paris Est Créteil), together with the Co-Lab Research Group at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the TU Delft are convening an online seminar on the role of national and local public authorities in the design, implementation or management of decommodified land tools. This draws upon several areas of focus introduced in the ‘Decommodification of land for housing: trends and tools’ workshop hosted at the ENHR 2025 Grand Paris conference.
Contributions should preferably be based on empirical data and be focused on the actual implementation of decommodification tools and instruments, through single case study or comparative perspectives. Abstracts from both the Global North and the Global South are welcome. Find the full call here.
Abstracts (1000-1200 words) should be emailed to all conveners (Claire Carriou, University Paris Est Créteil – Lab’urba, Darinka Czischke, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Thomas Moore, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool and Claire Simonneau, Université Gustave Eiffel – LATTS).
Abstracts deadline by October 15, 2026.
Participation in the seminar does not require you to submit a full paper. Selected contributions might be included in a joint academic publication (special issue, edited book).
11 August 2026
Vacancy – PhD applicants in Housing provision as enjoyment (f/m)
The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) calls for PhD applicants in: Housing provision as enjoyment (here used in the Lacanian sense, a concept from psychoanalysis). While economic causes are widely researched, less is known of the role played by enjoyment, desire and drive in the development of housing unaffordability. In housing, it is crucial to scrutinize forms of individualistic enjoyment, such as the control over land exercised by landowners, the production of value by property developers, and the domination landlords exercise over tenants. It is also urgent to identify and amplify more collective forms of enjoyment in housing provision, such as the investments driving the development of social housing, cooperative housing or community land trusts – forms of enjoyment that foreground the use value of ‘home’ and collective libidinal investments in housing provision.
Specifications:
-36 month fixed-term working contract at LISER (with a possible one-year extension)
-Full-time, 40 hours/week
-Department: Urban Development and Mobility
-Work location: Belval (Luxembourg)
Deadline to submit applications: September 18th, 2026 at midnight CET
Find the full vacancy details here.
Please submit your complete application here.
For any content related question, please contact Dr Antoine Paccoud. For administrative and recruitment matters, please contact Mrs. Vanya Kirova.
LISER is a publicly funded research institute located in Luxembourg and dedicated to applied empirical research in economic, social and spatial sciences. The Institute attracts top researchers from all over the world and high-level student training is a vibrant part of the Institute’s activities.
11 August 2026
Call for papers for a special Housing Studies issue on The Proliferation of Housing Decarbonization as Field of Capital Accumulation
This special issue aims to disentangle the multiple intersections between state strategies to decarbonize housing on the one hand and the proliferation of housing as a field of capital accumulation on the other. Bridging these two so far largely separate literature strands, the papers will advance critical readings at the intersection of housing studies and sustainability transitions.
The special issue editor(s) are Lisa Vollmer (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Erkner Germany), Melissa García-Lamarca (Lund University) and Justin Kadi (University of Cambridge).
Submission Instructions:
-15 September 2026: Abstract deadline
-30 September 2026: Notification of abstract selection
-15 January 2027: Paper submission to guest editors
-28 February 2027: Feedback by guest editors to authors
-15 April 2027: Submission to journal.
Titles and abstracts (300 words max.), along with full contact details, should be submitted to Lisa Vollmer.
Find a thematic outline of the special issue and instructions for authors here.
3 August 2026
Call for Senior Associate Editors of the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA)
The Journal of Urban Affairs seeks to appoint new Senior Associate Editors to supervise the peer review of submitted manuscripts and make recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief about their suitability for publication in the JUA. In addition, Senior Associate Editors act as ambassadors for the Journal among the wider community of urban scholars and practitioners, and support UAA’s professional development program for early career scholars.
The Journal is particularly interested in scholars with expertise in certain areas of urban research and in certain regional contexts. These include:
-The urban context of South Asian cities
-Community and local economic development in North America
-Chinese urbanization and urban issues
-Housing and community development in European contexts.
Given the role that Senior Associate Editors play, applicants must have prior experience in publishing their own journal articles, as well as serving as a paper reviewer.
The newly appointed Senior Associate Editors will serve a term covering October 1, 2026 to June 30, 2031.
Please complete the brief application form and attach your CV. The application deadline is September 1, 2026. Final selection decisions will be made by September 30.
Applications from individuals from across the globe, and of all backgrounds are welcome. The Journal particularly encourages women and candidates from underrepresented communities to apply. Senior Associate Editors work remotely, communicate electronically with the JUA editorial office, and receive support to participate in the annual conference of the Urban Affairs Association each spring.
26 July 2026
Journal Urban Research And Practice call for papers on urban policy
The Routledge Journal Urban Research And Practice (URP) issued a call for policy papers for a special issue on urban research and practice. The Policy Papers section of URP contains articles that focus on new urban policies launched at the international, European, national, regional and local levels. Submissions should articulate the relevance of the policy beyond its immediate context and highlight its potential implications for wider urban debates and policy.
Abstract deadline: September 7th 2026: Submit a 300-word abstract to the policy editor: Ivan Tosics together with a brief bio outlining your background and details of any professional or academic affiliation.
Notification of selection by October 7th.
Final paper submission date: November 30th 2026. Submit your paper directly through the journal submission site.
Policy articles are typically between 3,000 and 5,000 words.
25 June 2026
Organisations including ENHR come together to form an EU Housing Alliance
While housing lies outside formal EU competences, the impact of EU policies and urban programmes on the social and affordable housing capabilities of Member States and their cities is a longstanding topic of deliberation within ENHR. As organisations come together to form an EU Housing Alliance that will help tackle the multi-level governance of implementing the first ever European Affordable Housing Plan, ENHR is an active participant. Our members Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Marja Elsinga, and Ivana Katuric, all appointed to the EC’s Housing Advisory Board, are actively supporting discussion around the Plan and key challenges within our 2026 conference programme and online events.
Other ENHR members have also spoken out in the media about the Plan, and the learning processes needed for effective implementation. Darinka Czischke’s article in the EUobserver identifies reliance on external expertise, untested assumptions, short-termism, and technocratic thinking as potential weaknesses in the EU level Plan. She questions the extent to which it can catalyse meaningful structural change, and advocates ongoing dialogue with the housing research community to better evidence policy development. Also, Johanna Lilius from Aalto University, along with Mika Hyötyläinen from the University of Helsinki, recently addressed a letter to the European Commission co-signed by over 50 housing researchers. It asks for more substantive engagement with housing research and civil society organisations in implementing and refining EU housing initiatives. Read the letter here.
22 mei 2026
Call for submissions for edited book volume ‘The Right to Housing – Between Utopia and Justiciable Entitlement’
Editor professor Anna Młynarska-Sobaczewska welcomes contributions from researchers representing fields such as law, sociology, public policy, urban studies, economics, and related disciplines, particularly those interested in comparative or interdisciplinary approaches in exploring the evolving concept of the right to housing across different legal systems, policy frameworks, and socio-economic contexts.
Main submission details:
– Abstracts: 300–500 words
– Deadline for abstract submission: 15 June 2026
– Full chapter submission: 30th September 2026
– Final manuscript: 1st December 2026
– Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis) or Brill (2027).
Find the full call for submissions here.
Abstracts and any inquiries regarding the project may be sent to: Anna Młynarska-Sobaczewska or Joanna Kurczab.
27 April 2026
Call for papers to Special Issue of Critical Housing Analysis on contemporary drivers of housing inequality under radical contextual diversity
Editors Martin Lux (Czech Academy of Sciences), Caroline Dewilde (Tilburg University) and Rowan Arundel (University of Amsterdam) invite contributions to a special issue of Critical Housing Analysis entitled ‘Understanding contemporary drivers of housing inequality under radical contextual diversity’.
In this special issue, the editors welcome papers that deal with diverse aspects of housing inequality: papers that focus on the different domains of inequality and apply various methodological and analytical approaches (quantitative or qualitative).
Papers may be either comparative or relating to one country, neighbourhood or population group, but they should have an ambition to contribute to the theoretical underpinning of housing inequality. They welcome theoretical papers, review papers, empirical data analyses of housing inequality/precarity, or qualitative case studies, but with the requirement that each of them will, at least partially, help to define or refine the conceptual and theoretical basis for a more cohesive understanding of housing inequality.
You can find the full call here.
Potential contributors should submit an abstract to [email protected] by July 15, 2026.
The deadline for submission of full papers is November 30, 2026.
Full papers should be submitted through www.housing-critical.com/submit-your-paper/ after registration of the corresponding author.
The issue is planned to be released as No. 1/2027 in May/June 2027.
17 April 2026
Findings of the ENHR EAHP Webinar 1# Adaptive Reuse for Affordable Housing – Prospects, Pitfalls and Policy Implications on March 25, 2026
With rising construction costs, limited development sites, and offices, schools, and other buildings left underused, the adaptive reuse of non-residential buildings offers promise for affordable housing supply in both high-pressure urban markets and small towns and villages. Our webinar began an ENHR conversation on the prospects, pitfalls, and policy implications of scaling up such conversions for affordable housing, as envisioned within the European Affordable Housing Plan. It brought together speakers Gérald Ledent (UC Louvain) and Nicolas Del Canto (University of Liverpool) to share policy relevant findings on adaptive reuse trends in Brussels and London. Gerard van Bortel and Darinka Czischke also presented their Delft University of Technology publication Adaptive Reuse for Housing. Other ENHR members joined the discussion, and we welcome further policy recommendations and (open access) member publications that focus on this topic as our conversion continues. Find the link to summary findings, prospects, pitfalls, and policy implications here.
8 December 2025
Call for submissions for a workshop and a Housing Studies special issue on the relationships between demographic dynamics and housing affordability
Housing Studies invites submissions for a workshop and special issue on the relationships between demographic dynamics and housing.
This call for papers is seeking contributions that examine the impact of demographic changes on housing markets as well as the impact of housing markets on demographic choices. The latter area is where a substantial knowledge gap exists.
Preference will be given to completed drafts, but extended abstracts will be considered. Selected completed papers will undergo external peer review; final acceptance will follow Housing Studies’ standard editorial process and rests with the journal’s editors.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit the full paper drafts and participate in our workshop to be held at Seoul National University on May 25, 2026 (participation is optional; travel support is not available).
Key dates
– February 1, 2026 (11:59 pm, EST): Abstract submission deadline
– April 15, 2026: Deadline for first full paper drafts to Guest Editors
– May 25, 2026: Workshop in Seoul (optional)
– July 15, 2026: Deadline for full paper submission to Housing Studies
– October 1, 2026: Deadline for re-submission to Housing Studies
– December 1, 2026: Final submission of papers
You can find the full call here. If you have any questions about the special issue, please contact special issue editor and workshop organisation committee member Arthur Acolin.