Calendar
2026
10-13 February 2026, Brisbane, Queensland (Australia)
Australasian Housing Researchers Conference (AHRC26): Housing justice in turbulent times
Early bird registrations are open until 31 December 2025: . The abstract submission deadline is now closed.
The conference includes a PhD symposium (with lunch) on the first day.
For more information visit the conference page or send an e-mail to [email protected].
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].
2-4 March 2026, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
ENHR Housing and Young People Working Group Annual Meeting: Young People and Housing Precarity
In the context of the EU’s Affordable Housing Initiative and ongoing debates on social inclusion, this symposium of the ENHR Working group Housing and Young People invites papers that conceptualise and examine dimensions of housing precarity in the pathways of young people.
– Day one will be dedicated to Housing First for Young People, and will include a keynote by Cody Hochstenbach, and a panel discussion anchored in a large scale research programme addressing the transition to a Housing First systemic approach in the Netherlands.
– Day two will be dedicated to Student Housing, and will include a panel discussion with local/regional practitioners and policy makers.
– Day three will be an open contributions day representing the broader preoccupations of the working group, but aligned with the direction of the symposium and its interest in youth precarities.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words shall be sent to Oana Druta by 16 January 2026. Authors should also indicate which thematic session they wish to attend. If planning to submit to the open day (day three) please contact the organizers with a short email no later than 19 December.
The symposium is free to attend. You can find the full call here. Please address any further inquiries to Oana Druta or Valentina Cortes Urra.
23 March 2026, 9:30 AM – 11 AM, online
Feminist approaches to housing research and Practice
Seminar 2/4: The queerness of home
Hosted by ENHR Working Group Gender and Housing.
In this session, we will present the book: Stephen Vider, The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II (UC Press 2021), and engage in a dialogue with: Dolores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution (MIT Press 1981), to initiate a discussion from a queer-feminist perspective on domesticity.
Chair of the session: Hugo Soucaze, Emma Peltier & Quentin Brouard-Sala.
Link to the seminar: https://tinyurl.com/4bmbdxke
Find all seminar programmes here.
8-10 April 2026, Leuven (Belgium)
Housing Between Commodification and Decommodification
Session at the first BeNeLux Geography conference in Leuven.
The session organisers invite submissions exploring the shifting terrain of housing as it oscillates between processes of commodification and decommodification. In recent decades, housing has become a prime site for market making, financialisation and assetisation, with states, investors, and developers reshaping urban space through logics of profit and risk.
In particular, the organisers are interested in work that explores the dynamic and contested relationship between practices of commodification and decommodification. How are housing markets constructed, expanded, or resisted? What role do financial institutions, technologies, social movements and state actors play in enabling or disrupting housing commodification? How do practices of (de-)commodification emerge, scale, or falter?
Deadline for submission: 8 December 2025. You can register here.
15 April 2026, 3 PM – 4:30 PM, online
Seminar 3/4: Mapping inequalities – Methodologies for mapping and spatialising inequalities
Hosted by ENHR Working Group Gender and Housing.
This session aims to explore various methodologies for mapping inequalities, encouraging discussion about their respective strengths, limitations, and suitability. Using experiences with self-census approaches and social cartography—especially in marginalised urban areas—we will analyse how these participatory methods can uncover spatial and socio-economic disparities often missed by official data. The discussion may also cover participatory mapping practices such as relief maps and initiatives inspired by Iconoclasistas and Jane’s Walk. Suggested readings include both theoretical and practical resources, such as the Collective Mapping Manual by Iconoclasistas and the chapter on “Counter-mapping: Dismantling Dominant Narratives” in Methodologies for Housing Justice Resource Guide (Roy et al., 2020).
Chair of the session: Claire Hancock, Joana Lages & Saila-Maria Saaristo.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/34yzf4ap
Find all seminar programmes here.
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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29 May 2026, 2 PM – 3:30 PM, online
Seminar 4/4: Home-work
Hosted by ENHR Working Group Gender and Housing.
This last session introduces Charlotte Perkins Gilman as a first-wave feminist and social scientist. We explore how her life led her to question the spatial organisation of Housework, in connection with a broader feminist perspective on the status of women in the family and society, and rooted in the progressivism of the early 20th century. Perkins Gilman is associated with what Hayden (1981) labelled “material feminism,” a term we will attempt to link to a community of scholars and feminists contemporary to Perkins Gilman, discussing whether material feminism constitutes a genuine school of thought and illustrating architectural proposals that challenge the issue of domestic labour.
Chair of the session: Irène Berthonnet, Marta Malinverni & Chloé Salembier.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/4bmbdxke
Find all seminar programmes here.
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.
20-22 July 2026, University of Vienna (Austria)
RC21 Conference Vienna 2026 on Urban and Regional Development: Inequalities and the City – Old Issues, New Challenges
The conference offers over one hundred sessions. Each author may submit and present a maximum of two abstracts at the conference if they have no other roles (e.g. chairs, discussants). Abstracts can be up to 300 words long, excluding affiliations and figure captions.
Session 71 on Informal Rental Housing Bridging North-South Divides is cohosted by ENHR member Saila-Maria Saaristo.
Important dates:
-Deadline for abstracts submissions: December 29th, 2025
-Notification of acceptance: January 29th, 2026.
All abstracts must be submitted via the conference tool Ex Ordo. Abstracts submitted through alternative means will not be considered.
You can find the conference website here.
Past ENHR and ENHR related events
25 November 2025, online
Feminist approaches to housing research and Practice
Seminar 1/4 – Property – A feminist take on property relations: how to make visible the gender wealth gap?
Hosted by Working Group Gender and Housing.
10 October 2025 (online)
ENHR network-wide webinar ‘Effective engagement across housing research and policymaking’
The session built on the ENHR Policy and Research Working Group’s ‘Critical Dialogue’ at the ENHR Grand Paris conference 2025. Speakers from the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning (NL), the Housing Agency (IE), and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), shared their differing research/policy engagement models. They discussed collaborative problem framing, and other factors that support cooperation and collaboration between researchers and policymakers. We then considered how the ENHR can support effective collaboration between academic research and policymaking in housing and allied built environment fields- including at the European scale of action.
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.