Calendar
2025
14-16 April 2025, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sheffield (UK) and online throughout the conference
28-30 April 2025, dedicated online sessions
Housing Studies Association Conference Households, Housing Research, Policy and Practice
The workshop sessions will address broader housing issues, including, but not limited to, topics around homelessness, dynamics in housing systems, the private rented sector, the financialisation of housing, retrofit, developments in housing theory, and tenant participation in social housing.
More information on the conference pages of the HSA website. You can register here.
12 June 2025, Royal College of Physicians, London (UK),
Homelessness and Affordability: Sharing what works
It’s estimated that 318 million people are homeless around the world, and the numbers are rising steeply. Yet this is a global problem that can be solved. The day will conclude with a ceremony to celebrate the 2025 World Habitat Awards winners.
Keynote speaker, panel discussions, breakout sessions.
Who is the conference for?
-Policymakers at all levels of government
-Social impact investors, funders and philanthropic organisations
-CEOs and senior leaders of homelessness service provision
-Researchers and academics focused on housing and homelessness
-Community leaders, activists and advocates.
More information and a registration option you find on the World Habitat website.
4-6 June 2025, Dublin (Ireland)
International Social Housing Festival 2025
The ISHF festival is an initiative of Housing Europe. The call for submissions is open since 4 November 2024.
Important dates:
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025
Notification of Review Outcome: 21 March 2025
Deadline for Lead Submitter (Lead Speaker) to register to confirm attendance: 11 April 2025
Programme Available Online: End of April 2025.
See the festival website for more information.
As part of the ISHF, inspiring projects that demonstrate how social and affordable housing can promote inclusion, sustainability, and innovation across Europe will be showcased. Finalists or winners will be featured in the ERHA Handbook, an essential reference for good practices in housing.
Submit your project via www.responsiblehousing.eu.
Deadline for submitting projects: 15 February 2025.
Direct contact: [email protected].
19-20 June, 2025, Tarragona (Spain)
5th International Workshop on Rent Control
This workshop, organized by Konstantin A. Kholodilin (DIW Berlin), Sergio Nasarre Aznar (UNESCO Housing Chair, Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Aurora Iannello (Associazione culturale Vera Nocentini, Turin) will be hosted by the UNESCO Housing Chair at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. The aim of the workshop is to bring together experts from different countries and different disciplines (economics, history, law, sociology, urbanism, etc.) who are interested in rent control and other housing policies. The annual workshop aims to be a forum for discussing housing policies around the world and exchange ideas. Furthermore, it also aims to encourage joint research cooperation in the field.
To apply for participation in the workshop, please complete the following form. The deadline for the submission of papers or abstracts is 31 March. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate in contacting us here.
25-28 June 2025, Beijing (China)
APNHR Conference Towards Resilience and Inclusivity: Adapting to Multifaceted Challenges in the Asia-Pacific Region
The Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research annual conference provides a platform to explore and discuss critical challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region.
Important dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submissions 10 February 2025
Abstract acceptance notifications 15 March 2025
Registration opens (tentative) 1 May 2025
Registration deadline 31 May 2025
At the conference two special sessions for two special issues will be offered.
For more information and registration see the conference page on the APNHR website.
APNHR and ENHR are sister networks and born with the purpose of connecting academics, students, and researchers of the region with people working in the same issues in Europe and other regions of the world.
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.
With climate change and air pollution increasingly affecting urban living conditions, the conference will focus on the socio-economic and urban impact of green urban interventions, such as energy-efficient retrofits and sustainable housing developments. Green initiatives can lead to paradoxical outcomes, such as “green gentrification,” where vulnerable populations face displacement as housing costs rise in eco-friendly neighborhoods. Studies indicate that wealthier households tend to benefit more from decarbonization efforts, which risks deepening urban fragmentation and socio-spatial inequalities.
More information and registration options here.
1-11 July 2025, Delft (The Netherlands)
Summer School Sustainable housing from a European perspective
This Summer School at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (TU Delft) is organised with in-depth lectures covering a variety of perspectives on sustainable housing transformation, workshops, site visits, and a tender game for the renovation of a housing complex.
Target audience: Bachelor students in their final year, Master students, PhDs and professionals with background knowledge and research interests on sustainable housing and the built environment.
Your application should include a convincing motivation letter, a short CV (max. 2 pages) and a summary of research interests (max. 1 page).
40 spaces are available. Early bird registration option until 15 January 2025.
See here for more information, contact details and a flyer and A2 poster.
6-11 July 2025, Rabat (Morocco)
5th International Sociological Association’s Forum of Sociology
The existing literature has often focused on design and architectural features, as well as residents’ attitudes towards social mixing. Less is known, however, regarding how specific socio-demographic factors, such as age, and social inequalities play out in mixed-tenure neighbourhoods. The Demography, Inequality and Community Development in Mixed-Tenure Neighbourhoods session organisers are therefore interested in the following themes:
• How young people and elderly people – two relatively neglected groups – experience mixed-tenure communities.
• Although post-regeneration mixed-tenure neighbourhoods are often regarded as gentrified enclaves, this nevertheless begs all sort of questions regarding exactly how social inequalities – such as class, income and wealth, race/ethnicity, and gender – are experienced in relation to social mixing processes.
• How issues of health (both physical and mental) and disability are experienced with reference to mixed-tenure communities.
• Understanding the variety of community development strategies which are put in place in mixed-tenure neighbourhoods, and with what effects. We welcome submissions using a range of methodologies, and from different national contexts and especially from the Global South.
Submit your abstract (up to 300 words) by 15 October 2024 via the conference portal. Further details are provided here.
Session contacts: Paul Watt, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science and Rana Khazbak, School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London.
7-11 July 2025, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul (Turkey)
37th AESOP Congress Planning as a transformative action in an age of planetary crisis
The congress theme reflects the urgency of addressing planetary crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, social inequalities, and resource depletion. At the heart of this crisis is a socio-economic system that continues to promote growth-oriented development and relies on unsustainable practices, reinforcing deep-seated inequalities and social exclusion.
Key Dates
5 December 2024: Call for abstracts open (Congress Tracks)
16 December 2024: Call for Special Sessions and Roundtables open
31 January 2025: Deadline for Roundtable and Special Session Applications
31 January 2025: Deadline for abstract submissions (Congress Tracks)
07 February 2025: Special Sessions and Roundtables notifications
21 February 2025: Deadline abstract submission for presentations included in Special Sessions
10 March 2025: Abstract notifications
10 March 2025: Early Bird Registration open
08 April 2025: Full Paper Submission open
15 April 2025: Early bird registration deadline
30 April 2025: Registration deadline for presenters for inclusion in the Conference Scientific Program
31 May 2025: Full paper submission deadline
16 June 2025: Late registration deadline for participants without paper presentation.
You can register here.
8-9 September 2025, Glasgow (UK)
Reflections and Developments in Housing Research: What’s Next?
The International Journal of Housing Policy is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and together with the UK Centre for Collaborative Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is hosting this symposium. The seminar will situate its retrospective insights with an eye of the future direction of research. We hope that the occasion will be a celebration of the significant contributions of the housing research community and highlight the importance of continued research in shaping housing futures.
Housing scholars are invited to submit short abstracts of papers (max 250 words) for the conference by 31 March. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 APRIL.
Abstracts may address a wide range of themes, including (but not limited to):
• Past/ongoing trends drivers – e.g. financialisaton, globalisation, neoliberalism, etc.
• New/ongoing drivers: climate change, digitalisation, AI, populism
• Housing governance: role of government in changing world
• Policy transfer
• Methodological developments
• Global North and South.
Find all symposium info in this flyer.
Send your abstracts to: Kalina Raeva, and put in the subject bar “IJHP/ CaCHE Symposium”.
Attendance at the conference, including a conference dinner, is free. However, there is a limited number of places.
15–19 September 2025, Vienna (Austria)
Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing 2025
Theme: Housing and Health – The Role of Dwelling in Shaping Individual, Communal, and Planetary Well-Being
Adequate housing is a precondition for good health and well-being whilst housing deficiencies can have immediate negative consequences for physical and mental health. Historically, health and hygiene have been foundational factors for social housing and have been central to reform and renewal programs.
The summer school is open for early-stage academics (predoc, postdoc) from all disciplinary contexts as well as for housing activists and representatives of housing and urban policy initiatives. During the summer school, we will discuss research findings of empirical or design-based contributions. Building on these, we will also work conceptually by example of urban areas in Vienna.
The Summer School is organized by the Research Center for New Social Housing, a collaboration of TU Wien, the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Deadline for applications: 1 April 2025
No fee of participation. Travel costs are covered (up to € 300 for Europe / € 700 for outside of Europe). Free accommodation.
Application and selection process: visit the summer school website or send an e-mail to [email protected] for more information.
29–30 September 2025, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford (UK)
City+2025@Oxford on Urban Data Analytics and the Polycrisis
This 8th international conference on interdisciplinary urban studies will address the following key themes:
• Theme 1: Climate change, food, and natural resources
• Theme 2: Finance, housing, and inequality
• Theme 3: Spatial demography, labour dynamics, and migration
• Theme 4: Transport system and spatial economy.
City+ is a series of international conferences that provide a dynamic platform for scholars to share research, foster collaborations, and address pressing urban challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective.
For detailed submission guidelines and further information about the conference, please visit the registration page.
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 April 2025
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 May 2025
Deadline for travel grant application: 30 June 2025
Deadline for early bird registration: 30 June 2025
Deadline for registration: 15 August 2025.
Recent ENHR events
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.
