Calendar

2026

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.

10-11 March 2026, online
5th New Housing Researchers’ online seminar
The ENHR organises an online seminar for new researchers on the 10th (1 pm – 5.30 pm CET) and 11th (8:30 am – 1 pm CET) of March 2026.
Invited to participate are PhD students as well as those who have the intention to embark on a PhD study in the future. The key aims of the seminar are to:
– provide an opportunity for new researchers to present and discuss their work with peers,
– get feedback on their work from senior members of the ENHR research community,
– enable new researchers to exchange ideas and share work experiences,
– discuss any other matters of common interest,
– assist and encourage new researchers to prepare papers to be presented at the 2026 conference that will take place in Oslo (Morway) on 30 June – 3 July,
– initiate and set up a forum for facilitating regular communication between new researchers within the framework of the ENHR.
Participants are invited to register and send their abstract of about 500 words via this form (deadline January 31st, 2026).
Abstracts should include a title, description of the work to be discussed highlighting topic, approach, method and results (if any) and name, affiliation and contact details of the author. It is not required to submit a full paper.
The seminar is free of charge and open also to those who wished to attend and participate in the discussions without submitting an abstract.
Find the call here. More information: ENHR Secretariat ([email protected]).

12 March 2026, 10:00–11:15 (CET), online
Participatory Academic Online Workshop – Emotional Dynamics of Housing Policy in the Visegrad Region: Security as a Social Value
The University of Warsaw (Poland), Charles University (Czech Republic), ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), and Trnava University (Slovakia) are launching a new international research project on the role of emotions in housing and public policy in the V4 countries (Visegrad Group). We would like to invite you to a participatory academic online workshop aimed at jointly developing a conceptual and methodological framework for housing research in the V4 region.
The workshop builds on a research programme devoted to emotions in social and public policy, developed by Prof. Ryszard Szarfenberg and involving partner organisations from Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The programme is being implemented through a special issue of the journal Social Policy Issues, a forthcoming academic monograph, and this international research project funded by the International Visegrad Fund.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
-deepen understanding of the conceptual and methodological frameworks of the research
-ensure comparability of national case studies across the V4 countries
-introduce the project to the wider research community and support the development of a long-term research network.
The workshop is intended for researchers, students, PhD candidates, as well as members of the professional community with an interest in housing, public and social policy, and socio-affective approaches.
The programme will include thematic presentations, moderated discussions, and interactive group work.
Registration and access (required for project reporting purposes). The working language of the workshop is English.
The workshop is co-organised by ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Prof. Adrienne Csizmady, Dr Lea Kőszeghy) and the University of Warsaw (Prof. Ryszard Szarfenberg, Prof. Aleksandra Zubrzycka-Czarnecka).

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.

30 March – 1 April 2026, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus (Centenary Building 100), (United Kingdom)
16^th edition of the Modern Studies in Property Law (MSPL) Conference
Established at the University of Reading in 1996, the conference remained there for a decade before being hosted by leading institutions including Queens’ College Cambridge (2008, 2024), Oxford (2010, 2022), the University of Southampton (2012), the University of Liverpool (2014), Queen’s University Belfast (2016), and University College London (2018). The conference also underpins the well-regarded Modern Studies in Property Law book series, publishing peer-reviewed papers from the conference since 2001.
We are currently finalising the programme and will publish it on the conference website shortly.
Registration and payment, along with full pricing information, are now available via the University of Southampton Online Store. General information can also be found on the conference website.

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.

20-22 April (in person) and 1-5 June (online) 2026, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sheffield (UK)
Housing Transformed: Climate, Health, and Technology in an Uncertain Future
Annual Conference of the Housing Studies Association (partner of ENHR). The in-person days are between 20th to 22nd April 2026 and the online session between 1st and 5th June 2026. Both online and in-person will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sheffield, UK.
Abstract submission deadline extended until 9 January 2026. Notification of acceptance: 23rd January 2026.
For more information and registration visit the HSA website.

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.
Sign up for Conference News to receive updates here.

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.
Find all seminar programmes here.

3–5 June 2026, Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Ortec Finance
EFL Annual Conference 2026 – From Solving Housing Shortage to Urban Regeneration – What can Europe learn from Dutch social housing, finance and urban renewal?
The timely theme will spark discussions on the strengths of the Dutch social housing system, large-scale urban renewal, the future of cities, digital innovation, and financial strategies. Participants will also take part in a site visit to one of the largest pre-war neighbourhoods in Rotterdam South — an area undergoing major regeneration. In addition, the programme will include updates on the European Affordable Housing Plan and insights into the impactful work of EFL’s Topic Groups.
Participation is free of charge for EFL members, associated partners and invited speakers.
The European Federation for Living is a partner of ENHR.
For registration: click here.

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.

9 June, Session 1; 23 June, Session 2; 7 July, Session 3; 21 July 2026, Session 4, online
Untangling the housing crisis: Economic perspectives and ways forward
This online masterclass will provide participants with a strong understanding of Australia’s housing problems and solutions using housing economics principles. Participants will gain skills in unpacking Australia’s housing problems and understand how housing economists think to arrive at relevant policy solutions. The relationship between housing supply and demand, and their impacts on housing affordability is a theme that will run throughout the course. The role of government and the interaction between government policy and housing outcomes will also be explored. A variety of real-life case studies from Australian housing markets and policies, and a range of economic perspectives, will be presented.
Find more information and registration option 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.

30 June – 3 July 2026, Oslo (Norway), Oslo Metropolitan University
Annual ENHR conference ‘Homeownership, Prosperity, and Inequality in the 21st Century – Social, Spatial, and Historical Patterns’
A conference including more than 20 workshops having numeral sessions, plenaries one of which will be about the European Social Housing Plan, a welcome reception at the famous Oslo City Hall and field trips.
30 June is dedicated to New Housing Researchers pursuing PhD research. They can present work in progress or nearing completion in a supportive and constructive environment. You can submit a proposal to both this New Housing Researchers Conference (NHRC), and to a session in the main conference – either the same paper (using the NHRC as a trial run) or a different one.
Important dates:
– Abstract submission deadline UPDATE: 1 March 2026.
– Conference registration will be available from 16 February 2026.
Find the conference website here. Information about the programme, plenary speakers, field trips, etc. will be updated continuously.

9-10 July 2026, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati, Spain)
Workshop ‘Housing and property in the framework of the housing crisis’
This workshop will bring together experts from Anthropology and Law that have been in dialogue with the project ‘Tensions between the right to housing and private ownership in rental relations. A socio-legal approach’ (TEVIPROP). As its final workshop it will serve to communicate and sharpen its conclusions regarding the interdisciplinary socio-legal analysis of the discourses, strategies and practices of the actors involved in the housing problem, especially regarding the tensions between the right to housing and private ownership, discrimination in access to housing, and occupation of untitled housing.
The workshop will be coordinated by Prof. Irene Sabaté, Marco Aparicio, João França and Miguel Ruiz.
For more information you can contact [email protected].

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.

9 September 2026, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
ETH Forum Wohnungsbau 2026: Green And Affordable? – Housing between climate targets and social sustainability
The ecological transformation of Switzerland’s building stock has gained significant momentum in recent years. This conference addresses emerging tensions between the climate-related adaptation of the built environment and its potential socio-economic implications in Switzerland.
The ETH Forum Wohnungsbau addresses these issues within the framework of the research project ReHousIn (Contextualised Pathways to Reduce Housing Inequalities in the Green Transition), funded by the EU and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
The program will include expert presentations and practical insights from representatives of academia, professional practice (planning and architecture), politics, and public administration, as well as panel discussions and a concluding synthesis, accompanied by open Q&A sessions and discussions following the presentations. The conference will be held in German.
Further information registration details will follow here. We would be happy to add you to the conference program mailing list. For more information contact Salome Rohner.

24-26 November 2026, Paris (France)
ESPI International Real Estate Conference

ESPI2R will host its biannual International Conference on Real Estate in Paris, serving as a premier platform for discussions and insights on the evolving real estate landscape at various levels – from global to local.
Thematic sessions will consist of three to four papers connected by a unifying topic.
We welcome submissions for thematic sessions and of abstracts up to 300 words for papers focusing on real estate, housing, and property.

Important dates
– Deadline for proposing thematic sessions: February 27th, 2026
– Notification of acceptance of thematic sessions: April 3rd, 2026
– Deadline for abstract submission: June 1st, 2026
– Deadline for full papers submission for a publication (special issue or proceedings): June 1st, 2026
– Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2026
– Early-birds registration: July 1st – July 31st, 2026
– Deadline for registration at the conference: November 10th, 2026.

For further information see the Call for thematic sessions abstracts and full papers, or contact the program committee at [email protected] or via the conference website https://espi-irec-2026.sciencesconf.org.

Past ENHR and ENHR related events

2025

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.

2024

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).

2023

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.

2022

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.

2021

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.