Calendar

2024

29 January 2024, Bilbao (Spain)
International Congress on Housing Policies (ICHP)
Congress on the importance of an effective housing right, organised by the Department on Housing of the Basque Government. The ICHP will deepen the recognition of an effective subjective right to housing, as a necessary and fundamental fifth pillar, next to health care (first pillar), education (second pillar), retirement (third pillar) and care services for dependent people and for families (fourth pillar), allowing people to pursue their life project under minimal conditions, enabling the exercise of their broader rights.
This congress will reflect around this complex phenomenon from various perspectives and the complementary measures that can help fulfil the housing objectives.
ICHP will include speakers from the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands who will explain their experience and the results these projects have in the citizens.
More information and free registration here

21-23 February 2024, Adelaide (Australia)
Re-imagining a better housing future
The Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research (APNHR) Conference will be held jointly with the Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference. 
The conference keynote speakers are Professors Rebecca Chiu, Richard Ronald and Susan Smith.
Sub-themes of the conference are Housing equality for all generations; Housing as economic, social and health infrastructure; Asia-Pacific housing opportunities and challenges; Housing policy lessens from turbulent times; Housing supply challenges and opportunities; Housing futures through a well-being lens; Solutions for precarious housing systems; Creating sustainable and resilient homes and communities. 
For more information and to register early interest, please see the newly launched Australasian Housing Studies Association website.
APNHR and ENHR are sister-organisations and maintain close ties.

22 February 2024, 12.00 (London, GMT), online
2024 World Habitat Awards Winners’ Celebration
If you interested in communities working together to achieve political and social change,
If you want to find out about delivering decent and safe housing at scale,
If you curious about technological approaches that reduce carbon emissions and protect those most at risk from the climate emergency,
If you would like to hear about housing that is inclusive, affordable as well as environmentally friendly,
join representatives from UN-Habitat, World Habitat and the 2024 Awards winners who will be sharing their stories online. We will have short presentations on retrofitting, housing rights, homes for rural communities, affordable student housing, emergency housing, early weather warning systems, and cohousing communities. You’ll also have the opportunity to move into breakout rooms to network with our winners.
Free registration here. See the overview of this year’s winners. 

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). Find more information about this online event here.
Register by sending an e-mail and summary of about 500 words to ENHR’s Secretariat before 31 January 2024: enhr@tudelft.nl

15-17 April 2024, Sheffield (United Kingdom) and 15-26 April 2024, online
Annual conference – Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives: Exploring the Intersections of Health and Housing
HSA (Housing Studies Associations) offers face-to-face sessions in Sheffield between 15th and 17th April, and online sessions between 22nd and 26th April 2024.
This conference will provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the complex connections between housing and health, share innovative approaches to promoting healthy housing, and develop strategies for addressing housing-related health inequities. The conference will further explore broader housing and place research, theoretical developments and policy developments.
More information, a registration option, and paper submittance instructions you can find here.
HSA and ENHR are partners since 2013.

22-23 April 2024, Tirana (Albania)
International conference on urban sustainability and resilience
This conference is part of the Tirana Planning Week hosted by the Faculty of Planning, Environment and Urban Management (FPMMU) at POLIS University (22-26 April). 
Important dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 22 January Send abstracts to the Tirana Planning Week mailbox.
Notification of Acceptance: 31 January
Deadline submission full paper: 20 March
Ask for more information here.

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).
UAA welcomes paper/poster abstracts and session proposals on urban studies-related research topics from all disciplines.
Key deadlines:
1 October 2023: Abstract/Proposal Submission deadline (no late submissions are accepted). Submit here
6 December 2023: Registration deadline for all accepted presenters and moderators (again no deadline extention expected).
Find the link to the conference here.

23-24 May 2024, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Workshop ‘A View from Housing – Contributions of Housing Research to Social and Behavioural Theory’
This workshop at the University of Glasgow, by Critical Housing Analysis and the ENHR Working Group on Comparative Housing Policy, aims is to examine how insights from housing can provide new perspectives to theoretical questions that are broader in scope than just housing.
We welcome contributions based on findings of theory-relevant empirical research or on theoretical work on housing issues. Contributions are welcome from any field of housing research: economics, political science, psychology, geography, urban planning, philosophy etc, as well as from interdisciplinary researchers who do not identify with any of these fields.
Submit abstracts to Hannu Ruonavaara by 28 March. Decisions on abstract acceptance will be made by 5 April.
Organisers: Martin Lux (Critical Housing Analysis), Hannu Ruonavaara (Guest Editor, Critical Housing Analysis), Mark Stephens (ENHR WG on Comparative Housing Policy).

18-19 June 2024, Brussels (Belgium)
The Financialization of Social Housing Workshop 
In this workshop the organisers aim to explore the emerging financialization forms of social housing. They will delve into the tensions between social housing as a common/public/social good and its status as a financial asset. Furthermore, they will examine the changing role of the state in adopting a financialized approach to delivering social housing.
Papers are welcomed that will address the following themes:
● How do different social and financial values and rationalities coexist and clash within existing and new financialized social housing arrangements?
● What are the different forms that financialized social housing is taking, across and within countries and welfare regimes
● Is a financialized approach to social housing delivery beneficial in terms of increasing the supply of social housing?
● What implications does a financialized approach to social housing have for the traditional understanding of public housing, the role and responsibility of the state in delivering social housing, and the overall tenant experience and well-being?
Abstract deadline: 19 February 2024. Send a 150-300 word abstract to the organizers of the workshop: Manuel B. Aalbers, Rory Hearne and Lidia Manzo and include a short bio (80-125 words of all authors.
Abstract acceptance date: end of February 2024.
The workshop is free of charge.
The organisers plan to submit a special issue proposal, most likely to one of the interdisciplinary housing journals in the field.

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.
Many European countries are facing greater demand for housing than predicted a few years ago and living in the existing stock is becoming increasingly expensive, partly due to poor insulation and high energy prices. Housing is hardly affordable anymore for young, low- and middle-income groups, especially in larger cities. Marginalization, segregation and affordability are therefore back on the political agenda. 
More information and registration options you find on the conference website.

26-28 November 2024, Paris (France)
ESPI International Real Estate Conference
ESPI2R (the École supérieure des professions immobilières real estate research division) welcomes papers and thematic sessions proposals on socio-territorial dynamics, market trends, housing and in-depth aspects of real estate investments and on how technology and environmental changes are reshaping real estate, including the management and use of property.
Send thematic sessions proposals to the conference mailbox.
We welcome abstracts up to 300 words. All full papers will be published in a special issue of a real estate journal.
Important dates:
• Thematic sessions deadline: 15 February 2024
• Notification of acceptance of thematic sessions: 15 April 2024
• Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2024
• Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2024
• Deadline for full papers submission for the special issue: 15 June 2024
• Nominated presenters of thematic sessions registration: 15 September 2024
• Deadline for registration at the conference: 15 October 2024
All submission of abstracts and full papers through the conference’s site.
For further information contact the program committee

Recent ENHR events

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.

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).

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.

12-26 February 2021
Housing related impacts of the pandemic
Nine online seminars, most of them organised and hosted by ENHR Working Groups.

27 May 2021
Online seminar Recent dynamics in homeownership and housing wealth 
Hosted by Working Group Homeownership and Globalisation.

30 August – 2 September 2021 Nicosia (Cyprus) – online
ENHR Annual conference ‘Unsettled settlements: Housing in unstable contexts’
For more information click here

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.

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. 
Find more information here

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.
Find the conference website here.

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. 

16 March 2023
Webinar Southern European housing policies in the 2020s: the farewell to residualisation?
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. 

28-30 June 2023, Lodz (Poland)
ENHR annual conference themed ‘Urban regeneration: shines and shadows’
Annual ENHR conference. Find the conference website here.