Calendar
2026
5-7 October 2026, Bali Tourism Polytechnic, Bali (Indonesia)
APNHR Conference Navigating Asia-Pacific Housing Futures: Financialization, Technology, Governance, and Climate Action
Across the Asia-Pacific, housing is being reshaped by global investment flows, data-driven technologies, fragmented governance arrangements, and intensifying climate risks. These forces interact to produce a “polycrisis” that threatens affordability, security, and environmental sustainability in cities large and small. APNHR Bali 2026 offers a forum to unpack these interconnections, compare experiences across countries, and co-produce ideas for more just and resilient housing systems.
Important dates:
-Abstract deadline: 17 June 2026
-Notification of acceptance: 17 July 2026
-Early-bird registration: until 17 July 2026
-Full paper deadline: 17 August 2026
More details and registration option you find on the conference website.
The conference is also host to the Emerging Scholars Forum. This forum is dedicated to PhD candidates and early-career researchers working on housing and urban questions in the Asia-Pacific region. It provides a supportive space to present ongoing work, discuss conceptual and methodological challenges, and receive detailed feedback from senior scholars and peers.
The Asia-Pacifice Network for Housing Research and ENHR maintain sister network relations.
23-24 November 2026, 09:30–14:30 CET, Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague (Czechia) — with online participation available
International Hybrid Workshop ‘Emotions, Youth and Housing Governance in the V4 Region and Beyond: Comparative Findings, Dialogue and Future Directions’
This workshop will bring together participants from Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, alongside international colleagues, to critically engage with findings from four national case studies. Through cross-country dialogue, participants will compare national perspectives, identify shared challenges and context-specific differences, and explore possible responses to pressing housing-related issues affecting young people.
The workshop also aims to:
-Present and discuss comparative findings from national case studies in Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia.
-Facilitate cross-national exchange on youth housing contexts, challenges and policy responses.
-Explore the emotional dimensions of housing experiences and housing-related policy.
-Offer an interactive training session on comparative case-study analysis and emotions in policy research.
-Bring academic, civil-society and practitioner perspectives into dialogue.
-Identify shared research gaps, potential policy implications and opportunities for future cooperation.
-Contribute to the preparation of a comparative report and an open-access typology.
-Support discussion of future joint research, including possible collaboration towards a Horizon Europe application.
Key points and conclusions will be documented in a concise workshop report and circulated among participants.
Working language: English. Find the full call for participation here. Participation is free of charge. Register here.
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.
2027
April 14-16, 2027, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City (USA)
International Conference on Urban Affairs – From Conflict Zones to Havens of Democracy: Cities at the Crossroads
ENHR’s partner organisation Urban Affairs Association (UAA) invites proposal 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.
Find more information on the annual Urban Affairs Association’s conference here and sign up for conference news.
28 June – 2 July 2027, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy)
Annual ENHR conference
Conference organisation by the University of Milano-Bicocco and the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Past ENHR and ENHR related events
2026
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’
4-day conference including a New Housing Researchers Conference on 30 June, plenaries, workshops and fieldtrips.
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, organised a workshop around various themes surrounding transformations in housing and home ownership, drawing from empirical analyses from across Europe and beyond.
29 May 2026, online
Seminar 4/4: Home-work
Hosted by ENHR Working Group Gender and Housing.
This last session introduced Charlotte Perkins Gilman as a first-wave feminist and social scientist. We explored 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.
Find all seminar programmes here.
23 April 2026, online
ENHR webinar: Balanced Territorial Development for Affordable Housing
Policy implications of the research presented at EU and other levels and developing policy relevant findings that we can use as a base to promote the research and the policy implications of our discussion.
15 April 2026, online
Seminar 3/4: Mapping inequalities – Methodologies for mapping and spatialising inequalities
Hosted by ENHR Working Group Gender and Housing.
This session aimed to explore various methodologies for mapping inequalities, encouraging discussion about their respective strengths, limitations, and suitability. Find all seminar programmes here.
14 April 2026, The Hague (The Netherlands) and online
Hope for Housing?
Exploring how the European Affordable Housing Plan can be turned into concrete action across research, policy and practice.
The event was hosted by the IFHP, with support from the ENHR, the Ministry of Housing Netherlands, and Vereniging Deltametropool.
25 March 2026, online
ENHR webinar: Adaptive Reuse for Affordable Housing- Prospects, Pitfalls and Policy Implications
Webinar discussing key challenges within the European Affordable Housing Plan (EAHP), and contributing to its knowledge-exchange objectives.
23 March 2026, 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, the book: Stephen Vider, The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II (UC Press 2021), was presented and a dialogue was held with Dolores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution (MIT Press 1981), to initiate a discussion from a queer-feminist perspective on domesticity.
10-11 March 2026, online
5th New Housing Researchers’ online seminar
Online seminar for new researchers. Invited to participate were PhD students as well as those who have the intention to embark on a PhD study in the future.
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 invited papers that conceptualise and examine dimensions of housing precarity in the pathways of young people.
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.