Climate-related hazards have increased the urgency of climate-resilient housing to ensure physical safety and support subjective wellbeing (SWB). Despite growing policy interest, little empirical evidence has examined how specific resilience features affect wellbeing. This study examines the relationship between three dimensions of housing climate resilience—disaster resilience, fire safety, and evacuation safety—and two SWB outcomes: residential satisfaction and life satisfaction. Using 17 years of nationally representative panel data from the Korea Welfare Panel Study (2005–2021; N = 221,695), fixed effects models were employed to estimate within-individual changes over time. Additional analyses distinguish resilience improvements associated with residential relocation from those occurring within the same dwelling. Improvements in all three resilience features are positively associated with higher SWB, with fire safety showing the strongest effects. Interaction models reveal that benefits are greater for low-income households, residents of single- or multi-family homes, and those in rural areas—groups likely to gain most from resilience-enhancing interventions. These findings highlight the need for targeted housing policies that address socio-spatial disparities and promote wellbeing in the face of climate change.

This study examines homophily in neighborhood ties in France, defined as the tendency to establish ties with individuals similar to oneself. This perspective sheds light on segregation, social mixing, and social capital as enacted in everyday interactions. Drawing on survey data from 14 neighborhoods in Paris and Lyon, the study focuses on homophily based on gender, age, conjugal status, socio-occupational status, and place of birth. The findings reveal a high degree of homophily in neighborhood ties, shaped by both individual characteristics and neighborhood contexts. In socially mixed contexts, residents show stronger homophily by socio-occupational status and place of birth, suggesting increased selectivity. However, individual choice is only part of the picture: meeting opportunities also matter. While living close together increases diversity in gender, age, and place of birth, micro-segregation within buildings limits effects on socio-occupational homophily. Ties formed through school-related contacts tend to be more homophilic in terms of age, gender, and conjugal status, but similar to other ties regarding socio-occupational status and place of birth. Conversely, connections through condominium meetings or local associations foster socio-occupational homophily while bridging divides along other dimensions. These findings can inform policies to promote social mixing by emphasizing the relational structures of urban life.

Housing policies that promote social mix seek to address the problems associated with residential segregation in cities by creating spatial proximity between different socioeconomic groups. Particularly in the Global South, academic discussion has paid little attention to how the built environment of mixed housing developments materially organises difference and shapes the subjectivities of its inhabitants. This article examines mixed housing policy in Chile, arguing that its normative, architectural and urban design reproduces neoliberal forms of differentiation and hierarchy. We conduct a spatial and qualitative study of seven social mix neighbourhoods in the suburbs of two intermediate cities. Results show that these residential spaces are regulated and constructed according to criteria of architectural, urban and material differentiation. These criteria shape the subjectivities and interactions of their residents, who form dynamics of distinction and hierarchy based on values such as debt, competition and merit. This, in turn, fosters practices of selective segregation, perceptions of the ‘enemy within’, withdrawal to private spheres, and the installation of surveillance devices. The findings demonstrate how mixed housing can reproduce inequality through the built environment, even when it is proposed as a strategy to promote integration, as is increasingly common in the countries of the Global South.

This study examines the possible effects of on-campus housing and other living situations on university student academic performance and satisfaction using a robust panel dataset comprising academic records of 750,000 students across four universities in Toronto from 2007 to 2018, where student enrolment has outpaced on-campus housing provision. Complementary cross-sectional NSSE survey data provides additional insights into commuting time and educational satisfaction. Employing student fixed-effects models as robustness checks, results consistently indicate that on-campus housing positively affects academic performance (GPA), particularly benefiting first-year students. Increased commuting times for off-campus students negatively correlate with both academic outcomes and educational satisfaction. These results underscore the critical role of affordable on-campus housing in shaping academic engagement and highlight equity considerations central to student housing policy interventions. The findings contribute to ongoing housing debates on student housing development within broader discussions of neoliberal production of space, ‘studentification’, and affordable housing markets.

This paper examines the dynamics of intraurban residential (im)mobility among Bangladeshi migrants in Rome through an ethnographic study of Banglatown in the Torpignattara neighborhood. Rather than viewing Banglatown as a fixed ethnic enclave, the research shows how it is enacted as a flexible social and territorial formation. Drawing on 23 semistructured interviews, participant observation, and informal conversations, and analyzed through a Reflexive Thematic Analysis, the study explores how Bangladeshi migrants’ spatial decisions are shaped by structural constraints, internal community hierarchies, and individual aspirations. Findings reveal ambivalent forms of belonging and attachment that underpin everyday urban experiences. Residential immobility often emerges as a strategic choice, motivated by proximity to socioeconomic networks, cultural familiarity, and local infrastructures. Yet it coexists with new intraurban mobilities driven by generational change, gendered agency, and shifting perceptions of neighborhood identity. Significantly, the study highlights the dual role of migrant associations and informal infrastructures as both facilitators and gatekeepers of mobility. Overall, the paper contributes to debates on migrant settlement and urban transformation by challenging essentialized understandings of ethnic enclaves and foregrounding the negotiated, relational nature of urban (im)mobility in migration studies.

Although there is agreement that homelessness is an urgent problem, there are stark disagreements about what type of problem homelessness is and what should be done about it. Homelessness never simply exists as a phenomenon; it evokes diagnosis of the problem and animates suggestions for what should be done differently to address it. Drawing on frame analysis, this article examines dominant arguments presented for what type of problem homelessness is and what needs to happen to address it. Our analysis of the multiple and competing positions on what type of problem homelessness is and what should be done about it helps to identify and scrutinize these competing arguments about whether housing is the self-evident solution or a part of the problem. Our analysis demonstrates that not everyone agrees that homelessness is a housing problem, and not everyone agrees that housing, certainly housing from the state, is the solution. These opposing views reflect normative ideas about a right type of society and right way of living. Our analysis speaks to the value of engaging multiple voices, perspectives, and social worlds to promote change in how we think about social issues and build a shared vision for how to live together.

The impacts of short-term rentals (STRs) on housing markets have become a topic of academic interest and public concern. Previous studies of STRs have often focused on large cities, emphasizing tourist demand for central locations and urban housing dynamics. However, the impacts of STRs extend into rural areas with high natural amenity values. This research focused on two small communities in rural British Columbia, Canada. Our goals were: (1) to quantify the levels of STR activity; (2) to assess the impacts of this activity on local housing markets; and (3) to identify the benefits that accrue to owners/hosts, particularly financial benefits. To address these goals, we collected and analyzed five years of data on STR activity and interviewed 21 key informants. We found 2–4% of the housing stock was utilized as full-time STRs – similar to levels reported in Canadian cities. This activity was driven by two key incentives: STRs generated significantly more income than long-term rentals and were exempt from residential tenancy law. The potential pool of rental housing was further reduced by increasing demand for second-home ownership. In combination, these factors presented a ‘triple threat’ to rental housing availability and affordability in the two communities.

While nonhuman animals are often described as family, beloved, irreplaceable when fulfilling a companion animal role, they sit in a complex socio-legal context that does not value them as subjects of a life, but rather as optional appendages to the humans who own them. While this description may not resonate with the depth of emotion and strength of relational ties many humans share with their animal companions, in the context of dwindling housing stock, rising rents and increasing precarity of tenure, the disposability of companion animals upheld at a society level cannot be ignored. This article traces the experiences of tenants and housing stakeholders attempting to navigate the South Australian rental market to secure accommodation for multispecies families. In doing so it furthers existing work calling to situate experiences of housing inequality in their policy and structural contexts by explicitly articulating the intersection between anthroparchy (systemic speciesist domination) and capitalism. I conclude by arguing that despite recent legislative changes around multispecies tenancies, in the current structural context multispecies housing is, and can only ever be, precarious.

Many European cities face a severe housing affordability crisis, marked by rising rents, housing shortages and homelessness. Brussels exemplifies these trends: many low-income households struggle to pay rent, resulting in increasing expulsions. In this context, eviction constitutes not an isolated rupture but a recurring feature of precarious urban life. Drawing on mixed-method research on housing evictions in Brussels, this paper brings urban and migration studies into dialogue to argue that precarious tenants live under a constant threat of displacement, which we term “forced nomadism”. Insufficient state investment in three interrelated domains: 1) affordable and quality housing, 2) integrated and accessible social services, and 3) tenant protections within a landlord-favouring legal framework, structurally produces this condition. Conceptually, forced nomadism involves two interconnected processes. First, un-homing: the erosion of security, attachment and belonging through eviction threats, deteriorating housing conditions, and legal insecurity. Second, re-homing: repeated efforts required to establish attachment and security in new, precarious housing arrangements. Together, these processes reveal the cyclical nature of displacement, perpetuating instability and diverting resources from housing security. Ultimately, we contend that forced nomadism functions as a form of governance that normalises instability among the housing precariat, reinforcing housing market exclusion and exacerbating urban inequalities.