Explorations in Housing Studies
About the Book Series
Series Editors
Emma Power, Western Sydney University, Australia
Dallas Rogers, The University of Sydney, Australia
Explorations in Housing Studies is a series of high quality, research monographs which aims to extend and deepen both theoretical debate and empirical research in the housing studies field. The series is looking for novel and cutting edge contributions which may offer new links across disciplines, new policy insights or open up new research agendas. The core audience is anticipated to be rooted in critical approaches in the social sciences but proposals from scholars in other relevant disciplinary fields are also welcomed. The editors are particularly keen to hear from new scholars with ideas for books.
Housing, in its various dimensions, is particularly closely intertwined with the impact of demographic change, economic instability, the shaping of life chances and wealth distributions and with the uncertain impacts of environmental and technological change. Books in the series may engage with these and related issues from a variety of perspectives and methodologies-for example, drawing on new political economy approaches or involving intensive ethnography or mixed methods. The key test will be whether the proposal offers new energy and new excitement to the housing studies field.
To Submit a Proposal:
Please contact the series editors if you would like to submit a book proposal for the series. Each volume will be approximately 60,000 to 90,000 words and include around 20 to 40 images. A proposal must be written and submitted to the Series Editors for consideration. The editors will make an initial decision on review, and then submit to Routledge for their consideration and external review. Final decision is made at that point, and a contract is placed between author(s) and Routledge.
The Myth of Affordable Housing
1st Edition
By Quintin Bradley
March 19, 2026
Affordable housing makes housing unaffordable. The Myth of Affordable Housing is a critique of the abject failure of affordable housing policies to address a global crisis of need. Affordability in housing has proved an excuse for unleashing financial speculation in real estate, channelling ...
Modelling Social Housing: Exploring the Interplay of Social Life and Built Environments on European Social Housing Estates
1st Edition
Edited
By Mikkel Høghøj, Mette My Madsen, Anne Corlin, Morten Nielsen
November 28, 2025
Modelling Social Housing delves into the intricate relationship between everyday social life and the architectural landscapes of social housing across European cities. Focusing on social housing across multiple temporal and socio-cultural European urban settings, this book traces how the confluence...
Informal Housing in the Global North: Exploring Practices, Actors and Processes in a Transforming Housing System
1st Edition
Edited
By Jakub Galuszka
September 19, 2025
Informal Housing in the Global North proposes analytical and conceptual approaches to investigate the progressing ‘informalisation’ of contemporary housing in the Global North and beyond. Amidst the ongoing housing crisis, the reading of informalities in the so-called North has increasingly ...
Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System
1st Edition
By Regina Serpa
October 08, 2024
Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System offers new insights into the drivers of homelessness following migration by unpacking the housing consequences of ‘crimmigration’ control systems in the US and the UK. The book advances ‘housing sacrifice’ as a concept to understand journeys...
Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door
1st Edition
By Yuca Meubrink
September 10, 2024
Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. This book problematizes those programs in London and New York City by offering an empirical, research-based perspective on the socio-spatial dimensions of inclusionary housing ...
Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Ronald, Rowan Arundel
May 27, 2024
The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate. Markets have boomed and bust and boomed again with residential property increasingly a focus of wealth accumulation practices. While analyses have ...
Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China
1st Edition
By Wei Zhao
May 27, 2024
Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China? This question is particularly potent since rural China has experienced rapid and fundamental changes in ...
Property, Planning and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply
1st Edition
By Quintin Bradley
March 17, 2023
The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use. For housing to be provided as a human need, land must be recognised as a common right. Property, Planning and Protest is a compelling new investigation into public opposition to housing and real estate development....
Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive: Reinterpreting the Rise and Fall of Public Housing
1st Edition
By Kathleen Flanagan
January 21, 2023
From the mid-1940s, state housing authorities in Australia built large housing estates to enable home ownership by working-class families, but the public housing system they created is now regarded as broken. Contemporary problems with the sustainability, effectiveness and reputation of the ...
Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC: A Framework for Local Funding, Collaborative Governance and Community Organizing for Change
1st Edition
By Kathryn Howell
January 09, 2023
Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC uses the case of Washington, DC to examine the past, present, and future of subsidized and unsubsidized affordable housing through the lenses of history, governance, and affordable housing policy and planning. Affordable housing policy in the US ...
Evictions in the UK: Power, Housing, and Politics
1st Edition
By Joe Crawford
October 02, 2020
Evictions in the UK examines the relationships between tenants, landlords, housing providers and government agencies and the tensions and conflicts that characterise these relations. The book shows how power dynamics are being reconfigured in the post-welfare context of the first quarter of the ...
Housing in Post-Growth Society: Japan on the Edge of Social Transition
1st Edition
By Yosuke Hirayama, Misa Izuhara
August 14, 2019
In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of the population and increasing social stratification. Japan stands at the forefront of such social change in the East Asian region as well as in the ...