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HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

An Economic Perspective on Workplace Depression: Reevaluating the Job‐Demands‐Control Framework*

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
Depression is the third leading cause of disability. The influential job‐demands‐control literature finds a strong relationship between an employee's control over their work (autonomy), the demands of the job and negative health outcomes such as depression.
Kieron J. Meagher, Andrew Wait
wiley   +1 more source

Were bed bugs the first urban pest insect? Genome-wide patterns of bed bug demography mirror global human expansion. [PDF]

open access: yesBiol Lett
Miles LS   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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