Social scientist studying housing, land, property and power. King's College London / London School of Economics
London, England
Joined November 2018
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The first paper from my PhD, 'Beds for rent', is out in @EconSocJournal! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
It argues that the bed, the thing we sleep on, has emerged as a key unit of valuation/value extraction in financialized housing markets, featuring in the process of assetization
Out today
@IntellectBooks: 'Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation' w/@CrisisCultures, @melnowicki & Cian Oba-Smith. Through photographic and ethnographic accounts of life in Texas tiny home communities, we examine the politics of 'going tiny'.
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Why is WeWork’s disgraced founder still so investable?
Read @timwhite100's paper 'The non-death of Adam Neumann: Alt-exiting, serial-founding, and failing up in Silicon Valley venture capital' in @FinandSoc ⤵️
New in @FinandSoc: ‘The non-death of Adam Neumann’, unpacking the return of WeWork’s disgraced founder. It’s about Silicon Valley’s ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
New in @FinandSoc: ‘The non-death of Adam Neumann’, unpacking the return of WeWork’s disgraced founder. It’s about Silicon Valley’s ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Read @timwhite100's latest piece on how venture capital‑driven real estate start‑ups chase aggressive expansion across global housing markets, and the consequences this produces for tenants⬇️
What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Find out in my new @IJURResearch article ‘Hyperscaling Housing’
It traces VC-fuelled attempts to aggressively scale real estate start-ups, and how tenants pay the price shorturl.at/iOYkm
What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Find out in my new @IJURResearch article ‘Hyperscaling Housing’
It traces VC-fuelled attempts to aggressively scale real estate start-ups, and how tenants pay the price shorturl.at/iOYkm
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'Is it really too late already to do anything about climate change?' My review essay published in @BJSociology argues that the answer is 'No!', but more importantly: the real question is how to make a radical transition possible: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
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In the hallowed salmon-pink pages of the @FT today:
My piece for @FTAlphaville on the rise of ‘build-to-rent’ housing in Britain – and the rent inflation that’s followed in the areas where it's being built.
ft.com/content/936fc009-ad67…
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We look forward to welcoming scholars to the Postgraduate Forum Mid-term Conference 2025 later this month.
We are excited to announce our keynote speakers, @timwhite100 & @jonnyjjt, with an additional speaker to be announced.
Registration is still open.👇rgs.org/research/support-for…
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Fifty years ago public investment in local authority housing “peaked in 1974/5 at £2.2 bn — £23.3 bn in 2023/4 prices.”
£2 bn for “affordable” housing is a smaller investment than in recent years. Compared to historic levels, it's a *tiny* fraction.
ft.com/content/c4a305b7-468e…
I have an article in the Guardian today on the loophole pushing Berlin’s housing crisis to new extremes theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Don't miss today's talk by @timwhite100 on Venture Capital in Berlin's housing market at the @FU_Berlin, see: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wcu…
New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by @DallasRogers101, @SophiaMaalsen and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows:
Me on digital experiments in residential rent extraction: how firms seek to optimise yields and enrol tenants into new techno-economic systems.
