Justin Kadi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1011535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Kadi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kadi |
| SIGNATURE | KADI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | TU Wien |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0363-0043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The unlawful rent gap: How landlords close rent gaps despite rent regulation
A common view in the literature is that rent regulation inhibits the operation of the rent gap. This paper argues for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between rent regulation and the rent gap. I contend that, under specific circumstances, landlords may not comply with rent regulation and close rent gaps nonetheless. This unlawful rent gap closure, whereby landlords charge higher rents than legally permitted, is facilitated by comp…
The practice of commodification in a highly regulated rental market: Four forms of displacement pressure in Vienna
How landlords go about pressuring tenants to leave to achieve more intense commodification remains understudied, particularly in highly regulated housing contexts. We address this gap through an analysis of Vienna, Austria, where the regulatory framework provides comprehensive tenant protection. We draw on interviews with tenants who experienced displacement pressure, as well as on interviews with tenant union representatives. Conceptually, we bu…
Retreat of the Rich? The Impact of High‐Income Household Mobility on Income Segregation
This paper investigates how residential mobility among high‐income households shapes income segregation. Drawing on a unique data set covering all household relocations in Vienna between 2011 and 2018, we examine whether the movements of the top income quintile (Q5) reflect a broader ‘retreat of the rich’ to affluent clusters and, if so, how these mobility patterns influence both citywide and localized segregation. Using a combination of global a…
Institutional investment in rental housing in the city of social housing
While scholarly and public attention on institutional investors in rental housing is considerable, studies that quantify the relevance of such actors are still rare. This article measures institutional investor ownership in a European city with one of the highest shares of social housing: Vienna, Austria. We present a novel approach to measure institutional investor ownership that combines land registry data with the international company databas…
Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna
Among housing observers, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification, showcasing the power of politics to tame the profit motive in housing. We argue that this view requires nuance. In the regulated private rental market, which accounts for one-fifth of all housing units in the city, commodification has become a trait of Vienna’s housing system over the last three decades. Based on policy analysis and transaction data we tra…
Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: Evidence from a highly regulated housing system
There is growing evidence of a suburbanization of poverty in the context of accelerating gentrification, particularly in liberal housing systems. To what extent are similar processes occurring in highly regulated housing systems that undergo gentrification? To scrutinize this, we use a novel dataset covering all 997,497 residential relocations differentiated by household income and household type in the period between 2011 and 2018 for the case o…
The remarkable stability of social housing in Vienna and Helsinki: A multi-dimensional analysis
The supply of social housing has been marked by erosion and decline in most Western Europe countries since the 1990s, albeit with considerable variation in timing, speed and degree. Recently, it has been suggested that the sector has kept a more prominent position at the local level, at least in some cities. This paper scrutinizes this claim by comparing the development of social housing in two cities in two distinct national housing systems that…
The long history of gentrification in Vienna, 1890–2020
This article distinguishes between six historical phases of gentrification in Vienna. These phases emanate from shifting demographic, economic and housing policy circumstances that have decisively shaped gentrification dynamics in the city. Vienna is a rather unusual context compared to cities that are typically in the focus of gentrification research: for considerable parts of the 20th century, the city experienced pronounced demographic decline…
Widening gaps? Socio-spatial inequality in the “very” European city of Vienna since the financial crisis
While European cities were long argued to have moderate levels of socio-spatial inequality, recent years have seen a growing assertion that such inequalities are on the rise. Structural shifts on labor and housing markets since the financial crisis suggest that this trend has further intensified since 2008, but empirical evidence has so far been scarce. This paper examines the case of the "very" European city of Vienna, which, like other European…
Airbnb as a tool for inclusive tourism
Airbnb prominently argues to promote more inclusive forms of tourism through enabling ordinary households to occasionally share their home with tourists. This conventional understanding of 'home-sharing' has been challenged, however, with critics arguing that property owners and landlords use the platform for the commercial provision of permanent holiday homes. This article uses Airbnb provision practices and the dichotomy of 'home-sharing' and c…
Post-neoliberal housing policy? Disentangling recent reforms in New York, Berlin and Vienna
In cities worldwide, the housing question has returned. As demands and proposals by housing movements have grown bolder, city governments are implementing new policies, ranging from small tweaks to major overhauls. This paper takes a close look at New York City, Berlin and Vienna, assessing their current housing policy landscapes. We evaluate to what extent those cities’ recent housing reforms depart from the dominant, neoliberal policy landscape…
Deborah Potts2020: Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis. London: Zed Books
Red Vienna, 1919–1934
“Red Vienna” refers to a phase of urban development in Vienna, Austria, between 1919 and 1934. Inspired by ideas of municipal socialism, the Social Democratic Workers' Party implemented local social reforms to improve the living conditions of the working class. Policies were aimed particularly at the fields of housing, welfare, and healthcare, as well as education. While Red Vienna came to an end more than 80 years ago, the reforms continue to sh…
The Revival of Private Landlords in Britain’s Post-Homeownership Society
Homeownership has been declining in favour of private renting in most developed English speaking countries since the early-2000s. Public debates in countries like Britain, Australia and the US have subsequently focused on the ostensible coming of age of ‘generation rent’, constituted of younger individuals excluded from home buying and traditional routes to housing asset accumulation. While the focus of this paper is the significance of access to…
What ever happened to asset-based welfare? Shifting approaches to housing wealth and welfare security
This paper contributes to current debates by reframing recent transformations in housing, policy and property equity in terms of a transfigured asset-based welfare regime. The analysis thereby advances earlier, more descriptive evaluations of asset-based welfare and challenges suggestions that its relevance has faded since the global financial crisis. We argue, drawing on the UK as a case with broad international salience, that the home has becom…
Undermining housing affordability for New York’s low-income households: The role of policy reform and rental sector restructuring
While public programmes, rent controls and subsidy schemes have not resolved New York’s historic and long-standing housing crisis, they have been important in dampening the housing problems of low-income New Yorkers. Along with an encroaching neo-liberal hegemony, however, since the 1990s redistributive policies have come under growing pressure. This article focuses on the neo-liberal restructuring of the city’s rental market and the effects on h…
Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna
Among West European cities, Vienna stands out as a case that has developed a particularly large decommodified housing stock over the twentieth century. The city’s housing model has also shown greater stability against wider recommodification trends since the 1980s. This paper centres on two policy changes since the mid-1990s: first, the local government has ceased to provide council housing and is now entirely relying on non-profit associations f…
Housing for the poor in a neo‐liberalising just city: Still affordable, but increasingly inaccessible
With a comparably high degree of de‐commodification in the urban housing market, A msterdam has been long considered a prime example of a ‘ E uropean city’ and a ‘just city’. This paper looks at how the city's housing tenure sectors have changed since the 1990s due to neo‐liberalisation processes and specifies effects for housing conditions of the poor. It highlights how restructuring has been driven by policy changes at different scales, and ana…
The Revival of Private Landlords in Britain’s Post-Homeownership Society
Homeownership has been declining in favour of private renting in most developed English speaking countries since the early-2000s. Public debates in countries like Britain, Australia and the US have subsequently focused on the ostensible coming of age of ‘generation rent’, constituted of younger individuals excluded from home buying and traditional routes to housing asset accumulation. While the focus of this paper is the significance of access to…
What ever happened to asset-based welfare? Shifting approaches to housing wealth and welfare security
This paper contributes to current debates by reframing recent transformations in housing, policy and property equity in terms of a transfigured asset-based welfare regime. The analysis thereby advances earlier, more descriptive evaluations of asset-based welfare and challenges suggestions that its relevance has faded since the global financial crisis. We argue, drawing on the UK as a case with broad international salience, that the home has becom…
Post-neoliberal housing policy? Disentangling recent reforms in New York, Berlin and Vienna
In cities worldwide, the housing question has returned. As demands and proposals by housing movements have grown bolder, city governments are implementing new policies, ranging from small tweaks to major overhauls. This paper takes a close look at New York City, Berlin and Vienna, assessing their current housing policy landscapes. We evaluate to what extent those cities’ recent housing reforms depart from the dominant, neoliberal policy landscape…
Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna
Among West European cities, Vienna stands out as a case that has developed a particularly large decommodified housing stock over the twentieth century. The city’s housing model has also shown greater stability against wider recommodification trends since the 1980s. This paper centres on two policy changes since the mid-1990s: first, the local government has ceased to provide council housing and is now entirely relying on non-profit associations f…
Airbnb as a tool for inclusive tourism
Airbnb prominently argues to promote more inclusive forms of tourism through enabling ordinary households to occasionally share their home with tourists. This conventional understanding of 'home-sharing' has been challenged, however, with critics arguing that property owners and landlords use the platform for the commercial provision of permanent holiday homes. This article uses Airbnb provision practices and the dichotomy of 'home-sharing' and c…
Housing for the poor in a neo‐liberalising just city: Still affordable, but increasingly inaccessible
With a comparably high degree of de‐commodification in the urban housing market, A msterdam has been long considered a prime example of a ‘ E uropean city’ and a ‘just city’. This paper looks at how the city's housing tenure sectors have changed since the 1990s due to neo‐liberalisation processes and specifies effects for housing conditions of the poor. It highlights how restructuring has been driven by policy changes at different scales, and ana…
Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: Evidence from a highly regulated housing system
There is growing evidence of a suburbanization of poverty in the context of accelerating gentrification, particularly in liberal housing systems. To what extent are similar processes occurring in highly regulated housing systems that undergo gentrification? To scrutinize this, we use a novel dataset covering all 997,497 residential relocations differentiated by household income and household type in the period between 2011 and 2018 for the case o…
The long history of gentrification in Vienna, 1890–2020
This article distinguishes between six historical phases of gentrification in Vienna. These phases emanate from shifting demographic, economic and housing policy circumstances that have decisively shaped gentrification dynamics in the city. Vienna is a rather unusual context compared to cities that are typically in the focus of gentrification research: for considerable parts of the 20th century, the city experienced pronounced demographic decline…
Institutional investment in rental housing in the city of social housing
While scholarly and public attention on institutional investors in rental housing is considerable, studies that quantify the relevance of such actors are still rare. This article measures institutional investor ownership in a European city with one of the highest shares of social housing: Vienna, Austria. We present a novel approach to measure institutional investor ownership that combines land registry data with the international company databas…
The remarkable stability of social housing in Vienna and Helsinki: A multi-dimensional analysis
The supply of social housing has been marked by erosion and decline in most Western Europe countries since the 1990s, albeit with considerable variation in timing, speed and degree. Recently, it has been suggested that the sector has kept a more prominent position at the local level, at least in some cities. This paper scrutinizes this claim by comparing the development of social housing in two cities in two distinct national housing systems that…
Widening gaps? Socio-spatial inequality in the “very” European city of Vienna since the financial crisis
While European cities were long argued to have moderate levels of socio-spatial inequality, recent years have seen a growing assertion that such inequalities are on the rise. Structural shifts on labor and housing markets since the financial crisis suggest that this trend has further intensified since 2008, but empirical evidence has so far been scarce. This paper examines the case of the "very" European city of Vienna, which, like other European…
Undermining housing affordability for New York’s low-income households: The role of policy reform and rental sector restructuring
While public programmes, rent controls and subsidy schemes have not resolved New York’s historic and long-standing housing crisis, they have been important in dampening the housing problems of low-income New Yorkers. Along with an encroaching neo-liberal hegemony, however, since the 1990s redistributive policies have come under growing pressure. This article focuses on the neo-liberal restructuring of the city’s rental market and the effects on h…
Recommodifying Housing in Formerly “Red” Vienna
Among West European cities, Vienna stands out as a case that has developed a particularly large decommodified housing stock over the twentieth century. The city’s housing model has also shown greater stability against wider recommodification trends since the 1980s. This paper centres on two policy changes since the mid-1990s: first, the local government has ceased to provide council housing and is now entirely relying on non-profit associations f…
Housing for the poor in a neo‐liberalising just city: Still affordable, but increasingly inaccessible
With a comparably high degree of de‐commodification in the urban housing market, A msterdam has been long considered a prime example of a ‘ E uropean city’ and a ‘just city’. This paper looks at how the city's housing tenure sectors have changed since the 1990s due to neo‐liberalisation processes and specifies effects for housing conditions of the poor. It highlights how restructuring has been driven by policy changes at different scales, and ana…
Undermining housing affordability for New York’s low-income households: The role of policy reform and rental sector restructuring
While public programmes, rent controls and subsidy schemes have not resolved New York’s historic and long-standing housing crisis, they have been important in dampening the housing problems of low-income New Yorkers. Along with an encroaching neo-liberal hegemony, however, since the 1990s redistributive policies have come under growing pressure. This article focuses on the neo-liberal restructuring of the city’s rental market and the effects on h…
The Revival of Private Landlords in Britain’s Post-Homeownership Society
Homeownership has been declining in favour of private renting in most developed English speaking countries since the early-2000s. Public debates in countries like Britain, Australia and the US have subsequently focused on the ostensible coming of age of ‘generation rent’, constituted of younger individuals excluded from home buying and traditional routes to housing asset accumulation. While the focus of this paper is the significance of access to…
What ever happened to asset-based welfare? Shifting approaches to housing wealth and welfare security
This paper contributes to current debates by reframing recent transformations in housing, policy and property equity in terms of a transfigured asset-based welfare regime. The analysis thereby advances earlier, more descriptive evaluations of asset-based welfare and challenges suggestions that its relevance has faded since the global financial crisis. We argue, drawing on the UK as a case with broad international salience, that the home has becom…
Red Vienna, 1919–1934
“Red Vienna” refers to a phase of urban development in Vienna, Austria, between 1919 and 1934. Inspired by ideas of municipal socialism, the Social Democratic Workers' Party implemented local social reforms to improve the living conditions of the working class. Policies were aimed particularly at the fields of housing, welfare, and healthcare, as well as education. While Red Vienna came to an end more than 80 years ago, the reforms continue to sh…
Post-neoliberal housing policy? Disentangling recent reforms in New York, Berlin and Vienna
In cities worldwide, the housing question has returned. As demands and proposals by housing movements have grown bolder, city governments are implementing new policies, ranging from small tweaks to major overhauls. This paper takes a close look at New York City, Berlin and Vienna, assessing their current housing policy landscapes. We evaluate to what extent those cities’ recent housing reforms depart from the dominant, neoliberal policy landscape…
Deborah Potts2020: Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis. London: Zed Books
The long history of gentrification in Vienna, 1890–2020
This article distinguishes between six historical phases of gentrification in Vienna. These phases emanate from shifting demographic, economic and housing policy circumstances that have decisively shaped gentrification dynamics in the city. Vienna is a rather unusual context compared to cities that are typically in the focus of gentrification research: for considerable parts of the 20th century, the city experienced pronounced demographic decline…
Widening gaps? Socio-spatial inequality in the “very” European city of Vienna since the financial crisis
While European cities were long argued to have moderate levels of socio-spatial inequality, recent years have seen a growing assertion that such inequalities are on the rise. Structural shifts on labor and housing markets since the financial crisis suggest that this trend has further intensified since 2008, but empirical evidence has so far been scarce. This paper examines the case of the "very" European city of Vienna, which, like other European…
Airbnb as a tool for inclusive tourism
Airbnb prominently argues to promote more inclusive forms of tourism through enabling ordinary households to occasionally share their home with tourists. This conventional understanding of 'home-sharing' has been challenged, however, with critics arguing that property owners and landlords use the platform for the commercial provision of permanent holiday homes. This article uses Airbnb provision practices and the dichotomy of 'home-sharing' and c…
Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: Evidence from a highly regulated housing system
There is growing evidence of a suburbanization of poverty in the context of accelerating gentrification, particularly in liberal housing systems. To what extent are similar processes occurring in highly regulated housing systems that undergo gentrification? To scrutinize this, we use a novel dataset covering all 997,497 residential relocations differentiated by household income and household type in the period between 2011 and 2018 for the case o…
The remarkable stability of social housing in Vienna and Helsinki: A multi-dimensional analysis
The supply of social housing has been marked by erosion and decline in most Western Europe countries since the 1990s, albeit with considerable variation in timing, speed and degree. Recently, it has been suggested that the sector has kept a more prominent position at the local level, at least in some cities. This paper scrutinizes this claim by comparing the development of social housing in two cities in two distinct national housing systems that…
Institutional investment in rental housing in the city of social housing
While scholarly and public attention on institutional investors in rental housing is considerable, studies that quantify the relevance of such actors are still rare. This article measures institutional investor ownership in a European city with one of the highest shares of social housing: Vienna, Austria. We present a novel approach to measure institutional investor ownership that combines land registry data with the international company databas…
Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna
Among housing observers, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification, showcasing the power of politics to tame the profit motive in housing. We argue that this view requires nuance. In the regulated private rental market, which accounts for one-fifth of all housing units in the city, commodification has become a trait of Vienna’s housing system over the last three decades. Based on policy analysis and transaction data we tra…
The unlawful rent gap: How landlords close rent gaps despite rent regulation
A common view in the literature is that rent regulation inhibits the operation of the rent gap. This paper argues for a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between rent regulation and the rent gap. I contend that, under specific circumstances, landlords may not comply with rent regulation and close rent gaps nonetheless. This unlawful rent gap closure, whereby landlords charge higher rents than legally permitted, is facilitated by comp…
The practice of commodification in a highly regulated rental market: Four forms of displacement pressure in Vienna
How landlords go about pressuring tenants to leave to achieve more intense commodification remains understudied, particularly in highly regulated housing contexts. We address this gap through an analysis of Vienna, Austria, where the regulatory framework provides comprehensive tenant protection. We draw on interviews with tenants who experienced displacement pressure, as well as on interviews with tenant union representatives. Conceptually, we bu…
Retreat of the Rich? The Impact of High‐Income Household Mobility on Income Segregation
This paper investigates how residential mobility among high‐income households shapes income segregation. Drawing on a unique data set covering all household relocations in Vienna between 2011 and 2018, we examine whether the movements of the top income quintile (Q5) reflect a broader ‘retreat of the rich’ to affluent clusters and, if so, how these mobility patterns influence both citywide and localized segregation. Using a combination of global a…
Economics (13 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Commodification (4 works)