Degrees

BSc Urban and Regional Planning (TU Wien), MSc Urban Studies (University of Amsterdam), PhD Urban Studies (University of Amsterdam)

Research interests

Justin Kadi is University Assistant Professor in Planning and Housing at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He is also a Member of the Lab for Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis (LISA) in Cambridge. Prior to joining Cambridge he held positions at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), the Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar (Germany), and TU Wien (Austria), where he initiated and led the Housing Research Group at the Department of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy between 2017 and 2023. His research and teaching interests are at the intersection of housing studies and urban studies. He has a particular interest in the transformation of Western housing systems since the 1980s and the ramifications for social and spatial inequalities. His current research focuses on how the rise of institutional investment in housing markets is reshaping housing conditions in cities. Justin is Associate Editor of The International Journal of Housing Policy, a major forum for debate in the field of Housing Studies, as well as joint coordinator of the working group Homeownership and Globalization in the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR). He has many years of experience in leading and contributing to basic and applied research in different international contexts.

Teaching interests

Justin teaches on the Land Economy Tripos (P10 Built Environment) and the MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration (PGR02). He is also the Course Director for the MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration.

Publications

Recent publications

Kadi, J., Banabak, S., & L. Plank (2025). "Institutional investment in rental housing in the city of social housing." European Urban and Regional Studies, online first. doi.org/10.1177/09697764241306035

Kadi, J. (2025). "Layers of commodification in the city of decommodification." Housing, Theory and Society 42(2): 212-233. doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2024.2382417

Banabak, S., Kadi, J., & Schneider, A. E. (2024). "Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: evidence from a highly regulated housing system." Urban Geography 45(9): 1596-1618. doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2325197

Kadi, J. & J. Lilius (2024). "The remarkable stability of social housing in Vienna and Helsinki: A multi-dimensional analysis." Housing Studies, 39(7): 1607-31. doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2135170

Kadi, J., Schneider, A. & S. Banabak (2022) "Widening gaps? Socio-spatial inequality in the 'very' European city of Vienna since the financial crisis". Cities 131. doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103887

Kadi, J. & W. Matznetter (2022) "The long history of gentrification in Vienna, 1890-2020." City – Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action 26(2-3): 450-472. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2022.2054221

Kadi, J., S. Banabak & A. Schneider (2022) "Eine indikatorbasierte Identifizierung von Gentrifizierungsgebieten in Wien [An indicator-based identification of gentrification areas in Vienna]." Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 48(1): 23-57. https://journals.akwien.at/wug/article/view/92 (German)

Kadi, J., L. Vollmer & S. Stein (2021) "Post-neoliberal housing policy? Disentangling recent reforms in New York, Berlin and Vienna." European Urban and Regional Studies, online first. doi.org/10.1177/09697764211003626