Transformations in housing and housing policy research: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

In the years since the Global Financial Crisis, the function of housing markets and role of housing sectors have shifted enormously. Consequently, research on, and understandings of, the integration of housing in the economy, polity and society – especially as a vehicle of enhanced neo-liberalisation and intensified socioeconomic division – have in many ways advanced. This editorial reflects on these transformations in relation to the latest editorial epoch in the International Journal of Housing Policy. In marking the hand over to the new editorial team, it considers how both the journal and housing policy research have changed and are changing.