Katharina Litschauer

Telephone:

+43 1 31336 4752

Email:

katharina.litschauer@wu.ac.at

About me:

_Katharina Litschauer_ received her MA in Political Science from the University of Vienna, and holds an MSc in Economics from WU Vienna. She is currently a researcher in the FWF-funded project “Spatial Competition and Economic Policies ([SPACE](https://spatial-competition.com/)): Discourses, Institutions and Everyday Practices.” (ZK-60) at the Institute for Sociology and Social Research. Previously, she has been working in the project “[Decarb_inclusive](https://eeg.tuwien.ac.at/research/projects/decarb-inclusive)” (Klimafonds Nr. KR17AC0K13648) at the Institute for Heterodox Economics at WU Vienna. She also worked in the project “[Vienna in Transition. (Dis-)Continuities of Urban Change](https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/projects/vienna-in-transition-discontinuities-of-urban-change(9ef66c27-5e35-4972-826c-7ed9b9697dec).html)” (FWF Nr. P 30617) at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include housing studies, critical urban studies and political economy, with a special focus on processes of marketization, financialization and social inequality. Her scientific work centres on social aspects of housing provision. At the Young Economists Conference 2019, she presented on housing affordability in Vienna.