SciLux podcast – Lindsay Flynn, Associate Professor in Political Science

28 November 2023

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Housing Policy

How do housing policies and housing markets contribute to inequalities within and across countries? What about Luxembourg? Through the PROPEL project, Prof. Lindsay Flynn seeks to understand the forces shaping patterns of inequality within and between generations in affluent democracies.

Prof. Lindsay Flynn is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg, where she coordinates the PROactive Policymaking for Equal Lives (PROPEL) project, supported by an FNR ATTRACT Consolidator grant. Propel brings together a multidisciplinary research team engaging in conceptual and applied research on housing: How do housing policies and housing markets contribute to inequalities within and across countries? How does housing policy link to related policy areas like employment and pensions? How can housing policy be designed to address inequality? 

Housing: a key issue in the inequality debate

Professor Flynn’s research work takes a close look at different types of governmental housing policies, across Europe and North America, and the sometimes unequal ways they affect younger versus older generations, larger and smaller families, and households with more or less disposable income.

The more we know about the policy mechanisms that lead to unequal opportunities, the more we can root out those mechanisms and replace them with more equal ones.

Prof. Lindsay Flynn

PROPEL project combines qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to study how housing policy regimes influence inequality within and between generations in affluent democracies. The project also considers how housing policies and housing markets interact with employment and pension policies to shape patterns of inequality.


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Even more so in Luxembourg

The project is a scientific gain for Luxembourg because it establishes an interdisciplinary research group engaged in policy-relevant, high-quality research on the relationship between housing and inequality.

Housing policy is associated with social and economic opportunities as well as wealth accumulation, and thus with higher or lower levels of inequalities in a society. In Luxembourg, with its unique geographic, construction and ownership characteristics, housing is one of the most challenging policy issues.   

The 2023 Housing Day

Fostering connections between research, policy, and practice can generate innovative ideas beyond what is possible in any one sphere alone. Housing Day 2023 offered participants a chance to take stock of housing research and practice in Luxembourg, identify collaboration opportunities across different groups of stakeholders, and discuss policy relevant topics when it comes to housing in Luxembourg and abroad.

Over 175 participants came from different parts of the housing space: practitioners, researchers, public servants, students and members of the private sector; collaborating via research and practice panels, networking opportunities and breakout sessions.

We will use this information to build activities, events and seminars in the next few years to help reduce these barriers to collaboration. It is also important to note that the conference itself was a collaboration, with six different organisations joining together to plan it.

Prof. Lindsay Flynn

The ATTRACT programme of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) is designed for researchers not yet established in Luxembourg, who demonstrate the potential to become leaders in their field of research. The scheme offers promising junior researchers the opportunity to set up their own research team within one of the country’s research institutions.

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