My research
Below are some of my academic publications. If you are unable to access any of these please email and I may be able to help.
Private rental sector
Byrne, Michael. "Post-neoliberalization and the Irish private rental sector." Housing Studies 39, no. 7 (2024): 1658-1677.
Byrne, M. (2020). Generation rent and the financialization of housing: A comparative exploration of the growth of the private rental sector in Ireland, the UK and Spain. Housing Studies, 35(4), 743-765.
Beswick, J., Alexandri, G., Byrne, M., Vives-Miró, S., Fields, D., Hodkinson, S., & Janoschka, M. (2016). Speculating on London's housing future: The rise of global corporate landlords in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes. City, 20(2), 321-341.
Byrne, M. (2020). Towards a political economy of the private rental sector. Critical Housing Analysis, 7(1), 103-113.
Byrne, M., & McArdle, R. (2022). Secure occupancy, power and the landlord-tenant relation: a qualitative exploration of the Irish private rental sector. Housing Studies, 37(1), 124-142.
Byrne, M., & Sassi, J. (2023). Making and unmaking home in the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative research study of the experience of private rental tenants in Ireland. International Journal of Housing Policy, 23(3), 523-542.
McArdle, R., & Byrne, M. (2022). Rootlessness: How the Irish private rental sector prevents tenants feeling secure in their homes and tenant’s resistance against this. Geoforum, 136, 211-218.
Byrne, M. (2023). The Irish rental sector and the post-homeownership society: issues and challenges. Private Renting in the Advanced Economies, 69-90.
Byrne, M. (2020). Stay home: Reflections on the meaning of home and the Covid-19 pandemic. Irish Journal of Sociology, 28(3), 351-355.
Tenant politics
Byrne, M. 2020. The political economy of the ‘residential rent relation’: antagonism and tenant organising. The Radical Housing Journal
Byrne, M. (2018). Tenant self-organization after the Irish crisis. Rent and its Discontents: A century of housing struggle, 85-101.
O’Callaghan, C., Di Feliciantonio, C., & Byrne, M. (2018). Governing urban vacancy in post-crash Dublin: Contested property and alternative social projects. Urban Geography, 39(6), 868-891.
Cost rental & social housing
Norris, M., & Byrne, M. (2018). Housing market (in) stability and social rented housing: comparing Austria and Ireland during the global financial crisis. Journal of housing and the built environment, 33, 227-245.
Norris, M., & Byrne, M. (2021). Funding resilient and fragile social housing systems in Ireland and Denmark. Housing studies, 36(9), 1469-1489.
Byrne, M., & Norris, M. (2018). Procyclical social housing and the crisis of Irish housing policy: Marketization, social housing, and the property boom and bust. Housing Policy Debate, 28(1), 50-63.
Byrne, M., & Norris, M. (2022). Housing market financialization, neoliberalism and everyday retrenchment of social housing. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 54(1), 182-198.
Norris, M., & Byrne, M. (2017). A tale of two busts (and a boom): Irish social housing before and after the global financial crisis. Critical Housing Analysis, 4(2), 19-28.
Norris, M., & Byrne, M. (2015). Asset price Keynesianism, regional imbalances and the Irish and Spanish housing booms and busts. Built Environment, 41(2), 227-243.
Housing and stigma
Norris, M., Byrne, M., & Carnegie, A. (2019). Combatting stigmatisation of social housing neighbourhoods in Dublin, Ireland. International Journal of Housing Policy, 19(2), 254-266.
Norris, M., & Byrne, M. (2024). Housing and stigma. In Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society (pp. 267-283). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Political economy handbook chapters
Köppe, Stephan, and Michael Byrne. "Political economy of housing policy." Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 218-231.
Norris, M. and Byrne, M. 2021. “The political economy of housing in Ireland”. Farrel and Hardiman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics. Oxford University Press.
Gallagher, O’Riain, Rhatigan, and Byrne. 2021. “The politics of banking in Ireland”. Farrell and Hardiman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics. Oxford University Press.
Bad banks (NAMA)
Byrne, M. (2016). "‘Asset price urbanism’ and financialization after the crisis: Ireland's National Asset Management Agency." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40, no. 1 (2016): 31-45.
Byrne, M. (2016). Bad banks and the urban political economy of financialization: The resolution of financial–real estate crises and the co-constitution of urban space and finance. City, 20(5), 685-699.
Byrne, M. (2016). Entrepreneurial urbanism after the crisis: Ireland's “Bad Bank” and the redevelopment of Dublin's Docklands. Antipode, 48(4), 899-918.
Byrne, M. (2015). Bad banks: the urban implications of asset management companies. Urban Research & Practice, 8(2), 255-266.