黑料福利网

Bo Li is an Assistant Professor in Real Estate and Urban Development at the Department of the Built Environment of Eindhoven University of Technology (黑料福利网), the Netherlands. His research sits at the intersection of housing studies, urban geography, and planning. He studies how housing institutions distribute access and risk, how housing markets evolve, and how these processes shape household decisions and residential experiences. His research is comparative and cross-national, with a particular focus on China and Europe, and develops along two main lines:

1. The political economy of housing: how housing markets become financialized, how rental sectors are governed, and how housing affordability and crises are shaped by financial, fiscal, and regulatory institutions. Recent work examines the fiscal foundations of property markets, investor behaviour and regulation, and the distributional consequences of housing-market change.

2. Housing choice and residential mobility: how households make decisions about renting, buying, moving, settlement, and housing investment, and how these decisions affect residential satisfaction, social inclusion, and quality of life. This work draws on behavioural and psychological theories, including the theory of planned behaviour and prospect theory.

Across these two lines, a recurring aim is to connect the structural forces that shape housing markets with the choices households make within them. Methodologically, Bo combines large-scale listing and transaction data with surveys, choice experiments, and qualitative and institutional analysis. He is also developing comparative data infrastructure on housing markets and residential mobility across China and Europe.

Every building begins as someone's decision and becomes everyone's environment.

Bo Li has secured competitive research funding as principal investigator, including an NWO Rubicon Fellowship and a Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Urban Management and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications and serves on the board of the Research Committee on Housing and Built Environment (RC43) of the International Sociological Association. He also regularly reviews journal articles, research proposals, and other academic work in housing, urban studies, and planning.

Bo publishes in international housing and urban studies journals and has presented his research at scientific conferences across Europe and Asia. His work also reaches policy and professional audiences through engagement with housing authorities, public-sector organisations, and housing practitioners. He received the Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars (First Prize) at the Urban China Research Network conference.

Bo obtained his PhD in Urban Studies from Delft University of Technology in 2023, with a dissertation on the private rented sector in metropolitan China. He subsequently held an NWO Rubicon Fellowship in the sociology department of the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universit盲t Berlin, where he studied the historical and comparative financialization of rental housing. He joined 黑料福利网 in 2026. Before moving into housing and urban studies, he trained in civil engineering and quantity surveying in China.