Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to Suzanne Fitzpatrick for her enthusiastic support of this Themed Issue and for her expert guidance and advice, and to the journal's reviewers. I also wish to thank the contributors and other colleagues who engaged with this project at various stages. My appreciation should be recorded to Kim McKee and Jenny Muir for letting me view, in advance, papers in their own forthcoming special issue in the Housing, Theory and Society journal.