Zahra Nasreen

Zahra Nasreen is a Postdoctoral Housing Researcher at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. She is an urban planner whose research focuses on shared housing, migrants housing, housing informality, homemaking, platform urbanism, platform capitalism and urban governance. In 2020, she completed her PhD on ‘shared room housing in Sydney: An exploration of housing informality, platform technology and home making‘ at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her current research is focused on the ways digital platforms are reshaping the informal housing markets and (re)generating the existing socio-spatial inequalities in our cities. She is also researching migrants’ settlement patterns and housing circumstances where precarity in migration status has implications for precarity in housing and labour markets. She has been a co-editor of a special issue ‘Cities after COVID-19: Reconsidering urban form, mobility, housing and planning in Australasia’ in Urban Policy and Research.