“From December 4th to 6th, 2023, the international conference organized by the research project "DOC-team 114: The Contested Provisioning of Care and Housing" took place at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. The project is funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the WU Vienna. The conference was carried out in cooperation with the International Karl Polanyi Society, the Competence Centre for Infrastructure Economics, Public Services and Social Provisioning, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care, and Sorgenetz, Association for the promotion of societal care culture, Life, old age, dementia and dying. Two crucial aspects of human existence - care and housing - formed the thematic vocal points of the international conference. Due to decades of neoliberalization driven by processes of privatization, commodification, financialization, and marketization, these fundamental areas of life are in deep crises. In recent years, care and housing have experienced increased interest from transdisciplinary international research as a promising research field.”