Dr Adriana Mihaela Soaita is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Her current project “The affective economies of emergent private renting markets: understanding tenants and landlords in postcommunist Romania” aims to understand tenants’ and landlords’ practices in ‘hidden’ private rental sectors (PRS), where informal transactions and weak institutions increase risks and hide vulnerability, making them strictly a private matter.