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Author-Name: Joanna Sage
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Sage
Author-Name: Darren Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Darren
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Phil Hubbard
Author-X-Name-First: Phil
Author-X-Name-Last: Hubbard
Title: The Diverse Geographies of Studentification: Living Alongside People Not Like Us
Abstract:
Recent discussions of studentification have emphasised the
development of exclusive purpose-built student accommodation in city
centres, shifting the focus away from Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO)
in established residential neighbourhoods. In this paper we explore the
growth of student housing on a former social-rented (council) housing
estate, and the social friction that it has created-arguing that the
production of student HMO has remained prolific, and is pushing the
studentification frontier into outer-city deprived communities. Drawing on
empirical evidence from a former social-rented housing estate, we explore
the recent emergence of a 'student area' where student occupation is
having marked impacts on a relatively deprived local population. These
findings have implications for urban policy making, given they highlight
the negative outcomes of studentification in deprived communities, and
reveal the challenge this poses for providing affordable housing, and
engendering sustainable communities in university towns.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1057-1078
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728570
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Author-Name: Gabriel Ahlfeldt
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahlfeldt
Author-Name: Alexandra Mastro
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Mastro
Title: Valuing Iconic Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in Oak Park, Illinois
Abstract:
This study investigates the willingness of homebuyers to pay
for co-location with iconic architecture. Oak Park, Illinois, was chosen
as the study area given its unique claim of having 24 residential
structures designed by world-famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright,
in addition to dozens of other designated landmarks and three preservation
districts. This study adds to the limited body of existing literature on
the external price effects of architectural design and is unique in its
focus on residential architecture. We find a premium of about 8.5 per cent
within 50-100 m of the nearest Wright building and about 5 per cent within
0-50 m. These results indicate that an external premium to iconic
architecture does exist, although it may partially be attributable to the
prominence of the architect.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1079-1099
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728575
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Author-Name: Yun Sang Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Yun Sang
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Dan Immergluck
Author-X-Name-First: Dan
Author-X-Name-Last: Immergluck
Title: Explaining the Pace of Foreclosed Home Sales during the US Foreclosure Crisis: Evidence from Atlanta
Abstract:
As the US foreclosure crisis approached its climax in 2007
and 2008, the buildup of lender-owned homes had been building for some
time. Around this time, however, lenders began selling homes, especially
low-value properties, at a much faster pace, releasing them into local
housing markets. This paper examines the sales of foreclosed single-family
homes into the Atlanta market from January 2005 through early 2009. A
primary goal is to understand the drivers of such sales. A proportional
hazards model is used to identify factors affecting the time that homes
spend as 'real estate owned' properties, with a special focus on low-value
properties. We find that the pace of sales of low-value properties
accelerated during 2007 and, especially, in late 2008 and early 2009, and
the rate varied based on lender type, neighborhood characteristics, and
submarket location. These findings have implications not simply for
understanding real estate markets more broadly, but especially for housing
market recovery and neighborhood stabilization policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1100-1123
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728576
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Author-Name: Quintin Bradley
Author-X-Name-First: Quintin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bradley
Title: Proud to be a Tenant: The Construction of Common Cause Among Residents in Social Housing
Abstract:
This paper demonstrates the assemblage of a distinctive body
of combative beliefs among social housing tenants in England engaged in
formal participation with their landlords. Applying the social movement
diagnostic of frame analysis, the paper identifies three 'collective
identity frames' that signify the construction of common cause among a
diverse and fragmented tenant population. These frames celebrate social
housing as a public good, promote grass-roots decision-making and advocate
direct democracy to public services. They champion local knowledge and
local services and articulate a commitment to collective action and
collective provision that opposes itself to the individualising discourse
of the market. Although a lack of unity characterises the organisation of
social housing tenants, this assemblage of contentious claims may signify
the continuation of narratives of a tenants' movement and indicate the
cautious mobilisation of a distinctive 'counter-discourse' in housing
policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1124-1141
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728574
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Author-Name: Kristof Heylen
Author-X-Name-First: Kristof
Author-X-Name-Last: Heylen
Author-Name: Marietta Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Title: The Effect of Housing Expenses and Subsidies on the Income Distribution in Flanders and the Netherlands
Abstract:
This study explores the role of housing expenses and
subsidies with respect to income distribution in Flanders (the northern
part of Belgium) and the Netherlands in 2005-2006. It analyses income
poverty and inequality by comparing equivalent disposable income before
and after housing expenses with a relative poverty threshold and the Gini
coefficient. Poverty and income inequality increase in both 'countries'
when equivalent disposable income is corrected for housing expenses.
Furthermore, the relative position of outright owners and social tenants
regarding poverty improves. Housing subsidies play a (partly) different
role in Flanders and the Netherlands. The implicit social rent subsidy in
Flanders and the explicit housing allowance in the Netherlands serve the
same goal; however, they both redistribute income relatively strongly in
favour of low-income tenants. The tax relief system on the other hand
increases income inequality in society, in both Flanders and the
Netherlands, whereas our comparative analysis suggests that tax relief
does not have a moderating effect on net housing expenses.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1142-1161
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728572
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Author-Name: Lynda Cheshire
Author-X-Name-First: Lynda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheshire
Author-Name: Rebecca Wickes
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Wickes
Title: Crime Talk in the Suburbs: Symbolic Representations of Status and Security on a Master Planned Estate
Abstract:
Master planned estates (MPEs) are marketed, sold and
purchased on the basis of powerful symbols of security and aesthetics, as
well as shared aspirations, values and lifestyle patterns. Living in an
MPE not only represents a significant economic investment, but also
provides residents with symbolic capital that comes with living in a new,
secure, and high status community. Drawing on a case study of an MPE in
Brisbane, Queensland, this paper examines the discursive strategies used
by residents when the symbolic representation of their suburb is
challenged by an ongoing problem of delinquency. By reviewing resident
'blogs' on community forums, it examines how the dissonance between the
representation and the experience of the MPE is collectively managed,
through the medium of talk, to rationalise and neutralise the problem.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1162-1181
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728573
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Author-Name: Liv Osland
Author-X-Name-First: Liv
Author-X-Name-Last: Osland
Author-Name: Gwilym Pryce
Author-X-Name-First: Gwilym
Author-X-Name-Last: Pryce
Title: Housing Prices and Multiple Employment Nodes: Is the Relationship Nonmonotonic?
Abstract:
Standard urban economic theory predicts that house prices
will decline with distance from the central business district. Empirical
results have been equivocal, however. Disjoints between theory and
empirics may be due to a nonmonotonic relationship between house prices
and access to employment arising from the negative externalities
associated with proximity to multiple centres of employment. Based on data
from Glasgow (Scotland), we use gravity-based measures of accessibility
estimated using a flexible functional form that allows for
nonmonotonicity. The results are thoroughly tested using recent advances
in spatial econometrics. We find compelling evidence of a nonmonotonic
effect in the accessibility measure and discuss the implications for
planning and housing policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1182-1208
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728571
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Author-Name: Joe Finnerty
Author-X-Name-First: Joe
Author-X-Name-Last: Finnerty
Title: Understanding Housing Policy (2nd ed.)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1209-1210
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617937
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Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalber
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aalber
Title: Sunburnt Cities: The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in the American Sunbelt
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1211-1212
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617938
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Author-Name: Si-ming Li
Author-X-Name-First: Si-ming
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: China's Housing Reform and Outcomes
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1213-1214
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617940
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Author-Name: Ryan Powell
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Title: The Public and its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1214-1216
Issue: 8
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.618665
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Author-Name: Louise Anne Reid
Author-X-Name-First: Louise Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid
Author-Name: Donald Houston
Author-X-Name-First: Donald
Author-X-Name-Last: Houston
Title: Low Carbon Housing: A 'Green' Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
Abstract:
Ambitious carbon reduction targets are driving a new era of
carbon control reflecting the UK, the EU and international commitment to
mitigating the predicted impacts of global warming and climate change.
Observed as a transition away from the more holistic goals of sustainable
development (While et al., 2001), the 'low carbon' (LC) agenda is
increasingly recognised as problematic in so far as it is
pro-technological and promethean, marginalising the importance of social,
political, economic and wider environmental issues. With specific
implications for housing and householders, the paper explores how the
current preoccupation with 'LC' presents some potential pitfalls in
relation to advancing sustainable housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-9
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729263
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Author-Name: Martin Whiteford
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Whiteford
Title: New Labour, Street Homelessness and Social Exclusion: A Defaulted Promissory Note?
Abstract:
This article offers a critical appraisal of the 'New Labour'
governments' (1997-2010) much vaunted commitment to confronting and
combating the spectre of visible rough sleeping and its associated street
culture. It reviews the trajectory of policy initiatives and welfare
practices concerned with engendering the social inclusion of homeless
people. It subsequently interrogates attempts to shape the behaviour of
people experiencing homelessness through the imposition of greater
conditionality and invocation of an ethic of self-responsibility. It
stresses the importance of considering the role of actively engaged local
communities in governing homeless people and regulating homeless service
providers. It does this using an ethnographic case study of homelessness
and housing need in a small market town in the south-west of England.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 10-32
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729264
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Author-Name: Tammy C.M. Leonard
Author-X-Name-First: Tammy C.M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Leonard
Title: The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on Residential Property Upkeep
Abstract:
This paper assesses the impact of housing market conditions
on the theoretically motivated and empirically observed negative
relationship between loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and home maintenance
expenditures. If the relationship is causal, then a down housing market
will result in significantly decreased upkeep in the housing stock. The
large rise and fall in home prices during the 2001-2009 period allows a
unique opportunity to analyze the response of homeowners to changing
housing market conditions. Data from the American Housing Survey are
analyzed to confirm previous work that a negative relationship exists
between LTV ratios and routine maintenance expenditures, however, this
relationship does not move in the expected direction when examined along
with temporal variations in market conditions. Panel analysis reveals a
more complex story. Households most likely to be at risk for default
decrease maintenance expenditures when default risk increases, but other
households actually increased maintenance expenditures when the housing
market conditions became less favorable.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 33-56
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729265
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Author-Name: Jenny Palm
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Palm
Title: Energy Efficiency in Tenant-Owners' Residences: The Process of Going from Objective to Implementation
Abstract:
This article focuses on how Sweden's largest tenant-owners'
organization, HSB, deals with energy efficiency. The aim is to examine
HSB's energy goals, how they are determined and how they should be
implemented at four levels: the national association, the regional office,
the local housing co-operatives and the tenant-owners. Representatives of
all four levels were interviewed. Achieving energy goals calls for common
strategies involving all levels of HSB. The analysis indicates that
ambitious energy goals have not been followed up with similarly ambitious
implementation plans by the organization. Champions in HSB mobilize
support for energy efficiency at the regional and co-operative levels, but
have no effect on household engagement. The lack of interest in energy
efficiency on the part of households was not only due to the collective
metering of energy, but also because energy constitutes only a small part
of household life.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 57-73
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729266
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Author-Name: Christina Anne Severinsen
Author-X-Name-First: Christina Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Severinsen
Title: Housing Pathways of Camping Ground Residents in New Zealand
Abstract:
A housing pathways approach captures the dynamics of housing:
people's experiences of movement between dwellings and location, their
decision making and preferences over time and space (Clapham, 2002). This
paper presents the narratives of camping ground residents and community
key informants, through discussing the experiences of residents in,
through and out of camping grounds in New Zealand. The movement in and out
of camping grounds is not a discrete event, but can be seen as affecting
and affected by previous and future moves. This paper has a particular
focus on the forced nature of many residents' pathways. The narratives
highlight social, economic and political factors affecting residents'
access to housing, and show the social exclusion experienced by many
residents. The experiences of camping ground residents are placed within
the context of the broad housing sector, which draws attention to the
complexity of housing pathways.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 74-94
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729267
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Author-Name: Lucy Elizabeth Groenhart
Author-X-Name-First: Lucy Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Groenhart
Title: Evaluating Tenure Mix Interventions: A Case Study from Sydney, Australia
Abstract:
Policies of tenure mix, by removing concentrations of social
housing or through the application of inclusionary zoning-type powers to
new developments, are being pursued throughout Australia and in the USA,
the UK and New Zealand. Implementing this tenure mix policy agenda
requires significant intervention into urban areas that currently have
concentrations of social housing, through programmes of regeneration or
renewal. Despite this policy agenda, research on the benefits of tenure
mix has produced inconclusive evidence, both in Australia and
internationally. The paper reports on research undertaken in Sydney, New
South Wales, Australia, which tests a method of evaluating tenure mix
policy. The exploratory method uses dwelling price data as a proxy for
measuring amenity or 'neighbourhood quality' changes from tenure mix
interventions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 95-115
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729268
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Author-Name: Saara Greene
Author-X-Name-First: Saara
Author-X-Name-Last: Greene
Author-Name: Lori Chambers
Author-X-Name-First: Lori
Author-X-Name-Last: Chambers
Author-Name: Khatundi Masinde
Author-X-Name-First: Khatundi
Author-X-Name-Last: Masinde
Author-Name: Doris O'Brien-Teengs
Author-X-Name-First: Doris
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Brien-Teengs
Title: A House is not a Home: The Housing Experiences of African and Caribbean Mothers Living with HIV
Abstract:
HIV-positive mothers living in Toronto, ON, face myriad
economic and social challenges that put them at risk for housing
instability and homelessness. These challenges are exacerbated for mothers
from African and Caribbean communities as they navigate a web of shelter,
housing, health care and social care systems that do not adequately
address their social positioning as HIV-positive and racialized mothers.
To date, there is a dearth of research that has taken a cultural,
ethnoracial and gendered lens to explore these issues, and consequently,
little is known about their experiences of housing instability as it
intersects with issues related to motherhood, poverty, sexism, racism,
immigration status and HIV-related stigma and discrimination. This paper
presents findings from the HIV, Housing and Families community-based
research study and highlights the unique and complex housing issues
African and Caribbean mothers facing by living with HIV in Toronto.
Implications for policy and practice are also discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 116-134
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729269
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Author-Name: Alun Joseph
Author-X-Name-First: Alun
Author-X-Name-Last: Joseph
Author-Name: Robin Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Graham Moon
Author-X-Name-First: Graham
Author-X-Name-Last: Moon
Title: Re-Imagining Psychiatric Asylum Spaces through Residential Redevelopment: Strategic Forgetting and Selective Remembrance
Abstract:
The closure of psychiatric asylums across the western world
has brought significant amounts of 'brown field' land onto the market over
the past few decades. Situated on the edge (or former edge) of many
cities, these sites have proven attractive for residential redevelopment.
Drawing on two case studies from the UK and New Zealand, we consider the
implications of such recycling in the built environment for the memory of
the former use, asking how redevelopment addresses the stigmatised past of
the asylum. We discuss issues associated with the 're-imagining' of
heritage buildings and landscapes and examine the extent to which the past
is strategically forgotten or selectively remembered in the repackaging of
the asylum as housing. We conclude that while stigma continues to cast a
shadow over reuse of former asylum spaces, in both case studies impacts
seem to dissipate over time. In the UK, this dissipation appears to be
enhanced by the presence of policies that cast redevelopment for housing
as a source of funding for heritage conservation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 135-153
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.729270
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Author-Name: Kim Hawtrey
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: Hawtrey
Title: Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 154-155
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.626936
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Author-Name: Louise Reid
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid
Title: Material Geographies of Household Sustainability
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 156-157
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.627760
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Author-Name: Amanda Huron
Author-X-Name-First: Amanda
Author-X-Name-Last: Huron
Title: Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 157-158
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.630582
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Author-Name: Elaine Batty
Author-X-Name-First: Elaine
Author-X-Name-Last: Batty
Title: Family Futures Childhood and Poverty in Urban Neighbourhoods
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 159-160
Issue: 1
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.634269
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Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans
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Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Title: Neighbourhood Restructuring and Residential Relocation: Towards a Balanced Perspective on Relocation Processes and Outcomes
Abstract:
This introductory paper to this special issue of Housing
Studies questions whether various characteristics of the debate and
research on gentrification, displacement and restructuring justify a
largely negative perspective on the processes and outcomes of 'forced'
residential relocation. We argue that a proper and fuller consideration of
issues around policy, context, process and outcomes enable researchers and
commentators to avoid ready characterisations and self-fulfilling
investigations of restructuring which serve to present it as a singular
(and somewhat suspicious or conspiratorial) phenomenon. For this purpose,
we present a broad conceptual framework for restructuring and relocation
studies, based on these four themes. Subsequently, we review major issues
in restructuring and gentrification discourses, and briefly reflect upon
some of the factors underlying the negative loading of the term
displacement. We also identify caveats in the evidence base of relocation
studies, both in the United States and in Europe. Finally, we introduce
the papers in this special issue. The overall aim of this issue is to
offer a more open, balanced starting position for analysis of urban
restructuring processes and relocation outcomes, particularly in relation
to areas of social housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 163-176
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Phil Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Phil
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Title: Defining and Measuring Displacement: Is Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods Always Unwelcome and Disruptive?
Abstract:
Current regeneration policy has been described as 'state-led
gentrification', with comparisons made with the 'social disruption' caused
by slum clearance of the 1950s and 1960s. This article takes issue with
this approach in relation to the study of the restructuring of social
housing areas. The terms 'forced relocation' and 'displacement' are often
too crude to describe what actually happens within processes of
restructuring and the effects upon residents. Displacement in particular
has important dimensions other than the physical one of moving. Evidence
from a recent study of people who have moved out of restructured areas
shows that although there is some evidence of physical displacement, there
is little evidence of social or psychosocial displacement after
relocation. Prior attitudes to moving and aspects of the process of
relocation-the degree of choice and distance involved-are important
moderators of the outcomes. Issues of time and context are insufficiently
taken into consideration in studies and accounts of restructuring,
relocation and displacement.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 177-204
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767885
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Author-Name: Deirdre Oakley
Author-X-Name-First: Deirdre
Author-X-Name-Last: Oakley
Author-Name: Erin Ruel
Author-X-Name-First: Erin
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruel
Author-Name: Lesley Reid
Author-X-Name-First: Lesley
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid
Title: Atlanta's Last Demolitions and Relocations: The Relationship Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Resident Satisfaction
Abstract:
Using data from an Atlanta-based longitudinal study following
311 public housing residents relocated between 2009 and 2010 as the city's
housing authority demolished its remaining public housing, the purpose of
this paper is to examine the relationship between changes in relocated
residents' satisfaction with home and neighborhood and the socioeconomic,
racial composition, and crime characteristics of their destination
neighborhood. Consistent with previous research, we find that residents
moved to somewhat safer neighborhoods with less poverty than those of the
public housing. In addition, we find that residents view their new homes
and neighborhoods as improvements over public housing. However, subjective
pre- to postmove changes in satisfaction are not driven
by changes in neighborhood characteristics (i.e., reductions in poverty
and crime), but rather by decreases in perceived social disorder and
increases in community attachment. Thus, our findings challenge some of
the assumptions of poverty deconcentration. Policy implications are
discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 205-234
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767887
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Author-Name: Edward G. Goetz
Author-X-Name-First: Edward G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Goetz
Title: Too Good to be True? The Variable and Contingent Benefits of Displacement and Relocation among Low-Income Public Housing Residents
Abstract:
The forced displacement and relocation of low-income
residents resulting from public housing redevelopment has attracted a
great deal of research attention. Tracking studies of HOPE VI and similar
redevelopment efforts in the US have depicted a record of mixed and
inconsistent benefits for the families displaced. Detailed case studies of
individual families are used to illustrate the variable and contingent
nature of the impacts of displacement and relocation away from public
housing. The cases presented here provide examples of how the experience
of displaced families can change, sometimes dramatically, over time and
how this affects their own assessments of the experience. Residents'
perception of relocation is strongly influenced by their overall view of
neighborhood restructuring, regardless of whether they themselves directly
benefit. The findings suggest that qualitative and or ethnographic
research into the experiences of displaced public housing residents can be
useful in understanding how relocation affects the lives of very
low-income households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 235-252
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767884
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Author-Name: Christine Lelevrier
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Lelevrier
Title: Forced Relocation in France: How Residential Trajectories Affect Individual Experiences
Abstract:
In France, an urban renewal programme was launched in 2003
with the aim of boosting social mix by diversifying housing in
disadvantaged neighbourhoods known as 'Sensitive Urban Zones'. Drawing on
121 qualitative interviews conducted in seven neighbourhoods in the Paris
region, this article focuses on relocation processes triggered by the
demolition of social housing. How are these socio-residential changes
experienced by those actually being relocated? To answer this question,
the paper shows how an analysis of long-term residential trajectories can
highlight and nuance the experiences of relocatees. Three broad types of
trajectories are defined as an analytical framework for a comprehensive
approach of the meaning of relocation and opportunity held by households.
It shows how forced relocation can either be a positive step in
residential trajectories or merely an adaptation in terms of housing,
whether or not the inhabitants actually stay in their neighbourhood or
leave it.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 253-271
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767883
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Author-Name: Hanneke Posthumus
Author-X-Name-First: Hanneke
Author-X-Name-Last: Posthumus
Author-Name: Gideon Bolt
Author-X-Name-First: Gideon
Author-X-Name-Last: Bolt
Author-Name: Ronald van Kempen
Author-X-Name-First: Ronald
Author-X-Name-Last: van Kempen
Title: Why do Displaced Residents Move to Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods?
Abstract:
Urban restructuring-the large-scale demolition of low-rent
dwellings, followed by the construction of more upmarket
alternatives-forces residents to make a step in their housing career.
Because displaced residents tend to have a low socioeconomic position,
they are often confined to the most affordable parts of the housing stock.
Since these dwellings are generally concentrated in socioeconomically
disadvantaged neighbourhoods, displaced residents are likely to move to
such neighbourhoods. However, they do have a measure of freedom to choose
their new neighbourhood. This article reveals which kinds of households
move to disadvantaged neighbourhoods and why they do so. An analysis of
both quantitative and qualitative data collected in five Dutch cities
shows that not only displaced households' restrictions but also their
preferences are crucial to understand their relocation choices.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 272-293
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767886
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Author-Name: Kirsten Visser
Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Visser
Author-Name: Gideon Bolt
Author-X-Name-First: Gideon
Author-X-Name-Last: Bolt
Author-Name: Ronald van Kempen
Author-X-Name-First: Ronald
Author-X-Name-Last: van Kempen
Title: Urban Restructuring and Forced Relocations: Housing Opportunities for Youth? A Case Study in Utrecht, the Netherlands
Abstract:
The existence of deprived urban neighbourhoods leads many
governments to adopt policies of urban restructuring aimed at changing the
socio-physical structure of these areas. Such policies often take form in
the demolition of social rented dwellings and the displacement of
residents. Although we know quite a lot about the effects of displacement
on adults, little attention has been paid to the effects on youth. This
paper provides insight into the effects of urban restructuring on the
dwelling and neighbourhood conditions of youth between 12 and 21 in
Utrecht (the Netherlands). The situation of forced movers over the last 10
years is compared with a control group of other movers. The findings
indicate that many youth who were forced to relocate perceive that they
moved to better dwellings. However, the improvements were generally small
and more than half moved to low-income neighbourhoods similar to those
they had left.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 294-316
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767881
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Author-Name: David Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans
Author-X-Name-First: Reinout
Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans
Title: Relocation Counselling and Supportive Services as Tools to Prevent Negative Spillover Effects: A Review
Abstract:
This paper aims to review the literature on negative
neighbourhood spillovers connected to four voluntary
housing mobility programs: Gautreaux 1 and Gautreaux 2 (Chicago), the
Moving to Opportunity Fair Housing Demonstration (five cities) and the
Baltimore Housing Mobility Program. Although these four programs involve
voluntary moves, a great deal may be learned from them because of (1)
efforts to forestall community opposition and (2) special counselling and
supportive programs provided to ease adjustment into destination
neighbourhoods. Unfortunately, the available research often falls short in
providing evidence for or against negative spillover effects.
Nevertheless, our review indicates that screening out multi-problem
families, limiting the number of housing voucher families moving into
particular neighbourhoods and providing both pre- and post-relocation
counselling to program participants can minimize the risk of negative
neighbourhood spillovers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 317-337
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767882
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Author-Name: Orna Rosenfeld
Author-X-Name-First: Orna
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenfeld
Title: Governance of Relocation: An Examination of Residential Relocation Processes in Housing Market Renewal Areas in England
Abstract:
This paper examines governance processes shaping the
experiences of neighbourhood restructuring-induced residential relocation
in Housing Market Renewal (HMR) areas in England. Since the 1950s and
1960s, residential relocation has been examined as a matter of social and
political debate, especially in gentrification studies focusing mainly on
negative residential relocation outcomes long after the process was over.
This paper argues that such a focus had led researchers to ignore subtle,
practical dimensions of relocation delivery and the causal relationships
between these and often very diverse relocation experiences. Based on the
HMR case, the study shows that residential relocation in a differentiated
polity is delivered by complex networks of actors and that residential
relocation outcomes are the result of cooperation or non-cooperation of
network members. Key innovation rests in devising a theoretical vehicle
that shows how governance has a profound impact on relocation delivery and
residential relocation experiences.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 338-362
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.767888
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: The Politics of Urban Governance
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 363-365
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.633357
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Author-Name: Andrea Armstrong
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Armstrong
Title: Housing and Inequality
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 365-366
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.635033
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Author-Name: Carol McNaughton Nicholls
Author-X-Name-First: Carol McNaughton
Author-X-Name-Last: Nicholls
Title: Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 367-369
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.640107
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Author-Name: Rachael Unsworth
Author-X-Name-First: Rachael
Author-X-Name-Last: Unsworth
Title: Urban Design in the Real Estate Process
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 369-371
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.640108
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Author-Name: Fiona M. Haslam McKenzie
Author-X-Name-First: Fiona M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Haslam McKenzie
Author-Name: Steven Rowley
Author-X-Name-First: Steven
Author-X-Name-Last: Rowley
Title: Housing Market Failure in a Booming Economy
Abstract:
This paper presents national data and two case studies
investigating the links between housing market failure and the context of
Australia's recent resource mining boom. It demonstrates how unprecedented
international demand for mineral resources resulted in critical, local
housing issues in mining communities. We conclude that without careful
strategic planning and understanding of the economic and social role of
housing, international market dynamics can create local housing situations
that are vulnerable to market and social failures. While this paper
highlights the challenges inherent in managing housing issues in Australia
during a mining boom, there are likely to be lessons which can be applied
in international settings. These challenges include the diversity in
scale, cyclical and often unpredictable nature of booms; differences in
housing policy and institutional arrangements across jurisdictions and the
importance of leadership in growth management and planning.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 373-388
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759177
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Author-Name: Hanna Dhalmann
Author-X-Name-First: Hanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Dhalmann
Title: Explaining Ethnic Residential Preferences-The Case of Somalis and Russians in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Abstract:
This paper contributes to the discussion on ethnic
segregation processes by examining the ethnic residential preferences of
two immigrant groups in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (HMA): Somalis and
Russians. The relatively recent increase in ethnic diversity and the
active policies aiming for social and ethnic mixing provide an interesting
environment for studying the subject in the HMA. Ethnic residential
preferences have traditionally been viewed in strong connection with the
immigrant's relations to his or her own ethnic community. The case of
Somalis and Russians in the HMA indicates that in the ethnically mixed
setting, minority-majority relations have a significant role in the
formation of ethnic residential preferences. The paper is based on
in-depth interviews with the Somali (n = 24) and Russian
(n = 26) immigrants, social workers and housing authority
personnel (n = 18).
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 389-408
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759178
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Author-Name: Sanna Markkanen
Author-X-Name-First: Sanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Markkanen
Author-Name: Malcolm Harrison
Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm
Author-X-Name-Last: Harrison
Title: 'Race', Deprivation and the Research Agenda: Revisiting Housing, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods
Abstract:
Building on a general account of recent changes and on local
case study material, this paper develops an overview of contemporary
issues in the interconnected research domains of UK ethnic relations,
disadvantage and housing neighbourhoods. It aims to contribute to some
rethinking of ethnic disadvantage and discrimination within analytical
frameworks, while looking towards more defensible research strategies.
Matters referred to in our overview of change include regulatory
developments, diversities within and between settled minority ethnic
groups, changed patterns of in-migration, disadvantage amongst low-income
white households and convergence between ethnic groups in internal
socio-economic differentiation. A West Midlands case study used to
complement this broad coverage provides reminders of shared problems
across ethnic boundaries, and of the merits of caution when hypothesising
causative links between deprivation and ethnicity in disadvantaged areas.
The section 'Towards Better Research Practice?' discusses research
approaches and priorities, suggesting that it may be useful to revisit the
'traditional repertoire' deployed in the UK ethnic relations and housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 409-428
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759180
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Author-Name: Xiaolu Gao
Author-X-Name-First: Xiaolu
Author-X-Name-Last: Gao
Author-Name: Yasushi Asami
Author-X-Name-First: Yasushi
Author-X-Name-Last: Asami
Author-Name: Yanmin Zhou
Author-X-Name-First: Yanmin
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou
Author-Name: Toru Ishikawa
Author-X-Name-First: Toru
Author-X-Name-Last: Ishikawa
Title: Preferences for Floor Plans of Medium-Sized Apartments: A Survey Analysis in Beijing, China
Abstract:
This study constitutes a new approach to quantitative
analysis of people's housing preferences. Using medium-sized apartments in
Beijing as an example, seven floor plans were developed and a
questionnaire survey was conducted where the respondents were asked to
decide between different pairs of floor plans based on their own
preferences. Based on the data, the spatial properties of the floor plans
were examined and sample families were classified by their attributes.
Using a modeling approach, the preferences for housing floor plans of
various family groups were estimated and discussed in detail. The results
demonstrated that 'privacy,' 'south-facing,' 'storage,' and 'number of
rooms' were the critical means of evaluation of the floor plans of
medium-sized apartments. The preferences of different family groups
differed significantly and most families were quite selective regarding
floor plans. Thus, high-level customization is necessary in architectural
design and information services. The preference indices revealed to what
extent people were satisfied with different floor plans and suggested
precise ways to improve satisfaction with regard to layout plans. In
addition, the results implied that, for apartments smaller than 90
m-super-2, essential functions or 'housing utility' must be given
priority. In particular, a dining room and a study room were considered
mandatory, but a separate storage room was not required.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 429-452
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759542
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Author-Name: Patricia Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Patricia
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Title: Collateral Damage? Transforming Subprime Slum Dwellers into Homeowners
Abstract:
Homeownership has been elevated to the position of a superior
form of tenure, offering seemingly limitless benefits from capital gain to
more abstract notions of security, empowerment and good citizenship. The
international discourse on housing policy has mirrored this privilege,
particularly evident with the celebration of Hernando de Soto and his
promotion of formal property rights as the solution to global poverty.
Formalisation schemes are said to provide a route to economic prosperity
by transforming 'slum dwellers' into 'homeowners', offering a route to
access formal credit and ending the undercapitalisation of the poor.
Drawing on the example of de Soto-inspired MKURABITA titling scheme in
Tanzania, this paper questions the favour of ownership policies in the
Global South in the wake of the subprime crisis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 453-472
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759543
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Author-Name: George Galster
Author-X-Name-First: George
Author-X-Name-Last: Galster
Author-Name: Lina Hedman
Author-X-Name-First: Lina
Author-X-Name-Last: Hedman
Title: Measuring Neighbourhood Effects Non-experimentally: How Much Do Alternative Methods Matter?
Abstract:
European research attempting to quantify neighbourhood
effects has relied almost exclusively on analyses of observational data.
No consensus has emerged, perhaps because a variety of statistical
procedures have been employed. We investigate this by exploring the degree
to which alternative, non-experimental statistical methods yield different
estimates of the relationship between neighbourhood income mix and
individual work income when applied to the same longitudinal database. We
find that results are highly sensitive to the statistical approach
employed. Methods controlling for geographic selection bias generally
reduce the negative association between low-income neighbours and
individual earnings, but substantial differences across models remain.
Controlling for both selection and endogeneity produces larger
associations and evidence of non-linearity, something that is hidden in
models only controlling for selection. All methods suffer shortcomings, so
we argue for multi-method investigations to identify robust findings, with
instrumental variables and fixed effects on non-mover samples being
preferred. In our case, we find a substantial neighbourhood effect,
regardless of the method employed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 473-498
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759544
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Author-Name: Chris Couch
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Couch
Author-Name: Matthew Cocks
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Cocks
Title: Housing Vacancy and the Shrinking City: Trends and Policies in the UK and the City of Liverpool
Abstract:
In the context of the discourse around shrinking cities, the
aim of the paper was to try and better understand and differentiate the
various types and causes of urban housing vacancy and to ask whether
policy responses including planning policies appropriately reflect this
variety. The paper briefly discusses the issue of shrinking cities, before
considering theoretical explanations for housing vacancy and examining the
relationships between population change, housing vacancy and policy
responses in the Liverpool conurbation. Conclusions are then drawn about
the nature of housing vacancy and the effectiveness of policy responses.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 499-519
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.760029
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Author-Name: Sarah Blandy
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Blandy
Title: Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Private Residential Government
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 520-522
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.644104
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Author-Name: Alison Wallace
Author-X-Name-First: Alison
Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace
Title: Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 522-524
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.646666
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Author-Name: Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
Author-X-Name-First: Tadeusz
Author-X-Name-Last: Stryjakiewicz
Title: Residential Change and Demographic Challenge: The Inner City of East Central Europe in the 21st Century
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 524-526
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.647559
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Author-Name: Madhu Satsangi
Author-X-Name-First: Madhu
Author-X-Name-Last: Satsangi
Title: Rural Housing, Exurbanisation and Amenity-driven Development: Contrasting the 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots'
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 526-528
Issue: 3
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.649943
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Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker
Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker
Author-Name: Kristen B. Crossney
Author-X-Name-First: Kristen B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Crossney
Title: Analyzing CRA Lending During the Tsunami in Subprime Lending and Foreclosure in the Philadelphia MSA
Abstract:
Until the onset of the financial meltdown, independent
mortgage companies (IMCs) had begun to originate an increasing share of
subprime loans, a high proportion of which went into foreclosure. In this
study, we compare and contrast the characteristics of neighborhoods that
have high proportions of loans made by Community Reinvestment Act
(CRA)-regulated institutions with those that have high proportions made by
IMCs. We find that IMC-dominated neighborhoods are characterized by high
proportions of Blacks/African-Americans, low average family incomes and
low nominal average family income increases, an old housing stock with
inexpensive homes, a low homeownership rate, high vacancy rates, and a
high proportion of high-cost loans. Based on t-tests and
regression analyses, we find that areas dominated by IMCs are different
from neighborhoods dominated by CRA Lenders and that the proportion of
people of color helps explain foreclosure rates.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 529-552
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759181
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Author-Name: Kenneth Mark Temkin
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Temkin
Author-Name: Brett Theodos
Author-X-Name-First: Brett
Author-X-Name-Last: Theodos
Author-Name: David Price
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Price
Title: Sharing Equity with Future Generations: An Evaluation of Long-Term Affordable Homeownership Programs in the USA
Abstract:
Shared equity initiatives provide homeownership opportunities
to low- and moderate-income families who buy homes at below-market prices.
The appreciation that can be earned by resellers is limited to preserve
the homes' affordability at resale. This article analyses affordability,
personal wealth, security of tenure, and mobility outcomes for seven
shared equity programs across the USA. Homebuyers earned returns that were
competitive with what they would have received if they had invested in
stocks or bonds. In addition, homes remained affordable to lower income
buyers over time as the homes were resold. Homeownership under these
programs was sustainable: there were very low delinquency and foreclosure
rates and many families who sold their homes were able to use their sales'
proceeds to purchase market-rate homes. Owners also showed little evidence
of being locked in place, and moved to new homes at rates near the
national average.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 553-578
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
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Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Oliver Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Oliver
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Louise Lawson
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawson
Title: Notorious Places: Image, Reputation, Stigma. The Role of Newspapers in Area Reputations for Social Housing Estates
Abstract:
This paper reviews work in several disciplines to distinguish
between image, reputation and stigma. It also shows that there has been
little research on the process by which area reputations are established
and sustained through transmission processes. This paper reports on
research into the portrayal of two social housing estates in the printed
media over an extended period of time (14 years). It was found that
negative and mixed coverage of the estates dominated, with the amount of
positive coverage being very small. By examining the way in which dominant
themes were used by newspapers in respect of each estate, questions are
raised about the mode of operation of the press and the communities'
collective right to challenge this. By identifying the way regeneration
stories are covered and the nature of the content of positive stories,
lessons are drawn for programmes of area transformation. The need for
social regeneration activities is identified as an important ingredient
for changing deprived-area reputations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 579-598
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759546
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Author-Name: Duncan Maclennan
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: Maclennan
Author-Name: Anthony O'Sullivan
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Sullivan
Title: Localism, Devolution and Housing Policies
Abstract:
In this study, we examine the idea of localism in the context
of housing policy and as mediated by the experience of devolution in
England and Scotland. After considering arguments for adopting localism in
principle, we examine the meaning and limitations of the concept when
account is taken of the real nature of housing systems. This forms the
basis for a consideration of the experience of localism in the context of
social housing provision. We conclude that the implementation of localism
by UK policy-makers has exhibited shortcomings and the emerging
interpretation of localism may lead to policy dumping rather than enhanced
real local autonomy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 599-615
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
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Author-Name: Rachel Bogardus Drew
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Bogardus
Author-X-Name-Last: Drew
Title: Constructing Homeownership Policy: Social Constructions and the Design of the Low-Income Homeownership Policy Objective
Abstract:
This paper offers a new perspective to explain how and why
the U.S. federal government pursued a policy agenda that from the
early-1990s promoted homeownership as the preferred housing tenure of
choice for low-income households. Using policy design theory (Schneider &
Ingram 1997), this paper argues that the social constructions of
homeownership, low-income households, and the private mortgage industry
were instrumental in the development of policies to increase low-income
homeownership. The benefits associated with homeownership, based on
long-standing norms around success, stability, and the American Dream,
justified government interventions to increase access to private mortgage
markets for low-income households. This policy stance, however, did
nothing to assist households with maintaining homeownership for the long
term. The social constructions embedded in the rationales and
implementation of these policies contributed to their failure to sustain
homeownership and realize its benefits for low-income homeowners.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 616-631
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.760030
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Author-Name: Ulrika Åkerlund
Author-X-Name-First: Ulrika
Author-X-Name-Last: Åkerlund
Title: Buying a Place Abroad: Processes of Recreational Property Acquisition
Abstract:
In the search for 'the good life,' moving to warmer
destinations is a growing trend among affluent individuals from the
northern parts of Europe and North America. Induced by quality-of-life
drivers, property acquisition is an integral part of this search. Property
acquisition behavior has earlier been conceptualized in various models of
consumer behavior; however, these models are not sophisticated enough to
explain the multiple drivers and complexity of lifestyle- and leisure-led
acquisitions, especially if they are international in scope. In this
paper, the process of recreational property acquisition is explored, based
on thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with Swedes in Malta.
Acquisition is found to be influenced by both internal drivers and
motives, and external factors that are highly contextualized. This study
explains the importance of the contextual frameworks and external
influences on decision-making, and conceptualizes the process of
international recreational property acquisition.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 632-652
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.773584
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Author-Name: Sue Heath
Author-X-Name-First: Sue
Author-X-Name-Last: Heath
Title: Housing Transitions Through the Life Course: Aspirations, Needs and Policy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 653-654
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.654704
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Author-Name: Cathy Davis
Author-X-Name-First: Cathy
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis
Title: In Place of Austerity: Reconstructing the Economy, State and Public Services
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 655-656
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.655041
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Author-Name: Douglas Robertson
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas
Author-X-Name-Last: Robertson
Title: The Housing Debate
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 657-658
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.659575
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Author-Name: Peter King
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: King
Title: The Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 659-660
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.659957
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Author-Name: Andrew Aurand
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Aurand
Author-Name: Angela Reynolds
Author-X-Name-First: Angela
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds
Title: Elderly Mobility and the Occupancy Status of Single-Family Homes
Abstract:
This research explores the occupancy status and tenure
transitions of single-family homes from which elderly homeowners recently
moved. First, we compare the housing and neighborhood characteristics of
homes vacated by nonelderly and elderly homeowners. Then, we use a
multinomial logit model to test the extent to which these characteristics
are associated with the home's subsequent vacancy and tenure status. The
results indicate that a lack of recent updates and modern amenities may
hinder subsequent owner occupancy of homes vacated by the oldest
homeowners.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 661-681
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.758241
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Author-Name: Jenny Phillimore
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Phillimore
Title: Housing, Home and Neighbourhood Renewal in the Era of Superdiversity: Some Lessons from the West Midlands
Abstract:
Following two decades of new migration, the EU is now home to
the most diverse population ever. Much new migration has occurred into
superdiverse escalator areas already experiencing high levels of
deprivation. In the UK, housing market renewal areas (HMRA) had a
particular challenge to address housing market failure and the high
population turnover often associated with new migration while meeting the
needs of established residents. Lack of knowledge about the diverse
housing needs of residents risked hampering renewal efforts. This paper
uses qualitative data collected from a superdiverse sample of settled and
new residents located in the Urban Living HMRA in the West Midlands to
examine the ways in which they conceptualise home. The paper argues that
understanding the ways in which diverse residents conceptualise home and
home making, offers potential for policymakers to understand how
residents' needs can be met.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 682-700
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.758242
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Author-Name: Ilan Wiesel
Author-X-Name-First: Ilan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiesel
Author-Name: Robert Freestone
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Freestone
Author-Name: Bill Randolph
Author-X-Name-First: Bill
Author-X-Name-Last: Randolph
Title: Owner-Driven Suburban Renewal: Motivations, Risks and Strategies in 'Knockdown and Rebuild' Processes in Sydney, Australia
Abstract:
Decisions by individual owners about reinvesting capital in
their homes are important drivers of wider processes of suburban renewal.
This paper examines the motivations for owners in mostly middle-ring
suburbs of Sydney, Australia, to reinvest through 'knockdown and rebuild'
(KDR). This process-not unique to Australia-involves the wholesale
demolition of older detached houses and their replacement with completely
new dwellings. Until recently, existing literature on housing reinvestment
has focused on practices such as renovations or modifications to existing
dwellings. Yet, KDR is becoming increasingly popular and moreover appears
to involve a distinctive set of actors, drivers and potential impacts. On
the basis of a statistical survey of activity followed up by a
questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews, the general scale and
attributes of KDR are summarised and then explored to discern the main
perceived benefits, risks and types of development scenarios pursued. The
results reveal a genuine diversity of motivations and circumstances
involved in this latest physical makeover of the traditional Australian
suburb.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 701-719
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.758243
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Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker
Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker
Title: Immigrating, Assimilating, Cashing in? Analyzing Property Values in Suburbs of Immigrant Gateways
Abstract:
Assets like properties determine opportunities. Many
immigrants have begun to bypass cities and move straight to suburbs. Until
the recent house price crash, suburbs had been perceived as locations
where appreciation rates were high, but this perception might no longer
hold true. Not many studies have focused on suburban house prices with
regard to race, ethnicity, and nativity. This study fills the gap in terms
of nativity. This study uses data from the 2000 US Census and the
2005-2009 American Community Survey to perform regression analyses to
analyze immigrant gateways as delineated by Singer (2008) with regard to
median values of owner-occupied housing units and the factors that
influence median values, while also differentiating between inner cities
and suburbs. Results show that there are differences in terms of values
and appreciation rates among suburbs of immigrant gateways, indicating
different economic integration patterns.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 720-745
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.758244
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Author-Name: Jan Rouwendal
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Rouwendal
Author-Name: Fleur Thomese
Author-X-Name-First: Fleur
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomese
Title: Homeownership and Long-Term Care
Abstract:
We investigate the relationship between homeownership and
institutionalization using longitudinal data from a Dutch community sample
(N = 2372) collected between 1992 and 2005, and find a
negative effect of housing tenure on the probability of moving to a
nursing home between two subsequent waves. Our discrete time duration
model is able to deal with time-varying covariates like health and is
flexible with respect to time effects. We have detailed information about
health status, presence of a partner and children, neighborhood, and
housing. The effect of tenure remains significant after controlling for
their impact. A variety of additional potential explanations related to
housing wealth and the price of long-term care are found to lack
explanatory power. We therefore interpret our findings as the result of a
strong desire among the homeowners to stay where they are-in their own
property-and the better possibilities that they have-as owners-to realize
this desire.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 746-763
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759179
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Author-Name: Daphne Habibis
Author-X-Name-First: Daphne
Author-X-Name-Last: Habibis
Title: Australian Housing Policy, Misrecognition and Indigenous Population Mobility
Abstract:
Policy initiatives in remote Indigenous Australia aim to
improve Indigenous health and well-being, and reduce homelessness. But
they have raised controversy because they impinge on Indigenous
aspirations to remain on homeland communities, require mainstreaming of
Indigenous housing and transfer Indigenous land to the state. This paper
uses recognition theory to argue that if policies of normalization are
imposed on remote living Indigenous people in ways that take insufficient
account of their cultural realities they may be experienced as a form of
misrecognition and have detrimental policy effects. The paper examines the
responses of remote living Indigenous people to the National Partnerships
at the time of their introduction in 2009-2010. Drawing on interview and
administrative data from a national study on Indigenous population
mobility, the paper argues although the policies have been welcomed, they
have also been a source of anxiety and anger. These feelings are
associated with a sense of violated justice arising from experiences of
misrecognition. The paper argues this can lead tenants to depart their
homes as a culturally sanctioned form of resistance to state control. This
population mobility is associated with homelessness because it takes place
in the context of housing exclusion. Policy implications include
developing new models of intercultural professional practice and employing
a capacity-building approach to local Indigenous organisations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 764-781
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759545
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Author-Name: Anthony M. Warnes
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Warnes
Author-Name: Maureen Crane
Author-X-Name-First: Maureen
Author-X-Name-Last: Crane
Author-Name: Sarah E. Coward
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Coward
Title: Factors that Influence the Outcomes of Single Homeless People's Rehousing
Abstract:
This paper examines the influences of biographical,
behavioural, housing and neighbourhood attributes on housing satisfaction,
settledness and tenancy sustainment for 400 single homeless people who
were resettled into independent accommodation. It draws on evidence from
FOR-HOME, a longitudinal study in London and three provincial English
cities of resettlement outcomes over 18 months. There was a high rate of
tenancy sustainment: after 15/18 months, 78 per cent of the participants
were in their original tenancy, 7 per cent had moved to another tenancy
and only 15 per cent no longer had a tenancy. Tenure greatly influenced
tenancy sustainment, with moves into private-rented accommodation having
the lowest rate of success. Several housing and neighbourhood
characteristics had strong associations with the outcomes. The
biographical and behavioural attributes that were influential in
determining outcomes were being young, frequent family contacts, having
been in care as a child and some features of the recent episode of
homelessness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 782-798
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.760032
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Author-Name: Alice Oldfield
Author-X-Name-First: Alice
Author-X-Name-Last: Oldfield
Title: The Future of Sustainable Cities: Critical Reflections
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 799-800
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.718888
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Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Title: Social Mix and the City: Challenging the Mixed Communities Consensus in Housing and Urban Planning Policies
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 801-803
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.718890
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Author-Name: Alizera Rezaei
Author-X-Name-First: Alizera
Author-X-Name-Last: Rezaei
Title: Conflict and Housing, Land and Property Rights: A Handbook on Issues, Frameworks and Solutions
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 803-804
Issue: 5
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.666062
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Author-Name: Dorina Pojani
Author-X-Name-First: Dorina
Author-X-Name-Last: Pojani
Title: From Squatter Settlement to Suburb: The Transformation of Bathore, Albania
Abstract:
This paper recounts the successful upgrading of Bathore, an
informal settlement on government land, located in the outskirts of
Tirana, the capital of Albania. Bathore was formed in the early 1990s by
poor squatters, mostly from rural northern Albania, a region that became
impoverished and lost most services after the fall of communism in 1990.
The area that the squatters occupied lacked all infrastructure. However,
the squatters built houses that were permanent structures of good quality,
often multi-storey. These houses were mostly financed through the
remittances of immigrants abroad. In mid-2000s, the Albanian government
started taking steps to legalize squatter housing, and, subsequently, to
equip the area with infrastructure. Now, Bathore is starting to resemble a
middle-class-style suburb, if only in terms of physical appearance. This
paper explores the roles of the central and local governments, the
international financial institutions, a local NGO, and the local community
in this achievement.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 805-821
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Maree Petersen
Author-X-Name-First: Maree
Author-X-Name-Last: Petersen
Author-Name: John Minnery
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Minnery
Title: Understanding Daily Life of Older People in a Residential Complex: The Contribution of Lefebvre's Social Space
Abstract:
This article contributes to the theoretical and applied
understanding of daily life and the meaning of home for older people
living in purpose-built, age-segregated complexes. Whilst gerontology has
embraced spatial perspectives, it often fails to capture their diverse and
changing nature. This article considers findings from a larger qualitative
study that explored the geography of residential complexes in Brisbane,
Australia, through the lens of Henri Lefebvre's theory of social space.
Data relating to Lefebvre's concepts of spatial practice and spaces of
representation clearly capture the routines, activities, attachments and
imaginations that help or hinder older people connecting to their living
environment. Talking with older people gave a rich account of how they
use, think about and produce space and highlighted the tensions in
providing this form of specialised housing. As well as providing
theoretical insights, a nuanced understanding of social space informs
policy and public discussion of older people's living environments.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 822-844
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.768333
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Author-Name: Todd L. Goodsell
Author-X-Name-First: Todd L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Goodsell
Title: Familification: Family, Neighborhood Change, and Housing Policy
Abstract:
This paper proposes the term familification
to describe one type of gentrification: the process of neighborhood change
by families moving into a neighborhood. This study, drawing upon in-depth
interviews, document analysis, and ethnographic observations, focuses on
an urban familification program-one city's attempt to benefit families by
restricting participation in its downtown housing programs. The paper
first describes the programs and then explores how leaders, program
participants, and neighbors understand the programs' intentions and
effects. While family is not prominent in the programs' grant proposals,
leaders indicated that promoting traditional families was a central
objective. Implementing these programs revealed difficulties in defining
family and in managing the programs' outcomes. Implications for fair
housing laws are considered, and it is argued that fostering diversity in
family life course stages may be a compelling government interest to
promote neighborhood stability, and an inclusive strategy for urban
development.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 845-868
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.768334
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Author-Name: David Gray
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Gray
Title: House Price Diffusion: An Application of Spectral Analysis to the Prices of Irish Second-Hand Dwellings
Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to examine whether evidence for a
ripple effect in house prices can be found across residential property
markets of Irish cities. The house price dynamics are considered in the
frequency domain using spectral analysis. This entails the estimation of
power spectra, cospectrum, coherence, gain and phase of 'region-nation'
relationships. The power spectrum highlights a dominant 6-year cycle,
common to all of Ireland's city markets. Eire conforms to neither a city
system nor a ripple thesis well. Dublin is a dominant node, whilst Dublin,
Galway and Cork lead the national cycle, which is indicative of an
olicentric city structure.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 869-890
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.768335
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Author-Name: Francis Mok
Author-X-Name-First: Francis
Author-X-Name-Last: Mok
Author-Name: James Lee
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Just Housing Policy: Is There a Moral Foundation for a Homeownership Policy?
Abstract:
There is no lack of social and political reasons in favor of
public policies oriented toward helping people to become homeowners. In
this study, we undertake a normative inquiry into the moral foundation, if
any, behind those politically viable and beneficial publicly supported
homeownership programs. What we want to examine is whether public support
of homeownership is a question of justice or merely a matter of
beneficence. In particular, we have reviewed three different portrayals of
homeowners: homeowners as right-holders; homeowners as stakeholders; and
homeowners as decent citizens. Our position is that it would do more harm
than good to defend homeownership as a matter of basic rights; instead,
homeownership can be justified by developing Bruce Ackerman's idea of
stakeholding and the notion of asset-building as championed by Michael
Sherraden. To conceive homeownership as what people deserve as
stakeholders as well as a form of lifelong asset that people can rely on
when encountering risks and contingencies provide sufficient ground to
render public support of homeownership.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 891-909
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.771153
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Author-Name: Tim Aubry
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Aubry
Author-Name: Susan Farrell
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Farrell
Author-Name: Stephen W. Hwang
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hwang
Author-Name: Melissa Calhoun
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Calhoun
Title: Identifying the Patterns of Emergency Shelter Stays of Single Individuals in Canadian Cities of Different Sizes
Abstract:
The study analyzed the patterns of emergency shelter stays of
single persons in three Canadian cities of different sizes (i.e., Toronto,
Ottawa, and Guelph). Similar to findings of previous research conducted in
large American cities in the early 1990s, cluster analyses defined three
clusters with distinct patterns of shelter stays (temporary, episodic, and
long stay). A temporary cluster (88-94 per cent) experienced a small
number of homeless episodes for relatively short periods of time. An
episodic cluster (3-11 per cent) experienced multiple homeless episodes
also for short periods of time. A long-stay cluster (2-4 per cent) had a
relatively small number of homeless episodes but for long periods of time.
Despite their relatively small size, the episodic and long-stay clusters
used a disproportionately large number of total shelter beds. The study
extends findings from previous American research to a Canadian context and
to small- and medium-size cities. Implications of the findings for program
and policy development are discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 910-927
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.773585
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Author-Name: Beverley A. Searle
Author-X-Name-First: Beverley A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Searle
Title: UK Housing Review 2011/12 (20th Edition)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 928-929
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.685012
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Author-Name: Nigel Sprigings
Author-X-Name-First: Nigel
Author-X-Name-Last: Sprigings
Title: Towards a Sustainable Private Rented Sector: The Lessons from Other Countries
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 930-931
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.687599
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Author-Name: Susan Pringle
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Pringle
Title: Children and Their Urban Environments: Changing Worlds
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 931-933
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.689497
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Author-Name: Charles Connerly
Author-X-Name-First: Charles
Author-X-Name-Last: Connerly
Title: The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 933-935
Issue: 6
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.718883
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Author-Name: Basak Tanulku
Author-X-Name-First: Basak
Author-X-Name-Last: Tanulku
Title: Gated Communities: Ideal Packages or Processual Spaces of Conflict?
Abstract:
This paper argues that gated communities are processual spaces which
create new conflicts and blur the boundaries between inside and outside,
open and private, and safe and unsafe realms. For this purpose, it uses
the data collected during the fieldwork from two gated communities in
Istanbul based on the examination of everyday life in two case studies.
According to the data, gated communities create tensions in the use of
facilities and common spaces, indicating a conflict between ownership of
and access to space; the use of housing units, indicating a conflict
between openness and privacy; and the use of walls and borders which blur
the boundaries between inside and outside realms leading to safety gaps.
Finally, the paper argues a processual space leading to conflicts and
seeds of change.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 937-959
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803042
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Author-Name: Marja Elsinga
Author-X-Name-First: Marja
Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga
Author-Name: Hans Lind
Author-X-Name-First: Hans
Author-X-Name-Last: Lind
Title: The Effect of EU-Legislation on Rental Systems in Sweden and the Netherlands
Abstract:
Both Sweden and the Netherlands had housing systems that include broad
models of municipal housing (Sweden) or social housing (Netherlands).
These broad models, however, came under discussion due to the competition
policy of the European Commission. Financial government support - state
aid - for public or social housing is considered to create false
competition with commercial landlords. The countries chose different ways
out of this problem. The Netherlands choose to direct state aid to a
specified target group and had to introduce income limits for dwellings
owned by housing associations. Sweden instead chose to change the law
regulating municipal housing companies and demands that these companies
should act in a 'businesslike way' and with that aims to create a level
playing field. This paper will describe why the two countries chose
different options, the development during the first years, and also
speculate about the consequences on the longer run and the future role of
the public/social housing sector in housing and urban policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 960-970
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803044
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Author-Name: Deborah Warr
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah
Author-X-Name-Last: Warr
Author-Name: Belinda Robson
Author-X-Name-First: Belinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Robson
Title: 'Everybody's Different': Struggles to Find Community on the Suburban Frontier
Abstract:
The pace of suburban development on the growth frontiers of Australian
cities raises urgent urban planning and resourcing issues regarding the
physical and social infrastructure that are required to support this
growth. These pressures are contributing to the popularity of capital-led
master-planning approaches among governments and homebuyers because of its
potential to deliver urban planning and infrastructure resources to new
suburbs. Master-planning approaches have largely been used to create
prestige estates attracting upper-middle-class residents; however, they
are increasingly being adapted for wider markets. This paper explores how
these contexts are important for understanding ongoing and emerging
tensions among residents living in two socio-economically and culturally
diverse suburbs on the peri-urban fringe of Melbourne, Australia. The
findings question the potential of capital-led master-planning approaches
to deliver sound urban and social planning outcomes for socially complex
suburban settings.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 971-992
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.778959
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Author-Name: Colin Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Colin
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones
Author-Name: Mike Coombes
Author-X-Name-First: Mike
Author-X-Name-Last: Coombes
Title: An Assessment of Tenure-Specific Housing Market Areas for Housing Planning
Abstract:
Planning for housing in Britain has embraced the use of housing market
areas (HMAs) as appropriate geographies to address calls for greater
market responsiveness. Tenure is a crucial dimension of the housing
market, so it must be central to assessing local housing demands. Despite
the wide cleavages between social and private rented sectors, and between
both of these sectors and the owner-occupying majority, the geography of
tenure-specific HMAs has remained largely unexplored. This paper assesses
the importance of tenure-specific HMAs for housing planning within the
current policy frameworks aimed at meeting housing needs. The paper then
reports analyses to delineate tenure-specific HMAs, with these boundaries
then compared with HMAs defined by analysing the whole market. The case
for a national system of tenure-specific HMAs based on migration is found
to be unproven. Nevertheless, such HMAs can provide the basis for
meaningful affordability measures and a tool to address segregation and
reshape housing markets in cities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 993-1011
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.783201
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Author-Name: Rachel Ong
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ong
Author-Name: Sharon Parkinson
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon
Author-X-Name-Last: Parkinson
Author-Name: Beverley A. Searle
Author-X-Name-First: Beverley A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Searle
Author-Name: Susan J. Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Susan J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Gavin A. Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Gavin A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood
Title: Channels from Housing Wealth to Consumption
Abstract:
This paper uses micro-data from two national panel surveys to analyze the
flow of wealth from residential property onto households' balance sheets,
where it is available for discretionary spending. The examples are
Australia and the UK-two of the world's most entrenched nations of owner
occupation, both with relatively complete mortgage markets. We focus on
the early 2000s, which set the scene for an unprecedented wave of housing
equity withdrawal. We consider equity released through sales and through
additional borrowing. The findings show that equity extraction overall is
not only (or even) a function of higher incomes, greater wealth, and older
age; rather it occurs across the life course and is linked to pressing
spending needs. We draw attention in particular to the growing social and
economic significance of in situ equity borrowing-a practice whose
financial buffering effects may form a short-lived prelude, rather than a
sustainable alternative, to trading on or selling up.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1012-1036
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.783202
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Author-Name: Rory Coulter
Author-X-Name-First: Rory
Author-X-Name-Last: Coulter
Author-Name: Maarten van Ham
Author-X-Name-First: Maarten
Author-X-Name-Last: van Ham
Title: Following People Through Time: An Analysis of Individual Residential Mobility Biographies
Abstract:
The life course framework guides us towards investigating how dynamic life
course careers affect residential mobility decision-making and behaviour
throughout long periods of individual lifetimes. However, most
longitudinal studies linking mobility decision-making to subsequent moving
behaviour focus only on year-to-year transitions. This study moves beyond
this snapshot approach by analysing the long-term sequencing of moving
desires and mobility behaviour within individual lives. Using novel
techniques to visualise the desire-mobility sequences of British Household
Panel Survey respondents, the study demonstrates that revealing the
meanings and significance of particular transitions in moving desires and
mobility behaviour requires these transitions to be arranged into mobility
biographies. The results highlight the oft-neglected importance of
residential stability over the life course, uncovering groups of
individuals persistently unable to act in accordance with their moving
desires.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1037-1055
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.783903
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Author-Name: Mark Livingston
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Livingston
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Nick Bailey
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey
Title: Delivering Mixed Communities: The Relationship between Housing Tenure Mix and Social Mix in England's Neighbourhoods
Abstract:
For a number of years, housing and regeneration policy in Britain has
focused on creating social mix through changing housing tenure mix,
particularly in deprived social housing areas. Policies are founded on the
perception that segregation of rich and poor is increasing, and this
reinforces disadvantage. Little work has examined the degree of
correspondence between social and tenure mix. We examine the relationship
between these variables in English neighbourhoods, using occupational mix
to measure social mix. We examine the regional differences in this
relationship. We show neighbourhoods are generally more mixed in
occupation than tenure. Tenure mix has a positive relationship with
occupational mix, but the relationship is moderate and contrary to
conventional wisdom; occupational mix and tenure mix increase with level
of area deprivation. Regional analysis shows that tenure mix is higher in
the tighter housing markets of London and the South. If policy is
genuinely concerned with increasing social mix, attention needs to focus
on affluent areas.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1056-1080
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.812723
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Author-Name: Jenny Muir
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Muir
Title: The Dynamics of Policy-Making under UK Devolution: Social Housing in Northern Ireland
Abstract:
Housing policy formation under the United Kingdom's devolution settlement
is currently under-researched and insufficiently understood. This article
uses the example of social housing policy-making in Northern Ireland to
reflect on its impact. Five factors with the potential to influence
post-devolution policy-making are identified: common UK citizenship and
ideology, policy networks, the political process, the mechanics of
devolution and membership of the European Union. A post-devolution review
of social housing policy in Northern Ireland is followed by a discussion
of three key issues from the 2007 to 2011 administration: governance,
procurement of new social housing, and 'shared space' and a shared future.
Interviews with policy-makers indicate that 2007-2011 marked the
beginnings of a trend away from the technocratic domination of officials
towards greater intervention and policy ownership by politicians, but that
the significance of this should not be overstated. The implications for
multi-level and multi-jurisdictional policy-making in devolved and federal
states are considered.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1081-1093
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803045
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Author-Name: Dr Sarah Payne
Author-X-Name-First: Dr Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Payne
Title: Let's Build the Houses-Quick
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1094-1096
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.690651
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Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Title: Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1096-1098
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.690943
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Author-Name: Richard Harris
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Harris
Title: Safe as Houses? A Historical Analysis of Housing Prices / Subprime Cities: the Political Economy of Mortgage Markets
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1098-1101
Issue: 7
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.723876
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Author-Name: Aaron Arndt
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron
Author-X-Name-Last: Arndt
Author-Name: David M. Harrison
Author-X-Name-First: David M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Harrison
Author-Name: Mark A. Lane
Author-X-Name-First: Mark A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane
Author-Name: Michael J. Seiler
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Seiler
Author-Name: Vicky L. Seiler
Author-X-Name-First: Vicky L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Seiler
Title: Can Agents Influence Property Perceptions Through Their Appearance and Use of Pathos?
Abstract:
This study takes 1594 potential homebuyers on a Web-based audio/visual
tour of a typically priced home in their area. Using a voice-altering
software as well as before and after extreme makeover photos, we are able
to isolate the effect of real estate agent characteristics-attractiveness,
gender, and pathos-on their ability to change the opinions of potential
homebuyers. We find that attractive female agents who employ pathos are
significantly able to alter the impression of the property in the minds of
respondents. Furthermore, agents using pathos are not viewed as less
trustworthy than agents not using pathos.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1105-1116
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.802292
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Author-Name: Peter Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Housing Market Renewal: Evidence of Revanchism or a Response to 'Passive Revanchism' Supporting 'Citizenship of Place'?
Abstract:
In England, housing market renewal (HMR) proved an urban policy cause
c�l�bre held to be representative of state-sponsored gentrification. This
paper considers some critiques and explores the relocation experience of a
group of residents in South Yorkshire, England during the implementation
of HMR policies during 2005-2007. This paper argues that: (i) from the
mid-1970s, 'place-based citizenship' and participation standards had been
eroded and the introduction of HMR was an antidote to state neglect; (ii)
state failure in addressing 'slow-burn' shocks such as deindustrialisation
and housing market restructuring can be viewed as a form of 'passive
revanchism' and (iii) HMR can be viewed as a means of addressing deficits
in participation standards that arise from differential experiences of
place: the term 'citizenship of place' is therefore used to signal the
call for a more nuanced account of policy interventions such as HMR in
order to assess how complex processes of restructuring affect citizens
across spatial and temporal scales.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1117-1132
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803518
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Author-Name: Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne
Author-X-Name-First: Beatrice D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Simo-Kengne
Author-Name: Rangan Gupta
Author-X-Name-First: Rangan
Author-X-Name-Last: Gupta
Author-Name: Manoel Bittencourt
Author-X-Name-First: Manoel
Author-X-Name-Last: Bittencourt
Title: The Impact of House Prices on Consumption in South Africa: Evidence from Provincial-Level Panel VARs
Abstract:
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role of house prices in
determining the dynamic behaviour of consumption in South Africa using a
panel vector autoregression approach to provincial level panel data
covering the period of 1996-2010. With the shocks being identified using
the standard recursive identification scheme, we find that the response of
consumption to house prices shock is positive, but short-lived. In
addition, we find that a positive shock to house price growth has a
positive and significant effect on consumption, while the negative impact
of a house price decrease causes an insignificant reduction in
consumption. This suggests that house prices exhibit an asymmetric effect
on consumption, with the positive effect following an increase in house
prices being dominant in magnitude in comparison to a decline in
consumption resulting from a negative shock to house prices.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1133-1154
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.804492
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Author-Name: Zhilin Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Zhilin
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Yujun Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Yujun
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Ran Tao
Author-X-Name-First: Ran
Author-X-Name-Last: Tao
Title: Social Capital and Migrant Housing Experiences in Urban China: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
Abstract:
Rural-urban migration and housing for the urban poor have attracted
worldwide attention from both scholars and policy makers. In China,
empirical studies have revealed tremendous discrimination experienced by
temporary migrants in the urban housing system, but most have emphasized
constraints by formal institutions such as the hukou
system. This paper adopts a sociological theory of social capital and
employs structural equation modeling to investigate, simultaneously, the
impacts of social capital on migrants' housing experiences in Chinese
cities, as well as the causal relationships between a migrant's
socioeconomic status and his/her social capital profile. Based on data
from a twelve-city migrant survey conducted in 2009, statistical analysis
revealed that, although migrant workers in general possess a small and
truncated network of social ties in the city, those migrants who are
connected to individuals with local hukou, rather than
connected to more people, have higher access to formal housing and tend to
enjoy better housing conditions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1155-1174
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.818620
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Author-Name: Emily Thaden
Author-X-Name-First: Emily
Author-X-Name-Last: Thaden
Author-Name: Andrew Greer
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Greer
Author-Name: Susan Saegert
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Saegert
Title: Shared Equity Homeownership: A Welcomed Tenure Alternative Among Lower Income Households
Abstract:
Shared equity homeownership (SEH) is a form of resale-restricted,
owner-occupied housing for lower income households that remains affordable
in perpetuity. This study explores the evaluations of and reception to SEH
relative to existing tenure options by potential beneficiaries of a SEH
program in Nashville, TN. Fourteen focus groups with 93 participants were
conducted among lower income renters, prospective homebuyers, and
delinquent homeowners. Findings revealed that 73 per cent of participants
expressed interest in SEH. Participants perceived that SEH was more likely
to deliver individual, community, and economic benefits than rental or
homeownership options in the market. However, participants also maintained
concerns about program design, development, and location of shared equity
homes. Findings suggest that SEH development may be viable in localities
with relatively affordable housing markets, and a large proportion of
targeted beneficiaries comprehend and perceive a need for this tenure
alternative.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1175-1196
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.818621
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Author-Name: Gala Cano Fuentes
Author-X-Name-First: Gala
Author-X-Name-Last: Cano Fuentes
Author-Name: Aitziber Etxezarreta Etxarri
Author-X-Name-First: Aitziber
Author-X-Name-Last: Etxezarreta Etxarri
Author-Name: Kees Dol
Author-X-Name-First: Kees
Author-X-Name-Last: Dol
Author-Name: Joris Hoekstra
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoekstra
Title: From Housing Bubble to Repossessions: Spain Compared to Other West European Countries
Abstract:
After a real estate boom the housing market took a dramatic turn in Spain,
where repossessions and evictions are now a big social problem. Hundreds
of thousands have lost their home since 2008 and many more are at risk.
This paper provides a qualitative analysis of the Spanish experience and
puts it into a comparative West European perspective. The risk of
repossession was found to have six dimensions: the employment situation,
the social protection schemes, the structure of the housing and housing
finance markets, the lending practices, the house price development and
the effectiveness of policies to prevent repossession. Spain 'scores'
badly on all six dimensions, which explain the large number of
repossessions. Only recently, and under strong societal pressure, has the
Spanish government developed policies to tackle this problem.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1197-1217
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.818622
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Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Title: Beyond Home Ownership: Housing, Welfare and Society
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1218-1219
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.666061
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Author-Name: Tatjana Schneider
Author-X-Name-First: Tatjana
Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider
Title: Modernist Semis and Terraces in England
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1219-1221
Issue: 8
Volume: 28
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.741766
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Author-Name: Mark Livingston
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Livingston
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Jon Bannister
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Bannister
Title: Neighbourhood Structures and Crime: The Influence of Tenure Mix and Other Structural Factors upon Local Crime Rates
Abstract:
Public policy in the UK has used housing tenure diversification to achieve
social mix in deprived areas. Such 'mixed communities' are thought to be
more cohesive and sustainable, with reduced crime and antisocial
behaviour. However, the articulation of the link between tenure mix and
crime is weak and the evidence unclear. Using geocoded crime data for
Glasgow for 2001 and 2008 alongside neighbourhood structural data,
including tenure mix, this paper examines the influence of neighbourhood
structural factors upon annual crime rates as well as upon changing crime
rates. Although crime rates are patterned by local tenure structures, the
direct effects are not large. The strongest associations with local crime
rates are for income deprivation levels and the number of alcohol outlets
in an area. Although housing tenure structures play a part in influencing
local crime rates, it may be more a result of sorting effects than
neighbourhood effects.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848267
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Author-Name: Hong Hu
Author-X-Name-First: Hong
Author-X-Name-Last: Hu
Author-Name: Stan Geertman
Author-X-Name-First: Stan
Author-X-Name-Last: Geertman
Author-Name: Pieter Hooimeijer
Author-X-Name-First: Pieter
Author-X-Name-Last: Hooimeijer
Title: Green Apartments in Nanjing China: Do Developers and Planners Understand the Valuation by Residents?
Abstract:
The Chinese government promotes green construction as part of the strategy
to reduce energy consumption. In practice, green construction can be
impeded because various stakeholders valuate green attributes in different
ways. This paper uses the analytic hierarchy process to analyse the extent
to which developers and planners understand the valuation of green
apartment attributes by residents in Nanjing. Results show that buyers of
green apartments rank green attributes lower than safety and
accessibility, and rank healthy construction materials and comfort much
higher than thermal isolation or reduced energy costs. Green developers
tend to focus on aspects that define their margin, such as green
attributes and locational benefits and overlook the social needs, which
are not addressed in building codes and not under their control. They have
better understanding of green residents' priorities with health issues;
planners are more familiar with the social needs of residents and lack
green marketing knowledge.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 26-43
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848268
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Author-Name: j. Albert Cao
Author-X-Name-First: j. Albert
Author-X-Name-Last: Cao
Author-Name: Ramin Keivani
Author-X-Name-First: Ramin
Author-X-Name-Last: Keivani
Title: The Limits and Potentials of the Housing Market Enabling Paradigm: An Evaluation of China's Housing Policies from 1998 to 2011
Abstract:
This paper examines the housing policies in China in the last 14 years in
the context of the international debate on the World Bank's housing market
enabling strategy to improve low-income housing provision in developing
countries. A review of China's urban housing outcomes reveals housing
price inflation and shortage of affordable housing in the fast expanding
housing market. The paper analyzes policies to increase both demand for
and supply of housing and argues that these policies have contributed to
worsening affordability. This situation has been exacerbated by problems
in the institutional framework managing the housing sector. The paper
concludes that market enabling alone is not sufficient to achieve a
satisfactory housing outcome for low- and middle-income groups in Chinese
cities. It advocates more effective and direct public intervention for
enhancing social housing provision and tightening market regulation to
address both market and government failures to improve housing conditions
for lower income groups.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 44-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.818619
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Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzpatrick
Author-Name: Volker Busch-Geertsema
Author-X-Name-First: Volker
Author-X-Name-Last: Busch-Geertsema
Title: Common Ground in Australia: An Object Lesson in Evidence Hierarchies and Policy Transfer
Abstract:
Developed in New York City in 1990, the Common Ground model of supportive
housing has recently been embraced in Australia as a high-profile solution
to chronic homelessness. Combining on-site support services with a
congregate housing form accommodating ex-homeless people and low-income
adults, Common Ground is presented as an innovative model which
permanently ends homelessness, enhances wellbeing, and strengthens
communities. This article critically examines the process of transferring
the model into Australia's social housing sector, drawing on the
perspectives of the high-level stakeholders closely involved. It argues
that, despite official commitments to evidence-based policy, the 'advocacy
coalition' driving this international policy transfer employed a
'knowledge hierarchy' wherein professional intuition and personal
experience were afforded a higher status than formal evaluative evidence.
The article provides an example of the contested nature of what 'counts as
evidence' in housing and homelessness policy, and considers what role
academic research - as well as other knowledge sources - should play in
the policy development process.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 69-87
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.824558
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Author-Name: Lance Freeman
Author-X-Name-First: Lance
Author-X-Name-Last: Freeman
Author-Name: Yunjing Li
Author-X-Name-First: Yunjing
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: Do Source of Income Anti-discrimination Laws Facilitate Access to Less Disadvantaged Neighborhoods?
Abstract:
Vouchers have come to be seen as a tool for promoting economic and
racial/ethnic integration. Discrimination based on Source of Income (SOI),
however, could hinder the use of vouchers to move to more desirable
neighborhoods. State and local SOI anti-discrimination laws (SOI laws) are
one policy response to address this issue. SOI laws make it illegal for
landlords to discriminate against voucher recipients solely on the basis
of their having a voucher. The research presented here tested whether SOI
laws in the USA improve locational outcomes for voucher recipients. This
research found that the impacts of SOI laws on locational outcomes are
mixed. We found substantively important reductions in neighborhood poverty
rates associated with the implementation of SOI laws and small but
statistically significant reductions in minority concentration as well.
The concentration of voucher recipients in a neighborhood, however, does
not appear to be related to SOI law implementation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 88-107
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.824559
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Author-Name: Philip Bohle
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Bohle
Author-Name: Olivia Rawlings-Way
Author-X-Name-First: Olivia
Author-X-Name-Last: Rawlings-Way
Author-Name: James Finn
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Finn
Author-Name: Jessica Ang
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Ang
Author-Name: David J. Kennedy
Author-X-Name-First: David J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kennedy
Title: Housing Choice in Retirement: Community versus Separation
Abstract:
This study explored influences on the housing choices of retirees. Sixteen
convergent interviewing processes were conducted in inner urban, suburban,
coastal and rural locations in South Australia and New South Wales,
Australia. In each location, separate interview processes were conducted
with retirement village residents and retirees living in the surrounding
community. Eighty-one village residents and 73 community residents were
interviewed. Convergence (agreement) emerged within and between interview
processes about two key themes: community, reflecting social connection
and support, and separation, reflecting privacy and independence. A desire
for community was pervasive, but was achieved differently in different
locations and by retirement village and community residents. Community
residents were more concerned about independence and had more negative
perceptions of the impact of retirement village living on separation than
village residents. Implications for retirement housing are discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 108-127
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.825693
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Author-Name: Shishir Mathur
Author-X-Name-First: Shishir
Author-X-Name-Last: Mathur
Title: Impact of Urban Growth Boundary on Housing and Land Prices: Evidence from King County, Washington
Abstract:
This study provides evidence of the impact of an urban growth boundary
(UGB) on housing and land prices. The study uses a data-set that
inventories sales transactions of single-family homes and of vacant lots
zoned for single-family homes within two miles of either side of the
eastern boundary of the primary UGB in King County, Washington. The
results show that although the UGB increases land prices by 230 per cent,
it decreases housing prices by 1.3 per cent. These findings should
encourage policy-makers to adopt a policy framework in which a UGB's
anticipated inflationary land price effect is mitigated by policies that
increase housing supply. Such policies could include minimum density
requirements, zoning for multifamily housing, and ordinances enabling the
construction of accessory dwelling units.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 128-148
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.825695
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Author-Name: Richard Waldron
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Waldron
Author-Name: Declan Redmond
Author-X-Name-First: Declan
Author-X-Name-Last: Redmond
Title: The Extent of the Mortgage Crisis in Ireland and Policy Responses
Abstract:
From the mid-1990s, Ireland experienced a property bubble, fuelled by
deregulation in the banking sector and government commitment to expanding
home ownership. However, since 2007, the situation has dramatically
reversed. The banking system and property market have collapsed and pushed
the Irish state into insolvency. National house prices have fallen by 50
per cent from the peak in 2007, whereas incomes have contracted and the
unemployment rate has increased. This has produced a serious situation
regarding negative equity and mortgage arrears, a problem highlighted by
the former U.S. President Bill Clinton on a visit to Ireland in 2011. This
paper examines government responses to the mortgage crisis, particularly
their emphasis on mortgage forbearance and reform of Ireland's bankruptcy
legislation. An overview of the drivers of the bubble and the extent of
negative equity and arrears is provided firstly. In conclusion, the paper
reflects upon the implications of the crisis for the homeownership model
that Ireland has followed for the last two decades.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 149-165
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.825694
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Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Gebhardt
Title: The Federal Government and Urban Housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 166-167
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.752632
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Author-Name: Peter Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: Shaping Places: Urban Planning, Design and Development
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 168-169
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.752633
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: Accommodating Australians
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 169-173
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.752639
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Author-Name: Patricia Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Patricia
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Title: The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 173-175
Issue: 1
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.756326
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Author-Name: Jaclyn Schildkraut
Author-X-Name-First: Jaclyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Schildkraut
Author-Name: Elizabeth Erhardt Mustaine
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Erhardt
Author-X-Name-Last: Mustaine
Title: Movin', But Not Up To The East Side: Foreclosures and Social Disorganization in Orange County, Florida
Abstract:
The recent foreclosure crisis in the USA has called for a revival in
social disorganization research to examine how communities are being
affected. While a number of studies have examined the direct relationship
between social disorganization and crime in communities plagued by
foreclosure, they have failed to look at the link between social
disorganization and real estate indicators. This study fills this gap by
examining Orange County, Florida in 2010 using realtor-reported
transactional information, a type of data that are rich in transactional
information but has yet to be utilized. The findings of this study
indicate that negative social capital significantly predicts areas with
higher concentrations of foreclosures (positive relationship) and
traditional sales (inverse relationship). The proportion of Fair Housing
Administration/Veterans Administration loans, the average days on market
and the proportion of affluent households in the community also
significantly predict these transactions. Limitations of the study as well
as directions for future research are also discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 177-197
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848263
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Author-Name: Noah J. Durst
Author-X-Name-First: Noah J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Durst
Title: Landlords and Tenants in Informal 'Colonia' Settlements in Texas
Abstract:
Owner-occupied self-help and self-managed housing has been the norm in
colonias-low-income informal settlements along the US-Mexico border-so
scholarly treatment of renting in these settlements has been limited. This
article adds to the scant literature on this topic and is the first to
document the nature of renting in multi-unit rental complexes in colonias.
The article explores the characteristics of landlords and their
motivations for pursuing landlordism by drawing upon key informant
interviews with owners of rental property. The results of 47 surveys
conducted with households in multi-unit complexes throughout 18 colonias
in Starr County, as well as the results from intensive, conversational
case study interviews with selected households, are used to illustrate the
precarious and informal nature of renting in colonias and provide a
limited portrayal of the housing preferences and needs of renters. The
article ends with an evaluation of the policy implications of these
findings.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 198-214
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848264
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Author-Name: Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzpatrick
Author-Name: Mark Stephens
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens
Title: Welfare Regimes, Social Values and Homelessness: Comparing Responses to Marginalised Groups in Six European Countries
Abstract:
This paper examines the exposure to homelessness of socially marginalised
groups to understand better the applicability of, and limits to, welfare
regime analysis. A vignette methodology is deployed in six European
countries to interrogate and compare responses to marginalised groups at
high risk of homelessness, including people with substance misuse
problems, ex-offenders, young people excluded from the family home,
migrants and women fleeing domestic violence. Evidence suggests that a
range of values embedded in national political cultures-including
familialism, social cohesion, individuality, personal responsibility and
personal liberty, as well as egalitarianism-impact on models of
intervention and outcomes for specific marginalised groups in ways which
cannot be straightforwardly predicted from conventional welfare regime
analysis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 215-234
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848265
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Author-Name: Susan Oakley
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Oakley
Title: A Lefebvrian Analysis of Redeveloping Derelict Urban Docklands for High-Density Consumption Living, Australia
Abstract:
In Australia, large-scale residentially driven waterfront redevelopments
have taken on a new urgency and their development has increasingly become
politically, socially and economically significant as urban populations
have burgeoned and governments have sought ways to house, employ and
ensure quality urban environments. Through the lens of Henri Lefebvre's
spatial schema, high-density transit-oriented urbanism in current planning
orthodoxy reveals tensions and inconsistency when applied to the
retrofitting of derelict urban docklands. Drawing specifically on the Port
Adelaide waterfront experience, significant policy failings are evident in
terms of the planning, urban design and residential densification
aspirations associated with this type of development. Because waterfront
redevelopments are promoted as supporting large urban populations, this
paper examines the capacity of these projects to provide planning
processes that can deliver equitable distributional outcomes in terms of
environmentally and socially sustainable spaces of mixed housing tenure,
amenity and quality urban design.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 235-250
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.851175
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Author-Name: Adrienne La Grange
Author-X-Name-First: Adrienne
Author-X-Name-Last: La Grange
Title: Hong Kong's Gating Machine
Abstract:
Scholars have identified 'gating machines' or 'gating coalitions' that
promote gated communities. Hong Kong's high-rise housing estates in the
private sector are extremely gated. Evidence presented in this paper
suggests the proposition that public ownership of land, Hong Kong's land
leasehold system and the government's fiscal interest in generating
maximum revenue from land sales play a pivotal role in explaining
gatedness. The big developers prefer and pay premiums for large sites that
permit mixed use developments and high site intensity, which by use
regulations are required to be gated, while their property management
subsidiaries also promote gating because such estates are cheaper and
easier to manage. Thus, the extent of gatedness is largely the consequence
of Hong Kong's use of land as a resource, its built form, the nature of
its real estate and property management industries, and the articulation
of these factors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 251-269
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.851176
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Author-Name: Lena Magnusson Turner
Author-X-Name-First: Lena
Author-X-Name-Last: Magnusson Turner
Author-Name: Lina Hedman
Author-X-Name-First: Lina
Author-X-Name-Last: Hedman
Title: Linking Integration and Housing Career: A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Groups in Sweden
Abstract:
This study investigates the extent to which immigrant groups are
integrated in the Stockholm region through an analysis of their housing
careers. Housing conditions are linked to many important life course
events, as well as to the resources and preferences of each individual
family. Housing conditions influence integration, but factors related to
integration can also be a cause of housing conditions. In the study, we
take a truly longitudinal approach to housing careers by exploring
differences in the timing of career-related events between several
immigrant groups and native Swedes. The objective of the study is to
explore whether the housing careers of immigrant groups follow family and
work careers in a similar way as the native population. The data are
derived from a longitudinal individual-level register-based data-set
maintained by Statistics Sweden. The analysis is carried out by way of
survival analysis. Our results confirm that there are substantial ethnic
differences in housing careers that cannot be attributed to family
composition or career. Our results also highlight three important factors
that reduce the differences between native Swedes and immigrants groups in
the tendency to enter homeownership: university degree, type of
municipality and duration of stay in Sweden.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 270-290
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.851177
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Author-Name: Chengdong Yi
Author-X-Name-First: Chengdong
Author-X-Name-Last: Yi
Author-Name: Youqin Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Youqin
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Title: Housing Consumption and Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities During the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century
Abstract:
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, Chinese cities have
experienced the unprecedented housing development and marketization, which
has profoundly changed housing consumption. Using the latest census data,
this paper provides the first evaluation of housing consumption in Chinese
cities during 2000-2010. Not surprisingly, housing consumption has
improved significantly over time, especially in the first five years due
to more rapid marketization. Yet, housing inequality has increased
significantly over time, especially across education groups. There is also
significant spatial inequality at provincial level; yet, it has generally
declined over time except inequality in homeownership and subsidized
housing. Improved housing consumption and a complex pattern of housing
inequality are two main characteristics of housing consumption during this
decade.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 291-311
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.851179
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Author-Name: Isobel Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Isobel
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Title: Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 312-313
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.765217
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Author-Name: Tom Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: Neighbourhood Planning: Communities, Networks and Governance
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 314-316
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.797732
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Author-Name: Paul Watt
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Watt
Title: Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth?
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 316-318
Issue: 2
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.830848
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Author-Name: Timo Zumbro
Author-X-Name-First: Timo
Author-X-Name-Last: Zumbro
Title: The Relationship Between Homeownership and Life Satisfaction in Germany
Abstract:
The article investigates the relationship between homeownership and life
satisfaction in Germany, using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data from
1992 to 2009. The data not only allow controlling for a wide range of
variables, but also tackle various measurement problems of previous
studies. Ordered logit models support a positive relationship between
homeownership and life satisfaction. In addition, regression models with
fixed effects also reveal unobserved differences between homeowners and
renters. Further results show that homeownership is particularly important
for low-income households and that there is a significant interaction
between homeownership and the condition of the dwelling as well as
homeownership and the financial burden of the household. Overall, the
findings indicate that policies aim at a higher degree if life
satisfaction should not focus on the promotion of homeownership alone, but
also support home maintenance costs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 319-338
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.773583
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Author-Name: Sotirios Thanos
Author-X-Name-First: Sotirios
Author-X-Name-Last: Thanos
Author-Name: Michael White
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: White
Title: Expectation Adjustment in the Housing Market: Insights from the Scottish Auction System
Abstract:
This paper examines price expectation adjustment of house buyers and
sellers to rapid changes in the housing market using data from Scotland
where houses are sold through 'first-price sealed-bid' auctions. These
auctions provide more information on market signals, incentives and the
behaviour of market participants than private treaty sales. This paper
therefore provides a theoretical framework for analysing revealed
preference data generated from these auctions. We specifically focus on
the analysis of the selling to asking price difference, the 'bid-premium'.
The bid-premium is shown to be affected by expectations of future price
movements, market duration and high bidding frequency. The bid-premium
reflects consumer's expectations, adapting to market conditions more
promptly than asking price setting behaviour and final sale prices. The
volatile conditions of the recent housing market bubble are fully
reflected in the bid-premium, whereas the asking and sale prices are much
less prone to rapid movements.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 339-361
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.783200
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Author-Name: Simon Stevenson
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Stevenson
Author-Name: James Young
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Young
Title: A Multiple Error-Correction Model of Housing Supply
Abstract:
This paper considers supply dynamics in the context of the Irish
residential market. The analysis, in a multiple error-correction
framework, reveals that although developers did respond to disequilibrium
in supply, the rate of adjustment was relatively slow. In contrast,
however, disequilibrium in demand did not impact upon supply, suggesting
that inelastic supply conditions could explain the prolonged nature of the
boom in the Irish market. Increased elasticity in the later stages of the
boom may have been a contributory factor in the extent of the house price
falls observed in recent years.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 362-379
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803040
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Author-Name: Sonya Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Sonya
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Author-Name: George Galster
Author-X-Name-First: George
Author-X-Name-Last: Galster
Author-Name: Nandita Verma
Author-X-Name-First: Nandita
Author-X-Name-Last: Verma
Title: Home Foreclosures and Neighborhood Crime Dynamics
Abstract:
We advance scholarship related to home foreclosures and neighborhood crime
by employing Granger causality tests and multilevel growth modeling with
annual data from Chicago neighborhoods over the period 1998-2009. We find
that completed foreclosures temporally lead property crime and not vice
versa. More completed foreclosures during a year both increase the level
of property crime and slow its decline subsequently. This relationship is
strongest in higher income, predominantly renter-occupied neighborhoods,
contrary to the conventional wisdom. We did not find unambiguous,
unidirectional causation in the case of violent crime and when filed
foreclosures were analyzed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 380-406
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803041
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Author-Name: Bokyong Seo
Author-X-Name-First: Bokyong
Author-X-Name-Last: Seo
Author-Name: Rebecca L.H. Chiu
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca L.H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu
Title: Social Cohesiveness of Disadvantaged Communities in Urban South Korea: The Impact of the Physical Environment
Abstract:
This paper examines the impact of the physical environment and residents'
perception and use of the environment settings on the social cohesiveness
of disadvantaged communities in South Korea. Multiple regression and
qualitative analysis were applied based on the data collected in four
public rental housing estates in Seoul accommodating the lowest income
households. This paper argues that social cohesiveness could be
operationalised in shared norms and trust, attachment to housing estate
and social networking. It was found that the characteristics of social
cohesiveness were different across the same type of public rental housing
estates, and that this variance was partly due to the different conditions
of the physical environment. It was also found that a more positive
perception of the physical environment and the more frequent use of
facilities generally enhanced community cohesiveness. Desirable land use
mix and housing types around the housing estates, preferable community
facilities, housing block design and more effective refurbishment
programmes within the estates were recommended.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 407-437
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803519
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Author-Name: Joseph Mensah
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph
Author-X-Name-Last: Mensah
Author-Name: Christopher J. Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Cultural Dimensions of African Immigrant Housing in Toronto: A Qualitative Insight
Abstract:
This qualitative study examines the lived experiences of Ghanaians and
Somalis in Toronto, highlighting the multifaceted interplays between their
cultures, housing problems, and coping strategies. We found that, unlike
the situation in their homelands where many were involved in communal
living out of desire, in Toronto many are driven to live communally for
reasons of cost. Also, some respondents have to either improvise, or
totally forgo, various culinary practices because of the ways homes are
designed in Toronto. Perhaps, no other cultural attribute was found to be
more consequential in the housing decisions of our respondents than their
religion; not only did it influence their choice of neighborhood and
whether or not their internal living arrangements were gendered, but it
also had some bearing on the acquisition of interest-laden loans for
housing among many Somalis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 438-455
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848266
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Author-Name: Flora Samuel
Author-X-Name-First: Flora
Author-X-Name-Last: Samuel
Title: The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 456-458
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.830850
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Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Title: New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice and Public Housing Policy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 458-460
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.830851
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Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Title: Stories from the Street: A Theology of Homelessness
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 461-462
Issue: 3
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.830852
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Author-Name: Ray Forrest
Author-X-Name-First: Ray
Author-X-Name-Last: Forrest
Title: Public Housing Futures
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 463-466
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.912867
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Author-Name: Sako Musterd
Author-X-Name-First: Sako
Author-X-Name-Last: Musterd
Title: Public Housing for Whom? Experiences in an Era of Mature Neo-Liberalism: The Netherlands and Amsterdam
Abstract:
Public housing in the Netherlands is rapidly changing. While it used to be
an example of how government intervention could successfully contribute to
create descent housing for all, and while public housing was seen as the
instrument to get rid of inhumane housing conditions, currently the sector
is moving into another position. The sector is still large and of high
quality, but its function is significantly changing. In this paper, a
brief history of Dutch and Amsterdam public housing is presented, as well
as an interpretation of the main forces behind its development. These
descriptions are seen as essential ingredients for understanding the rise
and current decline of the sector. An empirical analysis shows for whom
the sector is functioning and what the directions of change are. The
sector is not only declining but also residualising. Its position in the
housing market is getting weaker, while the sector increasingly functions
for lower-level socio-economic categories only.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 467-484
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.873393
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Author-Name: Claire L�vy-Vroelant
Author-X-Name-First: Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: L�vy-Vroelant
Title: Contradictory Narratives on French Social Housing: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Abstract:
Social housing in France now occupies a central position in political
discourse and in public opinion. Accommodating some 17% of households and
being an economic driver, its political weight is understandable. But the
frailty of the current consensus, based on new production as a solution
for solving the "housing crisis," can be approached by analyzing the
ruptures which have occurred since the "glorious times"-in terms of both
narratives and actions. Using the image of a "new deal" between markets,
state, and society and the concept of "general interest" as a framework,
the paper first discusses the way the post-liberal shift impacts and
challenges housing policies and the place of social housing. The
historically constructed narrative of the sector is then presented from
its origins up to the shift of the 1970s. Finally, it is argued that the
turmoil of the last four decades indicates a shift toward a new
repartition between the main stakeholders and a different role for the
State-that leaves unsolved not only the housing question, but also the
social one.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 485-500
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.882498
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Author-Name: Martin Lux
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lux
Author-Name: Petr Sunega
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Sunega
Title: Public Housing in the Post-Socialist States of Central and Eastern Europe: Decline and an Open Future
Abstract:
One key consequence of give-away privatizations was that public housing in
most post-socialist states declined within a few years to a residual share
of total housing market. Despite the large differences in public/social
housing policies introduced after 1995, this article will show that that
almost all new social housing measures proved to be unsustainable,
ineffective and often had the unintended consequence of further enhancing
homeownership tenure in post-socialist housing systems. The reasons for
the limited success of new social housing policies are attributed to
broader historical and institutional factors, such as the 'privatization
trap', the 'decentralization paradox', the impact of the informal economy
and a strong socialist legacy in housing policies. These findings
contribute to the study of how post-socialist housing systems emerged, and
reveal how short-term policies can produce long-term structural change and
can become a barrier to effective and sustainable social housing policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 501-519
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.875986
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Author-Name: Beng Huat Chua
Author-X-Name-First: Beng Huat
Author-X-Name-Last: Chua
Title: Navigating Between Limits: The Future of Public Housing in Singapore
Abstract:
The People's Action Party government of Singapore, which has been in power
without discontinuity since 1959, is committed to a national housing
program with universal provision of 99-year leasehold homeownership for
all its citizens. Since 1961 to 2013, the Housing and Development Board,
the public housing authority, has built more than one million high-rise
housing units, accommodating approximately 90 per cent of the citizens and
permanent residents, of which more than 85 per cent of the resident
households are homeowners. This close to universal provision system has
generated a set of perennial competing demands. Among them are (i) in view
of the absence of a national pension scheme, the need to enable homeowners
to monetize their public housing property to finance the retirement years,
(ii) in order to facilitate retirement funding, public housing flats must
be allowed to increase in asset values, to keep up with inflation and
rising costs of living and (iii) new subsidized flats must be kept
affordable for new entrants into the housing market. The management of
these competing demands requires constant monitoring and intervention by
the state in order to maintain a balance and sustainable system.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 520-533
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.874548
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Author-Name: Jie Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Jie
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Zan Yang
Author-X-Name-First: Zan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang
Author-Name: Ya Ping Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Ya Ping
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: The New Chinese Model of Public Housing: A Step Forward or Backward?
Abstract:
After three decades of housing reform, Chinese government embarked on a
large-scale expansion of public housing provision over the last few years.
This very ambitious plan of public housing construction aims at reducing
the negative impacts from global economic slowdown since 2008; at the same
time, tackling the huge inflation in and achieve the harmonious society
development strategy. This initiative signals a sharp change in housing
policy from that in previous decades. It also put China on a different
track in housing provision when many other countries tried to cut back
public spending to maintain economic stability. This paper aims to provide
a timely analysis of the recent resurgence of public housing sector in
urban China by examining the policy framework, the new structure of
provision, and the driving forces behind this new initiative. We will also
assess the similarities and differences of this approach from the Chinese
pre-reform housing system and public housing practice in other
industrialized countries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 534-550
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.873392
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Author-Name: Ray Forrest
Author-X-Name-First: Ray
Author-X-Name-Last: Forrest
Author-Name: Ngai-Ming Yip
Author-X-Name-First: Ngai-Ming
Author-X-Name-Last: Yip
Title: The Future for Reluctant Intervention: The Prospects for Hong Kong's Public Rental Sector
Abstract:
The growth and resilience of Hong Kong's public rental sector has occurred
in the context of an apparent guiding political ethos of minimal and
reluctant intervention. This paper offers an account of why this has
occurred. A brief account of economic change and housing policy
development over the last three decades is followed by an analysis of
changes in the social role and social composition of the tenure. This
discussion is complemented by some new data on current popular attitudes
towards public rental housing in Hong Kong. The paper then explores
various theoretical perspectives to provide an explanation of why it has
remained as a substantial part of Hong Kong's housing system and points to
the key drivers that will shape its future role and trajectory. The
empirical data are drawn mainly from an analysis of five waves of the
census and a survey of 3000 adults across all housing sectors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 551-565
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.878020
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Author-Name: Lee Crookes
Author-X-Name-First: Lee
Author-X-Name-Last: Crookes
Title: Habitus of the Hood
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 566-568
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.834720
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Author-Name: Mark Stephens
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens
Title: Housing the New Russia
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 568-570
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.843823
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Author-Name: Ilan Wiesel
Author-X-Name-First: Ilan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiesel
Title: Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 570-571
Issue: 4
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.843824
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Author-Name: Kath Hulse
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse
Author-Name: Marietta Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Title: Security and Rental Housing: New Perspectives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 573-578
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.921418
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Author-Name: Hazel Easthope
Author-X-Name-First: Hazel
Author-X-Name-Last: Easthope
Title: Making a Rental Property Home
Abstract:
English-language literature on the relationship between home and dwelling
has largely focused on the benefits of homeownership and (to a lesser
extent) social rental in facilitating ontological security. Less
consideration has been given to the experiences of private tenants. This
paper draws on findings of a study on security of occupancy to discuss the
ability of private renters to exercise control over their dwellings in
Australia. The paper discusses the limitations of Australian legislation,
within its policy, market and cultural context, in enabling private
tenants to exercise control over their dwellings, and compares the
Australian situation with Germany to demonstrate that alternative
approaches that afford more control to private tenants are possible in
rental systems dominated by private rental. The paper concludes with a
call for a wider debate about the importance of home and the impact of
social norms regarding the purpose of different types of tenure on housing
policy and thus on the rights and well-being of tenants.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 579-596
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.873115
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Author-Name: Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzpatrick
Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: Ending Security of Tenure for Social Renters: Transitioning to 'Ambulance Service' Social Housing?
Abstract:
Drawing on international comparative research, this paper examines recent
policy moves to withdraw security of tenure in social housing in England
and Australia. We contend that there are theoretical and empirical grounds
for believing that tenure security is crucial both to social housing
tenants themselves and to conceptualisations of the sector. Starting from
this premise we analyse the underlying rationale(s) for phasing out
open-ended social tenancies. First, we consider the 'welfare dependency'
argument and the claim that 'conditionality' mechanisms will incentivise
social renters to (re)engage with the labour market. Second, we
interrogate the, arguably more influential, rationale which stresses
equity considerations in ensuring that scarce social housing resources are
targeted to those in greatest need. We conclude by reflecting on the
implementation prospects for this high-level policy reform, arguing that
individual social landlords' motivations will be crucial in shaping the
practical impacts of the new regime.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 597-615
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803043
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Author-Name: Michelle Norris
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Norris
Title: Path Dependence and Critical Junctures in Irish Rental Policy: From Dualist to Unitary Rental Markets?
Abstract:
Ireland is categorised as an example of the dualist rental system in
From Public Housing to the Social Market-Kemeny's (1995)
landmark comparative study of rented housing. This article, which examines
the historical development of public subsidisation of housing and
regulation of tenants' occupancy rights in Ireland, argues that contrary
to Kemeny's (1996) assumption, the dualist model has recently unravelled
in this country and been replaced by an embryonic unitary rental model.
This is evidenced by increasing tenure neutrality of government housing
subsidies; equalisation of the secure occupancy rights and minimum
standards regulations across most of the rented sector and the recent
decline of home ownership and expansion of renting for the first time
since records began. Using 'path dependence' and other concepts from the
historical institutionalist literature, the reasons for these developments
are explored as are their implications for Kemeny's (1995) thesis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 616-637
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.873114
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Author-Name: Kath Hulse
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse
Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan
Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne
Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan
Title: Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing
Abstract:
Unlike debates about security for owner occupiers which recognise that
security is complex and multi-layered, security for renters is often
presented as single dimensional and conflated with de
jure security of tenure, deriving from a property rights
perspective. This article proposes a broader concept of 'secure occupancy'
to enable a more nuanced understanding of security for tenants. A new
framework is developed to enable investigation of the dynamic interactions
between legislation/regulation, housing market conditions, public policies
and cultural norms around renting, which shape security of occupancy for
tenants. The paper illustrates this approach, drawing on a study of the
rental systems of nine developed countries, identifying key factors that
appear to have a strong bearing on strengthening, and weakening, of
security of occupancy for renter households. The article concludes that
this approach has the potential to deepen understanding of security for
renters and to stimulate new avenues for research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 638-656
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.873116
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Author-Name: Neda Delfani
Author-X-Name-First: Neda
Author-X-Name-Last: Delfani
Author-Name: Johan De Deken
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: De Deken
Author-Name: Caroline Dewilde
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Dewilde
Title: Home-Ownership and Pensions: Negative Correlation, but No Trade-off
Abstract:
This paper qualifies the role of home-ownership as an income complement
for the elderly by taking the institutional context into account. We argue
that a strategy of asset-based welfare focused on the promotion of
home-ownership is not universally applicable, but depends on how housing
and pension provision are organised. Based on the extent of
commodification in housing and pensions, we distinguish four types of
institutional contexts. We argue that, since relying on housing wealth as
a pension essentially boils down to a market-based approach to welfare
provision, this strategy is more likely to occur when both housing and
pensions are largely commodified, which is only the case in the liberal
welfare states. The conclusion of a trade-off between the rate of
home-ownership and spending on pensions often referred to in prior work is
unlikely to hold universally when differences between housing and pension
provision across contexts are taken into account.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 657-676
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.882495
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Author-Name: Andrew Aurand
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Aurand
Title: Florida's Planning Requirements and Affordability for Low-Income Households
Abstract:
Growth management states in the USA, such as Florida, Oregon, and
Washington, require their local jurisdictions to plan for an adequate
supply of housing for all current and future residents, including
low-income households. This research uses regression analysis to test the
relationship between the strength of local comprehensive plans toward
affordable housing and subsequent changes in housing affordability for
low-income households. Semi-structured interviews with local planners
about their perceptions of the efficacy of local plans provide insight
into the quantitative findings. The initial plans passed after Florida's
Growth Management Act were not associated with subsequent changes in
housing affordability, but more recent plans were. Planners in a number of
jurisdictions indicated that Florida's planning mandate increased
awareness among public officials of affordable housing issues and the
tools available to address them, despite the state's weak oversight.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 677-700
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.882497
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Author-Name: Jon Lang
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Lang
Title: 'Building like Moses with Jacobs in Mind': Contemporary Planning in New York City
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 701-708
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.843822
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Author-Name: Juan A. M�denes
Author-X-Name-First: Juan A.
Author-X-Name-Last: M�denes
Title: Second Home Tourism in Europe: Lifestyle Issues and Policy Responses
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 703-704
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.845404
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Author-Name: Lauren Larin
Author-X-Name-First: Lauren
Author-X-Name-Last: Larin
Title: Local Protest, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 704-706
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.845947
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Author-Name: Peter Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: Scottish Politics (2nd edition)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 706-708
Issue: 5
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.846581
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Author-Name: Christiana Miewald
Author-X-Name-First: Christiana
Author-X-Name-Last: Miewald
Author-Name: Aleck Ostry
Author-X-Name-First: Aleck
Author-X-Name-Last: Ostry
Title: A Warm Meal and a Bed: Intersections of Housing and Food Security in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the relationships between
housing, food security, and health. We begin by reviewing the current
literature on the intersections of housing and food security, emphasizing
the current gaps in knowledge in the areas of building infrastructure,
in-house food programs, and building context for social housing. Derived
from the literature review, we present a model designed to highlight the
relationships between food, housing, and health. Following this, we
provide a case study of housing and food security for residents of the
Downtown Eastside. By examining the experiences of residents struggling to
find both food and shelter within a very low-income context, we underscore
the ways in which food, health, and housing intersect. We conclude by
outlining future research directions that will enhance understanding of
these intersections.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 709-729
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.920769
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Author-Name: Martijn I. Dr�es
Author-X-Name-First: Martijn I.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dr�es
Author-Name: Wolter H.J. Hassink
Author-X-Name-First: Wolter H.J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hassink
Title: Credit Constraints and Price Expectations of Homeowners
Abstract:
This paper examines the effect of credit constraints on the sale price
expectations of homeowners. We extend the results of Genesove and Mayer
(1997) by using a sample of mover and non-mover families living in the
Netherlands-a country without formal down-payment requirements. We find
that homeowners who are more credit constrained expect to sell their house
for a higher price. Homeowners already seem to compensate for credit
constraints at the very first stages of the transaction process. These
results imply that the findings of Genesove and Mayer (1997) are much more
generally applicable than previously considered.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 730-742
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.920768
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Author-Name: Louise Crabtree
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Crabtree
Title: Community Land Trusts and Indigenous Housing in Australia-Exploring Difference-Based Policy and Appropriate Housing
Abstract:
Previous work has highlighted the primacy of non-economic rights in
Indigenous housing objectives. This paper builds on that work and Sanders'
other work demonstrating the limited relevance of 'mainstream' home
ownership for many Indigenous communities, exploring whether models based
on community land trust (CLT) principles might be appropriate for
articulating Indigenous housing aspirations. The paper describes current
Indigenous housing scenarios in urban, regional and remote New South Wales
and Queensland, and findings regarding the resonance of CLTs with
Indigenous housing objectives. While dominant policy and public discourses
promote Indigenous home ownership as an economic development strategy, or
as requiring the alienation of Indigenous lands, the research found
neither to be primary sector imperatives. The paper draws on
difference-based arguments regarding Indigenous affairs arguing that a
focus on diversity emerging from informed Indigenous choice finds a role
for policy supporting diverse Indigenous housing aspirations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 743-759
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.898248
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Author-Name: Anders Vassenden
Author-X-Name-First: Anders
Author-X-Name-Last: Vassenden
Title: Homeownership and Symbolic Boundaries: Exclusion of Disadvantaged Non-homeowners in the Homeowner Nation of Norway
Abstract:
In this article, I introduce the notion of symbolic boundaries to the
study of homeownership. Data for the article are qualitative interviews
with 'housing strugglers' in two cities in Norway, a 'homeowner nation'.
The social categories in question are refugees, people with drug and/or
mental health problems and the 'd�class�'. The analysis reveals patterns
that are familiar from studies of homeowner countries; homeownership is
associated with safety/security, freedom/autonomy, savings and belonging.
Each of these values is explored, and from this examination, I show how
homeownership constitutes a symbolic boundary between the 'worthy' and
'less worthy', and 'insiders' and 'outsiders'. Disadvantaged
non-homeowners, who struggle for security and autonomy in private renting
or social housing, often find that their exclusion from homeownership is
associated with a perceived lack of moral worth and dignity, and with
symbolic exclusion.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 760-780
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.898249
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Author-Name: Ron Fisher
Author-X-Name-First: Ron
Author-X-Name-Last: Fisher
Author-Name: Ruth McPhail
Author-X-Name-First: Ruth
Author-X-Name-Last: McPhail
Title: Residents' Experiences in Condominiums: A Case Study of Australian Apartment Living
Abstract:
This research examines issues facing resident owners purchasing and living
in condominiums in a major Australian tourist destination. The authors
argue that the trend towards urban consolidation presents challenges for
purchasers who buy 'off the plan' with the intention of self-occupation of
apartments. Using a qualitative approach involving in-depth interviews of
residents, the study identifies four main areas of concern for resident
owners. Issues such as residential use, zoning, dispute resolution and the
role of the caretaker are discussed. The study concludes that action is
needed in order to reform body corporate legislation and to encourage
local authorities to discharge responsibilities not just for planning but
also for land use.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 781-799
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.898250
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Author-Name: Tine Buffel
Author-X-Name-First: Tine
Author-X-Name-Last: Buffel
Author-Name: Liesbeth De Donder
Author-X-Name-First: Liesbeth
Author-X-Name-Last: De Donder
Author-Name: Chris Phillipson
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Phillipson
Author-Name: Nico De Witte
Author-X-Name-First: Nico
Author-X-Name-Last: De Witte
Author-Name: Sarah Dury
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Dury
Author-Name: Dominique Vert�
Author-X-Name-First: Dominique
Author-X-Name-Last: Vert�
Title: Place Attachment Among Older Adults Living in Four Communities in Flanders, Belgium
Abstract:
There is strong evidence that age brings an increasing attachment to
social and physical environments. However, the extent to which the
experience of place attachment may vary between different types of
locations remains underexplored in ageing research. Using a mixed-method
approach consisting of two consecutive phases, this article aims to
identify contextual factors that either promote or impede older people's
attachment to place. In the first phase, quantitative data from the
Belgian Ageing Studies were used to purposively select four
municipalities: two with relatively strong and two with relatively weak
place attachments among the older population. In the second, qualitative
phase, two focus groups with local stakeholders and 20 semi-structured
interviews with older residents were conducted in each of the four case
study areas in order to explain and build on the quantitative results. The
qualitative findings focus on two contextual factors that have been linked
to place attachment: the physical-spatial environment and population
turnover. The study identifies the various pathways between these factors
and older people's attachments. The article concludes by discussing
practical and policy issues raised by the research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 800-822
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.898741
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Author-Name: Esther Havekes
Author-X-Name-First: Esther
Author-X-Name-Last: Havekes
Author-Name: Marcel Coenders
Author-X-Name-First: Marcel
Author-X-Name-Last: Coenders
Author-Name: Tanja Van der Lippe
Author-X-Name-First: Tanja
Author-X-Name-Last: Van der Lippe
Title: The Wish to Leave Ethnically Concentrated Neighbourhoods: The Role of Perceived Social Cohesion and Interethnic Attitudes
Abstract:
This paper aims to investigate the motives behind people's wishes to move
out of ethnically concentrated neighbourhoods. We focus on the impact of
perceived social cohesion and negative interethnic attitudes and
hypothesise on moving wishes of ethnic majority and minority residents in
the Netherlands (i.e. Turks and Moroccans). Data were derived from the
first wave of the 2009 Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study,
collected in 35 municipalities covering 800 neighbourhoods. Taking into
account household, housing and other neighbourhood attributes, multilevel
logistic regression models show that ethnic majority residents are more
likely to have a wish to move when they live in neighbourhoods with a
large percentage of ethnic minorities. This can be explained by a lack of
perceived social cohesion, but not by their negative attitudes towards
ethnic minorities. Controlling for housing and neighbourhood conditions,
the percentage of ethnic minorities neither increases nor decreases
minority residents' moving wishes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 823-842
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.905672
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Author-Name: Johanna Lilius
Author-X-Name-First: Johanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Lilius
Title: Is There Room for Families in the Inner City? Life-Stage Blenders Challenging Planning
Abstract:
This paper addresses the phenomenon of families returning to inner cities.
With evidence from the first qualitative study done on families residing
in inner-city Helsinki, it demonstrates that urban living reduces the
sharp divide between life before having children and family life. Urban
parents stay in the city much for the same reasons they first moved there:
because they are attracted to population density, good amenities and good
public transport. Living in the city enables a lifestyle where different
life stages blend into each other. The paper, however, reveals that there
is a lack of understanding among city planners and politicians about
family needs in the inner city. By adopting a framework of the reviewed
literature, the paper draws on the argument that modernist ideals on
proper family living still prevail. The paper suggests that planning must
acknowledge that exclusionary life stages are eroding and creating a need
to facilitate multiple forms of lifestyles.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 843-861
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.905673
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Author-Name: Ilan Wiesel
Author-X-Name-First: Ilan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiesel
Author-Name: Gethin Davison
Author-X-Name-First: Gethin
Author-X-Name-Last: Davison
Title: Australia's Unintended Cities: The Impact of Housing on Urban Development
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 862-863
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922834
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Author-Name: Brendan Murtagh
Author-X-Name-First: Brendan
Author-X-Name-Last: Murtagh
Title: Landscape and Society in Contemporary Ireland
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 863-865
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922831
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Author-Name: Nick Taylor Buck
Author-X-Name-First: Nick Taylor
Author-X-Name-Last: Buck
Title: The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City for Sustainability
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 865-867
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.878102
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Author-Name: Rachel Danemann
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Danemann
Title: Wellbeing and Place
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 867-868
Issue: 6
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.891363
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Author-Name: Valerie Kupke
Author-X-Name-First: Valerie
Author-X-Name-Last: Kupke
Author-Name: Peter Rossini
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Rossini
Author-Name: Stanley McGreal
Author-X-Name-First: Stanley
Author-X-Name-Last: McGreal
Author-Name: Sharon Yam
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon
Author-X-Name-Last: Yam
Title: Female-Headed Households and Achieving Home Ownership in Australia
Abstract:
This paper begins by identifying the growth in female-headed households in
Australia. Despite this increase, it is argued that females still lag
males in terms of home ownership rates (HORs) with women in Australia
facing similar ownership challenges as those experienced in the UK and the
USA. In seeking to establish any dynamic change, the study analyses female
home ownership rates in Australia for two points in time, 1998 and 2008.
Logit models are used to predict HORs. The results indicate that factors
such as household type, income and source of income have an impact on
rates of ownership. The paper concludes that female-headed households in
Australia show an increasing propensity to purchase which match, or even
exceed, those of male-headed households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 871-892
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.903902
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Author-Name: Laurence Murphy
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy
Title: 'Houston, we've got a problem': The Political Construction of a Housing Affordability Metric in New Zealand
Abstract:
Since the global financial crisis, housing affordability has assumed
increased policy significance in a number of countries around the world.
At a national level, housing policy formation is subject to certain path
dependency processes and embedded institutional structures. In this paper,
I argue that housing policy formation in New Zealand is increasingly
subject to global flows of policy ideas and that the development of new
housing affordability policies draws upon networks of global policy
agents, housing experts and private consultants. In particular, this
research examines the manner in which a US-based private consultant's
metric of housing affordability, and analysis of the causes of housing
unaffordability, has been incorporated into policy-making and new
legislation in New Zealand.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 893-909
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.915291
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Author-Name: Daniël J. Herbers
Author-X-Name-First: Daniël J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Herbers
Author-Name: Clara H. Mulder
Author-X-Name-First: Clara H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mulder
Author-Name: Juan A. Mòdenes
Author-X-Name-First: Juan A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mòdenes
Title: Moving Out of Home Ownership in Later Life: The Influence of the Family and Housing Careers
Abstract:
Home ownership is often regarded as the preferred housing tenure; however,
situations in parallel life-course careers might make moving to a rental
home necessary or attractive to home owners. Retrospective data from the
SHARELIFE survey were used to study the short- and long-term impact of
situations and disruptions in the family and housing careers on leaving
home ownership at middle (45-64) and older ages (65-80) in Denmark, Sweden
and the Netherlands. We found that directly after separation and
widowhood, the likelihood of leaving home ownership was the greatest.
However, more than 10 years after separation and widowhood, individuals
were still significantly more likely to leave ownership than those in
their first marriage. Furthermore, late first childbirth and early
first-time home ownership were associated with lower chances of leaving
home ownership. We conclude that situations and changes in family and
housing careers have both a short-term and a long-term impact on the
likelihood of moving out of home ownership.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 910-936
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.923090
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Author-Name: Jie Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Jie
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Lan Deng
Author-X-Name-First: Lan
Author-X-Name-Last: Deng
Title: Financing Affordable Housing Through Compulsory Saving: The Two-Decade Experience of Housing Provident Fund in China
Abstract:
Housing Provident Fund (HPF), a compulsory saving scheme providing
self-funded housing credit, is a significant provider of housing finance
in several emerging economies. The Chinese HPF program constitutes the
largest social housing finance program in the world. Yet, very few studies
have examined it. This paper documents the history of China's HPF program,
in particular, how it has evolved from a local experiment to a prominent
national housing program. It then examines the program's management
structure and the role of HPF lending in meeting China's housing finance
needs. The paper also compares China's HPF experience with the HPF
practices in other countries. Finally, the paper examines the challenges
China's HPF program faces today and the efforts to address them. The paper
concludes by discussing some of the broader lessons that can be learned
from China's HPF experience.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 937-958
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.923088
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Author-Name: Jalene Tayler Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Jalene Tayler
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Author-Name: Damian Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Damian
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Title: Prevalence and Causes of Urban Homelessness Among Indigenous Peoples: A Three-Country Scoping Review
Abstract:
A scoping review was carried out to investigate the prevalence and causes
of urban homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and
New Zealand. Relevant information was sought from both academic and grey
literatures. Data on prevalence were sourced from homeless count reports.
Analysis reveals Indigenous peoples are consistently over-represented
within urban homeless populations, often by a factor of 5 or more.
Literature addressing causation is limited, with just 35 relevant studies
identified. These were reviewed to build a thematic and contextual account
of urban Indigenous homelessness. Eight key themes were evident, which
encompass different cultural understandings of housing and mobility, as
well as complex and often traumatic relationships between settler states
and Indigenous peoples. Individually and collectively, these factors
greatly complicate Indigenous peoples' access to safe, affordable and
adequate urban housing. Broad similarities between the three case study
countries suggest opportunities for further comparative research as well
as policy transfer.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 959-976
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.923091
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Author-Name: Marianna Filandri
Author-X-Name-First: Marianna
Author-X-Name-Last: Filandri
Author-Name: Manuela Olagnero
Author-X-Name-First: Manuela
Author-X-Name-Last: Olagnero
Title: Housing Inequality and Social Class in Europe
Abstract:
On the basis of European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
data, this paper conducts a comparative analysis of housing conditions in
different European countries by focusing on social class. The variance in
housing conditions by social class could provide further insights about
the divergence/convergence hypotheses stemming from the comparative
analysis of living conditions of European countries. To support this
claim, two main dimensions of housing inequality will be identified:
tenure and housing well-being. A micro-level data analysis was performed,
in order to take account of individual and family costs of access and
maintenance of ownership in settings and in periods (such as the present
day) of rising housing prices and income resources that decrease in terms
of amount and stability. The aim is thus to demonstrate that, despite the
difference in well-being in Europe between owners and non-owners (on the
average the firsts are better off), homeowners cannot be regarded as a
privileged category per se.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 977-993
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.925096
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Author-Name: Ryan Powell
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Title: Gypsies and Travellers: Empowerment and Inclusion in British Society
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 994-996
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922833
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Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker
Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker
Title: Confronting Suburban Poverty in America
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 997-998
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922828
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Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Title: Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 999-1001
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922829
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Author-Name: Kasim Ortiz
Author-X-Name-First: Kasim
Author-X-Name-Last: Ortiz
Title: Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1001-1003
Issue: 7
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.923233
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Author-Name: Peter Aning Tedong
Author-X-Name-First: Peter Aning
Author-X-Name-Last: Tedong
Author-Name: Jill Linda Grant
Author-X-Name-First: Jill Linda
Author-X-Name-Last: Grant
Author-Name: Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz
Author-X-Name-First: Wan Nor Azriyati
Author-X-Name-Last: Wan Abd Aziz
Author-Name: Faizah Ahmad
Author-X-Name-First: Faizah
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmad
Author-Name: Noor Rosly Hanif
Author-X-Name-First: Noor Rosly
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanif
Title: Guarding the Neighbourhood: The New Landscape of Control in Malaysia
Abstract:
While securitised enclaves have become a global phenomenon, case studies
of particular nations reveal the unique interplay between local conditions
and international influences. This article presents the first major
empirical study of gated developments in Malaysia. We found two types of
enclosures being produced in urban Malaysia. Market-produced gated
communities, attracting affluent households to live within elegant walls,
dominate new growth areas in major cities. Guarded neighbourhoods are a
post-market product: that is they result from resident-initiated actions
to impose makeshift boundaries and controls in older neighbourhoods.
Although concerns about safety and security permeate the national
discourse around gates and guards, new structures of enclosure reinforce
and reproduce shifting structures of inequality, class and ethnicity in
urban Malaysia.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1005-1027
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.923089
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Author-Name: Kath Hulse
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse
Author-Name: Ailsa Mcpherson
Author-X-Name-First: Ailsa
Author-X-Name-Last: Mcpherson
Title: Exploring Dual Housing Tenure Status as a Household Response to Demographic, Social and Economic Change
Abstract:
This article proposes that single housing tenure categories do not enable
an understanding of the ways in which households use, occupy and own
residential properties in the context of broad demographic, economic and
social changes. Adapting work on sub-tenure housing choice, housing tenure
is overlaid with ownership of residential property to develop four tenure
types: Owner, Owner-Owner, Renter and Renter-Owner. Applying this typology
in the Australian case provides valuable new insights, with 1.5 million
households having dual housing tenure status, including almost one in
eight private renters. More broadly, reconceptualising housing tenure to
include ownership of other residential property can contribute to
theoretical debates about household income and wealth; social status and
identity; and social practices and life planning, potentially generating
new research questions such as the extent to which Renter-Owners reflect
new patterns of living or a response to affordability constraints, and the
social identity and political affiliations of those with a dual tenure
status.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1028-1044
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.925097
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Author-Name: Megan Nethercote
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nethercote
Title: Reconciling Policy Tensions on the Frontlines of Indigenous Housing Provision in Australia: Reflexivity, Resistance and Hybridity
Abstract:
In Australia, significant recent reforms reposition Indigenous housing
provision and management in remote and town camp communities under the
mainstream public housing model. Two competing discourses surround this
shift: a federal discourse of standardisation and state discourses of
local responsiveness centred on the introduction of new community
engagement processes into Indigenous public housing. This paper reports on
qualitative research into the micro-scale of policy implementation to
highlight policy-to-practice translation on the frontlines of Indigenous
housing. Based on interviews with Indigenous housing stakeholders, this
paper argues the capacity to support locally responsive housing management
is problematic under the current arrangements. The analytical framework of
realist governmentality reveals frontline housing professionals' role in
the local resolution of tensions between federal and state policy levers.
A focus on agent reflexivity and resistance on the frontline assists in
capturing the dynamic (hybrid) identity of Indigenous public housing, as
an atypical Australian example of hybridity in social housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1045-1072
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.925098
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Author-Name: Chyi Lin Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Chyi Lin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Richard G. Reed
Author-X-Name-First: Richard G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Reed
Title: The Relationship between Housing Market Intervention for First-Time Buyers and House Price Volatility
Abstract:
Declining homeownership rates as observed in many western countries have
direct and indirect implications for the broader economy; hence,
governments have been seeking an effective solution to address this
decline. One of the major challenges is the decline in overall
homeownership rates with an increasing proportion of households deciding
to rent rather than purchase. However, it is surprising that the impact on
the housing market following the introduction of a first-time housing
subsidy scheme has received relatively little attention. This study
addresses this knowledge gap by examining the relationship between (1)
housing market intervention based on first-time owner subsidies in a
global city and (2) the level of house price volatility in the broader
market. For example, the Australian government has implemented different
policies designed to ease housing stress among first-time buyers; one
high-profile policy was the First-time buyer Grant or First Home Owner
Grant (FHOG) in which a cash payment or subsidy is given to new first-time
buyers as a direct incentive. Based on a case study approach, an analysis
is undertaken of the first-time buyer policy where an innovative approach
using the E-GARCH model is employed to assess the effect of the scheme on
the housing market. The findings indicated that the FHOG scheme offered a
stabilisation effect on the housing market. In addition, there is evidence
to support implementation of the FHOG scheme as an effective scheme to
enhance housing affordability of first-time buyers. The findings offer a
rare insight into the effectiveness of the FHOG scheme in enhancing
housing affordability and also maintaining price stabilisation in the
broader housing market.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1073-1095
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.927420
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Author-Name: Dylan Simone
Author-X-Name-First: Dylan
Author-X-Name-Last: Simone
Author-Name: K. Bruce Newbold
Author-X-Name-First: K. Bruce
Author-X-Name-Last: Newbold
Title: Housing Trajectories Across the Urban Hierarchy: Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2001-2005
Abstract:
Within the Canadian housing market, some immigrants move quickly to
quality, affordable housing, whereas others struggle through both
systematic and institutional barriers. This article uses Statistics
Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) -capturing the
settlement and integration experiences of immigrants from 2001 to 2005-and
investigates housing conditions (housing satisfaction, rates of
homeownership, crowding, and affordability) over three survey waves across
the Canadian urban hierarchy. Descriptive statistics are used to explore
the relationship between immigrant admission class, housing conditions,
and settlement locations, namely, those arriving in primary settlement
locations (Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver) relative to that observed in
secondary (census metropolitan areas) and tertiary (census agglomerations)
locations. Using overall housing satisfaction as a proxy for the
suitability/adequacy of housing to the needs of the immigrants, a logistic
regression model is used seeking to understand the factors shaping a
satisfied housing experience; the most significant factors include owning
one's home, having an excellent or very good level of self-rated health,
and not living in crowded conditions. The results of this research are
framed as advancing understanding in the Canadian immigrant housing
discourse through providing a longitudinal perspective on immigrant
housing trajectories, and how these vary across socio-demographic and
economic factors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1096-1116
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Lanlan Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Lanlan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Tieshan Sun
Author-X-Name-First: Tieshan
Author-X-Name-Last: Sun
Author-Name: Sheng Li
Author-X-Name-First: Sheng
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: Legal title, tenure security, and investment-An empirical study in Beijing
Abstract:
Small property rights (SPR) housing is an informal way to provide housing
for residents in Chinese cities. In this paper, we examine the
institutional framework and development of SPR properties in China. Using
survey data collected in Beijing, we investigate perceived tenure security
and the relationship between legal title and investment in home
improvements. We consider both the importance and the limitations of the
legal dimension, as well as de facto situations of urban land uses, in
order to gain a better understanding of property rights and urban
development issues. Our results reveal that the characteristics of
buildings and residents in SPR communities are not much different from
those of commercial housing properties. The residents have a fairly high
degree of tenure security even when their properties are not formally
recognized by the state. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the
absence of a legal title is effective to discourage the owners of SPR
housing properties to invest in their properties.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1117-1138
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Richard Dunning
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunning
Title: Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1139-1140
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.891364
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Author-Name: Stuart Lowe
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart
Author-X-Name-Last: Lowe
Title: Housing Law and Policy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1140-1142
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922830
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Author-Name: Tony O'Sullivan
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Sullivan
Title: Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1142-1145
Issue: 8
Volume: 29
Year: 2014
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922832
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Author-Name: Heather Rollwagen
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Rollwagen
Title: Constructing Renters as a Threat to Neighbourhood Safety
Abstract:
The physical and social organization of the urban environment plays a
central role in the formation of individual perceptions of crime. This
paper examines how the presence of rental housing is constructed as a risk
to neighbourhood safety by urban homeowners. The presence of the ideology
of homeownership fosters a social context in which renters are constructed
as disinvested and irresponsible individuals. As a result, renters are
perceived to pose both an indirect and direct threat to the safety of a
neighbourhood. Data from 23 semi-structured interviews with urban
homeowners are used to illustrate this process. The paper concludes by
considering how these perceptions adversely affect tenants and perpetuate
spatial patterns of inequality.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-21
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.925099
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Author-Name: Peter Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: Neighbourhood Belonging, Social Class and Social Media--Providing Ladders to the Cloud
Abstract:
The growth of social media over the past decade has transformed how we
have interacted with the World Wide Web. This paper presents data from a
research project coproduced with community organisations that had created
an online archive through a Facebook site of a deprived neighbourhood in
Edinburgh, Scotland. Framing the data from this site in the literature on
class, place, stigma and belonging, the paper presents further evidence of
the 'we-being' of working-class residence as opposed to the elective
belonging of middle class people, and the stigma towards working-class
neighbourhoods from wider society. The paper concludes by highlighting the
benefits of social media in producing a natural discussion about
neighbourhoods and residence and the importance of creating ladders to the
cloud for working-class neighbourhoods.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 22-39
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.953448
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Author-Name: Peter K. Mackie
Author-X-Name-First: Peter K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackie
Title: Homelessness Prevention and the Welsh Legal Duty: Lessons for International Policies
Abstract:
The paradigm shift in international homelessness policies towards a
prevention focus has resulted in proven benefits to society and most
importantly to individuals at risk of homelessness. Across the developed
world, homelessness prevention is being pursued with vigour alongside
existing homelessness interventions and yet there has been no pause for a
systematic evaluation of how prevention fits alongside existing systems.
Wales provides the first case where homelessness services have been
systematically reviewed since the prevention turn. This paper critically
examines the implementation of homelessness prevention in Wales,
identifying how deficiencies echo emerging global concerns about the
prevention turn. Drawing upon evidence gathered during a review of
homelessness legislation in Wales, the paper examines the extent to which
emerging proposals for legislative change will overcome problems with
prevention. The emerging Welsh homelessness prevention and alleviation
duty is seen as a desirable and replicable model of prevention, albeit it
offers no panacea to the social tragedy of homelessness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 40-59
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.927055
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Author-Name: Misa Izuhara
Author-X-Name-First: Misa
Author-X-Name-Last: Izuhara
Title: Life-course Diversity, Housing Choices and Constraints for Women of the 'Lost' Generation in Japan
Abstract:
This article explores housing choices and trajectories of women in their
30s during a period of new risks and opportunities in Japan's post-growth
urban context. Due to the economic recession and the broader context of
neoliberal globalization, there has been an observed delay among
post-youth adults in their progression through the life-course. Many of
the life-course transitions including leaving parental home, family
formation and purchasing home, which used to occur earlier in people's
20s, now often occur in their 30s. Thus the 30-somethings are a
transitional cohort and women in particular are more likely to experience
a profound impact in the context of economic deflation and deregulation.
Drawing on qualitative data obtained through fieldwork, this article
examines how women's diversified life-courses are shaping their housing
choices; and how their housing opportunities are shaped by the wider
structures of housing markets and institutions. It explores such processes
of interplay between housing choices, opportunities and constraints of the
'lost' generation in Japan.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 60-77
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.933780
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Author-Name: James Hanlon
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanlon
Title: Fair Housing Policy and the Abandonment of Public Housing Desegregation
Abstract:
In this article I examine the failure of fair housing policy to
desegregate public housing in the USA. The article reviews major federal
actions toward public housing segregation, as well as broader public
housing segregation patterns and trends in the USA. It then draws on a
variety of archival sources to present an in-depth case study of public
housing segregation and desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky. Unlike
previous studies of the subject, this article provides a detailed
investigation of the relationship between local public housing tenancy
policies and changes in racial occupancy across Louisville's housing
projects spanning the last 50 years. The article argues for the importance
of research on local-scale policy implementation for our understanding of
fair housing policy, and it draws from its investigation of Louisville
some conclusions about the inability of fair housing policy in the USA to
realize its stated objectives.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 78-99
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.933781
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Author-Name: Lynda Cheshire
Author-X-Name-First: Lynda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheshire
Author-Name: Robin Fitzgerald
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzgerald
Title: From Private Nuisance to Criminal Behaviour: Neighbour Problems and Neighbourhood Context in an Australian City
Abstract:
The problems that arise between neighbours have not received the academic
scrutiny they deserve despite neighbour problems and disputes appearing to
be a growing phenomenon. In this paper, we begin to address this omission
by examining the kinds of problems residents in the city of Brisbane,
Australia, are likely to encounter with neighbours and identifying
patterns in their distribution on the basis of neighbourhood
characteristics. Making a distinction between private nuisance problems on
the one hand and antisocial and criminal behaviour on the other hand, we
observe how neighbourhood levels of concentrated disadvantage, residential
mobility and population density all increase the chances of residents
encountering a combination of nuisance and antisocial or criminal
neighbour problems over nuisance problems only or no problems at all.
Conversely, a higher concentration of foreign-born residents is found to
be associated with residents being more likely to experience nuisance or
no problems over more criminal and antisocial forms.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 100-122
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.933783
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Author-Name: Kristin Natalier
Author-X-Name-First: Kristin
Author-X-Name-Last: Natalier
Author-Name: Guy Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Title: No Home Away from Home: A Qualitative Study of Care Leavers' Perceptions and Experiences of 'Home'
Abstract:
This paper explores the cultural and biographical specificity of home by
examining the connections between young people's experiences of
out-of-home care and their definitions of home. The paper draws on 77
in-depth interviews with young people who had lived away from their
families in the Australian out-of-home care system. The paper applies a
psycho-social conceptualisation of 'home' to argue that home was a crucial
symbol through which these young people imagined a less challenging future
and claimed identities of 'being normal'. The majority remembered their
time in out-of-home care as a time of instability and insecurity in terms
of both housing and relationships; they did not feel at home in these
contexts. These histories informed young people's experiences and
imagining of home and their sense of identity within and after out-of-home
care, as they defined home as fundamentally different from out-of-home
care. Their definitions incorporated shelter, emotional well-being,
control, routine, caring relationships and stability.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 123-138
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.943698
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Author-Name: Julia Markovich
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Markovich
Title: 'They Seem to Divide Us': Social Mix and Inclusion in Two Traditional Urbanist Communities
Abstract:
Mixed tenure communities have become an important element of UK housing
policy in recent decades. Whilst valued by policy-makers for generating a
range of benefits, particularly for residents living in social rented
housing, the empirical literature suggests that tenure mixing is neither a
sufficient nor a reliable remedy for addressing issues associated with
concentrations of poverty, disadvantage and social exclusion. This paper
reports on a doctoral research study that considered tenure mixing
practices at two traditional urbanist communities in the UK: Poundbury,
Dorchester, and New Gorbals, Glasgow. Conceptually, the paper uses Young's
critiques of residential segregation and the integration ideal to evaluate
the two communities. Methodologically, it draws on qualitative interviews
with residents, planners and social housing providers. The research
findings contradict many aspects of Young's ideal and highlight the
complex and multidimensional nature of integration in practice. Reflecting
on these findings, the paper identifies five housing policy and research
priorities that might usefully be pursued in future work.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 139-168
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.935707
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Author-Name: Danny Dorling
Author-X-Name-First: Danny
Author-X-Name-Last: Dorling
Title: Why Fight Poverty?
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 169-171
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.922338
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Author-Name: Chris Paris
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Paris
Title: The Housing Bomb
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 171-173
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.964963
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Author-Name: Charlotte Hoole
Author-X-Name-First: Charlotte
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoole
Title: The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities and Contingencies in the Modern City
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 173-174
Issue: 1
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.964962
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Author-Name: George C. Galster
Author-X-Name-First: George C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Galster
Author-Name: Jurgen Friedrichs
Author-X-Name-First: Jurgen
Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrichs
Title: The Dialectic of Neighborhood Social Mix: Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue
Abstract:
We review the longstanding dialectic that has characterized theorizing,
evidence-gathering, and policy-making in the realm of neighborhood social
mix, take stock of where the debate now stands, and offer suggestions of
where next steps in scholarship might be most fruitful. The preponderance
of plausibly causal evidence from Europe and North America indicates that
disadvantaged individuals are (1) harmed by the presence of sizable
disadvantaged groups concentrated in their neighborhood and (2) helped by
the presence of more advantaged groups in their neighborhood, probably due
to positive role modeling, stronger collective control over disorder, and
violence and elimination of geographic stigma, not cross-class social
ties. Thus, there is a sufficient evidentiary base to justify the goal of
social mix on grounds of improving the absolute well-being of the
disadvantaged. This goal should be achieved by voluntary, gradualist,
housing option-enhancing strategies that over the longer term expand
opportunities for lower income families to live in communities with
households of greater economic means. We advocate for these approaches
because they impose fewer hardships on the disadvantaged and, hopefully,
are also more effective over time.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 175-191
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1035926
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Author-Name: George Galster
Author-X-Name-First: George
Author-X-Name-Last: Galster
Author-Name: Anna Santiago
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Santiago
Author-Name: Jessica Lucero
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Lucero
Title: Employment of Low-Income African American and Latino Teens: Does Neighborhood Social Mix Matter?
Abstract:
We quantify how teen employment outcomes for low-income African Americans
and Latinos relate to their neighborhood conditions during ages 14-17.
Data come from surveys of Denver Housing Authority (DHA) households who
have lived in public housing scattered throughout Denver County. Because
DHA household allocation mimics random assignment to neighborhood, this
program represents a natural experiment for overcoming geographic
selection bias. Our logistic and Tobit regression analyses found overall
greater odds of teen employment and more hours worked for those who lived
in neighborhoods with higher percentages of pre-1940 vintage housing,
property crime rates and child abuse rates, though the strength of
relationships was highly contingent on gender and ethnicity. Teen
employment prospects of African Americans were especially diminished by
residence in more socially vulnerable, violent neighborhoods, implying
selective potential gains from social mixing alternatives.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 192-227
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.953447
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Author-Name: Viggo Nordvik
Author-X-Name-First: Viggo
Author-X-Name-Last: Nordvik
Author-Name: Lena Magnusson Turner
Author-X-Name-First: Lena Magnusson
Author-X-Name-Last: Turner
Title: Survival and Exits in Neighbourhoods: A Long-Term Analyses
Abstract:
Neighbourhoods form a frame for our lives. At the same time,
neighbourhoods are themselves formed by mobility into and out of them.
This paper studies who stays in and who leaves in two districts of Oslo.
The empirical analysis is based on a survival model, estimated on a
10-year long longitudinal data-set, because neither theory nor prior
studies yield sufficient guidance to build an empirical model. We propose
a way to nest and test survival models and utilise this in the model
specification. We find that the intensity of the outflow of native
Norwegian from an area is not to any substantial degree related to the
size of the immigrant population. Hence, our results do not confirm the
widespread narrative of white flight as a response to an increased
immigrant population in areas of Oslo. Instead, the larger part of the
outflow is explained by variables related to the life-course of families.
Results do not suggest that increasing the ethnic or income diversity of
Oslo neighbourhoods would substantially increase outflows of native
Norwegians.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 228-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.982518
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Author-Name: Gunvor Christensen
Author-X-Name-First: Gunvor
Author-X-Name-Last: Christensen
Title: A Danish Tale of Why Social Mix Is So Difficult to Increase
Abstract:
One of the political expectations to area-based intervention is to reduce
the number of deprived neighbourhoods by increasing social mix. This paper
considers the impact of area-based intervention on social mix in deprived
neighbourhoods. We apply a difference-in-difference model to estimate the
effect using Danish longitudinal data on individual level for 1989-2006.
We find that area-based intervention has no significant effect on social
mix neither in respect to mix of educational background, employment mix,
income mix nor ethnic mix. Instead, we find a strong residential selection
as residents moving out of treated neighbourhoods have a Danish origin, a
stronger affiliation to labour market and a higher disposable income
compared to residents moving in treated neighbourhoods. This demonstrates
that residents moving in are more socio-economically vulnerable than those
residents moving out. We conclude that area-based intervention becomes
shorthanded when it comes to increasing social mix because area-based
intervention is up against a strong residential selection in moving
pattern.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 252-271
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.982519
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Author-Name: Emily M. Miltenburg
Author-X-Name-First: Emily M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Miltenburg
Title: The Conditionality of Neighbourhood Effects upon Social Neighbourhood Embeddedness: A Critical Examination of the Resources and Socialisation Mechanisms
Abstract:
An immense body of literature has been published on the effects of the
residential neighbourhood on individual socio-economic outcomes. Numerous
studies have designated these neighbourhood effects to the socialisation
and resources mechanisms. This study argues that social contacts and
interactions in the neighbourhood are the minimal condition for these
mechanisms to operate. Following this argument, this study examines
whether these particular mechanisms will operate more strongly, and thus
whether the magnitude of neighbourhood effects will be higher, for
individuals who are socially more embedded in their neighbourhood. These
conditional neighbourhood effects upon social embeddedness in the
neighbourhood are examined for 3272 individuals within 246 neighbourhoods
in the Netherlands. Surprisingly, it is found that the association between
neighbourhood's socio-economic conditions and resident's income is not
different for individuals with a different degree of
neighbourhood-specific social contacts and interactions. Consequently,
this study challenges the core of the neighbourhood effects argument on
socio-economic outcomes by questioning the often applied socialisation and
resources mechanisms.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 272-294
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.995071
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Author-Name: Nick Bailey
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey
Author-Name: Kirsten Besemer
Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Besemer
Author-Name: Glen Bramley
Author-X-Name-First: Glen
Author-X-Name-Last: Bramley
Author-Name: Mark Livingston
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Livingston
Title: How Neighbourhood Social Mix Shapes Access to Resources from Social Networks and from Services
Abstract:
Social mix policies have become controversial. Claims about the harms
caused by neighbourhood effects have been challenged while counter-claims
have been made about the potential benefits for low-income households from
living in poor communities. This paper examines two aspects of this
debate: whether deprived communities provide greater access to social
networks and hence resources in the form of gifts, and whether they
provide worse access to resources in the form of services. Data come from
the largest survey of poverty ever conducted in the UK--the
Poverty and Social Exclusion UK Survey 2012. Results do
not support either position in the debate. They do not suggest that access
to services is worse in deprived neighbourhoods for all services, but only
for a minority. While people in deprived neighbourhoods report marginally
greater contact with family and slightly higher levels of social support,
there is no evidence of greater levels of exchange of gifts or reciprocity
through social networks.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 295-314
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.1000834
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Author-Name: George Galster
Author-X-Name-First: George
Author-X-Name-Last: Galster
Author-Name: Roger Andersson
Author-X-Name-First: Roger
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson
Author-Name: Sako Musterd
Author-X-Name-First: Sako
Author-X-Name-Last: Musterd
Title: Are Males' Incomes Influenced by the Income Mix of Their Male Neighbors? Explorations into Nonlinear and Threshold Effects in Stockholm
Abstract:
We investigate the degree to which neighborhood income composition affects
the subsequent income of individual male residents, and test the degree to
which these effects are characterized by nonlinear, threshold-like
relationships. We specify a fixed-effects model to reduce potential bias
arising from unmeasured individual characteristics affecting neighborhood
selection and income. We employ annual data on 124 000 working-age
males residing in Stockholm over the 1991-2006 period to estimate
parameters for innovative variables measuring the sequence, duration, and
intensity of neighborhood exposures. We find that two thresholds--one
above 20 per cent and the other above 40 per cent--best describe the
strong inverse relationship between consistent exposure to higher
percentages of low-income male neighbors and subsequent earnings of
individual male residents. We draw implications for potential causal
mechanisms behind this relationship and formulating public policy towards
places of concentrated disadvantage.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 315-343
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.931357
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Author-Name: Mike Biddulph
Author-X-Name-First: Mike
Author-X-Name-Last: Biddulph
Title: Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable and Connected Neighbourhoods
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 344-346
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.969502
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Author-Name: Caroline Hunter
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Hunter
Title: Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain. Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 346-348
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1006930
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Author-Name: Patrick Troy
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: Troy
Title: Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 348-349
Issue: 2
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1009625
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Author-Name: Richard Koenig
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Koenig
Title: Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities: A Framework for Evaluating Alternative Models
Abstract:
The need for supportive housing is growing as people with disabilities
seek less restrictive housing options and those who care for them search
for long-term solutions. Supportive housing includes housing in a variety
of styles that is affordable to people with disabilities but is also
connected to services that allow personal independence. Persons with
disabilities are seeking community-based residential living arrangements
within their abilities and means due to changing attitudes, funding, and
legal requirements. As aging parents realize that their disabled adult
children will outlive them, they are searching for new models but there is
a lack of understanding of supportive housing options. A comprehensive
framework is needed to evaluate models by looking at housing and services
as separate but interrelated issues. This article explores the need for
supportive housing for people with disabilities, offers a framework for
evaluating supportive housing options, and provides two case studies of
innovative person-centered models for people with developmental
disabilities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 351-367
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.953449
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Author-Name: Maree Petersen
Author-X-Name-First: Maree
Author-X-Name-Last: Petersen
Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Title: Homeless for the First Time in Later Life: An Australian Study
Abstract:
This article explores pathways into homelessness by older Australians,
with a particular focus on first-time homelessness. Drawing on a
multi-method study including data mining of 561 client records and 20
interviews with service providers, the distinctive nature of older
people's homelessness is demonstrated. Three pathways to homelessness in
later life are identified. With close to 70 per cent of the participants
having had a conventional housing history, the article reveals in rich
detail the circumstances surrounding critical housing incidents for older
Australians. It shows that older people are at risk when they are evicted,
are unable to continue to living with family, face unaffordable rent in
the private rental market, cannot continue living in inaccessible rental
housing, as well as experience a breakdown in an important relationship.
The results provide key material to inform the design of services and
policy initiatives to prevent and address homelessness for older
Australians.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 368-391
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.963522
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Author-Name: Lorna Fox O'mahony
Author-X-Name-First: Lorna
Author-X-Name-Last: Fox O'mahony
Author-Name: Louise Overton
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Overton
Title: Asset-based Welfare, Equity Release and the Meaning of the Owned Home
Abstract:
The advantages of ownership--both financial and personal--were a prominent
theme in UK government policies promoting owner-occupation in the latter
half of the twentieth century. More recently, the liberal discourses of
the 'ownership society' have been conflated with the neo-liberalisation of
welfare to restructure the socio-political ideology of ownership around
accumulation and decumulation of housing wealth. This paper analyses
findings from a new qualitative study to explore the tensions that this
shift has created for owner-identities. Equity release transactions
provide a prime context to explore the role of homeownership ideologies on
participation in asset-based welfare: these are conceived as products that
enable older owners to de-cumulate housing equity while continuing to
occupy their homes and retaining the 'badge' of ownership. This paper
focuses on the impact of housing wealth decumulation through equity
release on the meanings of the owned home and to reflect on the role of
feelings about ownership on participation in asset-based welfare.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 392-412
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.963523
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Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Author-Name: Meeyoun Jin
Author-X-Name-First: Meeyoun
Author-X-Name-Last: Jin
Title: Rental Market Restructuring in South Korea: The Decline of the Chonsei Sector and its Implications
Abstract:
Chonsei contracts are a specific type of rental property letting in which
tenants pay very large lump sum deposits in return for a short fixed
tenancy period with no monthly rent payments. This system is specific to
South Korea and became dominant at the end of the twentieth century when
it accounted for almost two-thirds of the rental market and almost 30 per
cent of all housing. In the past decade, however, there have been marked
declines in the number of chonsei tenancies along with a rise in other
hybrid forms of renting. In this paper, we examine transformations in the
chonsei sector that reflect a number of realignments in market and
economic conditions as well as shifting household and demographic
landscapes. The restructuring of the rental sector is, arguably, not only
reshaping housing careers but also reinforcing social inequalities. We
further explore the meaning of the 'chonsei crisis' as well as related
policy issues, comparative concerns and socioeconomic implications.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 413-432
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.970142
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Author-Name: Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Rikke
Author-X-Name-Last: Skovgaard Nielsen
Author-Name: Emma Holmqvist
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Holmqvist
Author-Name: Hanna Dhalmann
Author-X-Name-First: Hanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Dhalmann
Author-Name: Susanne S�holt
Author-X-Name-First: Susanne
Author-X-Name-Last: S�holt
Title: The Interaction of Local Context and Cultural Background: Somalis' Perceived Possibilities in Nordic Capitals' Housing Markets
Abstract:
Immigrants' housing position is often explained by (lack of) resources or
differences in cultural backgrounds. Recent studies have included the
importance of local context. The aim of this paper is to examine Somalis'
perceptions of their possibilities in four Nordic capitals' housing
markets: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. The approach is an
interview study based on immigrants' own explanations of what they strive
for and how they assess the impact of local conditions and cultural
background for their possibilities. We found that local context and
cultural background intertwine and sometimes conflict with each other, but
that the negotiation between cultural background and local context was
individual. The conclusion is that local context and cultural background
are important factors for understanding differences between Somalis on
different housing markets, thus emphasising that local context and
cultural background have to be studied together to understand perceived
housing possibilities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 433-452
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.973386
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Author-Name: Alasdair Rae
Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair
Author-X-Name-Last: Rae
Title: Online Housing Search and the Geography of Submarkets
Abstract:
The importance of search behaviour has long been recognised in the study
of housing markets, but research in this area has frequently been hampered
by lack of data. In many nations, the vast majority of initial housing
search queries are now conducted online and the data this generates could,
in theory, provide us with better insights into how housing market search
operates spatially, in addition to generating new knowledge on the
geography of local housing submarkets. This paper seeks to explore these
propositions by discussing existing conceptions of search before
developing a framework for understanding housing search in the digital
age. A large, user-generated housing market search data-set is then
introduced and analysed with respect to area definition, submarket
geography and search pressure locations. The results indicate that this
kind of 'big data' approach to housing research could generate important
new insights for housing market analysts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 453-472
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.974142
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Author-Name: Steven Rowley
Author-X-Name-First: Steven
Author-X-Name-Last: Rowley
Author-Name: Rachel Ong
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ong
Author-Name: Marietta Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Title: Bridging the Gap between Housing Stress and Financial Stress: The Case of Australia
Abstract:
In recent decades, housing affordability has been increasingly linked to
household financial outcomes where high housing costs relative to income
are perceived to negatively affect financial well-being. However, the
traditional measure of housing affordability in Australia is housing
stress, which is subject to widespread criticism as an inadequate
representation of overall financial stress. This methodological paper
first determines the extent to which housing stress correlates with
experiences of financial stress and, second, demonstrates ways in which
the measure can be modified to deliver a more reliable indication of how
housing costs affect financial well-being. The study contributes to the
international literature by showing how the use of longitudinal data can
improve the measure of housing stress providing a more accurate assessment
of the relationship between housing costs and financial well-being.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 473-490
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.977851
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Author-Name: David Christafore
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Christafore
Author-Name: Susane Leguizamon
Author-X-Name-First: Susane
Author-X-Name-Last: Leguizamon
Title: Spatial Spillovers of Land Use Regulation in the United States
Abstract:
Evidence of spatial dependence in land use regulatory levels was first
found in Brueckner (1998) for California cities. Recent research has not
incorporated this consideration despite the considerable consequences of
the relationship. We seek to expand the empirical find ings to a current,
larger and more diverse data-set for municipalities across the USA.
Analyzing regulatory levels and their determinants from over 2000
municipalities, we find strong evidence of spatial dependence at the local
level even after controlling for geographic and political influences. This
suggests that political competition, rather than welfare maximization
exclusively, may be influencing the level of regulations adopted.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 491-503
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.927054
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Author-Name: Brian Doucet
Author-X-Name-First: Brian
Author-X-Name-Last: Doucet
Title: Olympic Housing: A Critical Review of London 2012's Legacy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 504-505
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1039295
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: The Tenants Movement
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 506-508
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1014626
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Author-Name: Wendy Stone
Author-X-Name-First: Wendy
Author-X-Name-Last: Stone
Title: Private Rental Housing: Comparative Perspectives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 508-510
Issue: 3
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1009624
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Author-Name: Alex Schwartz
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwartz
Title: Introduction to the special issue
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 511-513
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1075321
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Author-Name: Ed Ferrari
Author-X-Name-First: Ed
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrari
Title: The Social Value of Housing in Straitened Times: The View from England
Abstract:
This paper provides a commentary on the contemporary housing crisis in
England and links it to broader questions of role of housing in capitalist
economies and societies. It starts with the assumptions that housing and
community development issues are linked to the wider housing market and
that the housing crisis is not new but has long-run antecedents. The paper
begins by reviewing the contemporary terrain of housing markets and
policies in the UK. It then discusses several aspects of 'crisis': market
volatility, rates of new supply, affordability, state welfare subsidies
and socio-spatial inequalities. Policy responses to these are examined
through a discussion of efforts to expand the role of the private rented
sector, sell-off 'expensive' public housing and curtail market renewal
investments. The paper concludes that current conceptualisations of the
value of housing are often partial and insufficiently integrative and that
policies must explicitly recognise housing as a social and economic asset.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 514-534
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.873117
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Author-Name: Ingrid Gould Ellen
Author-X-Name-First: Ingrid Gould
Author-X-Name-Last: Ellen
Author-Name: Josiah Madar
Author-X-Name-First: Josiah
Author-X-Name-Last: Madar
Author-Name: Mary Weselcouch
Author-X-Name-First: Mary
Author-X-Name-Last: Weselcouch
Title: The Foreclosure Crisis and Community Development: Exploring REO Dynamics in Hard-Hit Neighborhoods
Abstract:
Since the onset of the foreclosure crisis, many communities have faced a
glut of properties that have completed the foreclosure process and are now
owned by banks or other mortgage lenders. Policy-makers worry that large
concentrations of these properties, referred to as 'real estate owned' or
'REO,' impose spillover effects on the price of homes and quality of life
in surrounding neighborhood. Despite receiving significant policy
attention, our understanding of the size, nature, and distribution of
current REO stocks, as well as what becomes of properties after being
sold, is extremely limited or anecdotal. Our paper shines new empirical
light on the REO problem in hard-hit neighborhoods by using local data
sources to analyze recent REO trends in New York City and the core
counties of the Atlanta and Miami areas. For each, we calculate the size
of the REO stock over time in different neighborhood types, estimate the
types of purchasers, and determine whether purchased REO properties are
flipped.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 535-559
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.882496
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Author-Name: Anne B. Shlay
Author-X-Name-First: Anne B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shlay
Title: Life and Liberty in the Pursuit of Housing: Rethinking Renting and Owning in Post-Crisis America
Abstract:
The recent housing crisis's devastating effects on U.S. households'
economic situations provides reason to examine the risks, pitfalls and
assumptions underlying contemporary housing policy. This paper examines
issues associated with renting and owning housing in America. It argues
that housing operates as (1) a dimension of the U.S. system of
stratification, (2) a method for the unfair distribution of resources in
metropolitan space, and (3) a mechanism for the construction of the
"other" and as a vehicle for social exclusion. Homeownership restricts
people to homogeneous neighborhoods, renders low-income families and
renters of all types unacceptable, makes neighborhoods fertile ground for
learning who is socially undesirable, breeds class-based distinctions, and
puts people in financially risky situations. Rethinking questions about
renting and owning may allow consideration of how housing can play a more
constructive role in pursing economic opportunities, redistribution and
social and economic justice in America.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 560-579
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.963521
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Author-Name: Chris Leishman
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Leishman
Title: Housing Supply and Suppliers: Are the Microeconomics of Housing Developers Important?
Abstract:
In this paper, I review the US, UK and international literature on the
responsiveness of housing supply to demand. This is a well-developed area
of the literature, but I put forward two new arguments: that developers
face downward sloping demand curves in the housing market, and that
housing developers as firms are sufficiently heterogenous that their
output decisions cannot be generalised. I draw on the international
literature but use the recent UK experience as a lens, arguing that the
post Barker review planning policy and housing supply reforms did not
yield as much additional housing supply as had been hoped and expected by
policy markets and the housing development industry itself. After
introducing two specific propositions, I present new statistical estimates
that are at least highly suggestive that firm-specific factors are of
importance in understanding supply responsiveness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 580-600
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1021767
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Author-Name: Peter A. Kemp
Author-X-Name-First: Peter A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp
Title: Private Renting After the Global Financial Crisis
Abstract:
Analyses of the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) on housing
have largely focused on subprime mortgages and homeownership. By contrast,
the impact of the financial crisis on the private rented sector has
received much less attention. This paper helps to address that gap by
examining the impact of the GFC on private renting in Britain. In recent
years, the private rented sector (PRS) in Britain has grown in size after
many years of decline; and the formal rules and informal practices that
characterize this tenure have also changed significantly. This
transformation began during the 1990s but the pace of change increased
from the turn of the century and accelerated still further during the GFC.
Drawing on an historical institutional perspective, it shows that the
changes to private renting over this period were shaped not only by
domestic events but also by developments in the international political
economy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 601-620
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1027671
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Author-Name: Rachel garshick Kleit
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel garshick
Author-X-Name-Last: Kleit
Author-Name: Stephen B. Page
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Page
Title: The Changing Role of Public Housing Authorities in the Affordable Housing Delivery System
Abstract:
As the great recession began, public housing authorities (PHAs) were just
beginning to experience the full effects of neoliberal policy
implementation and devolution. Using 13 case studies of the largest PHAs
in the Pacific Northwest, this paper outlines activities that PHAs
undertook to balance public mission with private-market means. PHAs made
trade-offs among five paths that emphasize agency survival, producing
housing for the poorest households, identifying as a nonprofit housing
provider, poverty alleviation, or gaining other public powers. This
diversity of responses points to the under-valued attribute of PHAs as
local organizations with diverse mandates. Dependence on the federal
government, local charter, and the degree of integration with local
government likely contributed to PHAs' propensity to develop non-US
Department of Housing and Urban Development-assisted affordable housing.
Even with this creativity, adequate resources are necessary to meet the
demand for affordable housing for the poorest households as market
conditions change.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 621-644
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.953919
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Author-Name: Jenny Preece
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Preece
Title: Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 645-646
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1047114
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Author-Name: Hans Skifter Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Hans Skifter
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Title: Renewing Europe's Housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 647-648
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1047113
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Author-Name: Corina Buckenberger
Author-X-Name-First: Corina
Author-X-Name-Last: Buckenberger
Title: Good Cities, Better Lives--How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 649-650
Issue: 4
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1051309
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: Introduction to the Special Edition: 'The Politics of Housing Policy'
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 651-655
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1082273
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Author-Name: Alan Murie
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Murie
Author-Name: Peter Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: A Presumption in Favour of Home Ownership? Reconsidering Housing Tenure Strategies
Abstract:
This paper discusses changes in housing finance, tenure and policy in the
UK in the context of Kemeny's important and influential discussion of
political tenure strategies. The evolution of housing tenure in that
country since the 1970s has not conformed to the thesis of a simple
presumption in favour of home ownership and the paper argues that the
framework for housing analysis must look beyond tenure categories,
recognise the complex variations within tenures and consider the
overriding importance of wider structural pressures related to class,
income and wealth and the role of local actors and local variation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 656-676
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1025371
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Author-Name: Bo Bengtsson
Author-X-Name-First: Bo
Author-X-Name-Last: Bengtsson
Title: Between Structure and Thatcher. Towards a Research Agenda for Theory-Informed Actor-Related Analysis of Housing Politics
Abstract:
Researchers in the field of housing studies only seldom employ a 'politics
perspective', analysing the political games and processes of housing
provision and the political institutions of relevance to these processes.
Instead political aspects are largely discussed either in terms of
structural and cultural conditions and constraints on the macro level
('Structure' in the title), or as rather descriptive narratives about
specific governments, elite actors and institutions, without the
theoretical linkage necessary to draw more general conclusions ('Thatcher'
in the title). This article introduces and develops some basic theoretical
elements of a research agenda within housing studies exploring political
actors (in a wide sense) and institutions, and allowing middle-range
theorising and generalisation. It is discussed how such a perspective can
be applied to the field of housing with its political specificities, in
particular the central role of markets. Some earlier research of relevance
to housing politics is reviewed, and ways forward are suggested.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 677-693
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1057556
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: The 'Politics' of Australian Housing: The Role of Lobbyists and Their Influence in Shaping Policy
Abstract:
It is often taken for granted that governments intervene in the housing
market to address social need and affordability concerns, but is this
conceptualisation sufficient to capture the processes that inform housing
policy-making? In this paper, I argue that an appreciation of the roles
performed by interest groups and lobbyists is necessary to understand not
only how housing policies are determined, but also how they are
maintained. The paper begins by setting out the context of Australian
housing policy-making and the arrangements currently in place. Drawing
upon interviews with influential lobbyists and policy advisors, the main
part of the paper considers: the tactics deployed to inform policy-making,
recent examples of successful interventions, the tensions between welfare
and industry lobbyists and the barriers that undermine reform. The final
part considers the wider significance of the lobbying process and its
relevance for future research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 694-710
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.1000833
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Author-Name: Nicole Gurran
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole
Author-X-Name-Last: Gurran
Author-Name: Peter Phibbs
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Phibbs
Title: Are Governments Really Interested in Fixing the Housing Problem? Policy Capture and Busy Work in Australia
Abstract:
This article applies theories of policy capture to explain why Australian
governments appear unable to ameliorate the nation's chronic affordability
pressures, drawing on discourses produced by government, industry lobby
groups and the media, between 2003 and 2013. We focus on key episodes of
policy activity surrounding a series of national-level inquiries on
housing affordability, and affordable housing and planning reforms in the
state of NSW over this time, to highlight the political strategies and
tactics that have enabled key interests and the status quo, to prevail.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 711-729
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1044948
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Author-Name: Dallas Rogers
Author-X-Name-First: Dallas
Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers
Author-Name: Chyi Lin Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Chyi Lin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Ding Yan
Author-X-Name-First: Ding
Author-X-Name-Last: Yan
Title: The Politics of Foreign Investment in Australian Housing: Chinese Investors, Translocal Sales Agents and Local Resistance
Abstract:
This article analyses the cultural, housing and intergovernmental politics
of individual foreign investment in Australian real estate. The first
section provides a brief history of Australia's housing system and shows
the historical trend toward housing affordability 'problems' in Sydney and
Melbourne. This review interrogates the claim Chinese investors compounded
Australia's housing affordability problem after the global financial
crisis. The second more substantive section draws on interview, real
estate website and media data to demonstrate how the Australian housing
system and Chinese and Australian actors enabled Chinese investment in
Australian real estate. The third section demonstrates how a minority of
Australian residents and some journalists are contesting Chinese foreign
investment in Australian real estate. This study shows how contemporary
global real estate relations complicate the politics of Asian real estate
investment in Anglo-sphere countries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 730-748
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1006185
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Author-Name: Corianne Payton Scally
Author-X-Name-First: Corianne Payton
Author-X-Name-Last: Scally
Author-Name: J. Rosie Tighe
Author-X-Name-First: J. Rosie
Author-X-Name-Last: Tighe
Title: Democracy in Action?: NIMBY as Impediment to Equitable Affordable Housing Siting
Abstract:
Effective democracy requires participation. However, the history of urban
politics, housing policy, and neighborhood revitalization has demonstrated
that wealth and power often overshadow participation and community
activism. Proponents of equity planning and advocacy planning in the USA
have fought to include vulnerable, marginalized populations within
planning decisions, yet there have been few examples of this in action. We
apply Fainstein's principles of The Just City (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2010) to investigate the extent to which local
opposition affects affordable housing development. In doing so, we
question the extent to which housing policy and planning in the USA
successfully achieve the goals of equity and fairness, or whether
not-in-my-backyard forces operating within (and beyond) "democratic"
planning processes override those principles in siting decisions. Our
results suggest that community opposition is a considerable barrier to the
efficient siting of affordable housing, and propose changes to local
planning and implementation strategies in order to minimize opposition and
produce more equitable outcomes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 749-769
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1013093
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Author-Name: Sheila Mackintosh
Author-X-Name-First: Sheila
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackintosh
Author-Name: Frances Heywood
Author-X-Name-First: Frances
Author-X-Name-Last: Heywood
Title: The Structural Neglect of Disabled Housing Association Tenants in England: Politics, Economics and Discourse
Abstract:
In England, almost half of all housing association households have a
disabled member who may need home adaptations to improve their health and
well-being. Resources for funding adaptation work are, however,
inadequate; responsibility is contested and government has repeatedly
refused to give clear guidance. The problems have been exacerbated by the
increasingly hybrid nature of a 'sector' too diverse for any single
solution. The research on which this paper is based found that the topic
was never on the agenda of the Housing Corporation at board level and that
academics carrying out major reviews also failed to consider it. Using
theories of agenda setting and models of power and discourse, the authors
consider the findings as a case study. It illustrates how the unseen
exercise of power in housing policy and housing research, through agendas
that prioritise economic and political factors, excludes all other
considerations, especially the needs of existing tenants.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 770-791
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1044947
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Author-Name: Joe Crawford
Author-X-Name-First: Joe
Author-X-Name-Last: Crawford
Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Title: Rational Fictions and Imaginary Systems: Cynical Ideology and the Problem Figuration and Practise of Public Housing
Abstract:
This paper aims to show how Van Wel's theory of problem figuration,
Carlen's concept of imaginary systems and Zizek's notion of cynical
ideology may advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the
contemporary construction of housing policy narratives and embedded
localised housing practise. Applying this theoretical framework to a case
study of responses to homelessness in Scotland and further illustrative
examples from the UK and the USA, the paper examines how housing practise
is constituted through different imaginaries of housing systems. These are
based on fictional as well as rational elements, located within a form of
cynical ideology whereby actors act 'as if' the realities of the present
housing crisis are distanced from the imagined intended functioning of
housing systems. This masks alternative social realities and denies an
explicitly articulated politics of housing which would reveal new
processes of capitalism, generational and class realignments and a
reframing of the role of government itself.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 792-807
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1013092
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Author-Name: Richard Harris
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Harris
Title: Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective / Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land Use Regulation
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 808-811
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1040641
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Author-Name: Martin McNally
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: McNally
Title: Finance for Housing: An Introduction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 811-813
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1006929
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Author-Name: Craig Berry
Author-X-Name-First: Craig
Author-X-Name-Last: Berry
Title: House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 813-815
Issue: 5
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1047115
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Author-Name: Cody Hochstenbach
Author-X-Name-First: Cody
Author-X-Name-Last: Hochstenbach
Title: Stakeholder Representations of Gentrification in Amsterdam and Berlin: A Marginal Process?
Abstract:
In recent years, several studies have highlighted how gentrification
strategies are imposed under the discursive umbrella of 'social mixing'.
However, most evidence is based on Anglo-Saxon experiences. This paper
sets out to expand the geography of gentrification by looking at the
representation of processes and policies of gentrification as put forward
by key stakeholders in Nord-Neuk�lln (Berlin) and Indische Buurt
(Amsterdam). It shows that in both contexts, stakeholders and policy
documents engage with the concept of gentrification, rather than avoid it.
Due to public-policy influence and local criticisms, this engagement
differs between both cases. In Nord-Neuk�lln, the term is heavily
contested and policy-makers attempt to refute accusations of
gentrification, while in the Indische Buurt, the process is explicitly
pursued as a positive policy instrument by policy-makers. Different
representations within each case are shown to be influenced by the
characteristics of in-moving and out-moving residents; the employed
timeframe and the perceived influence of institutions on urban
regeneration.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 817-838
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.979770
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Author-Name: Jan Dohnke
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Dohnke
Author-Name: Dirk Heinrichs
Author-X-Name-First: Dirk
Author-X-Name-Last: Heinrichs
Author-Name: Sigrun Kabisch
Author-X-Name-First: Sigrun
Author-X-Name-Last: Kabisch
Author-Name: Kerstin Krellenberg
Author-X-Name-First: Kerstin
Author-X-Name-Last: Krellenberg
Author-Name: Juliane Welz
Author-X-Name-First: Juliane
Author-X-Name-Last: Welz
Title: Achieving a Socio-Spatial Mix? Prospects and Limitations of Social Housing Policy in Santiago de Chile
Abstract:
In the Chilean housing sector, the combination of free-market imperatives
guiding investment decisions and a long tradition of social housing
subsidies has generally had remarkable success in quantitative terms but
has also contributed to the large-scale segregation of poor families on
the urban periphery. With the goal of a better socio-spatial mix and,
ultimately, social integration, the Chilean government recently revised
its guidelines for housing subsidies, promoting small-scale social housing
in central locations. This paper examines the early effects of this new
housing policy in a cluster of the so-called "pericentral" municipalities
in Santiago de Chile. Specifically, it raises the question of whether the
policy has a chance of achieving its objectives in light of prevailing
free-market conditions. We demonstrate strong interrelations between the
current dynamics of real-estate investment and government-led housing
programs which together continue to promote uneven socio-spatial
development and segregation of the urban poor on a smaller scale.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 839-857
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.982516
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Author-Name: Lars Benjaminsen
Author-X-Name-First: Lars
Author-X-Name-Last: Benjaminsen
Author-Name: Stefan Bastholm Andrade
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Bastholm
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrade
Title: Testing a Typology of Homelessness Across Welfare Regimes: Shelter Use in Denmark and the USA
Abstract:
This article compares patterns of homeless shelter use in Denmark and the
USA. Combining data from homeless shelters in Denmark with population
registers, we find that the prevalence of shelter use is substantially
lower in Denmark than in the USA. A cluster analysis of shelter stays
identifies three types of users similar to findings from US research: the
transitionally, episodically and chronically homeless. However, the
transitionally homeless in Denmark have a higher tendency of suffering
from mental illness and substance abuse than the transitionally homeless
in the USA. The results support Stephens and Fitzpatrick' hypothesis that
countries with more extensive welfare systems and lower levels of poverty
have lower levels of homelessness, mainly amongst those with complex
support needs, whereas in countries with less extensive welfare systems
homelessness affects broader groups and is more widely associated with
poverty and housing affordability problems.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 858-876
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.982517
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Author-Name: Paula Mayock
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayock
Author-Name: Sarah Sheridan
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheridan
Author-Name: Sarah Parker
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Parker
Title: 'It's just like we're going around in circles and going back to the same thing ...': The Dynamics of Women's Unresolved Homelessness
Abstract:
The condition of long-term homelessness has been demonstrated to affect a
far smaller number of individuals compared with those who exit and become
housed. It is nonetheless a pressing policy concern because of the high
social and economic costs associated with prolonged homelessness. As with
much homelessness research generally, gender is not adequately addressed,
and frequently ignored, within analyses of 'long-term' or 'chronic'
homelessness. This paper seeks to redress this imbalance and examines the
experiences of women who have lengthy homeless histories based on the
accounts of 34 women who are participants in a larger biographical study
of homeless women in Ireland. Women's movements into and out of homeless
service settings are examined in some detail, as are their accounts of the
lived experience of prolonged homelessness. Their narratives reveal their
mothering roles and identities, intimate relationships and intimate
partner violence, and their ongoing interactions with institutional
settings, including homeless hostels, as key dynamics influencing their
movements and the strategies used by them as they attempt to manage their
homelessness. We conclude by highlighting several gender-specific forces
driving the women's experiences of unresolved homelessness. A number of
key messages for policy are also discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 877-900
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.991378
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Author-Name: Ian J. Ewart
Author-X-Name-First: Ian J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ewart
Author-Name: Chris Harty
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Harty
Title: Provision of Disability Adaptations to the Home: Analysis of Household Survey Data
Abstract:
The move towards greater provision of healthcare at home has been a
significant policy intention for the past two decades [Ham, C., Dixon, A.,
& Brooke, B. (2012) Transforming the Delivery of Health and Social
Care: The Case for Fundamental Change (London: Kings Fund)]. Key
to this ambition is the need to provide suitable accommodation for
disabled households by installing a range of possible adaptations. Using
data from English Housing Surveys of 2003/2004 and 2009/2010, we compare
levels of the provision of adaptations with a number of socio-cultural
variables, and report on some significant correlations. This includes most
importantly, bias against non-white disabled households and younger
disabled households, a significant link between rented accommodation and
disabled households, and a worrying increase in the proportion of
adaptations deemed by the householders to be 'not needed', from 7 to 25
per cent, over that 6-year time period. We discuss the context of these
results and conclude with an outline plan for future research, which is
urgently needed to verify and understand the issues raised.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 901-923
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.991379
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Author-Name: Sarah Alden
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Alden
Title: On the Frontline: The Gatekeeper in Statutory Homelessness Services
Abstract:
In light of earlier findings linking resource shortages to the practise of
illegitimate gatekeeping in statutory frontline homelessness services,
this article draws on an implementation literature to revisit this topic
following the recent economic downturn and related political austerity
agenda. Following previous research, it was found that unlawful
gatekeeping was practised chiefly in response to resource scarcity,
alongside related pressures due to higher level performance measures.
However, its use was also found, albeit to a lesser extent, to be due to
miscomprehension around relevant legislation and the influence of
individual or peer-level values. Overall, the findings provided a strong
indication that illegitimate gatekeeping has worsened in the current
climate due in large part to the twofold challenge of diminishing
resources, alongside an increase in service users.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 924-941
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.991380
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Author-Name: Louise Lawson
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawson
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Matt Egan
Author-X-Name-First: Matt
Author-X-Name-Last: Egan
Author-Name: Ellie Conway
Author-X-Name-First: Ellie
Author-X-Name-Last: Conway
Title: "You Can't Always Get What You Want..."? Prior-Attitudes and Post-Experiences of Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods
Abstract:
This study uses a longitudinal, qualitative research methodology to
compare residents' prior attitudes towards relocation from restructured
neighbourhoods with their experiences post-move. Participants were
householders in families with children, with interviews carried out
shortly before, and up to 18 months after relocation. There was generally
a good fit between prior attitudes and post-experiences, although those
who had not wanted to move reported more gains than expected, and those
who had wanted to move to 'get on' with their lives had yet to make major
changes in their lives after relocation. There was some retrospective
reassessment of prior attitudes after relocation, consistent with the
notion of low expectations among deprived area residents. There were both
social and psychosocial gains from relocation, with a weak prior sense of
community and inconsistent effects of distance upon social outcomes.
Important mediators of adult experiences and outcomes were personality,
health status and relations with children.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 942-966
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.994199
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Author-Name: Jenny Muir
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Muir
Author-Name: David Mullins
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Mullins
Title: The Governance of Mandated Partnerships: The Case of Social Housing Procurement
Abstract:
Partnership working is nowadays a seemingly ubiquitous aspect of the
management and delivery of public services, yet there remain major
differences of opinion about how they best work for the different
stakeholders they involve. The balances between mandate and trust, and
between hard and soft power, are crucial to current debates about public
service partnerships. This paper explores the example of social housing
procurement in Northern Ireland, and the requirement to form mandated
procurement groups. The research shows that the exercise of hierarchical
power is still important in network governance; that mandated partnerships
alter the balance between trust and power in partnership working, but the
impact is uneven; and that these relationships are (re)shaping the
'hybrid' identity of housing associations. The balance between
accountability for public resources and the independence of third sector
organisations is the key tension in mandated partnerships. The Northern
Ireland experience suggests that trust-based networks could provide more
productive working relationships in partnerships for service delivery.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 967-986
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.995070
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Author-Name: Joe Finnerty
Author-X-Name-First: Joe
Author-X-Name-Last: Finnerty
Title: Housing Law, Rights and Policy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 987-988
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1083769
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Author-Name: Fanny Cornette
Author-X-Name-First: Fanny
Author-X-Name-Last: Cornette
Title: Contemporary Housing Issues in a Globalized World
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 988-990
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1058523
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Author-Name: Michael Oxley
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Oxley
Title: Making Progress in Housing: A Framework for Collaborative Research
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 990-992
Issue: 6
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1047116
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Author-Name: Nathan Marom
Author-X-Name-First: Nathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Marom
Author-Name: Naomi Carmon
Author-X-Name-First: Naomi
Author-X-Name-Last: Carmon
Title: Affordable Housing Plans in London and New York: Between Marketplace and Social Mix
Abstract:
The article reviews and critically analyzes contemporary housing policies
and plans in London and New York in the context of neoliberal urban
governance. In both cities, we find severe housing affordability problems,
an increasing dependence on market provision of affordable housing, and a
gradual shift from supporting low- and moderate-income residents to
promoting housing for households around and above the median income.
Affordable housing plans in both cities also link their "marketplace"
orientation to "social mix" objectives. The article addresses some
socio-spatial implications of these plans and raises concerns regarding
the implementation and unintended consequences of mixed-income housing.
The conclusion discusses ideas and tools for more equitable affordable
housing policies. Finally, we suggest that our analysis of the policy
trends in London and New York and the implications we draw may be relevant
to other global and globalizing cities, which face similar affordability
concerns and rely on the marketplace to address housing needs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 993-1015
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.1000832
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Author-Name: Michael Hooper
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Hooper
Title: Will the City Rise Again? The Contested Geography of Housing Reconstruction in Post-Disaster Haiti
Abstract:
This paper examines the contested geography of post-disaster housing
reconstruction in Haiti. Drawing on interviews with representatives of 48
organizations, it identifies three spatial preferences regarding
reconstruction: urban, non-urban, and mixed. Organizations favoring urban
versus non-urban rebuilding differed markedly in their financial resources
and voice. Many intergovernmental organizations and large international
non-governmental organizations (NGOs)--the organizations that most favored
non-urban rebuilding--held relatively anti-urban perspectives. Small
international and Haitian NGOs were more likely to see Port-au-Prince as a
suitable site for reconstruction and express positive opinions about urban
conditions more generally. The findings indicate that much of the formal
housing reconstruction effort, particularly as led by large, well-funded
and politically powerful organizations, will be directed to the urban
periphery and countryside. This suggests Port-au-Prince may continue to
face the same challenges of unplanned growth that have led some
organizations to find it an undesirable setting for reconstruction in the
first place.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1016-1035
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1006184
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Author-Name: Paloma Taltavull de La Paz
Author-X-Name-First: Paloma
Author-X-Name-Last: Taltavull de La Paz
Author-Name: Laura Gabrielli
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Gabrielli
Title: Housing Supply and Price Reactions: A Comparison Approach to Spanish and Italian Markets
Abstract:
Italian and Spanish property markets have experienced a sustained period
of growth since the mid-1990s until 2008 when both markets fell into rapid
decline due to the worldwide Financial Economic Crisis (FEC). Although the
economic impact of the FEC was similar, each country experienced different
reactions in its respective real estate market, changes on house prices,
building constructions or planning regulations. This paper presents a new
supply equation for Italian and Spanish regional markets. A pool of
EGLS/IV Two-Step GLS methods are used to account for cross-sectional
heteroskedasticity with fixed effects in order to control space
differences. The analysis has been developed at a regional level, and
shows the variation in the responsiveness of the new housing supply to
prices by region. The results show long-term price supply elasticity by
regions, and the negative impact of exogenous shock. They also suggest
that house markets follow similar patterns in several regions with
elastics responses in most territories and stronger negative impact of
credit crunch in Spanish than Italian housing development.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1036-1063
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1006183
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Author-Name: Rebecca J. Walter
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walter
Author-Name: Yanmei Li
Author-X-Name-First: Yanmei
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Serge Atherwood
Author-X-Name-First: Serge
Author-X-Name-Last: Atherwood
Title: Moving to Opportunity? An Examination of Housing Choice Vouchers on Urban Poverty Deconcentration in South Florida
Abstract:
The increase in socioeconomic disparity between households runs counter to
federal housing goals to improve the prospects of the poor. One goal of
the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, which provides rental assistance
to low-income families, is the deconcentration of poverty. This study is a
longitudinal analysis of the HCV program's deconcentration effectiveness
in Broward County, Florida. The movement of HCV households before and
after voucher assignment is examined. Spatial statistics reveal that HCV
recipients are highly clustered in low opportunity areas both prior to and
after receiving a voucher. Factors that significantly relate to the
likelihood that a voucher recipient will or will not move to an area of
higher opportunity are assessed. Results from an opportunity index derived
from principal components analysis and an ordinary least squares
regression model indicate that being non-Black, having a larger household,
and originating from economically distressed areas with high poverty and
unemployment relates more strongly to relocation to neighborhoods with
greater opportunity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1064-1091
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1009004
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Author-Name: Mark R. Lindblad
Author-X-Name-First: Mark R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindblad
Author-Name: Sarah F. Riley
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Riley
Title: Loan Modifications and Foreclosure Sales during the Financial Crisis: Consequences for Health and Stress
Abstract:
Loan modifications and foreclosure sales are two ways mortgage servicers
can respond when homeowners fall behind on house payments. We investigate
the consequences of these events for health and stress by linking
longitudinal survey data with administrative mortgage performance data
that identify those survey participants who experienced a foreclosure
sale, a loan modification, or neither. We find that between 2008 and 2013,
loan modifications and foreclosure sales were both associated with a
reduction in the stress of house payments, while foreclosure sales alone
were associated with a reduction in the stress of home maintenance. Beyond
these property-related stressors, the changes in survey participants'
self-reported sense-of-control and mental, physical, and general health
are most associated with transitions in employment, income, marital
status, and residential quality rather than with loan modifications or
foreclosure sales. These findings run counter to prevailing research, yet
they inform the debate over how to address problems that arise when
homeowners become delinquent on mortgages.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1092-1115
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1008425
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Author-Name: Bruno Meeus
Author-X-Name-First: Bruno
Author-X-Name-Last: Meeus
Author-Name: Pascal De Decker
Author-X-Name-First: Pascal
Author-X-Name-Last: De Decker
Title: Staying Put! A Housing Pathway Analysis of Residential Stability in Belgium
Abstract:
Governments all over the world try to influence in one way or another the
residential mobility of their citizens. This article takes the vantage
point of why Belgians do not want to change residence a lot and how they
actually succeed in doing this. We claim that the framework of a housing
pathways approach helps to get to grips with the historically built-up
archive of normalizing discourses and practices related to housing and
diverse other domains of life. Our in-depth interviews with 67 residents
reveal that normalizing discourses and practices on becoming and remaining
a stable home-owner mainly support the two pillars of Belgian housing
policy (home ownership and commuting) even when these practices and
discourses further endorse ecological and accessibility problems. Policies
that successfully want to change the relocation practices of people do
have to take this archive seriously.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1116-1134
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1008424
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Author-Name: Anuradha Mukherji
Author-X-Name-First: Anuradha
Author-X-Name-Last: Mukherji
Title: From Tenants to Homeowners: Housing Renters After Disaster in Bhuj, India
Abstract:
While renters comprise one-third of urban housing markets, the barriers to
long-term housing needs of renters following a disaster are significant.
This paper examines post-disaster urban housing policy for renter
households following the 2001 Gujarat earthquake in India and its
implications for the housing recovery of renters in Bhuj city, an urban
area close to the epicenter of the earthquake. Employing a qualitative
case study method, the study finds that urban housing policy for renter
households was defined by an ad hoc approach with
multiple shifts over a period of 4 years. The improvised policy eventually
lead to the creation of a publicly funded homeownership program that could
rehouse less than one-third of impacted renters, whereas issues of equity,
land tenure, lack of affordable units, and uncertainty of recovery for the
poorest renters in the city remained.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1135-1157
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1008423
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Author-Name: Rachel Ong
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ong
Author-Name: Gavin A. Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Gavin A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood
Author-Name: Siobhan Austen
Author-X-Name-First: Siobhan
Author-X-Name-Last: Austen
Author-Name: Therese Jefferson
Author-X-Name-First: Therese
Author-X-Name-Last: Jefferson
Author-Name: Marietta E.A. Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta E.A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Title: Housing Equity Withdrawal in Australia: Prevalence, Patterns and Motivations in Mid-to-late Life
Abstract:
In an era of population ageing, the primary home is increasingly viewed as
a personal resource that can perform a pension role in retirement. This
article assesses the extent to which Australians aged 45 years and over
withdraw housing equity through in situ mortgage equity withdrawal (MEW),
downsizing and selling up. We find that the incidence of housing equity
withdrawal has increased over the last decade despite a global financial
crisis. MEW is the dominant form of equity release among those under
pension age, while downsizing or selling up is more frequent among those
above pension age. Downsizing and selling up are more likely to be
prompted by adverse life events than MEW. Selling up is typically an
option of last resort. Our findings offer insights into important debates
around homeownership societies and the welfare role performed by
owner-occupied housing in mid-to-late life.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1158-1181
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1009875
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Author-Name: Quintin Bradley
Author-X-Name-First: Quintin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bradley
Title: When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1182-1183
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1082274
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Author-Name: Laura Crommelin
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Crommelin
Title: Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1183-1185
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1038453
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Author-Name: David Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Title: Social policies and social control. New perspectives on the 'Not-so-big Society'
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1185-1188
Issue: 7
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1072308
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Author-Name: Thomas J. Vicino
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vicino
Title: Henry Ford’s plan for the American suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1355-1357
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1099842
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Author-Name: Peter Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: Good Times Bad Times -- The Welfare Myth of Them and Us
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1357-1359
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1111589
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Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Maree Petersen
Author-X-Name-First: Maree
Author-X-Name-Last: Petersen
Author-Name: Ornella Moutou
Author-X-Name-First: Ornella
Author-X-Name-Last: Moutou
Title: Single-site Supportive Housing: Tenant Perspectives
Abstract:
We examined tenants' experiences and perception living in a single-site
supportive housing. Recent evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of
secure housing with linked voluntary support services as a successful in
enabling people with high vulnerabilities to exit homelessness and sustain
housing. Scholars and policy-makers continue to debate the merits of
scattered site housing with person centred support, on the one hand, and
single-site supportive housing with onsite support, on the other. The
manuscript is based on survey and qualitative data with 120 tenants in a
single-site supportive housing: (n = 60)
formerly homeless and (n = 60) allocated
housing because of low to moderate income. The results show that tenant
experience single-site supportive housing as home; for many single-site
supportive housing constitutes community. Conversely, some design and
security features of single-site supportive housing undermined tenants
autonomy and feeling of home. Moreover, close contact with other tenants
meant that single-site supportive housing was also anti-community.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1189-1209
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1009874
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Author-Name: Mark Stephens
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens
Author-Name: Martin Lux
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lux
Author-Name: Petr Sunega
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Sunega
Title: Post-Socialist Housing Systems in Europe: Housing Welfare Regimes by Default?
Abstract:
This article develops a conceptual framework derived from welfare regime
and concomitant literatures to interpret housing reform in post-socialist
European countries. In it, settled power structures and collective
ideologies are necessary prerequisites for the creation of distinctive
housing welfare regimes with clear roles for the state, market and
households. Although the defining feature of post-socialist housing has
been mass-privatisation to create super-homeownership societies, the
emphatic retreat of the state that this represents has not been replaced
by the creation of the institutions or cultures required to create fully
financialised housing markets. There is, instead, a form of state
legacy welfare in the form of debt-free home-ownership, which
creates a gap in housing welfare that has been partially filled by
households in the form of intergenerational assistance (familialism) and
self-build housing. Both of these mark continuities with the previous
regime. The latter is especially common in south-east Europe where its
frequent illegality represents a form of anti-state
housing. The lack of settled ideologies and power structures suggests that
these housing welfare regimes by default will persist as part of a process
that resembles a path-dependent ‘transformation’ rather than
‘transition’.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1210-1234
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1013090
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Author-Name: Can Cui
Author-X-Name-First: Can
Author-X-Name-Last: Cui
Author-Name: Pieter Hooimeijer
Author-X-Name-First: Pieter
Author-X-Name-Last: Hooimeijer
Author-Name: Stan Geertman
Author-X-Name-First: Stan
Author-X-Name-Last: Geertman
Author-Name: Yingxia Pu
Author-X-Name-First: Yingxia
Author-X-Name-Last: Pu
Title: Residential Distribution of the Emergent Class of Skilled Migrants in Nanjing
Abstract:
Migration in China is traditionally dominated by unskilled rural-urban
migrants that find their way into the city through urban villages,
dormitories or informal housing. However, a remarkable increase in the
number of skilled migrants has been witnessed with the economic
restructuring. Reforms in the labour and housing market have shifted the
spatial arrangement of opportunities, consequently changing migrants'
access to the cities. Using 2000 Population Census and employing spatial
regression models, this study shows skilled migrants to have better access
to the city in the sense that their residences locate in the areas with
more professional jobs and better houses. It is their advantages in the
labour market that determines their favoured access to the public sector
housing, resulting in better residential locations. Female skilled
migrants are less likely than males to settle in areas with a large
proportion of urban village housing or shared accommodation. These
findings reveal the heterogeneity among migrants and the concomitant
differences in spatial behaviour.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1235-1256
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1013094
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Author-Name: Daniel J. Rowe
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe
Author-Name: James R. Dunn
Author-X-Name-First: James R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunn
Title: Tenure-Mix in Toronto: Resident Attitudes and Experience in the Regent Park Community
Abstract:
Policies of mixed-tenure redevelopment have been widely adopted and are
promoted as a means of attenuating the harmful effects of concentrated
urban poverty. In this paper, we examine the case of Toronto's Regent Park
neighbourhood, the first large-scale mixed-tenure redevelopment of a
public housing community in Canada. Using data from 24 qualitative
interviews with residents of both tenures, we provide a descriptive
account of conditions in the redeveloped portion of the neighbourhood,
describe resident experiences and attitudes towards the policy of tenure
mix, and assess the proposition that tenure mix can benefit residents of
public housing. We find that tenure mix enjoys strong support from
residents of both tenures, particularly among a subset of market
residents, and find indirect evidence that tenure mix has increased the
social capital of some tenants. We conclude that the physical renewal of
the neighbourhood is most responsible for improved residential
satisfaction.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1257-1280
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1013091
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Author-Name: Aleksi Karhula
Author-X-Name-First: Aleksi
Author-X-Name-Last: Karhula
Title: Comparing Overall Effects of Family Background on Homeownership During Early Life Course
Abstract:
This paper considers the overall effect of family background on
homeownership by applying sibling correlation models. Sex differences,
differences between singles and couples, and variation during the early
life course (25--35 years old) are analysed using Finnish register data.
These models enable the estimation of the overall effect of the family
background, irrespective of identifying mechanisms behind these effects.
The results indicate that family background has a significant effect,
explaining around 11 per cent of the variation in the probability of
homeownership. The effects for men living without a partner were
significantly higher than for men living with a partner: around 24 per
cent and 12 per cent, respectively. No corresponding difference for women
could be established. These findings suggest that the effect of family
background on homeownership is, in general, high and especially so for
single men.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1281-1298
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Binnur Oktem Unsal
Author-X-Name-First: Binnur Oktem
Author-X-Name-Last: Unsal
Title: State-led Urban Regeneration in Istanbul: Power Struggles between Interest Groups and Poor Communities
Abstract:
From the early 2000s, urban policy-makers in Turkey have promoted
‘urban regeneration’ as the main tool to transform
low-income housing areas, along with former industrial estates, disused
port facilities and so on, into modern living, working, shopping and
entertainment areas. The intention has been to boost land and property
values by transforming both the physical appearance and the sociocultural
and class composition of selected sites. But while the impact, the
rationale and the outcomes of urban regeneration in Turkey are broadly
similar to those reported in the substantial global literature on
‘urban regeneration’, a case-study approach shows that a
number of crucial context-specific factors have shaped the assumption and
responses of key players and collective actors. These in turn have
determined how ‘regeneration policies’ are finally
translated into practice. This article illustrates this point by
describing a particular recent case study in Istanbul: the Tozkoparan
Regeneration Project.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1299-1316
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
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Author-Name: David Gray
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Gray
Title: Hidden Properties of Irish House Price Vintages
Abstract:
Using spectral analysis, prices of two Irish house vintages are
investigated for hidden periodicities. What emerges is a major periodicity
consistent with an Irish business cycle. A further hidden intermediate
cycle in second-hand housing, that is common to all areas of Eire but
featured not nearly so prominently in new housing, is posited to be
related to life events and space stress. By revisiting the housing market
more often, the repeat buyer injects additional volatility in house
prices. It is proposed that housing policy should be directed at reducing
the number of repeat buyers as a means of deflating property bubbles.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1317-1353
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
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Author-Name: David Allatt
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Allatt
Title: Foreclosed America
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1354-1355
Issue: 8
Volume: 30
Year: 2015
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1099841
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Author-Name: Patricia O’Campo
Author-X-Name-First: Patricia
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Campo
Author-Name: Nihaya Daoud
Author-X-Name-First: Nihaya
Author-X-Name-Last: Daoud
Author-Name: Sarah Hamilton-Wright
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Hamilton-Wright
Author-Name: James Dunn
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunn
Title: Conceptualizing Housing Instability: Experiences with Material and Psychological Instability Among Women Living with Partner Violence
Abstract:
Although recent research has documented that partner violence places women
at risk of homelessness and material housing instability, sparse evidence
yet documents the existence or importance of psychological housing
instability for this group. We draw from 45 women’s reports of
their experiences of housing instability across three periods: while
living with their abusive partner, immediately after leaving the partner,
and long after leaving. Housing instability—material and especially
psychological—was a major concern for women across all periods,
along with co-occurring social, familial, financial, mental health, and
violence related problems. In the absence of coordinated services models,
access to and navigation of available services to address these
simultaneous problems posed important challenges for these women. The
concept of housing instability should be expanded to include psychological
instability, and, for women who are experiencing abuse, should be
considered alongside numerous social and health problems that exacerbate
housing precarity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Xun Bian
Author-X-Name-First: Xun
Author-X-Name-Last: Bian
Title: Leverage and Elderly Homeowners’ Decisions to Downsize
Abstract:
We study the effect of financial leverage, measured using the
loan-to-value (LTV) ratios, on elderly homeowners’ decisions to
downsize. Using a 1999--2011 sample of elderly homeowners from the Panel
Study of Income Dynamics, we find that a higher LTV ratio increases the
propensity to downsize. Elderly homeowners with higher LTV ratios are more
likely to move into properties with fewer rooms, to move from
single-family properties into multifamily properties, and to move into
less expensive homes. Our point estimates suggest that on average, a 10
per cent increase in the LTV ratio is associated with a 7.7--9.7 per cent
increase in the probability to downsize.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 20-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Donggen Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Donggen
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Fenglong Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Fenglong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: Contributions of the Usage and Affective Experience of the Residential Environment to Residential Satisfaction
Abstract:
The existing literature has documented that housing conditions,
neighborhood characteristics, and socioeconomics are important
determinants of residential satisfaction. However, the contribution of the
actual usage of the residential environment to residential satisfaction
has rarely been studied. To help fill in this gap, this study examines the
contribution of the usage of housing and neighborhoods as well as the
affective residential experience to residential satisfaction. We apply a
subjective well-being framework and consider residential satisfaction and
residential affective experience as two constituent components of the
residential domain subjective well-being. Data were collected in Beijing
from November 2011 to June 2012. The results show that home and
neighborhood activities significantly affect residential satisfaction;
higher levels of valence and activation of daily activities at home and in
the neighborhood lead to more residential satisfaction.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 42-60
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Anne-Marie Séguin
Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Séguin
Author-Name: Philippe Apparicio
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Apparicio
Author-Name: Mylène Riva
Author-X-Name-First: Mylène
Author-X-Name-Last: Riva
Author-Name: Paula Negron-Poblete
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Negron-Poblete
Title: The Changing Spatial Distribution of Montreal Seniors at the Neighbourhood Level: A Trajectory Analysis
Abstract:
Numerous studies in the 1970s and 1980s examined the changing residential
geography of seniors in North American metropolises but recent studies are
scarce. The goal of this paper is to identify and model neighbourhood
ageing trajectories in Montreal over six consecutive census years
(1981--2006). To identify these trajectories, we use a statistical method,
Latent Class Growth Modelling, applied to location quotients calculated at
the census tracts level (neighbourhoods). The 614 neighbourhoods are
classified according to eight ageing trajectories. Next, we examine the
predictors of these trajectories by introducing two types of variables:
variables characterizing residents and the built environment at the
beginning of the study period, and variables that consider the evolution
of these characteristics over the 25-year time frame. The most important
predictors are the proportions in 1981 of persons 45--64-years old, of
one-person households and of low-income families, and the variation from
1981 to 2006 in proportions of persons 0--14-years old and of one-person
households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 61-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Michelle Norris
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Norris
Title: Varieties of Home Ownership: Ireland’s Transition from a Socialised to a Marketised Policy Regime
Abstract:
This article presents an historical institutional analysis of government
supports for home ownership in Ireland. In doing so, it critiques the
interpretation of the Irish home ownership system and, by extension, of
this tenure’s meaning and role as a neo-liberal project which
dominates the comparative housing literature. Rather than liberal
policies, the article argues that between the 1920s and 1970s, government
subsidies slowly expanded, in terms of generosity, variety and universal
availability, to such a scale that Ireland’s home ownership regime
was effectively ‘socialised’. This regime (not market
forces) raised home ownership to 80 per cent of households. However,
ideological, financial and socio-economic supports for this regime
weakened and during the 1980s home ownership was marketised as universal
subsidies were withdrawn and mortgage lending privatised. The implications
of this redirection were initially disguised by low house price inflation,
but when the economy boomed in the 1990s home ownership contracted sharply
to levels which could be supported solely by the market.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 81-101
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1061107
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Author-Name: Hee-Jung Jun
Author-X-Name-First: Hee-Jung
Author-X-Name-Last: Jun
Title: The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Composition on Neighborhood Economic Change: A Multilevel and Longitudinal Look
Abstract:
This article examines the relationship between racial/ethnic composition
and neighborhood economic change in a multilevel and longitudinal
framework. I employ multilevel modeling to examine how neighborhood
minority composition is associated with change in neighborhood relative
economic status from 1970 to 2010 in the largest 100 metropolitan areas of
the USA. In the multilevel framework, the empirical analysis shows that
the shares of black and Hispanic residents are consistently negatively
related to neighborhood economic gain even when metropolitan-level factors
are taken into account. This study also finds that the negative effect of
neighborhood minority composition on neighborhood economic gain is
differentiated by deindustrialization and minority composition at the
metropolitan level. In the longitudinal framework, the findings show that
the negative effect of neighborhood minority composition on neighborhood
economic gain has declined over time.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 102-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1061108
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Author-Name: Erika Altmann
Author-X-Name-First: Erika
Author-X-Name-Last: Altmann
Title: Beyond Gated Communities
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 126-128
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1105476
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Author-Name: Stephen Crossley
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Crossley
Title: Underclass: a history of the excluded since 1880 (2nd edition)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 128-130
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1127350
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Author-Name: John Erskine
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Erskine
Title: Gypsies and travellers in housing: the decline of nomadism
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 130-131
Issue: 1
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1127352
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Author-Name: Lei Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Lei
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Author-Name: Tammy Leonard
Author-X-Name-First: Tammy
Author-X-Name-Last: Leonard
Author-Name: James C. Murdoch
Author-X-Name-First: James C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Murdoch
Title: Time and distance heterogeneity in the neighborhood spillover effects of foreclosed properties
Abstract:
In this paper, we examined heterogeneity in the simultaneous space-time
impact of foreclosures on neighborhood property values. Foreclosures with
longer foreclosure processes were associated with negative neighborhood
price externalities from the time the foreclosing household still had
ownership of the property and continued through the Real Estate Owned
period. However, foreclosures with shorter foreclosure processes were
associated with negative neighborhood price externalities that did not
occur until at least three months after the
foreclosure auction and were much smaller in magnitude. Results suggest a
negative neighborhood effect of extending the length of the foreclosure
process. Policy encouraging foreclosure “workout” efforts,
which when unsuccessful extend the duration of the foreclosure process,
should take these additional price externalities into account.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 133-148
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1070794
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Author-Name: Anita Blessing
Author-X-Name-First: Anita
Author-X-Name-Last: Blessing
Title: Repackaging the poor? Conceptualising neoliberal reforms of social rental housing
Abstract:
This paper considers the need for conceptual renewal in comparative
housing research. Since the mid-1990s, Kemeny’s model of
‘unitary’ and ‘dualist’ rental markets and
Harloe’s classification of ‘mass’ and
‘residual’ social housing provision have been repeatedly
recycled in comparative studies of ‘social’ and
‘public’ housing provision. Amidst international neoliberal
policy mobilities, their models based on liberal welfare regimes wield
particular power. Conceived during neoliberal cutbacks of public services,
Kemeny’s ‘dualist’ rental market and Harloe’s
‘residual’ model of social housing similarly depict
state-subsidised rental housing provision as bureaucratic, and targeted to
the poor. Despite empirical change, these models are still used to
describe liberal welfare regimes, and to theorise international policy
convergence. Based on a review of recent market-oriented reforms of
state-subsidised rental housing provision in the US, Australia and
England; original neoliberal ‘sites of production’, this
contribution asks whether these conceptual models still reflect the
empirics. Findings diverge from the models, undermining their assumptions
about how neoliberal reforms progress.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 149-172
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1070799
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Author-Name: Roderick W. Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Roderick W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones
Author-Name: William Alex Pridemore
Author-X-Name-First: William Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Pridemore
Title: The U.S. housing crisis and suicide rates: an examination of total-, sex-, and race-specific suicide rates
Abstract:
The US housing crisis affected millions of people nationwide. One recent
study found a connection between foreclosure and suicide, and prior
research showed an association between macro-level economic hardship and
suicide rates. Using data from 142 US metropolitan statistical areas and a
measure of housing stress that accounts for limitations of prior measures,
we tested the association between the housing crisis and overall and sex-
and race-specific suicide rates. Weighted least squares regression results
indicated that housing-mortgage stress had no effect on suicide rates in
our sample. We discuss the theoretical and social implications of these
findings and areas for future research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 173-189
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1070795
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Author-Name: Adam Stebbing
Author-X-Name-First: Adam
Author-X-Name-Last: Stebbing
Author-Name: Ben Spies-Butcher
Author-X-Name-First: Ben
Author-X-Name-Last: Spies-Butcher
Title: The decline of a homeowning society? Asset-based welfare, retirement and intergenerational equity in Australia
Abstract:
Researchers have increasingly recognised a link between homeownership
levels and retirement policy, particularly in English-speaking welfare
states. Housing is central to asset-based welfare policies, which may
enable households to efficiently manage life course risks, but may
exacerbate wealth inequality and expose them to market volatility.
Australia presents an important case for understanding the dynamics of
asset-based welfare, with its retirement approach combining high
homeownership rates and a limited public pension. This paper investigates
emerging generational differences in homeownership in Australia. Recent
research has identified declining homeownership amongst younger cohorts.
Using cross-sectional data, we explore alternative theoretical
explanations for this trend. We find no evidence that declining
homeownership reflects changing investment choices or delayed family
formation. Instead, recent trends are consistent with intensifying
inequalities based on class and care responsibilities. This casts doubt on
the viability of Australia as a homeownership society and asset-based
retirement policies in a financialised economy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 190-207
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1070797
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Author-Name: Rebecca J. Bentley
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley
Author-Name: David Pevalin
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Pevalin
Author-Name: Emma Baker
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Baker
Author-Name: Kate Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Author-Name: Aaron Reeves
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeves
Author-Name: Andrew Beer
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Beer
Title: Housing affordability, tenure and mental health in Australia and the United Kingdom: a comparative panel analysis
Abstract:
This paper contributes insights into the role of tenure in modifying the
relationship between housing affordability and health, using a
cross-national comparison of similar post-industrial
nations—Australia and the United Kingdom—with different
tenure structures. The paper utilises longitudinal data from the
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey and British
Household Panel Survey to examine change in the mental health of
individuals associated with housing becoming unaffordable and considers
modification by tenure. We present evidence that the role of tenure in the
relationship between housing and health is context dependent and should
not be unthinkingly generalised across nations. These findings suggest
that the UK housing context offers a greater level of protection to
tenants living in unaffordable housing when compared with Australia, and
this finds expression in the mental health of the two populations. We
conclude that Australian governments could improve the mental health of
their economically vulnerable populations through more supportive housing
policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 208-222
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Kristof Heylen
Author-X-Name-First: Kristof
Author-X-Name-Last: Heylen
Author-Name: Katleen Van den Broeck
Author-X-Name-First: Katleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Van den Broeck
Title: Discrimination and selection in the Belgian private rental market
Abstract:
In this paper, the results are presented of a study on discrimination and
selection in the private rental market in Belgium. In contrast to other
studies on the subject, we focus on different grounds of discrimination
(ethnicity, disability, and gender) and selection (financial means). Two
approaches in the field of behavioral experimental testing were used to
measure the degree of discrimination/selection: a telephone and an email
approach. In both approaches, a different experimental design was applied,
with fictitious applicants for each discrimination ground and the control
group. The fictional rental home seekers asked the landlord—by
phone or e-mail—if the vacant dwelling was still available and if
they could make an appointment for a visit. In the telephone approach, a
sample of 684 online ads was used in a paired-testing design, in which the
landlords were contacted by both the control and experimental applicant.
In the e-mail approach, a random-assignment design with a sample of 1769
online advertisements was used. The analyses revealed that discrimination
for getting an appointment is found for each discrimination/selection
ground in the email approach (only results for men), whereas people with
Moroccan/Turkish names and disabled people were not found to be
discriminated in the telephone approach. Furthermore, gender proved to be
an important factor, as men with a Moroccan/Turkish background were
discriminated in the phone-call approach (in contrast to women), whereas
regarding financial means, women were treated more negatively than men.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 223-236
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1070798
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: The making of the modern British home: the suburban semi and family life between the wars
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 237-238
Issue: 2
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1137153
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Author-Name: Glen Bramley
Author-X-Name-First: Glen
Author-X-Name-Last: Bramley
Title: Housing need outcomes in England through changing times: demographic, market and policy drivers of change
Abstract:
The housing system in England has experienced unprecedented stress and
instability over the last decade, absorbing the impact of demographic
pressure, a credit-fuelled boom, financial crisis, recession and policy
change. A failing supply system and unexpected tenure changes now confront
austerity and welfare cutback. How have these conditions impacted on
traditional and contemporary indicators of housing need and what does this
tell us about the drivers and dynamics of housing need outcomes? Drawing
mainly on analysis of large-scale longitudinal and cross-sectional
surveys, linked to subregional market data, this paper describes and
models the changes in housing need outcomes over two decades. It explores
the impact of demography, market affordability, labour markets, tenure
change and supply on these outcomes. Particular attention is paid to the
persistence or recurrence of need in the context of different housing
pathways and different market contexts, including the relationship with
poverty.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 243-268
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Gill Green
Author-X-Name-First: Gill
Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Author-Name: Caroline Barratt
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Barratt
Author-Name: Melanie Wiltshire
Author-X-Name-First: Melanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiltshire
Title: Control and care: landlords and the governance of vulnerable tenants in houses in multiple occupation
Abstract:
Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in which tenants share facilities are
housing an increasing proportion of vulnerable adults who have limited
affordable housing options. However, knowledge about how these types of
property are managed is limited. In this paper, we examine the governance
function of HMO landlords from the perspective of landlords/landlord
agents and the tenants that live within their properties. The landlord
exercises control through formal and informal risk assessment of tenants
and close surveillance of them. These control mechanisms may also involve
direct or indirect provision of support and care to some tenants. This
illustrates the complex relationship between care and control and the
extent to which both are integral to the housing management of vulnerable
tenants living in HMOs. We suggest that this dual function calls for a
critical examination of what constitutes a ‘good landlord’.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 269-286
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1080818
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Author-Name: Julia R. Woodhall-Melnik
Author-X-Name-First: Julia R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Woodhall-Melnik
Author-Name: James R. Dunn
Author-X-Name-First: James R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunn
Title: A systematic review of outcomes associated with participation in Housing First programs
Abstract:
Housing First (HF) models have gained popularity among many politicians,
policy-makers, and social service providers. Proponents of this model
argue for its strength by drawing on research evidence. In other words,
the use of HF is deemed an ‘evidence-based practice.’
Despite this, a strong synthesis of the evidence used to champion these
models is lacking. This article seeks to address this gap, with a review
focused on outcomes associated with participation in HF programs.
Specifically, we investigate the details of program design coupled with
specific outcomes, so as to better inform future action and research. We
conclude that the research forming the evidence base for HF is
methodologically strong. However, additional research is needed to
determine the benefits of HF for diverse populations. Additional research
is also required to conclusively determine the impact of HF on substance
use and psychiatric treatment. We recommend that policy-makers consider
the needs of local populations when developing and implementing HF
programing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 287-304
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1080816
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Author-Name: Kathryn Howell
Author-X-Name-First: Kathryn
Author-X-Name-Last: Howell
Title: Preservation from the bottom-up: affordable housing, redevelopment, and negotiation in Washington, DC
Abstract:
Previous iterations of large-scale redevelopment were been marked by
displacement of the residents whose homes stood in the way of perceived
progress. Now these neighborhoods face a new kind of urban renewal. A city
with significant vacancy and city government ownership, Washington, DC, is
in the process of rapid infill redevelopment. As property values
surrounding city-backed developments that were once affordable increase,
residents struggle to afford housing. DC has developed significant tools
for the preservation of affordable housing, including an existing stock of
subsidized housing, legal and financial resources, and a network of
organizers and advocates that have given many residents in changing
neighborhoods the opportunity to remain. This paper uses the example of
Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC to examine potential
strategies to preserve affordable housing in rapidly changing housing
markets.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 305-323
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1080819
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Author-Name: Elora Raymond
Author-X-Name-First: Elora
Author-X-Name-Last: Raymond
Author-Name: Kyungsoon Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Kyungsoon
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Dan Immergluck
Author-X-Name-First: Dan
Author-X-Name-Last: Immergluck
Title: Race and uneven recovery: neighborhood home value trajectories in Atlanta before and after the housing crisis
Abstract:
We use zip-code-level home value data and cluster analysis to define three
types of neighborhood housing markets in the Atlanta region based on their
levels of volatility and stability before, during, and after the housing
crisis. We identify the demographic and housing market characteristics of
each of these clusters and use multivariate analysis to measure their
predictive association with the neighborhood types. We also examine
factors that predict long-term price appreciation over the 2001--2014
period. One key finding is that many black neighborhoods exhibited steep
rates of price decline with only little recovery following the crisis.
Meanwhile, many predominantly white, middle- and upper-income
neighborhoods generally more than recovered from any housing price
declines. The findings suggest that the legacies of the mortgage crisis
may have long-lasting implications for housing wealth inequality and
housing markets. Implications include a call for a renewed commitment to
fair housing, community reinvestment, and equitable housing finance
policies to support more evenness in recovery.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 324-339
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1080821
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Author-Name: Hazel Blunden
Author-X-Name-First: Hazel
Author-X-Name-Last: Blunden
Title: Discourses around negative gearing of investment properties in Australia
Abstract:
A tax rule whereby losses on a rental property are deductible against
personal taxable income (commonly known as ‘negative
gearing’) is an almost uniquely Australian practice. This article
explores how this practice is legitimised and justified by politicians
despite coherent criticisms that the practice misdirects investment into
unproductive asset speculation causing house price inflation and
inequality. This article uses critical discourse analysis to examine how
‘negative gearing’ is criticised and legitimised. It is
argued that the interests of the property-owning majority and electoral
pragmatism determine government housing policy. There is a disjunct
between the political imperative of the major parties to maintain high
housing prices in order not to erode the wealth of the majority of voters
(property owners) and the emerging problem of housing unaffordability.
Despite mounting coherent critique coming from economists, and younger
cohorts excluded from home ownership, the policy continues due to
realpolitik considerations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 340-357
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1080820
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Author-Name: Tony Crook
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Crook
Title: Housing and the financial crisis
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 358-359
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1135611
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Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Title: Public housing myths: perception, reality and social policy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 359-361
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1135612
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Author-Name: Tim Packer
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Packer
Title: Young Homeless People and Urban Spaces: Fixed in Mobility
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 361-363
Issue: 3
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1135613
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Author-Name: Iqbal Hamiduddin
Author-X-Name-First: Iqbal
Author-X-Name-Last: Hamiduddin
Author-Name: Nick Gallent
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Gallent
Title: Self-build communities: the rationale and experiences of group-build (Baugruppen) housing development in Germany
Abstract:
Group-build housing developments can bring together the cost and
customisation benefits regularly attributed to self-build housing with a
communitarian ethos associated with ‘intentional’
communities. This paper presents an initial examination of the rationale,
motivations and social experiences of group-build housing from Germany,
where over half of all new homes are produced independently from
volume-build developers. The paper aims, firstly, to test the hypothesis
that group-build delivers general ‘community’ benefits;
secondly, to contribute to an understanding of the processes leading to
successful schemes; and lastly, to demonstrate that by making individual
home building dependent on the success of a larger group, collective
interests can prevail over personal pursuit. This research draws attention
to the motivations, the social experiences through the development process
and the social legacy -- aspects of particular interest for policy-makers
as well as prospective builders -- of group-build housing projects.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 365-383
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1091920
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Author-Name: Ivan Turok
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan
Author-X-Name-Last: Turok
Author-Name: Jackie Borel-Saladin
Author-X-Name-First: Jackie
Author-X-Name-Last: Borel-Saladin
Title: Backyard shacks, informality and the urban housing crisis in South Africa: stopgap or prototype solution?
Abstract:
Rapid urbanisation in the South has contributed to the growth of informal
housing on a large scale. South Africa’s experience is somewhat
unusual in that the growth of informality appears to have taken the form
of backyard shacks in established townships rather than free-standing
shacks in squatter settlements. This is potentially important for
household well-being (e.g. better access to services) and for the
efficient functioning of urban areas. The paper develops a framework for
assessing the impacts and applies it to the country’s leading
metropolitan region, Gauteng. It finds that people are slightly better-off
in backyards than in shacks elsewhere, although the wider benefits for
urban areas are equivocal. In some respects backyard shacks are a stopgap
for poor households desperate for somewhere to live. In other respects
they represent a kind of prototype solution to the urban housing crisis.
The government could do more to improve basic dwelling conditions and to
relieve the extra pressure on local services.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 384-409
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1091921
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Author-Name: Melissa Johnstone
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnstone
Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Jolanda Jetten
Author-X-Name-First: Jolanda
Author-X-Name-Last: Jetten
Author-Name: Genevieve Dingle
Author-X-Name-First: Genevieve
Author-X-Name-Last: Dingle
Author-Name: Zoe Walter
Author-X-Name-First: Zoe
Author-X-Name-Last: Walter
Title: Breaking the cycle of homelessness: Housing stability and social support as predictors of long-term well-being
Abstract:
It is increasingly acknowledged that homelessness involves more than just
being without a house. Indeed, more recent definitions of what constitutes
a home highlight the role of social connections and support (including,
for example, access to space to engage in social relations). This study
examined the role of secure housing and social support as predictors of
psychological well-being of individuals following a period of
homelessness. Using linear mixed models for longitudinal data, we
investigated how changes in social support predicted changes in
individuals’ self-reported personal well-being, life satisfaction
and mood following a period of homelessness
(n = 119), controlling for housing status,
alcohol use and employment status. The results showed that remaining
homeless predicted poorer personal well-being, life satisfaction and mood.
In addition, changes in social support predicted well-being over and above
housing stability. Implications of findings for policy and practice in the
homeless sector are discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 410-426
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1092504
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Author-Name: Steven C. Bourassa
Author-X-Name-First: Steven C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bourassa
Author-Name: Donald R. Haurin
Author-X-Name-First: Donald R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Haurin
Author-Name: Martin Hoesli
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoesli
Title: What affects children’s outcomes: house characteristics or homeownership?
Abstract:
We study the impact of housing conditions on the educational outcomes of
young persons in Switzerland. We focus on children aged 15--19, who are
potentially enrolled in or graduates of high school or vocational training
programs, and young adults aged 20--24, who are potentially students in or
graduates of university or other tertiary institutions. Housing conditions
are characterized in three ways: whether the parents rent or own the
dwelling, the type of dwelling (house or apartment), and a measure of
crowding (occupants per room). We find that the density of residents in
the dwelling is the only influential housing characteristic. Crowding
directly affects the outcomes of children aged 15--19 and presumably
indirectly affects the outcomes of young adults given that admission to
university study requires completion of high school. None of the other
housing characteristics affects children’s outcomes. In particular,
homeownership is not statistically significant in any of our estimations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 427-444
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1094030
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Author-Name: Albert J. Sumell
Author-X-Name-First: Albert J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Sumell
Title: Fracturing and foreclosure: A study of shale gas development and foreclosure levels in Pennsylvania
Abstract:
Despite the considerable attention hydraulic fracturing of shale has
generated around the world, few academic studies to date have examined the
potential impacts shale development has had on local housing markets. This
study aims to partially fill this void by examining the temporal
relationship between shale development and foreclosure levels in
Pennsylvania zip codes. The empirical models measure how foreclosure
levels change in relation to the number of unconventional gas well
permits, drill starts, and well completions for all Pennsylvania zip codes
from January 2007 to June 2012. Zip code and quarterly fixed effects are
included. The results suggest that past shale development was associated
with an increase in foreclosure levels in comparison to neighboring and
socioeconomically similar zip codes without shale development. The
estimates are larger and more consistent after 2009 and in comparison to
neighboring zip codes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 445-462
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1094031
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Author-Name: Timo M. Kauppinen
Author-X-Name-First: Timo M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kauppinen
Author-Name: Katja Vilkama
Author-X-Name-First: Katja
Author-X-Name-Last: Vilkama
Title: Entry to homeownership among immigrants: a decomposition of factors contributing to the gap with native-born residents
Abstract:
This article contributes to research on the homeownership gap between
immigrants and native-born residents in Western countries, extending
earlier research using longitudinal data and studying a country with a
short history of immigration. Discrete-time survival analysis and
statistical decomposition are applied to compare the duration of entry to
homeownership between non-Western immigrants and native-born residents
moving to the Helsinki Metropolitan Area in Finland, using
individual-level register-based data from 1990 to 2008. The results show
considerable differences between groups in the speed of entry to
homeownership. The majority of these differences can be explained by
observed differences in economic and demographic characteristics.
Therefore, differences in economic integration are an important
explanation for the homeownership gaps. However, for some groups,
considerable gaps remain, requiring additional explanations. From a
methodological viewpoint, the results indicate that in cross-sectional
analyses, the significance of economic resources as an explanation for the
homeownership gaps may be underestimated.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 463-488
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1094566
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Author-Name: John Erskine
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Erskine
Title: Rebuilding Britain: planning for a better future
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 489-490
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1152027
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Author-Name: Peter Matthews
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews
Title: What is housing studies for and what impact does it have?
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 490-493
Issue: 4
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1152028
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Author-Name: Claire Cleland
Author-X-Name-First: Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: Cleland
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Carol Tannahill
Author-X-Name-First: Carol
Author-X-Name-Last: Tannahill
Author-Name: Anne Ellaway
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Ellaway
Title: Home truths: Are housing-related events more important for residents’ health compared with other life events?
Abstract:
Moving home and home improvements are significant life events, but their
health impacts are rarely studied in relation to other life events that
occur relatively frequently in deprived populations. This article examines
both housing and personal life events over a three year period among a
study group living in deprived areas of Glasgow, in order to consider
their impacts upon the health and well-being of residents. Housing-related
events are the most frequently occurring life events, with relatively
minor negative impacts upon physical and mental health and mental
well-being; the effects of housing events are attenuated when other life
events are taken into account. The largest negative effects on health are
associated with serious health episodes, crime victimisation and
relationship break-up, with the largest positive effects associated with
getting a job. There is a case for holistic regeneration which offers
personal support for life events and seeks positive interactive effects.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 495-518
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1094565
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Author-Name: Nathanael Lauster
Author-X-Name-First: Nathanael
Author-X-Name-Last: Lauster
Author-Name: Alina McKay
Author-X-Name-First: Alina
Author-X-Name-Last: McKay
Author-Name: Navio Kwok
Author-X-Name-First: Navio
Author-X-Name-Last: Kwok
Author-Name: Jennifer Yip
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Yip
Author-Name: Sheila R. Woody
Author-X-Name-First: Sheila R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Woody
Title: How much of too much? What inspections data say about residential clutter as a housing problem
Abstract:
How big of a housing problem is residential clutter? In this paper, we
draw upon inspections data in Vancouver to both estimate the size of the
problem and detail how it is observed and constituted through municipal
regulatory processes. We contrast the inspections approach to residential
clutter with the mental health approach, which focuses on hoarding
disorder. Inspections data indicate the problem of residential clutter is
potentially larger than might be expected by the epidemiology of hoarding
disorder, and also point toward the many risks associated with clutter.
Using our best estimate, approximately seven per cent of low-income,
dense, single-room occupancy (SRO) housing units inspected were identified
by inspectors as problematically cluttered, indicating a sizable problem.
Larger buildings and those managed as social housing were more likely than
other buildings to have many units identified as problematically
cluttered. Strikingly, for given buildings, estimates of problematic
clutter tended to remain relatively stable across time, inspector, and
inspection method.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 519-539
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1094567
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Author-Name: Ernesto López-Morales
Author-X-Name-First: Ernesto
Author-X-Name-Last: López-Morales
Title: Assessing exclusionary displacement through rent gap analysis in the high-rise redevelopment of Santiago, Chile
Abstract:
Rent gap theory is used here as a way to analyse exclusionary displacement
in six high-rise urban renewal areas in Santiago, Chile. Drawing on a
survey of 746 original households, this article finds 40 per cent of
low-income owner-residents do not have the chance to purchase new
replacement accommodation using the portion of rent gap they capture after
selling their land to high-rise developers. Whilst the sale price of new
apartments rises, a particular type of blockbusting limits the choices of
the low-income residents to selling at a good price or staying put. The
ratio between the different ground rent levels captured either by
developers and original owner-residents confirms the extensive power
deployed by the large-scale real estate firms at the moment of gentrifying
central areas and the extent to which they generate residential
displacement. The ground rent capture is a political economic process, not
a function of the market.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 540-559
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1100281
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Author-Name: Poh Leng Teo
Author-X-Name-First: Poh Leng
Author-X-Name-Last: Teo
Author-Name: Marcus Yu-Lung Chiu
Author-X-Name-First: Marcus Yu-Lung
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu
Title: An ecological study of families in transitional housing -- ‘housed but not homed’
Abstract:
This article discusses the sense of homelessness among nine homeless
families who are in transitional housing in Singapore, where homelessness
is minimal and mostly out of the public eye. This study is significant as
it investigates homelessness experienced by married couples with children
in Singapore, unlike most other research which has examined homelessness
among singles or single-parent families, and which is based in Australia,
Europe, and the US. The sense of homelessness was shaped by the ecological
environment that comprised systemic elements such as kin support, housing
policies, and non-housing policies like citizenship, education, welfare,
and so forth. Homelessness was seen as (i) a loss of complete autonomy,
control, privacy, and comfort; (ii) the lack of physical, practical, and
emotional support from kin; (iii) a compromised ‘sense of
family’ and family decisions; and (iv) hope and endurance while
interacting with the ecological system.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 560-577
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1106064
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Author-Name: Deborah Levy
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah
Author-X-Name-Last: Levy
Author-Name: Zhi Dong
Author-X-Name-First: Zhi
Author-X-Name-Last: Dong
Author-Name: James Young
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Young
Title: Unintended consequences: the use of property tax valuations as guide prices in Wellington, New Zealand
Abstract:
Property markets are characterised by a lack of information, particularly
in relation to price. Where guide prices are not provided for properties
and sale prices for comparable properties are not widely available, buyers
and sellers may depend upon valuations of the property that are not
intended to act as market valuations. The resulting anchoring heuristics
may lead to a reliance on that information in decision-making. Using mass
valuation data and house sale transactions for Wellington, New Zealand,
between 2007 and 2010, issues relating to transaction volume, transaction
prices and the release of government valuation data are evaluated through
a two-stage hedonic estimation. The timing of transactions was related to
the release of government valuation data as well as significant
relationships found between the government value of the land and final
transaction price. These findings suggest that transaction price
influences are an unintended consequence of making mass valuation
information the only freely available information to the public.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 578-597
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1105935
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Author-Name: Emre Korsu
Author-X-Name-First: Emre
Author-X-Name-Last: Korsu
Title: Building social mix by building social housing? An evaluation in the Paris, Lyon and Marseille Metropolitan Areas
Abstract:
In France, social housing is perceived as an instrument for promoting
social mix. In particular, there is an expectation that introducing social
housing into wealthy areas will bring in low-income households and lead to
greater coexistence between lower and higher socio-economic groups.
However, several factors tend to hinder the pro-mix effects of social
housing: financial constraints that reduce the number of new buildings,
especially in high-income neighbourhoods; Not in my
backyard attitudes in wealthy areas; allocation practices by
social landlords who seldom rent dwellings in expensive neighbourhoods to
poor households. Previous experiments with social housing have often
proved disappointing in their impact on social mix. What about
today’s experiments? Has the social housing built in recent times
increased social mix? The empirical evaluation we carried out in Paris,
Lyon and Marseille shows that recent social housing developments have
stimulated social mix but the impact measured is very small.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 598-623
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1114075
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Author-Name: David Allatt
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Allatt
Title: Show me a hero
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 624-625
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1184901
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Author-Name: Marietta E. A. Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta E. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Title: Aides et financements de projets de logements (Subsidies and finance of housing projects)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 625-627
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1184902
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Author-Name: Richard Machin
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Machin
Title: Homes and places: a history of Nottingham’s council houses
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 627-629
Issue: 5
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1184903
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Author-Name: Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Rikke
Author-X-Name-Last: Skovgaard Nielsen
Title: Straight-line Assimilation in Leaving Home? A Comparison of Turks, Somalis and Danes
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to test the evidence for spatial assimilation
and straight-line assimilation in the transition of leaving home in
Denmark. Based on data from the extensive Danish registers, the paper
analyses the home-leaving patterns of Danes, Turkish immigrants, Turkish
descendants and Somali immigrants. Two main findings emerged. First, while
spatial segregation patterns of home-leavers were clear,
inter-generational mobility did take place, supporting the notion of
straight-line assimilation. Second, inter-generational effects were
identified. While there was no indication that parental socio-economic
situation affected the spatial segregation of home-leavers, substantial
effects were found for the share of ethnic minorities in the parental
neighbourhood: the higher the share of ethnic minorities, the higher the
hazard for moving to an ethnic neighbourhood and the lower the hazard for
moving to a non-ethnic neighbourhood. Similarity in the patterns of
natives and the ethnic minority groups indicates that the processes taking
place might be about more than assimilation between generations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 631-650
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1114076
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Author-Name: Rebecca Lazarovic
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Lazarovic
Author-Name: David Paton
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Paton
Author-Name: Lisa Bornstein
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Bornstein
Title: Approaches to workforce housing in London and Chicago: from targeted sectors to income-based eligibility
Abstract:
In many cities, people with jobs essential to daily urban life—bus
drivers, teachers, police, nurses and the like—cannot afford
housing in proximity to their work. Municipal efforts to counter such
job--housing imbalances include targeting such workers specifically or
moderate-income households, more broadly, for housing support. This
article investigates and assesses housing policy for modest-income workers
in two cities, Chicago and London. Based on review of documents and key
informant interviews, each city’s policy context, aims, means and
outcomes are analyzed. Effective strategies include working with public,
private and third-sector partners to find upstream cost-effective
solutions, increasing shared equity/ownership products and developing
mechanisms to ensure long-term affordability of workforce housing. While
each city’s policies reflect local conditions, they also are
indicative of broad trends in intermediate housing policy: an increase in
stakeholders involved in programme administration and delivery, a
continued focus on homeownership, rising income thresholds for eligibility
and a shift away from targeting employment sectors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 651-671
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1121214
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Author-Name: Marah A. Curtis
Author-X-Name-First: Marah A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Curtis
Author-Name: Emily J. Warren
Author-X-Name-First: Emily J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Warren
Title: Child Support Receipt, Mobility, and Housing Quality
Abstract:
This study uses administrative records for the state of Wisconsin as well
as Zillow Real Estate data on median house values to examine the
associations between the regularity of child support receipt on moves and
changes in housing values following moves. Our sample consists of 13 329
custodial mothers with new orders from 2002 to 2006. Across several
measures of child support and specifications of moves, regular receipt is
negatively associated with any moves and with more than one move a year,
holding constant the value of the child support received. In models
examining associations between regularity and changes in housing quality
after a move, an additional month of child support within 25 per cent of
the order amount is associated with an $890 increase in housing value.
These results imply that policy-makers concerned with housing stability
consider both the regularity and absolute value of child support when
considering family well-being.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 672-693
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1121212
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Author-Name: Sebastian Kohl
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Kohl
Title: Urban History Matters: Explaining the German--American Homeownership Gap
Abstract:
The homeownership rate in the United States has continuously been about 20
percentage points higher than that of Germany. This homeownership gap is
traced back to before the First World War at the urban level. Existing
approaches, relying on socio-economic factors, demographics, culture or
housing policy, cannot explain the persistence of these differences in
homeownership. This article fills this explanatory gap by making a
path-dependence argument: it argues that nineteenth-century urban
conditions either began to create the American suburbanized single-family
house cities or compact multi-unit-building cities, as in Germany. US
cities developed differently from German ones because they lacked feudal
shackles, were governed as “private cities” and gave easier
access to mortgages and building land. The more historically suburbanized
a city, the lower its homeownership rate today. Economic and political
reinforcing mechanisms kept the two countries on their paths. The
article’s contribution is to give a historical and city-focused
answer to a standing question in the housing literature.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 694-713
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1121213
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Author-Name: Christina Severinsen
Author-X-Name-First: Christina
Author-X-Name-Last: Severinsen
Author-Name: Mary Breheny
Author-X-Name-First: Mary
Author-X-Name-Last: Breheny
Author-Name: Christine Stephens
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens
Title: Ageing in Unsuitable Places
Abstract:
Much of the focus of ageing in place policy is concerned with the
provision of support to enable older people to age in the community in
residences adapted to their needs. There has been little examination of
why older people make choices to age in particular places in later life.
In this paper, we drew on 143 interviews with older people in New Zealand
to examine the narratives older people use to describe their housing
preferences in later life. Older people drew upon personal and public
narratives to story housing in later life, and construct four identifiable
identities: ‘practical planner’, ‘rugged
pioneer’, ‘where I belong’ and ‘rooted in
place’. This analysis demonstrates that some older people do
narrate decisions to age in ‘sensible’ places with good
access to services and have clear plans for change as their physical
health declines. Other older people live proudly in unsuitable places and
do not wish for support to move or accommodations made to their housing.
These older people draw upon narratives of place as foundational to their
identity, of relationships with people both living and dead as social
relationships that bolster their identity and of housing as part of
situated lifelong narratives. Both the situation of their home and the
condition of the home provide the backdrop to alternative narrative
identities that require them to remain in housing because of, or
irrespective of, its unsuitability. To understand the limitations and the
possibilities of ageing in place, we need to identify the multiple
narratives that structure the lives of older people. By doing so, we can
support ageing in place processes that do not disrupt the strong
identities that have been developed in and through housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 714-728
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1122175
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Author-Name: Lynda Cheshire
Author-X-Name-First: Lynda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheshire
Author-Name: Shannon Buglar
Author-X-Name-First: Shannon
Author-X-Name-Last: Buglar
Title: Anti-social or intensively sociable? The local context of neighbour disputes and complaints among social housing tenants
Abstract:
The prevalence of neighbour disputes among social housing tenants is often
seen as the outcome of social residualisation and the physical
characteristics of social housing. While such explanations have usefully
drawn attention to the structural sources of problem neighbours in the
social housing sector, rather than reduce them to the anti-sociality of
tenants, this work has been disconnected from a consideration of the
social and interactive contexts of neighbouring more broadly and its
influence on how neighbour problems emerge and are managed in specific
situations. In response, this paper examines the conditions that lead to
the formation of a distinct style of neighbouring among social housing
tenants, one that is prone to conflict and tension because of its
intensively sociable, as opposed to anti-social, nature. Drawing on
mediation data from Dispute Resolution Centres in Queensland, Australia,
this paper illustrates how intensive modes of neighbouring combine with
disadvantage and close physical proximity to create the conditions for
neighbour problems to arise.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 729-748
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1122743
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Author-Name: Mike B. Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Mike B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Title: Domestic microgeneration: renewable and distributed energy technologies, policies and economics
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 749-750
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1195098
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Author-Name: Sian Thompson
Author-X-Name-First: Sian
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson
Title: Re-framing urban space: urban design for emerging hybrid and high-density conditions
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 751-752
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1195099
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Author-Name: Julia Verdouw
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Verdouw
Title: The invisible houses: re-thinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 752-753
Issue: 6
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1195100
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Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Title: Understanding Community
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 720-721
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617917
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Author-Name: Dave Webb
Author-X-Name-First: Dave
Author-X-Name-Last: Webb
Title: The Knowledge Business: The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 722-723
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617918
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Author-Name: Carol McKenzie
Author-X-Name-First: Carol
Author-X-Name-Last: McKenzie
Title: The Purpose of Planning: Creating Sustainable Towns and Cities
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 724-725
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617921
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Author-Name: Aimee Walshaw
Author-X-Name-First: Aimee
Author-X-Name-Last: Walshaw
Title: Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, c. 1600–1850
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 726-727
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617922
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Author-Name: Hui Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Hui
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Fubing Su
Author-X-Name-First: Fubing
Author-X-Name-Last: Su
Author-Name: Lanlan Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Lanlan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Ran Tao
Author-X-Name-First: Ran
Author-X-Name-Last: Tao
Title: Rural Housing Consumption and Social Stratification in Transitional China: Evidence from a National Survey
Abstract: Safe and affordable housing is accepted as a basic right in the modern world. Studies on transitional societies have demonstrated how politicized the housing market can become and how housing consumption is determined by both economic forces and public rules. Rural housing in China offers a unique institutional environment. While residential land is collectively owned and allocated, villagers have the freedom to make decisions with regard to construction space. Drawing on a large national survey, this paper provides the first systematic analysis of the consequences of these different institutional rules. In terms of housing resources, residential land is distributed in a relatively equitable fashion, but the building of structures on that land is defined by a higher degree of social stratification. These findings extend the current literature and confirm the power of institutional rules in housing consumption.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 667-684
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697548
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Author-Name: Massimo Baldini
Author-X-Name-First: Massimo
Author-X-Name-Last: Baldini
Author-Name: Teresio Poggio
Author-X-Name-First: Teresio
Author-X-Name-Last: Poggio
Title: Housing Policy Towards the Rental Sector in Italy: A Distributive Assessment
Abstract: We study the distributive effects on Italian households of the three most relevant housing subsidies targeted to renters: a national rent supplement scheme introduced in the context of the reform that liberalised the rental market in the late 1990s, a tax credit for renters that has been recently strengthened and the implicit economic support given to tenants in the social housing sector, through below-market rents. The analysis is performed on data from the Eu-Silc survey for Italy and, in the case of the housing allowances, also on register data from 9 out of the 13 largest Italian towns. We consider, in particular, the ability of these schemes to target low-income households and their effects on the overall levels of poverty and inequality. Results from our analysis show a good targeting but very limited effect on social protection, with the partial exception of social housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 563-581
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697549
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Author-Name: Eva Sierminska
Author-X-Name-First: Eva
Author-X-Name-Last: Sierminska
Author-Name: Yelena Takhtamanova
Author-X-Name-First: Yelena
Author-X-Name-Last: Takhtamanova
Title: Financial and Housing Wealth and Consumption Spending: Cross-Country and Age Group Comparisons
Abstract: In this study we explore the link between household expenditures and wealth across the age distribution by examining the elasticity of consumption spending from different types of wealth. We use a new source of harmonized wealth micro data for five countries: Canada, Finland, Italy, Germany and the US. Our results indicate that the effect of housing wealth dominates the effect of financial wealth in Finland, Italy, Germany, the US, and also in Canada for certain age groups. We find consumption responsiveness to housing wealth to be statistically significantly lower for younger households. The analysis also confirms the existence of between-country differences.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 685-719
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697550
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Author-Name: Yen Goh
Author-X-Name-First: Yen
Author-X-Name-Last: Goh
Author-Name: Greg Costello
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Costello
Author-Name: Greg Schwann
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwann
Title: Accuracy and Robustness of House Price Index Methods
Abstract: We evaluate the statistical properties of five different house price index methods with the objective of identifying one that is most accurate and robust when estimated at frequent time intervals and for distinctly local markets. We adopt a split-sample technique to establish a consistent basis for comparison of the different price index methods. Our results demonstrate that if suitable data is available for estimation of price indexes, the arbitrary aggregation of data across time and geography is not warranted. One model, the ‘hedonic imputation’, outperforms alternative models on all measures of accuracy and robustness. Differences in levels of accuracy between different models are found to be statistically significant.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 643-666
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697551
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Author-Name: Robyn Dowling
Author-X-Name-First: Robyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Dowling
Author-Name: Emma Power
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Power
Title: Sizing Home, Doing Family in Sydney, Australia
Abstract: Large housing is an issue of growing concern across popular culture, academic and policy domains, yet little is known about how and why people live in large houses. This paper addresses this gap, investigating the cultural underpinnings and social practices of large housing through a qualitative study carried out in Sydney, Australia. In these suburban, detached dwellings, large housing is valued for the affordances it provides for enacting visions of home and family. Specifically, it is a strategy for managing the aural and material excesses of family life; it mediates familial relations and supports the production of middle-class identities. These findings demonstrate the myriad connections between familial practices and housing dynamics and adds to a growing confirmation of the cultural inflections of (un)sustainable practice.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 605-619
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697552
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Author-Name: Marianne Abramsson
Author-X-Name-First: Marianne
Author-X-Name-Last: Abramsson
Author-Name: Eva Andersson
Author-X-Name-First: Eva
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson
Title: Residential Mobility Patterns of Elderly—Leaving the House for an Apartment
Abstract: One hypothesis is that, in Sweden, the elderly today are more willing to change residence to accommodate for changing lifestyles and poorer health than in earlier generations. If so, the elderly will change their type of tenure from owner occupation to tenant co-operative or rental housing, which includes more services for residents. The aim of this study is to discover if elderly people move to apartments after leaving single-family housing that they own. Mobility patterns of those born in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s are analysed to identify characteristics of stayers and movers, and to determine to what extent the elderly move to rental and tenant co-operative apartments. The analysis is cross-sectional using a register database comprising the Swedish population. Moves were followed between 2001 and 2006. The majority remained in their current dwelling but almost one-quarter moved. Of those, a smaller number moved from owner-occupied housing to a tenant co-operative or rental apartment.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 582-604
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697553
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Author-Name: Sarah Borgloh
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Borgloh
Author-Name: Peter Westerheide
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Westerheide
Title: The Impact of Mutual Support Based Housing Projects on the Costs of Care
Abstract: Our paper describes the results of a comparative cost analysis of four housing projects in Germany. A common characteristic of all projects is the central importance of mutual neighborly support to meet the demand for the assistance of older residents. All projects share some common architectural features and infrastructural characteristics. Furthermore, in each housing project, some form of support by social workers takes place. Using a propensity score matching approach, we compare for the first time systematically the costs for support of older people in mutual support based housing projects with a control group of people living in conventional settings. Our results, based on a sample of more than 700 residents, point not only to improvements in living satisfaction, but indicate also a huge potential for socioeconomic cost savings. This can partly be explained by better development of residents' health status.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 620-642
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.697554
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Author-Name: Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzpatrick
Author-Name: Beth Watts
Author-X-Name-First: Beth
Author-X-Name-Last: Watts
Title: Competing visions: security of tenure and the welfarisation of English social housing
Abstract:
Recent legislation ending security of tenure for new council tenants in England may be considered emblematic of a US-style vision of social housing as a temporary welfare service, reserved only for the very poorest. But there is resistance amongst social landlords, many of whom remain committed to providing ‘homes for life’. Moreover, austerity-driven cuts mean that benefit-dependent households are increasingly refused social tenancies on grounds of affordability. The stage is therefore set for a battle over who and what English social housing is for. Drawing on large-scale qualitative research, this paper interrogates the implications of the mandatory extension of fixed-term tenancies (FTTs) by considering landlord and tenant experiences of the discretionary FTT regime in place since 2012. We conclude that the meagre likely benefits of FTTs, in terms of marginally increased tenancy turnover, are heavily outweighed by the detrimental impacts on tenants’ ontological security and landlords’ administrative burden.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1021-1038
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1291916
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Author-Name: Mark Stephens
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens
Author-Name: Chris Leishman
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Leishman
Title: Housing and poverty: a longitudinal analysis
Abstract:
Cross-sectional research suggests that the British housing system weakens the link between income poverty and housing outcomes, but this reveals little about the long-term relationships. We examine the relationship between income poverty and housing pathways over an 18-year period to 2008, and develop consensual approaches to poverty estimation, housing deprivation, and the prevalence of under and over-consumption. We find that chronic poverty is most strongly associated with housing pathways founded in social renting, whereas housing pathways founded in owner-occupation are more strongly associated with temporary poverty. Whilst housing deprivation is disproportionately prevalent among those who experienced chronic poverty, the overwhelming majority of people who experienced chronic poverty avoided housing deprivation. This evidence supports of the notion that the housing system, during this period, weakened the link between poverty and housing deprivation. Therefore it can be characterised as representing a ‘sector regime’ with different distributional tendencies from the wider welfare regime.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1039-1061
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1291913
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Author-Name: Kath Hulse
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse
Author-Name: Alan Morris
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Morris
Title: Interpreting the rise of long-term private renting in a liberal welfare regime context
Abstract:
In liberal market Anglophone nations, where private rental housing is typically lightly regulated, little is known about the household-level drivers of recent private rental sector growth. In Australia, where long-term private renting (10 years plus) has doubled since the 1990s, growing numbers are thus exposed to risks of landlord-initiated moves and unpredictable rent rises for lengthy periods. Our research suggests that although long-term renting mainly reflects adaptation to increasingly unaffordable home ownership, lifestyle choices are also significant—at least in Australia’s major cities where renting in a ‘desirable’ area may be preferred to owning elsewhere. While many tenants appear sanguine about their housing security, this is highly problematic for lower income residents lacking other choices, many of whom appear likely to remain lifelong renters. The paper contributes an additional perspective to debates about the interplay between changing housing market dynamics, lifestyles and housing choices/constraints.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1062-1084
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1301400
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Author-Name: Anne Vorre Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Anne Vorre
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Author-Name: Luise Li Langergaard
Author-X-Name-First: Luise Li
Author-X-Name-Last: Langergaard
Title: Democracy and non-profit housing. The tensions of residents’ involvement in the Danish non-profit sector
Abstract:
Resident democracy as a special form of participatory democratic set-up is fundamental in the understanding, and self-understanding, of the non-profit housing sector in Denmark. Through a case study, the paper explores how resident democracy is perceived and narrated between residents and employees at a housing association. The study indicates that the meta-story of democracy is disconnected from practice and the lived lives of residents. Three analytical tensions structure the analysis, which relate to the conditions for realizing the democratic ideal embedded in the structure of the sector. The tensions are related to representative versus participatory democracy; collectivity versus individuality; and service versus welfare. The tensions elucidate how resident democracy is squeezed between different logics, which result in an ambiguous setting for practising democracy. Based on the results, the article discusses conditions for prospective democracy in the Danish non-profit housing sector.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1085-1104
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1301398
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Author-Name: Paul Hickman
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Hickman
Author-Name: Peter A. Kemp
Author-X-Name-First: Peter A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp
Author-Name: Kesia Reeve
Author-X-Name-First: Kesia
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeve
Author-Name: Ian Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: The impact of the direct payment of housing benefit: evidence from Great Britain
Abstract:
In recent years, a number of welfare reforms have been introduced in the UK by Conservative-led governments. The most high profile of these is Universal Credit (UC), which is currently being rolled out across the country. A key feature of UC is a change in the way the income-related housing allowance for social housing tenants (Housing Benefit) is administered, as under UC, it is paid directly to tenants (direct payment), who are responsible for paying their rent. This represents a step change for them as for more than 30 years landlord payment has been the norm in the UK. There has been little research into direct payment. This paper seeks to address this gap in knowledge by presenting the key findings of an initiative designed to trial direct payment. It finds that many tenants experienced difficulties on direct payment. Reflecting this, landlords' arrears rose markedly.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1105-1126
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1301401
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Author-Name: Mark R. Lindblad
Author-X-Name-First: Mark R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindblad
Author-Name: Hye-Sung Han
Author-X-Name-First: Hye-Sung
Author-X-Name-Last: Han
Author-Name: Siyun Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Siyun
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Author-Name: William M. Rohe
Author-X-Name-First: William M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rohe
Title: First-time homebuying: attitudes and behaviors of low-income renters through the financial crisis
Abstract:
We use psychological theory to investigate how attitudes toward homebuying relate to first-time home purchases over the past decade. Homeownership rates in the US have dropped to 20-year lows, but whether views toward homebuying shifted due to the financial crisis is not known because studies have not compared attitudes for the same respondents pre- and post-crisis. We address this gap with 2004–2014 panel data from low-income renters. We find that a negative shift in homebuying attitudes is associated with a decline in first-time home purchases. Older renters aged more than 35 years at baseline report the greatest declines in homebuying intentions. Younger renters aged 18–34 also report diminished homebuying intentions, yet express highest overall levels of homebuying intentions pre- and post-crisis. Blacks report greater homebuying intentions although their odds of home purchase are 29 per cent lower than whites. Homebuying norms and favorability are associated with homebuying intentions but not with actual purchases, while perceived control over homebuying influences both outcomes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1127-1155
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1301397
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Author-Name: Muhammad Ali
Author-X-Name-First: Muhammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Ali
Author-Name: Syed Ali Raza
Author-X-Name-First: Syed Ali
Author-X-Name-Last: Raza
Author-Name: Chin-Hong Puah
Author-X-Name-First: Chin-Hong
Author-X-Name-Last: Puah
Author-Name: Mohd Zaini Abd Karim
Author-X-Name-First: Mohd Zaini Abd
Author-X-Name-Last: Karim
Title: Islamic home financing in Pakistan: a SEM-based approach using modified TPB model
Abstract:
The present study attempts to examine the Islamic home financing using the modified theory of planned behavior model (TPB). Sample data of 375 are conveniently drawn from walk-in customers of Islamic banks located in the biggest city Karachi. This study employed both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to confirm the validity and reliability of the measurement model. The modified theoretical framework was examined by applying the structural equation modeling using frequently reported goodness-of-fit indices. The findings indicate that the original constructs of TPB model, attitude (ATT), subjective norm (SN) and perceived behavioral control has a positive and significant impact on the customer intention to use Islamic home financing. Furthermore, ATT is found to be the most influential factor in determining the customer intention toward Islamic home financing. On the other hand, we introduced two new factors, pricing on home financing (PHF) and religious belief (RB), which proved their presence in the TPB model by showing a significant impact on the customer intention to use the facility of home financing. In addition, PHF has a negative impact while religious belief has a positive relationship with the customer intention to use Islamic home financing in Pakistan. This study also suggests that the standard TPB model is successfully modified by introducing PHF and RB factors. Therefore, Islamic bank managers should consider this study to promote the Islamic home financing facility in Pakistan.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1156-1177
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1302079
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Author-Name: Tamlin Gorter
Author-X-Name-First: Tamlin
Author-X-Name-Last: Gorter
Title: Migration, settlement and the concepts of house and home
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1178-1179
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1361586
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Author-Name: Wendy Stone
Author-X-Name-First: Wendy
Author-X-Name-Last: Stone
Title: House, home and society
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1179-1181
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1361590
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Author-Name: W. Dennis Keating
Author-X-Name-First: W. Dennis
Author-X-Name-Last: Keating
Title: Priced out: Stuyvesant Town and the loss of middle class neighborhoods
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1181-1182
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1361588
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 8
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1376377
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Author-Name: Brett Christophers
Author-X-Name-First: Brett
Author-X-Name-Last: Christophers
Author-Name: David O’Sullivan
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Sullivan
Title: Intersections of inequality in homeownership in Sweden
Abstract:
Inequalities relating to ownership of housing have become a major issue de jour in many Western societies. This article examines how the distribution of homeownership in Sweden relates to two factors widely seen as significant to such inequalities, namely parental tenure status and place of birth. We use longitudinal registry data to examine the bearing of these two factors on individual-level tenure progression since the beginning of the 1990s for persons at different stages of their housing careers. We extend existing understandings of Swedish homeownership patterns by demonstrating that inequalities relating to place of birth and parental tenure intersect with one another in ways that substantially advantage certain subgroups while disadvantaging others, and by demonstrating that experiences of entry into homeownership have in recent years been changing in markedly different ways for these different subgroups. Overall, Swedish homeownership inequalities, far from dissipating, appear to be hardening along existing lines.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 897-924
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1495695
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Author-Name: Jessie Bakens
Author-X-Name-First: Jessie
Author-X-Name-Last: Bakens
Author-Name: Gwilym Pryce
Author-X-Name-First: Gwilym
Author-X-Name-Last: Pryce
Title: Homophily horizons and ethnic mover flows among homeowners in Scotland
Abstract:
This article analyses mover flows in Glasgow and the role of ethnic homophily, the tendency for movers to be drawn to areas with similar ethnicities to their own. We look at how homophily affects the spatial relocation patterns of homeowners in Glasgow from Scottish, Indian, Pakistani and Chinese descent, and focus on the extent to which homophily extends beyond the immediate locality to surrounding neighbourhoods. Our interest is in estimating the “homophily horizon” – how far the gaze of homophily reaches in mover location decisions. Using a simple Schelling-type theoretical model, we argue that homophily horizons are potentially important in shaping the long-term social structure of cities as they may profoundly affect how potent the overall sorting tendencies of the housing market are in driving segregation. In principle, the more distant the homophily horizon, the more quickly the housing market will tend towards segregation, other things being equal. We adopt Folch and Rey’s use of the local centralization index to capture the influence of surrounding neighbourhoods in shaping mover flows and neighbourhood dynamics. Our estimation combines ethnic mover flows derived from surname analysis of house buyers from the house transactions recorded in Registers of Scotland data. Our results show that the presence of the own ethnic group in the local surroundings is important for explaining mover flows, and that homophily is a local phenomenon.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 925-945
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1504007
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Author-Name: Josef Bernard
Author-X-Name-First: Josef
Author-X-Name-Last: Bernard
Author-Name: Jiří Šafr
Author-X-Name-First: Jiří
Author-X-Name-Last: Šafr
Title: The other disadvantaged neighbourhood: income related effects of living in rural peripheries
Abstract:
In this article, we argue that similarly to the literature on urban neighbourhood effects, the idea of disadvantaging residential environment can be used to explain the socio-economic disadvantage of residents in rural peripheries. We present arguments as to why it is appropriate to consider the effects of the residential environment in a micro-regional perspective and outside of metropolitan areas. These effects are empirically analysed using income related data from the Czech Republic. We ask whether income is negatively affected by housing in peripheral micro-regions. The results confirm that the concept of residential disadvantage is also relevant in rural areas, and that in the Czech Republic residence in remote rural areas with limited educational levels and a high concentration of low-pay jobs has negative yet weak contextual effects, whereas increased levels of deprivation and social exclusion, typical also of many urban regions, are not decisive. A stronger negative impact of living in peripheries has been found on higher-skilled workers and women.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 946-973
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1504008
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Author-Name: Sait Bayrakdar
Author-X-Name-First: Sait
Author-X-Name-Last: Bayrakdar
Author-Name: Rory Coulter
Author-X-Name-First: Rory
Author-X-Name-Last: Coulter
Author-Name: Philipp Lersch
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Lersch
Author-Name: Sergi Vidal
Author-X-Name-First: Sergi
Author-X-Name-Last: Vidal
Title: Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany
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Although previous research shows that family dynamics and parental socioeconomic status influence the timing of young adults’ first entry into homeownership, much less is known about how the role of family factors may vary across countries with different housing systems. In this article, we use panel survey data from Britain and Germany to compare how family life course careers and parental socioeconomic background influence young adults’ initial entry into homeownership in these two divergent national contexts. The results show that in Britain, first-time homeownership transitions are tightly synchronized with partnership formation. By contrast, in Germany first moves into homeownership typically occur later around or after the arrival of children. Parental owner-occupation accelerates entry into homeownership in both contexts, while the effects of other parental characteristics are relatively muted. Furthermore, the results highlight how individual socioeconomic factors are critical determinants of entering owner-occupation. This is particularly true in Britain where there is a strong socioeconomic gradient in first-time homeownership transitions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 974-996
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1509949
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Author-Name: Xin Li
Author-X-Name-First: Xin
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans
Author-X-Name-First: Reinout
Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans
Author-Name: Maarten van Ham
Author-X-Name-First: Maarten
Author-X-Name-Last: van Ham
Title: Ambivalence in place attachment: the lived experiences of residents in danwei communities facing demolition in Shenyang, China
Abstract:
This article focuses on the influence of state-led urban redevelopment on the place attachment of deprived and old homeowners living in danwei communities that are facing demolition in Shenyang, China. It investigates lived experiences through in-depth interviews with homeowners in the context of the pre-demolition phase, i.e. an inevitable prospect of having to move out. The article reveals how these homeowners cleverly mobilize local resources, such as strong social bonds, low living costs, flexibility on space use and good neighbourhood location to cope with their life constraints, which is translated into their strong neighbourhood attachment. However, various forms of neighbourhood decline have decreased their quality of life. Meanwhile, they soon have to move due to the impending demolition of their neighbourhood. State-led urban redevelopment, therefore, confronts those deprived residents with a dilemma concerning their strong neighbourhood dependence and their desire for better living conditions. The impending neighbourhood demolition uncovers accumulated social issues in danwei communities in the context of market reforms and institutional changes in current China, such as the emergence of deprived social groups and their struggles for better housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 997-1020
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1509948
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Author-Name: Yankel Fijalkow
Author-X-Name-First: Yankel
Author-X-Name-Last: Fijalkow
Title: Governing comfort in France: from hygienism to sustainable housing XXth–XXIst century
Abstract:
This article intends to present the notion of comfort as a central element in housing policies. Comfort is liable to an analysis in terms of governance and enrichment of the Housing Regimes theory. Thereby it develops in the first part a socio-historical analysis of housing standards production patterns in France from the 19th century to current day. It distinguishes the hygienist period, the modernist period and the environmental period. For the latter, it shows how private and institutional stakeholders operate. In the second part it analyses the results of a qualitative and quantitative survey of one thousand French homeowners. It reveals the various acceptations of the notion of comfort and the diverse integration of the energy conservation targets in practices. A new social differentiation appears through the capabilities to use new technologies and control the environment.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1021-1036
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1509947
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Author-Name: Megan Nethercote
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nethercote
Title: Homeowner investor subjects as providers of family care and assistance
Abstract:
This article asks: What becomes of the idealized asset-accumulating investor subject rallied in asset-based welfare policy and discourse in the context of mounting social risks facing families? It brings into dialogue two disconnected literatures: one on financialized subjectivities, drawing on post-structuralist and Foucauldian analysis, the other on welfare states drawing more heavily on comparative political economy. Drawing on homeowner interviews in Melbourne (Australia), it identifies how parent homeowners’ devise housing strategies to manage their children’s housing welfare risks. Their housing investment and landlordism strategies align with financialized subjectivities, but other strategies subvert or reject these subject positions. Its first contribution is to specify how an Australian refamilization of welfare responsibilities, including for housing, is unfolding as processes of financialization erode the efficacy of growing state social spending. Its second contribution is to challenge the individual subject of asset-based welfare (ABW) and introduce intergenerational assistance as an under-explored contingency for ABW projects, and further driver for welfare inequalities between and within generations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1037-1063
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1515895
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Author-Name: Lynne McMordie
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: McMordie
Title: The Homeless Person in Contemporary Society
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1064-1065
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1626597
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Author-Name: Kathleen Flanagan
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Flanagan
Title: A place to call home: women as agents of change in Mumbai
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1065-1067
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1626598
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Author-Name: Jack Barton
Author-X-Name-First: Jack
Author-X-Name-Last: Barton
Title: The urban politics of squatters’ movements
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1067-1069
Issue: 6
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1626599
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Author-Name: Magdalena Górczyńska
Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena
Author-X-Name-Last: Górczyńska
Title: Social and housing tenure mix in Paris - 1990–2010
Abstract:
This paper sheds light on the relationship between the social and tenure mix in Paris between 1990 and 2010. Using two quantitative methods (cluster analysis and entropy indices) it explores the relationship between the social and tenure mix at the microscale. Although no statistical correlation was found, other relationships were discovered. First, the social mix is a function of the general characteristics of the neighbourhood or district. Second, social upgrading and homogenization began in the 1990s, and the ‘ideal’ social mix was a temporary phase before upper socio-professional groups became overrepresented. The growing availability and diversification of social housing has neither created a greater social mix nor slowed down social upgrading, either in general or for social housing in particular. Finally, the fact that there are different categories of social housing landlords nuances the outcomes of policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 385-410
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1210099
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Author-Name: Connie P. Y. Tang
Author-X-Name-First: Connie P. Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tang
Author-Name: Michael Oxley
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Oxley
Author-Name: Daniel Mekic
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Mekic
Title: Meeting commercial and social goals: institutional investment in the housing association sector
Abstract:
Analyses of the impacts of the use of private finance by housing associations (HAs) across Europe regularly align with the hybridity in the social housing sector, linking private finance to a range of negative consequences related to the loss of social purposes by HAs. This article examines some of the implications of institutional investment for HAs in Britain to meet their economic and social goals. Using a combination of interviews with HAs and institutional investors and a round table discussion, the study shows how such investment has facilitated HAs as hybrid organisations which adopt a pragmatically ‘fit-for-purpose’ approach that combines social benefit with profitability. For institutional investors, investing in social housing is a profit-oriented business as well as a corporate social activity that creates public relations benefits. Importantly, the study shows how government regulations can affect the form of institutional investment (bond finance rather than equity investment) in social housing and help HAs balance the opportunities and risks in combining business and social orientations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 411-427
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1210098
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Author-Name: Jing Zhou
Author-X-Name-First: Jing
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou
Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Title: The resurgence of public housing provision in China: the Chongqing programme
Abstract:
Under Chinese neoliberalisation, restructuring of interactions between the market, the state and local governments has encouraged the latter to suppress public housing provision, resulting in serious housing problems for Chinese low-to-middle income households. Since 2007, the state has pursued a public housing revival, laying out various responsibilities for local governments to develop public housing. However, until recently, confronted with significant shortfalls in fiscal and land inputs, local authorities were largely unable to activate construction on an adequate scale. Nonetheless, between 2011 and 2013, the city of Chongqing applied a mode to supply public rental housing on a massive scale. This paper examines the administrative structure and reforms that have ensured the execution of the Chongqing programme. Findings show that specific political and economic incentives of the local officials have played important roles for realising the programme. Moreover, the municipality’s control of land supply and the market have also enabled an efficient cooperation between governmental and market actors for public housing provision.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 428-448
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1210097
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Author-Name: Pia Nilsson
Author-X-Name-First: Pia
Author-X-Name-Last: Nilsson
Title: Are valuations of place-based amenities driven by scale?
Abstract:
Amenities play an important role in explaining regional attractiveness as they increase the competition between places and the demand for housing. This paper contributes to the literature on valuations of place-based amenities by estimating hedonic prices for a differentiated set of amenities, and by examining the link between urban density and amenity valuations. The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 8319 single-family home sales observed during the period 2001–2011. Results show that amenities are valued differently depending on their size, the relationship between size and distance and neighbourhood characteristics. Differentiating among a set of nature- and culture based amenities shows that it is profoundly the value of proximity to open space that vary with neighbourhood density. Results are robust when testing for non-constant implicit prices over different time periods and novel to the literature on valuation of open spaces using the hedonic price model.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 449-469
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1219330
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Author-Name: Paula Meth
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Meth
Author-Name: Sarah Charlton
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Charlton
Title: Men’s experiences of state sponsored housing in South Africa: emerging issues and key questions
Abstract:
In South African cities, millions of men and women living informally are being rehoused through the state-directed provision of formal houses to poor beneficiaries. This intervention is reshaping their lives, and innovatively targets beneficiaries with dependents, where over half are women. Aiming to redress the historical context of gendered inequality in housing ownership and house the very poor, these policy and implementation changes necessarily impact on men in terms of their power, resources and employment but in complex ways including positive and negative. The home remains significant for many men’s desires for authority and identity. Using the lens of masculinity, this paper considers the ways in which men are experiencing this housing intervention, revealing a complex mix of outcomes in terms of their sense of identity, their relationships and their financial pressures and income generation. It draws on empirical work in South Africa to illuminate the importance of focusing on men in relation to housing and offers key questions for future research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 470-490
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1219333
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Author-Name: Roger Andersson
Author-X-Name-First: Roger
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson
Author-Name: Ingar Brattbakk
Author-X-Name-First: Ingar
Author-X-Name-Last: Brattbakk
Author-Name: Mari Vaattovaara
Author-X-Name-First: Mari
Author-X-Name-Last: Vaattovaara
Title: Natives’ opinions on ethnic residential segregation and neighbourhood diversity in Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm
Abstract:
Nordic countries rank high on measures indicating tolerant views on immigrants. Yet, ethnic residential segregation is stated as being a major social problem in these countries. Neighbourhood flight and avoidance behaviour among the native born could be a sign of less tolerant views on minorities, but could of course be restricted to native-born residents in areas of high-ethnic concentration. So far, no research in these countries has explicitly focused on the majority population’s view on segregation, and we know little about how native-born residents in different neighbourhood contexts view ethnic segregation or how own residential experience shapes decisions on staying or leaving; this paper aims to help fill this research lacuna. In a survey targeting 9000 native-born residents in three Nordic capital cities—stratified into neighbourhood movers and stayers and into neighbourhoods having different proportions of non-Nordic-born residents—we answer three questions: do native-born respondents prefer a neighbourhood ethnic mix? Do they see ethnic segregation as a problem? Do they prefer lower, current or higher shares of ethnic minorities in their own neighbourhoods?
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 491-516
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1219332
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Author-Name: Martin Lux
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lux
Author-Name: Petr Gibas
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibas
Author-Name: Irena Boumová
Author-X-Name-First: Irena
Author-X-Name-Last: Boumová
Author-Name: Martin Hájek
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hájek
Author-Name: Petr Sunega
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Sunega
Title: Reasoning behind choices: rationality and social norms in the housing market behaviour of first-time buyers in the Czech Republic
Abstract:
The main objective of this paper is to draw attention to the influence of social norms on housing market behaviour. The research is based on an in-depth qualitative study of first-time buyers in the Czech Republic. We found systemic deviations from economically rational behaviour (as defined by mainstream housing economic theory) that stem from the influence of a dominant housing social norm about what constitutes the ‘right’ housing tenure. We show how the influence of a social norm constrains financial, pragmatic, utility- or investment-based considerations of Czech home-buyers. Sociology can thus significantly contribute to recent econometric research about sources of housing market instability.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 517-539
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1219331
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Author-Name: Anna Carnegie
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Carnegie
Title: ‘Nobody cares’: forgotten parts of British cities
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 540-541
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1305695
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Author-Name: Bernadette Hanlon
Author-X-Name-First: Bernadette
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanlon
Title: The future of the suburban city: Lessons from sustaining Phoenix
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 541-543
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1305697
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Author-Name: Lena Simet
Author-X-Name-First: Lena
Author-X-Name-Last: Simet
Title: Planetary gentrification
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 543-545
Issue: 4
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1305699
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Author-Name: Louise Reid
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid
Title: Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-industrial City
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 553-554
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617910
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Author-Name: David Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Title: Polish Families and Migration Since EU Accession
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 555-556
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617911
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Author-Name: Colleen Kerr
Author-X-Name-First: Colleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Kerr
Title: Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 557-558
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617913
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Author-Name: Justin Spinney
Author-X-Name-First: Justin
Author-X-Name-Last: Spinney
Title: Fixing Fuel Poverty: Challenges and Solutions
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 558-561
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617915
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Author-Name: Simon Teasdale
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Teasdale
Title: Negotiating Tensions: How Do Social Enterprises in the Homelessness Field Balance Social and Commercial Considerations?
Abstract: Social enterprise is presented as a potential policy solution to homelessness, particularly as regards the employment of homeless people. This policy focus relies on an assumption that social and commercial goals can be successfully combined. This implies that by pursuing profit-maximizing behaviour social enterprises can also maximize social benefits. However, this paper shows that social enterprises are hybrid organizations facing a trade-off between social and commercial considerations. The paper identifies strategies used by work integration social enterprises in the homelessness field to balance mission-related goals with financial sustainability. The six case study organizations drew upon a hybrid range of economic resources transferred from other sectors of the economy. This enabled them to compete with private sector organizations, by effectively transferring the additional cost of employing homeless people from the social enterprise to consumers, government, philanthropic donors, and other organizations providing social support to homeless people.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 514-532
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.677015
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Author-Name: Rachel Bratt
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Bratt
Title: The Quadruple Bottom Line and Nonprofit Housing Organizations in the United States
Abstract: The work of US nonprofit housing organizations can be viewed as involving a commitment to meet the Quadruple Bottom Line—the financial demands of developing and maintaining affordable housing while serving resident groups and neighborhoods, in an environmentally responsible manner. Nonprofit organizations may be categorized into three major groups, based on their primary areas of concern—‘people’, ‘places’ and ‘projects’. This article outlines the components and approximate size of the US social housing sector and presents examples of how housing nonprofits have, both historically and currently, evolved to incorporate multiple roles. With declines in federal funding for affordable housing, nonprofits have become increasingly hybrid in their operations. Examples are given regarding how nonprofits attempt to mediate the private market; how the various components of the Quadruple Bottom Line often compete with one another; and how hybridity of the nonprofit social housing sector creates additional challenges for these groups. The final section presents policy directions for supporting nonprofits.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 438-456
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.677016
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Author-Name: Darinka Czischke
Author-X-Name-First: Darinka
Author-X-Name-Last: Czischke
Author-Name: Vincent Gruis
Author-X-Name-First: Vincent
Author-X-Name-Last: Gruis
Author-Name: David Mullins
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Mullins
Title: Conceptualising Social Enterprise in Housing Organisations
Abstract: Recent changes in the provision, funding and management of social housing in Europe have led to the emergence of new types of providers. While some of them can be portrayed with traditional ‘state’, ‘market’ or ‘civil society’ labels, many correspond to hybrid organisational forms, encompassing characteristics of all three in varying combinations. Nonetheless, evidence suggests that there is a ‘common thread’ linking these organisations together, namely their core missions and values, which can be classified using the term ‘social enterprise’. Despite the growing body of literature on social enterprise, this concept has been poorly defined and applied to the housing sector. This paper aims to address this gap through a critical literature review encompassing Europe and the United States. Existing models of social enterprise are reviewed and a classification system for social enterprise is developed to reflect the specific features of the social housing association sector and as framework for future research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 418-437
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.677017
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Author-Name: Hyunjeong Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Hyunjeong
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Title: Expansion, Diversification, and Hybridization in Korean Public Housing
Abstract: The emphasis in European contexts has been on the residualization and market orientation of social housing agencies. South Korea has, however, experienced an extension of public housing and greater sector diversification around different forms of provision that serve the needs of various types of household. On the one hand, a permanent public rental housing sector has been developed serving the needs of very low-income or vulnerable households. On the other hand, more diverse types of fixed-term rental have been produced for a broader range of income categories. This paper examines how and why these differentiated approaches to public housing provision and management have emerged. A particular focus is the changing demands on and roles of housing organizations, as well as the relationships between government, market, and civil sector organizations. The analysis identifies a particular hybridity in South Korean public housing in contrast to typologies developed in European contexts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 495-513
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.677018
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Author-Name: Tony Gilmour
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Gilmour
Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan
Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne
Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan
Title: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Innovation and Diversity in Australian Not-for-Profit Housing Organisations
Abstract: Australian social housing policy continues to move away from a traditional hierarchical public housing model. The small but fast growing not-for-profit sector has expanded through the introduction of private finance, a tax credit scheme, stock transfers, planning incentives and an economic stimulus package. This article examines the diverse ways in which the leading not-for-profit providers in Australia have responded to these opportunities, using the concept of organisational hybridity. Coverage of hybridity includes both established housing providers and emergent third sector organisations including finance consolidators, development consortia and cross-subsidisation vehicles. Using information from interviews, organisational case studies and documentation, this paper assesses the drivers for the growth of hybridity in Australia. The policy implications for governments steering a diverse housing sector through promoting hybrid organisations are discussed, and reflections are provided on the opportunities and limitations of using hybridity analytical frameworks. An issue to emerge from the analysis is the diversity of organisational forms, financing models and strategic orientation of hybrid organisations promoted through the same policy settings.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 476-494
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.677019
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Author-Name: Mai Nguyen
Author-X-Name-First: Mai
Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen
Author-Name: William Rohe
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Rohe
Author-Name: Spencer Cowan
Author-X-Name-First: Spencer
Author-X-Name-Last: Cowan
Title: Entrenched Hybridity in Public Housing Agencies in the USA
Abstract: In this paper, we build on the extant literature on housing social enterprises and hybrid models of public housing delivery. We trace the evolution of US housing policy toward greater hybridity, focusing on three dimensions of hybridity. Drawing from a case study of the Charlotte Housing Authority in North Carolina, we showcase two housing programs, HOPE VI and Moving to Work, in order to highlight current innovations in the provision of housing for low-income populations and the entrenched hybridity that is evident. Using this information, we address two main questions: (1) how do local public housing agencies collaborate with the Federal government, private developers, and non-profit service providers to fund, construct, and manage affordable rental housing? and (2) what are the benefits and challenges of hybrid models of affordable rental housing delivery within the US context?
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 457-475
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.677998
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Author-Name: Halima Sacranie
Author-X-Name-First: Halima
Author-X-Name-Last: Sacranie
Title: Hybridity Enacted in a Large English Housing Association: A Tale of Strategy, Culture and Community Investment
Abstract: This paper seeks to advance the understanding of hybridity in the social housing sector by drawing on a multi-layered case study of a single, large housing association X (HAX) to illustrate how the competing logics that underpin that hybridity are enacted at a small, locally based subsidiary (Small Housing Association). The inherent paradoxes and complexity that characterise the third sector of housing in the UK have been explored in a study of the changing strategic management and organisational culture for community investment activities over a 2-year period at HAX. The study links the concepts of institutional logics [Friedland & Alford (1991) The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press); Thornton & Ocasio (1999) American Journal of Sociology, 105(3), pp. 801–843] in a social housing context [Mullins (2006) Public Policy and Administration, 21(3), pp.6–21] with organisational cultures [Gregory (1983) Administrative Science Quarterly, 28, pp. 359–376; Hofstede, 1993] to locate the strategic focus of the organisation in a logics–culture matrix. A link between a consumerist or customer logic and a prevailing corporate culture is identified, together with a more historic connection between a community logic and a weakening regional, locally responsive culture.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 533-552
Issue: 4
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.689691
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Author-Name: Alan Morris
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Morris
Title: ‘Super-gentrification’ triumphs: gentrification and the displacement of public housing tenants in Sydney’s inner-city
Abstract:
This study analyses the super-gentrification of Millers Point, an inner-city area in Sydney, Australia, and the displacement of its 465 public housing tenants. Drawing on in-depth interviews with public housing tenants and homeowners, media reports and government media releases, it argues that a key reason for the displacement was the super-gentrification of the area that was hastened dramatically by the Barangaroo development, a massive urban spectacle on the site of the old port adjacent to Millers Point. Unlike the earlier analyses of super-gentrification described by Lees and Butler where an already gentrified area is settled by super wealthy households over a period of time, the shift to super-gentrification status in Millers Point did not involve households moving into an area already gentrified. Rather, the process was premised on the Barangaroo development and the displacement of public housing tenants. The displacement meant that the heritage-listed public housing dwelling were now available for purchase by exceptionally wealthy households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1071-1088
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1515894
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Author-Name: Guy Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Author-Name: Rosanna Scutella
Author-X-Name-First: Rosanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Scutella
Author-Name: Yi-Ping Tseng
Author-X-Name-First: Yi-Ping
Author-X-Name-Last: Tseng
Author-Name: Gavin Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Gavin
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood
Title: How do housing and labour markets affect individual homelessness?
Abstract:
We examine the impact of housing and labour market conditions on individual risks of homelessness. Our innovation is a focus on homelessness entries, although findings from jointly estimated homelessness entry and exit probit equations are reported. Risky behaviours and life experiences such as regular use of drugs, the experience of violence and biographies of acute disadvantage lead to a higher risk of becoming homeless. Public housing is a strong protective factor. We find clear evidence that for certain subgroups it is being the ‘wrong person in the wrong place’ that matters most when considering risks of entering homelessness. Indigenous Australians, for example, are no more likely to become homeless than other vulnerable groups holding housing and labour market conditions constant. However, tighter housing markets and weaker labour markets expose Indigenous Australians to significantly higher risks of entering homelessness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1089-1116
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1520819
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Author-Name: Alasdair B. R. Stewart
Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair B. R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stewart
Title: Housing rites: young people’s experience of conditional pathways out of homelessness
Abstract:
Since devolution, Scotland has been perceived as an international trailblazer in homelessness policy. This is principally due to The Homelessness Etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 which led to the ‘priority need’ category being abolished in 2012, thus placing a statutory duty upon local authorities to provide settled accommodation to nearly all homeless households. This has been widely praised for extending citizenship rights to those experiencing homelessness. In contrast to this, this paper examines the experiences of young people (aged 16–24) where judgements on whether they were ‘housing ready’ delayed them being provided settled accommodation. Drawing on Bourdieu's writing on rites of institution, it is shown how the symbolic categories deployed by support services and landlords operated as a means of ‘vision and division’, creating new social positions that lengthened the pathway out of homelessness. In a complimentary move, there was a fusion of support with control mechanisms to determine a person's readiness for settled accommodation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1117-1139
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1520818
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Author-Name: Carey Doberstein
Author-X-Name-First: Carey
Author-X-Name-Last: Doberstein
Author-Name: Alison Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Alison
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: Citizen support for spending to reduce homelessness in Canada’s largest urban centres
Abstract:
We present the results of a randomized controlled survey experiment involving 1508 Canadians using hypothetical vignettes of homelessness experiences, allowing us to examine the extent to which Canadians who live in large urban centres hold different attitudes towards homeless populations and may differ systematically in terms of supporting expanding homelessness investments. The findings point to differences not only among major urban centres, but also along urban-suburban-rural dimensions, which help us understand the place-based drivers of political will and policy responses across the Canadian urban and regional context.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1140-1162
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1520820
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Author-Name: Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual
Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Iglesias-Pascual
Title: Social discourse, housing search and residential segregation: the social determinants of recent economic migrants’ residential mobility in Seville
Abstract:
Immigrants’ neighbourhood choices are key to understanding today’s dominant socio-territorial dynamics, especially in urban areas. We analysed the factors involved in the housing search at the early stages of the economic migrant influx in Seville, Spain (Andalusia region, Europe’s southern border) and their impact on the development of residential segregation in this city. Using a qualitative methodology approach based on focus groups, unstructured interviews and discourse analysis, the implicit and explicit social determinants that influence economic migrants’ residential behaviours were examined. In line with previous studies, the results highlight the importance of socio-economic determinants and a trend towards self-segregation. Social discourse analysis reveals how the host society’s ethnoracial preferences and prejudices – from the outset of the economic migrant influx – translate into barriers to accessing the housing market, which plays a crucial role in understanding economic migrant residential mobility and its impact on and consequences for the residential segregation process.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1163-1188
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1520817
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Author-Name: Peter Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: An evolutionary approach to regional housing resilience: the role of agency and the ‘epistemic community'
Abstract:
The equilibrium model of resilience following shock has been highly critiqued as it implies status quo and no change in underlying power structures. This article fills a gap in the resilience literature as it applies to planning for housing by discussing the role of agency in contributing to the adaptive capacity of regions in responding shock events. A central tenet of the article is how agents can be the shock in slow-burn events. A case study of the development of regional strategic housing market assessments in an English region in the run-up to and during the global financial crisis illustrates how the concept of the epistemic community applies to planning for housing across scales. As resilience will increasingly drive global investments over the next century the aim of the article is to move away from rigid and conservative expressions of resilience to a more evolutionary approach relevant to regional housing systems.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1189-1211
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1523374
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Author-Name: Gijs Custers
Author-X-Name-First: Gijs
Author-X-Name-Last: Custers
Title: Neighbourhood ties and employment: a test of different hypotheses across neighbourhoods
Abstract:
This study examines to which extent neighbourhood ties relate to employment status for the less-well educated inhabitants of 71 neighbourhoods in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Previous research has produced different expectations as to whether having contact with neighbours is either positively or negatively related to being employed and how this relation differs across neighbourhoods. Two waves from the Neighbourhood Profile survey (N = 8507) were used, which included measures of the contact frequency with neighbours and their willingness to help. We find that for the less-well educated neighbourhood ties have a modest negative relation to employment. Moreover, this relation does not vary across neighbourhoods with different socioeconomic statuses, with the exception of part-time working men. Our research implies that neighbourhood ties in mixed neighbourhoods do not positively relate to employment for the less-well educated, thereby questioning policy assumptions about ‘social mix’. Contributions to the field of neighbourhood studies are made by employing measures of the social networks mechanism and taking into account the conditionality of effects across neighbourhoods.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1212-1234
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1527020
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: Navigating community development: harnessing comparative advantages to create strategic partnerships
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1235-1237
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1626607
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: Social housing and urban renewal: a cross-national perspective
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1237-1239
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1626608
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Author-Name: Yoric Irving-Clarke
Author-X-Name-First: Yoric
Author-X-Name-Last: Irving-Clarke
Title: From conflict to inclusion in housing: interaction of communities, residents & activists
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1239-1241
Issue: 7
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1626609
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Author-Name: William A. V. Clark
Author-X-Name-First: William A. V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Clark
Author-Name: William Lisowski
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Lisowski
Title: Decisions to move and decisions to stay: life course events and mobility outcomes
Abstract:
The decision to move is preceded by thinking about moving and then planning the move. Previous work has used varying measures of the intention to move to estimate models of what lies underneath the intention to move. That work has shown how family contexts, life course events, and economic resources play roles in forming the intention to move. This paper extends previous research in four ways. We use logistic regression models of moves conditional on an intention to move, we include measures of family structure specifically in the model, we estimate the role of satisfaction in the decision to move or stay, given an intention to move and we use a eleven-year panel data-set rather than cross-sectional data as in many studies. We confirm some of the findings of previous studies including the strong effects for life course events, but neither education nor income are predictors. We also show the role of a strong intention to move in the model. There are modest effects of higher levels of satisfaction with housing and community for those who did not intend to move. It is important to emphasize that this study while confirming some of the previous results reiterates that we need replication to complete and extend our understanding of these social processes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 547-565
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1210100
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Author-Name: Javier A. Barrios García
Author-X-Name-First: Javier A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Barrios García
Title: Do homeowners cope better with economic crises in terms of employment? An analysis of micro panel data from Spain, 2004–2013
Abstract:
This paper investigates the effects of housing tenure choice on the employment status of individuals through the empirical estimation of different dynamic panel data models using Spanish data covering the period 2004–2013. I find that there is no sign of any significant spillover effect of the regional homeownership rate on the probability of employment, whereas the average effect on this probability for the lagged housing tenure choice is robust and significantly positive, ranging around two percentage points for the whole homeowners group and for those homeowners with a mortgage outstanding. The effect vanishes for the outright homeowners. Some implications for policies supporting home ownership are briefly discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 566-583
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1224324
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Author-Name: Richard Waldron
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Waldron
Author-Name: Declan Redmond
Author-X-Name-First: Declan
Author-X-Name-Last: Redmond
Title: “We’re just existing, not living!” Mortgage stress and the concealed costs of coping with crisis
Abstract:
Following the financial crisis, an extensive literature has examined the vulnerabilities facing mortgagors in default and foreclosure. However, in addition to these “overt casualties” of the crash, many households are struggling to meet their mortgage payments by enduring severe cutbacks to their quality of life. The experiences of these “unrevealed casualties” of the financial crisis and the coping strategies they employ to respond to mortgage stress remain under-explored. Drawing on survey data of Irish mortgagors (n = 433), this paper examines the impacts of mortgage stress upon quality of life and mortgagors’ coping strategies to respond to their financial difficulties. The findings suggest that mortgage stress affects a broader range of households than previously considered; mortgage stressed households adopt a range of expenditure, employment, finance and housing-related responses; and more punitive responses correlate with greater mortgage stress levels, thereby providing a fuller account of the real cost of coping with the crisis impacts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 584-612
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1224323
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Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Author-Name: Beverley Ann Searle
Author-X-Name-First: Beverley Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Searle
Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Author-Name: Tom Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: Becoming a landlord: strategies of property-based welfare in the private rental sector in Great Britain
Abstract:
Ongoing neoliberal policies have realigned the links between housing and welfare, positioning residential property investment – commonly through homeownership and exceptionally also through landlordism – at the core of households’ asset-building strategies. Nonetheless, the private rented sector (PRS) has been commonly portrayed as a tenure option for tenants rather than a welfare strategy for landlords. Drawing on qualitative interviews with landlords across Great Britain, we explore landlords’ different motivations in engaging in landlordism; and the ways in which their property-based welfare strategies are shaped by the particular intersection of individual socioeconomic and life-course circumstances, and the broader socioeconomic and financial environment. By employing a constructionist grounded approach to research, our study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the different ways that asset-based welfare strategies operate within the PRS. We draw attention to an understudied nexus between homeownership and landlordism which we argue represents a promising route for future research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 613-637
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1228855
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Author-Name: Zan Yang
Author-X-Name-First: Zan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang
Author-Name: Ying Fan
Author-X-Name-First: Ying
Author-X-Name-Last: Fan
Author-Name: Cindy Hiu-ying Cheung
Author-X-Name-First: Cindy Hiu-ying
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung
Title: Housing assets to the elderly in urban China: to fund or to hedge?
Abstract:
Housing has become the most important asset held by a large proportion of China’s older citizens. Therefore, the role of housing wealth in the consumption decisions of the elderly is a central topic of research and gains insights into the saving, investment and consumption decisions made throughout household life to meet later pension needs. In this paper, using data drawn from a household survey conducted between 2002 and 2009, we estimate the influence of housing wealth on the non-housing consumption of the elderly, and identify the mechanisms underlying this relationship. We find that on average, changes in housing wealth have limited effects on elderly consumption. However, we also find that the role of housing in consumption differs according to the income, health status, and living arrangements of the elderly. The paper draws attention to the influence of housing and its links with social and health-care systems on the lives of older people, with important policy implications.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 638-658
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1228853
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Author-Name: Qiyan Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Qiyan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Author-Name: Xiaoling Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Xiaoling
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Author-Name: Paul Waley
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Waley
Title: When Neil Smith met Pierre Bourdieu in Nanjing, China: bringing cultural capital into rent gap theory
Abstract:
In this paper, we expand rent-gap theory in conceptual and territorial terms. Hitherto, the theory has, as Neil Smith intended, been used in an economic sense; we argue here, borrowing ideas from Pierre Bourdieu, that in the competitive environment of Chinese education, a rent gap in cultural capital is created which can later be converted into economic capital. The process we identify is triggered by the purchase of an apartment in a catchment zone, crucial to obtaining entry into a prestigious ‘key’ school in most Chinese cities. This leads to apartments changing hands for high prices despite generally being old and dilapidated. The rent gap in cultural capital occurs when parents forego potential short-term gains to capitalize on the long-term benefits of a superior education. This is contrasted here with a somewhat more conventional scenario, where property developers exploit a rent gap on suburban apartments built in the catchment of branch ‘key’ schools.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 659-677
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1228849
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Author-Name: Rionach Casey
Author-X-Name-First: Rionach
Author-X-Name-Last: Casey
Author-Name: Angela Maye-Banbury
Author-X-Name-First: Angela
Author-X-Name-Last: Maye-Banbury
Title: Relational and gendered selves: older Irish migrants’ housing and employment histories in the north and East Midlands of England
Abstract:
Most accounts of migration stress the economic necessity, but generally blur the role of migrants themselves in the process. It is also rare to consider male and female migrants together, or to explore the relational aspects of masculinity and femininity in migration histories. This paper explores the relational aspects of Irish (‘Irish’ is used throughout this article to refer to our participants who self-identified as ‘Irish’. It is further noted that all of the participants were from the Republic of Ireland and hence does not include Northern Irish migrants. Where ‘Ireland’ is used it refers to the Republic of Ireland) migrants’ residential and work histories using narrative enquiry. First, we explore the complex relationship between housing and employment in Irish women and men’s stories focusing particularly on the early phase of migration. Second, we argue that these narratives, especially the ‘intertwining personal, sub-cultural and cultural stories’ are essential in understanding Irish migrants’ experiences. Third, we posit that gender emerges as a significant factor with qualitative differences in Irish women’s and men’s trajectories. Our analysis focuses on the self-in-relation, housing pathways and gendered housing and employment strategies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 678-692
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1228850
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Author-Name: Steven C. Bourassa
Author-X-Name-First: Steven C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bourassa
Author-Name: Song Shi
Author-X-Name-First: Song
Author-X-Name-Last: Shi
Title: Understanding New Zealand’s decline in homeownership
Abstract:
Homeownership is an important component of the New Zealand lifestyle. In recent decades, however, the ownership rate has been declining and the reasons are poorly understood. This paper explains the decline using a decomposition technique that has been applied in other contexts. We find that borrowing constraints and ethnicity have been particularly important contributors to the decline. Rapidly rising house prices clearly have played a major role in the inability of income to keep up with prices and the increased impact of borrowing constraints. We also show that the increased down payment requirements imposed by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 2013 are unlikely to have affected the ownership rate.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 693-710
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1228851
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Author-Name: Jules Birch
Author-X-Name-First: Jules
Author-X-Name-Last: Birch
Title: Substance not Spin. An insider’s view of success and failure in government
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 711-712
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1305694
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Author-Name: Salvin Gounder
Author-X-Name-First: Salvin
Author-X-Name-Last: Gounder
Title: Housing and home unbound: intersections in economics, environment and politics in Australia
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 712-714
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1305696
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Author-Name: Chris Paris
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Paris
Title: The geopolitics of real estate
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 714-715
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1305698
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Author-Name: Lindsey McCarthy
Author-X-Name-First: Lindsey
Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy
Title: (Re)conceptualising the boundaries between home and homelessness: the unheimlich
Abstract:
A burgeoning cross-disciplinary literature signifies a move towards diversifying understandings of the meanings of ‘home’. Homelessness is inextricably bound up in these definitions. While earlier work has considered meanings of homelessness, attempts to advance understandings of the relationship between home and homelessness have been sporadic. This article attempts to reinvigorate discussion around the home–homelessness relationship by problematizing the binaries in current understandings and poses a different way of theorizing the interplay between the two concepts. Drawing on interviews with women accessing homelessness services in the North of England, discussion interweaves women’s meanings of home and homelessness with the Freudian notion of the ‘unheimlich’. The ‘unheimlich’ captures the uncanny process of inversion whereby the familiar domestic sphere of the house turns into a frightening place; and a typical space of homelessness—the hostel—is considered home. The article seeks to contribute more adequate theoretical tools for future research to better understand and articulate the complexities of home and homelessness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 960-985
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408780
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Author-Name: Philippe Belanger
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Belanger
Author-Name: Michael Bourdeau-Brien
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Bourdeau-Brien
Title: The impact of flood risk on the price of residential properties: the case of England
Abstract:
This paper examines the impact of flood risk on the value of English residential properties. We find that a location within a flood zone significantly lowers property values even if we control for the proximity to a watercourse, the history of flooding and neighbourhoods effects. Although the flood risk discount is more compelling for waterfront properties, it is still highly significant for dwellings further from the water. The markdown arises around 2004–2005, which coincides with the publication of detailed flood maps by the UK Environment Agency and with a more risk-based pricing of flood insurance policies. As expected, the effect of flood risk on house prices is stronger in the months following major flood events but, interestingly, it almost disappears in a hot market when buyers have arguably less negotiating power.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 876-901
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408781
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Author-Name: Dave Cowan
Author-X-Name-First: Dave
Author-X-Name-Last: Cowan
Author-Name: Helen Carr
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Carr
Author-Name: Alison Wallace
Author-X-Name-First: Alison
Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace
Title: “Thank heavens for the lease”: histories of shared ownership
Abstract:
Drawing on and developing Kingdon’s multiple streams analysis, this article examines the development of one aspect of the UK’s low cost home ownership programme: shared ownership. We demonstrate how key human and non-human policy entrepreneurs were able to set the agenda from 1973–1983 in favour of shared ownership; they neutralized the alternatives, while retaining some of their instruments; and solved a number of early problems by bringing key players into the programme. Our data-sets include a range of archival material and elite interviews. The policy entrepreneurs included John Stanley (who was the housing minister in the First Thatcher government), the National Federation of Housing Associations, and the Building Societies Association. Our development of the multiple streams analysis is to argue that documents, including the lease, act as policy entrepreneurs in their own right. The lease was central to the development of shared ownership and its transformation into a model lease enrolled other organizations, most critically the building societies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 855-875
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408782
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Author-Name: Anthony Owusu-Ansah
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony
Author-X-Name-Last: Owusu-Ansah
Author-Name: Derick Ohemeng-Mensah
Author-X-Name-First: Derick
Author-X-Name-Last: Ohemeng-Mensah
Author-Name: Raymond Talinbe Abdulai
Author-X-Name-First: Raymond Talinbe
Author-X-Name-Last: Abdulai
Author-Name: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Author-X-Name-First: Franklin
Author-X-Name-Last: Obeng-Odoom
Title: Public choice theory and rental housing: an examination of rental housing contracts in Ghana
Abstract:
This paper extends both the literature on rental housing in Ghana and the global literature on the critique of public choice analyses in terms of focus, methods and positioning. It argues that, contrary to the assumption that all housing policy changes are driven by internal national processes, in the case of Ghana at least, neither tenants (through their use of their greater numbers) nor landlords (through the use of their stronger financial and hence political power) exclusively influence housing policy. Both parties have some power, but landlords use theirs to change rents arbitrarily and decide whom to invite or keep as tenants, whilst tenants seek to use their power by lodging complaints with the state, albeit to little effect as the power of landlords is overwhelming. There is a strong basis to call into question the public choice argument that it is fair for landlords to extract windfall rent from tenants since their efforts or talents do not increase rent.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 938-959
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408783
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Author-Name: Sinikka Okkola
Author-X-Name-First: Sinikka
Author-X-Name-Last: Okkola
Author-Name: Cédric Brunelle
Author-X-Name-First: Cédric
Author-X-Name-Last: Brunelle
Title: The changing determinants of housing affordability in oil-booming agglomerations: a quantile regression investigation from Canada, 1991–2011
Abstract:
Growing evidence suggests that resource-led economic growth generates rising housing prices which make it difficult for low to mid income earners to find adequate, suitable and affordable housing. This research explores how households’ characteristics associated with housing stress evolve in relation to the commodity cycle, and their relative impact along the distribution of accessibility constraints in two resource-driven agglomerations in Canada: St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Fort McMurray, Alberta. Using census microdata, we develop quantile regression models for households in the bottom, median and top quartiles of the housing affordability stress spectrum between 1991 and 2011. We find differentiated effects for households with low, median and high levels of housing stress. The young, lone females, lone parents and people working in low-paid services face increasing housing stress, while this relation sharply degrades over time for households in the highest quartiles. These results provide evidence of emerging vulnerabilities, notably among renters, first-time homebuyers and people outside the labour force.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 902-937
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408784
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Author-Name: Eija Hasu
Author-X-Name-First: Eija
Author-X-Name-Last: Hasu
Title: Housing decision-making process explained by third agers, Finland: ‘we didn’t want this, but we chose it’
Abstract:
This paper investigates housing decision-making processes, using ‘third agers’ as a target group. Third agers offer individual and household level explanations to scrutinize the decision-making process in detail, explaining individual processes and negotiations. A cross-sectional qualitative study combining data from three projects, conducted in Helsinki Region, Finland, indicates that the triggers for moving affect the ways preferences are selected and formed as choice criteria. The interview-based data explains negotiations and other forms of information processing throughout the choice process, ending with unexpected choice outcomes. Despite the focus groups’ relative wide-ranging freedom of choice, residents constantly adjust their preferences as choice criteria throughout the decision-making process. Afterwards, coping strategies are adopted to reconcile eventual discrepancies. The paper indicates that the reasons for dissatisfaction are not communicated to the developers or the architects. The results suggest that the residents are not operating as prosumers with influence on housing design and production.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 837-854
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408785
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Author-Name: Olumuyiwa Adegun
Author-X-Name-First: Olumuyiwa
Author-X-Name-Last: Adegun
Author-Name: Eziyi Ibem
Author-X-Name-First: Eziyi
Author-X-Name-Last: Ibem
Title: Within their reach: quality urban housing for millions who do not have millions
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 986-987
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1482634
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Author-Name: Laurence Troy
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Troy
Title: Planning and citizenship
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 987-989
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1482635
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Author-Name: Louise Meijering
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Meijering
Title: Migration and the search for home. Mapping domestic space in migrants’ everyday lives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 989-991
Issue: 6
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1482636
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Author-Name: David Manley
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Manley
Title: Ethnicity, Class and Aspiration: Understanding London's New East End
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1048-1050
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617931
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Author-Name: Annette Hastings
Author-X-Name-First: Annette
Author-X-Name-Last: Hastings
Title: From Recession to Renewal: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Public Services and Local Government
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1050-1051
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617932
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Author-Name: Diane Theakstone
Author-X-Name-First: Diane
Author-X-Name-Last: Theakstone
Title: Disabled People and Housing: Choices, Opportunities and Barriers
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1052-1054
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617933
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Author-Name: John Erskine
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Erskine
Title: Regional Planning in America: Practice and Prospect
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1054-1056
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617934
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Author-Name: Alan Murie
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Murie
Title: The Next Blueprint for Housing Policy in England
Abstract: This review outlines the changes to housing policy in England introduced or proposed by the UK coalition government elected in 2010. These changes form part of a longer term project to modernise housing policy, and are at the same time a response to an economic and public expenditure crisis. It is argued that these emerging proposals raise important questions for housing policy analysis and research—questions about the interpretation of earlier policy and practice, and about the factors likely to affect future policy outcomes and patterns of segregation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1031-1047
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.723405
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Author-Name: Stephen Hincks
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Hincks
Author-Name: Mark Baker
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Baker
Title: A Critical Reflection on Housing Market Area Definition in England
Abstract: The adoption of administrative boundaries as approximations of housing markets has long restricted the scope for housing market analysis and planning policy development to be undertaken within a functional housing market framework in England. This has prompted consideration of the value of deriving housing market areas (HMAs) to underpin the development of housing market intelligence for planning and policy purposes. Drawing on a case study of North West England, this paper critically reviews alternative approaches that have been used to define HMAs. The review highlights that in practice technical and methodological constraints have restricted the operationalisation of an idealised conceptualisation of HMAs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 873-897
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725826
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Author-Name: Cynthia Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Cynthia
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Haiyun Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Haiyun
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: How Far Do People Search for Housing? Analyzing the Roles of Housing Supply, Intra-household Dynamics, and the Use of Information Channels
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the spatial extent of the housing search. Using the concepts of mental map and awareness space, we argue that search space is affected by households' preferences, what is available on the housing market, and the use of information channels as well as their interactions. We hypothesize that households whose members disagree with each other have a larger search spaces than those whose members agree. Furthermore, the supply in the housing market and the use of different information channels may influence the search space differently for agreeing versus disagreeing households. We collected data from face-to-face interviews with 82 households (couples with or without children) who purchased a home in the New York City area between 2004 and 2009. The results support our hypotheses, suggesting that intra-household dynamics plays an important role in housing search.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 898-914
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725827
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Author-Name: Julie Clark
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Clark
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Title: Housing Improvements, Perceived Housing Quality and Psychosocial Benefits From the Home
Abstract: In advanced countries, where many of the most deleterious physical health effects of poor housing have been eradicated or substantially reduced, there has been increasing interest in mental health and psychosocial benefits as housing outcomes. Recently available data, based on a large-scale survey of social renters in Glasgow, have offered the opportunity to explore the psychosocial benefits of home in previously unavailable detail, over a range of property types and housing improvement interventions. Findings indicate that home improvements have mediating effects upon the psychosocial benefits, which occupants derive from their homes via their impacts upon perceived home quality. However, landlord relations and the quality of the wider neighbourhood within which improvements take place are shown to be important moderators of this relationship. In particular, landlords' overall service performance, how they keep tenants informed and how they take tenants' views on board, all make a difference to perceptions of home quality and to psychosocial status and control.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 915-939
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725829
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Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Author-Name: John Doling
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Doling
Title: Testing Home Ownership as the Cornerstone of Welfare: Lessons from East Asia for the West
Abstract: In recent years, one driver behind the promotion of home ownership in Western countries has been the belief that owner-occupied housing assets provide a means to build up individual welfare security, potentially offsetting pension shortfalls in retirement. In contrast, many developed East Asian societies have both long focussed on advancing ‘asset’ or ‘property-based welfare’ systems as well as experienced the late-1990s Asian Financial Crisis which forced changes in housing and welfare practices. This paper examines how home ownership and asset-based welfare fared in these contexts and the lessons to be learned. It begins by considering the role of owner-occupied housing assets in different welfare regimes before empirically examining how asset-based welfare systems have been realized. It then considers how East Asian home ownership and asset-based welfare systems have stood-up to economic crises. The final section considers what the East Asian experiences contribute to an understanding of the housing assets–welfare relationship.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 940-961
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725830
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Author-Name: J. Tighe
Author-X-Name-First: J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tighe
Title: How Race and Class Stereotyping Shapes Attitudes Toward Affordable Housing
Abstract: The development of affordable housing often involves a contentious siting process. Proposed housing developments frequently trigger concern among neighbors and community groups about potential negative impacts on neighborhood quality of life and property values. Advocates, developers, and researchers have long suspected that these concerns stem in part from racial or class prejudice. Yet, to date, empirical evidence supporting these assumptions is lacking. This study seeks to examine roles that perceptions of race and class play in shaping opinions that underlie public opposition to affordable housing. This study applies a public opinion survey to determine the extent to which stereotypes and perceptions of the poor and minorities relate to attitudes toward affordable housing. The results demonstrate that such perceptions are particularly strong determinants of negative attitudes about affordable housing. These findings provide advocates, planners, developers, and researchers with a more accurate portrayal of affordable housing opposition, thereby allowing the response to be shaped in a more appropriate manner.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 962-983
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725831
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Author-Name: Seong-Hoon Cho
Author-X-Name-First: Seong-Hoon
Author-X-Name-Last: Cho
Author-Name: Tun-Hsiang Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Tun-Hsiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Author-Name: Seung Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Seung
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Roland Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Roland
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Author-Name: Daegoon Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Daegoon
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Applying Directed Acyclic Graphs to Assist Specification of a Hedonic Model
Abstract: This research empirically tests the hypothesis that utilizing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) as an ex-ante process to select variables for a hedonic model improves the model's performance. The results for both new and existing house submarkets indicated that DAG analysis mitigated the multicollinearity issue commonly observed in hedonic models. Using DAG analysis also improved the goodness-of-fit of the hedonic model for the new submarket. However, model specification through DAG analysis does not offer clear implications for improving forecasting accuracy, efficiency, and spatial error autocorrelation. The findings imply that DAG analysis for model specification can be a complementary step in the process of estimating hedonic models, especially when reducing standard error bias by alleviating potential multicollinearity is important in determining the attributes that affect housing prices.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 984-1007
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725832
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Author-Name: Adriana Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Title: Strategies for Home Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates
Abstract: Socio-economic and physical change have visibly affected post-socialist cities, yet the state of decay of their inherited large housing estates has only deepened throughout the 1990s, despite the change in tenure through policies of large-scale privatisation. Housing disrepair has now reached a critical stage that requires rapid private and public intervention. This paper examines the extent to which Romanian block residents have been able to improve in situ their housing conditions since 2000, the strategies they employed and the challenges they faced. It focuses on the often ignored private domain of housing, flats and blocks, where changes are also likely to be less visible. By analysing the process of individual utility metering and the practice of collective block management, I argue that besides economics, the unregulated housing context and a relaxed legal culture have challenged individual and collective action and have generated a framework of housing privatism.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1008-1030
Issue: 7
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725833
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Author-Name: Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita
Author-X-Name-First: Maria de Lourdes
Author-X-Name-Last: Melo Zurita
Author-Name: Kristian Ruming
Author-X-Name-First: Kristian
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruming
Title: ‘From Choice to Chance’: choice-based letting use in forced tenant relocations in New South Wales, Australia
Abstract:
The redevelopment of large social housing estates has emerged as a central policy response to address housing affordability and social housing crises in Australia. These projects, often done in partnership with the private sector, are seen as opportunities to leverage government land assets and increase densities to expand social and private housing stock. While extensive research has been conducted on the rationale and processes of estate renewal, less attention has been paid to tenant relocation practices. This is the focus of this article. In particular we explore the New South Wales Government’s use of a choice-based letting program called ‘My Property Choice’ (MPC) that involves tenants bidding via a ballot system for available social housing properties. We argue, despite policy rhetoric emphasising resident ‘choice’, MPC emerges as a chance-based process for tenants seeking to ‘win’ their desired relocation destinations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1243-1262
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1531112
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Author-Name: Katrina Raynor
Author-X-Name-First: Katrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Raynor
Title: Assembling an innovative social housing project in Melbourne: mapping the potential for social innovation
Abstract:
In Australia, echoing trends in the UK, US and Canada, provision of social housing has transitioned from government-led mechanisms to an increasing focus on partnerships between private developers, government and the not-for-profit sector. In this context, social housing is often achieved via the ‘cobbling together’ of necessary resources over time. This article focuses on an innovative social housing project in the inner west of Melbourne, Australia, that involves the modular construction of 57 transportable dwellings located on government-owned land. I apply a theoretical framework that combines insights from social innovation literature and assemblage to understand the process of assembling a pilot project and to chart how the project may be scaled up or scaled out to challenge the system in which homelessness occurs. The research highlights the role of community housing providers as ‘pivot points’ in the social housing sector and acknowledges the importance of credibility, funding, legislative change and construction innovation in scaling housing social innovations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1263-1285
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1535054
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Author-Name: Jalene T. Anderson-Baron
Author-X-Name-First: Jalene T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson-Baron
Author-Name: Damian Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Damian
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Title: ‘Take whatever you can get’: practicing Housing First in Alberta
Abstract:
Housing First (HF) is an increasingly widespread and influential response to chronic homelessness. Programs using an HF approach typically rely on market apartments to house homeless clients as rapidly as possible. This reliance means HF programs are dependent on the availability and affordability of market housing. Little attention has been given to how shortages of affordable rental housing influence the practice of HF. To address this gap, we undertook qualitative research in Alberta, Canada. Interviews with service providers revealed that high rents and low vacancy rates had profound impacts on program operations, and complicated efforts to follow HF principles. Clients often experienced delays in being housed and felt pressure to accept the first apartment they were offered. In response, HF programs devoted resources to improve relationships with landlords. Ultimately, however, reliance on market housing undermined programs’ ability to fulfil the potential of HF in the Alberta context.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1286-1306
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1535055
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Author-Name: Matt Padley
Author-X-Name-First: Matt
Author-X-Name-Last: Padley
Author-Name: Lydia Marshall
Author-X-Name-First: Lydia
Author-X-Name-Last: Marshall
Title: Defining and measuring housing affordability using the Minimum Income Standard
Abstract:
There is growing concern about a crisis in housing affordability in the UK, renewing longstanding debates about what constitutes ‘affordable’ housing. The growing use of the private rented sector by low income households has also led to increased interest in understanding the impact of housing costs on living standards. This paper builds on existing work on ‘residual income’ measures of housing affordability, accepting that what households can afford to pay for housing is related to their ability to cover other costs, and so not directly proportional to income. It proposes a new approach to defining and measuring housing affordability, based on the Minimum Income Standard (MIS). The paper then uses data from the Family Resources Survey (2008/09 to 2015/16) to examine housing affordability within the rented sector across the UK, exploring the value of this measure both in revealing the scale of the ‘problem’ and assessing the likely impact of suggested interventions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1307-1329
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1538447
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Author-Name: Kathryn Howell
Author-X-Name-First: Kathryn
Author-X-Name-Last: Howell
Title: Stability, advocacy and voice: opportunities and challenges in resident-led preservation of affordable housing
Abstract:
The role of safe, stable affordable housing has been found to play an outsized role in the ability of residents to access opportunity. However, low-income and moderate-income households face disproportionate impacts of changes in urban neighbourhoods, including poor conditions, evictions and rising rents that threaten that stability. Over the past decade, the deep subsidies that created or redeveloped affordable housing between the late 1960s and 1980s have expired, putting not only the residents of those buildings. Meanwhile, market-affordable housing is at risk due to increasing market pressure in appreciating neighbourhoods. In Washington, DC a combination of programmes, laws and traditions have created a tenant-led preservation policy that has preserved the affordability of tens of thousands of units since the early 1980s. This paper investigates DC’s tenant-based preservation policy to understand the preservation challenges and opportunities for low-income and moderate-income residents in changing communities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1330-1348
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1538449
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Author-Name: Henrik Gutzon Larsen
Author-X-Name-First: Henrik Gutzon
Author-X-Name-Last: Larsen
Title: Three phases of Danish cohousing: tenure and the development of an alternative housing form
Abstract:
Broadly understood as a housing form that combines individual dwellings with substantial common facilities and activities aimed at everyday living, Danish cohousing communities (bofællesskaber) are often seen as pioneering and comparatively successful. Yet, in spite of frequently being mentioned or addressed as case studies in the growing literature on cohousing and, more generally, alternative forms of housing, Danish cohousing experiences have not been systematically analysed since the 1980s. Emphasizing broader trends and evolving societal contexts, this article investigates the development of Danish cohousing over the past five decades. Through this historical analysis, the article also draws attention to the largely neglected issue of tenure structures in the evolution of cohousing. The multifaceted phenomenon of cohousing cannot and should not be reduced to issues of tenure. But if cohousing is to spread and contribute affordable alternatives to mainstream housing, tenure structures should be a key concern.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1349-1371
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1569599
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: Decentring urban governance: narratives, resistance and contestation
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1372-1374
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1647993
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Author-Name: Barbara Mitchell
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell
Title: Mulitigenerational family living: evidence and policy implications from Australia
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1374-1375
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1647994
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Title: Correction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: X-X
Issue: 8
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1652398
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Author-Name: Paolo Boccagni
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Boccagni
Title: At home in home care? Contents and boundaries of the ‘domestic’ among immigrant live-in workers in Italy
Abstract:
How ‘at home’, if at all, migrants feel in their everyday lives abroad is a neglected research issue, with meaningful implications for immigrant, social and housing policies. Their employment as live-in care workers with elderly clients is a unique site to address it, as this article aims to do, based on an archive of life histories of immigrant women in Italy. Co-residential domestic work foregrounds migrants’ need for a domestic space of their own, within the place of someone else. Building on immigrant women’s narratives, I explore what senses and dimensions of domesticity, or even of home, are negotiated in their routine interactions with older clients and the latter’s family members. Within a dwelling place which conflates work and domesticity, the cognitive, emotional and practical dimensions of migrants’ gendered home experience are nothing obvious. How is home-making – as a set of practices oriented to pursue security, familiarity and control – enacted under these circumstances? Is the cultivation of a sense of home beneficial to the clients only, or do immigrant women themselves feel at home somehow? Different ‘modes of domesticity’ are discussed, at the intersection between continuous expectations of home-making and discontinuous ways of feeling at home.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 813-831
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1367366
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Author-Name: Kathleen Flanagan
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Flanagan
Title: ‘Problem families’ in public housing: discourse, commentary and (dis)order
Abstract:
This article contributes to a chain of literature extending back to the late nineteenth century on the ‘problem family’, particularly when encountered by housing providers as the ‘problem’ tenant. Using archival evidence of the techniques employed by one social housing provider in the mid-1970s to identify a definitive solution to the challenges posed by ‘problem’ households, I trace the patterns and practices in ‘problem family’ discourse more broadly, and their intersection with those of other discursive fields, particularly eugenics and social work. I show how attempts to define, identify and design models of rehabilitation for ‘problem families’ can be understood as forms of a discursive strategy which Foucault identified as ‘commentary’, and argue that such commentary remains intrinsic to welfare state efforts to tackle entrenched disadvantage.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 684-707
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1380784
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Author-Name: Sheng Li
Author-X-Name-First: Sheng
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Lanlan Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Lanlan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Kuo-Liang Chang
Author-X-Name-First: Kuo-Liang
Author-X-Name-Last: Chang
Title: Do internal migrants suffer from housing extreme overcrowding in urban China?
Abstract:
Housing deprivation is central to economic deprivation. Identifying disadvantaged group(s) suffering from housing deprivation is a necessary step before the government can design effective housing assistance programmes. Using a nationwide micro-level data-set from the Chinese Family Panel Studies, we evidence the disadvantage that internal migrants face related to extreme overcrowding. We find that renters, whether natives or internal migrants, are more likely to suffer extreme overcrowding than homeowners, nationally and in most Chinese regions. However, both rural and urban migrants are less likely to be owner-occupiers than native residents. By comparing homeowners vs. renters, we further discover that migrant homeowners are less likely to suffer extreme overcrowding than the native residents of China’s cities. Conversely internal migrant renters face the highest odds to live in extremely overcrowded dwellings. Overall, findings suggest that the Chinese government needs pay special attention to improve internal migrant tenants’ living condition, particularly so for those renting.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 708-733
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1383366
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Author-Name: Mandy Lau
Author-X-Name-First: Mandy
Author-X-Name-Last: Lau
Title: Framing processes in planning disputes: analysing dynamics of contention in a housing project in Hong Kong
Abstract:
Opposition to planned housing projects can lead to considerable delays. Hong Kong is characterized by an executive-dominant planning system, whereby the government possesses strong planning powers, while elected district councillors play an advisory role only. Curiously, planning delays are fairly common. The above paradox is analysed in this paper through examining a major dispute over public housing development in Hong Kong. This dispute involved lengthy processes of bargaining, which were vulnerable to legitimacy challenges. Councillors acted strategically by tapping into prevailing social values to frame the legitimacy of bargaining processes. Despite discontent with these informal bargaining processes, the dispute has not evolved into more radical challenges to existing governance arrangements. The paper concludes by considering how hegemonic discourses of planning efficiency may have constrained the emergence of radical contention, which adds to broader debates about the conditions which shape the trajectories and transformative prospects of contentious urban developments.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 667-683
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1383367
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Author-Name: Christopher L. Ambrey
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ambrey
Author-Name: Caryl Bosman
Author-X-Name-First: Caryl
Author-X-Name-Last: Bosman
Author-Name: Angela Ballard
Author-X-Name-First: Angela
Author-X-Name-Last: Ballard
Title: Ontological security, social connectedness and the well-being of Australia’s ageing baby boomers
Abstract:
This study investigates the extent to which social connectedness may mediate the link between ontological security and subjectively measured well-being of Australia’s baby boomers. The results indicate that, on average, for Australia’s baby boomers, a relative lack of ontological security is associated with lower levels of well-being and social connectedness. Further, social connectedness is linked to higher levels of well-being. These findings hold, whether or not other things are held constant. In addition, there is some evidence to suggest that social connectedness partially mediates the link between ontological security and well-being. Further investigation reveals that the nature of the link between ontological security and well-being may depend on a resident’s age. Most strikingly, social connectedness is found to consistently attenuate and completely mediate this age-specific negative link between a relative absence of ontological security and well-being.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 777-812
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1388912
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Author-Name: Ceridwen Owen
Author-X-Name-First: Ceridwen
Author-X-Name-Last: Owen
Author-Name: Damhnat McCann
Author-X-Name-First: Damhnat
Author-X-Name-Last: McCann
Title: Transforming Home: parents’ experiences of caring for children on the autism spectrum in Tasmania, Australia
Abstract:
As the private dwelling becomes the preferred site of care for individuals with a variety of complex needs, there has been a burgeoning interest in housing adaptations and the impact on experiences of home. The majority of studies are situated within the contexts of ageing, the disabled body and chronic medical conditions. In this paper, we present the results of a self-directed photography pilot study exploring the experience of carers of children on the autism spectrum in Tasmania, Australia. The findings highlight the multifarious and exacting negotiations required to meet the complex and idiosyncratic needs of children with autism and those of other family members. A key theme is a heightened need for containment enacted through micro-scale modifications to the physical fabric and spatial organization of the dwelling and through less tangible but pervasive practices and routines. The multiple constraints and extensive impact on families emphasize an urgent need for targeted research, policy development and support for this population.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 734-758
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1390075
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Author-Name: Justin P. Steil
Author-X-Name-First: Justin P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Steil
Author-Name: Len Albright
Author-X-Name-First: Len
Author-X-Name-Last: Albright
Author-Name: Jacob S. Rugh
Author-X-Name-First: Jacob S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rugh
Author-Name: Douglas S. Massey
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Massey
Title: The social structure of mortgage discrimination
Abstract:
In the decade leading up to the US housing crisis, black and Latino borrowers disproportionately received high-cost, high-risk mortgages—a lending disparity well documented by prior quantitative studies. We analyse qualitative data from actors in the lending industry to identify the social structure though which this mortgage discrimination took place. Our data consist of 220 depositions, declarations and related exhibits submitted by borrowers, loan originators, investment banks and others in fair lending cases. Our analyses reveal specific mechanisms through which loan originators identified and gained the trust of black and Latino borrowers in order to place them into higher cost, higher risk loans than similarly situated white borrowers. Loan originators sought out lists of individuals already borrowing money to buy consumer goods in predominantly black and Latino neighbourhoods to find potential borrowers, and exploited intermediaries within local social networks, such as community or religious leaders, to gain those borrowers’ trust.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 759-776
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1390076
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Author-Name: Duncan Bowie
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowie
Title: Urban planning and the housing market
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 832-833
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1461343
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Author-Name: Tony Manzi
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Manzi
Title: Big Capital: who is London for?
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 833-835
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1461344
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Author-Name: Ben Pattison
Author-X-Name-First: Ben
Author-X-Name-Last: Pattison
Title: The right to buy?: Selling off public and social housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 835-836
Issue: 5
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1461346
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Author-Name: Hee-Jung Jun
Author-X-Name-First: Hee-Jung
Author-X-Name-Last: Jun
Title: The spatial dynamics of neighborhood change: exploring spatial dependence in neighborhood housing value change
Abstract:
This study examined spatial dependence in neighborhood change between 1990 and 2010 in the largest 100 metropolitan areas in the U.S. By analyzing neighborhood housing value change, this study found that there is considerable spatial autocorrelation in neighborhood change. Neighborhoods form spatial clusters in neighborhood housing value and its change. The spatial analysis also showed that there was a persistent spatial inequality between the city and suburbs but that this spatial inequality has declined over time. Finally, this study suggests that coordinating community development efforts with surrounding neighborhoods rather than taking isolated actions can result in more successful outcomes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 717-741
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1228852
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Author-Name: Peter Saunders
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Saunders
Title: Housing costs, poverty and inequality in Australia
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Housing costs have long been recognised as a factor contributing to poverty, and poverty researchers have estimated poverty using income before and after deducting housing costs. This paper examines the treatment of housing in the literatures on poverty and housing and applies the before and after housing costs approach to examine the extent of both poverty and income inequality in Australia and how they have changed since the early 2000s, focusing on the role of housing costs in the periods before and after the global financial crisis (GFC). Account has been taken of changes in the income measure used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its household income surveys as these have been shown to have a marked impact on empirical estimates. The findings indicate that taking account of housing costs leads to greater increases in both poverty and inequality between 2003–2004 and 2007–2008 and to smaller reductions in both since the GFC in 2007–2008.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 742-757
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1229757
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Author-Name: Michael Mackay
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackay
Author-Name: Harvey C. Perkins
Author-X-Name-First: Harvey C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Perkins
Title: The globalising world of DIY house improvement: interpreting a cultural commercial phenomenon
Abstract:
This paper reports a study of DIY house improvement focusing on its globalising material and commercial elements. Using a multi-method approach and a New Zealand case study we illustrate the importance in housing studies, and research into homemaking in particular, of taking account of DIY practice. We emphasise that it is not possible for housing researchers to account fully for the role and function of DIY without interpreting it as a cultural and economic phenomenon. The ways people live in and make their houses demands a focus on DIY practices, identity, homeownership, government regulation and the globalising commercial features of DIY which include: international product manufacturing, big-box retailing, tool and materials distribution and advertising, the production of printed and digital instructional material, and new popular media forms, such as DIY reality television. DIY is thus an excellent example of culture and economy combined.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 758-777
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1234031
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Author-Name: David Duffy
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Duffy
Author-Name: Caroline Kelleher
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Kelleher
Author-Name: Annette Hughes
Author-X-Name-First: Annette
Author-X-Name-Last: Hughes
Title: Landlord attitudes to the private rented sector in Ireland: survey results
Abstract:
The private rented sector (PRS) in Ireland has grown rapidly over the past decade. A significant element of this growth occurred post-2006 and may be attributed to issues associated with the housing boom and bust. As economic recovery gets underway, severe supply constraints have emerged, putting pressure on the PRS. This paper presents findings of a national survey of landlords undertaken at this time, the first of its kind in Ireland. Despite the current difficulties being experienced in the Irish rental market over 60 per cent of landlords intend to remain in the sector. The survey points to policy changes that could help provide a more stable rental market, for example, the provision of unfurnished accommodation and longer leases. With approximately one-third of landlords expressing the intention to leave, maintaining supply remains a key challenge for the sector.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 778-792
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1236907
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Author-Name: Carolina K. Reid
Author-X-Name-First: Carolina K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid
Title: Financialization and the subprime subject: the experiences of homeowners during California’s housing boom
Abstract:
This paper extends scholarship on the ‘everyday practices’ of global finance by specifically examining the decisions, motivations, and financial practices of homeowners caught up in the subprime lending boom in California. Drawing on evidence from 80 in-depth interviews in Oakland and Stockton, the paper explores how homeowners enacted their own subject positions within the financial ecologies of subprime markets. The research enriches and complicates our understanding of the interplay between financialization and the formation of financial subjects, and highlights how race and class, affective ties, and distinct socio-spatial relations shape and inform borrowers’ financial decisions and practices, even during a period of excessive credit access and house price speculation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 793-815
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1240760
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Author-Name: Xu Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Xu
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Martin Dijst
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Dijst
Author-Name: Jan Van Weesep
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Weesep
Title: Social networks of rural–urban migrants after residential relocation: evidence from Yangzhou, a medium-sized Chinese city
Abstract:
This paper analyses the effects of residential relocation on China’s rural–urban migrants’ social networks in light of evidence from Yangzhou, Jiangsu province. Our study contrasts voluntary moves with forced moves driven by demolition-led redevelopment of urban villages. Based on data from a survey conducted between 2012 and 2013, the regression analysis shows that voluntarily relocated migrants are more likely than forced movers to use phone/computer to contact their former neighbours, and communication technology allows them to maintain the frequency of their contact. Furthermore, when moving to a gated neighbourhood, voluntary movers are more likely than forced movers to participate in public activities, to have more contact with new neighbours and thereby to get more help from the residents’ committee and new neighbours. The results suggest that forced moves have negative effects on migrants’ social networks in the neighbourhood and that the demolition-led redevelopment programmes do not promote the migrants’ integration in the city.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 816-840
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1240761
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Author-Name: Victoria Basolo
Author-X-Name-First: Victoria
Author-X-Name-Last: Basolo
Author-Name: Anaid Yerena
Author-X-Name-First: Anaid
Author-X-Name-Last: Yerena
Title: Residential mobility of low-income, subsidized households: a synthesis of explanatory frameworks
Abstract:
Mobility, residential quality, and life outcomes are linked in the literature and these relationships have influenced low-income housing policy. This research investigates the determinants of mobility for households with a federal housing subsidy. Combining unique data from a survey of Housing Choice Voucher households, client program files, and secondary data, this study uses logistic regression to test several explanations for mobility, including the life cycle, housing market perceptions, and perceived and actual neighborhood conditions. The results indicate that a synthesis of explanations produce the best model to predict residential mobility. Neighborhood quality, perceived and actual, variables most strongly influence mobility, but life cycle factors and perception of the local housing market also impact moving choices. At the same time, the results suggest a gap in our understanding of the relationship among individuals’ environmental perceptions, formation of feelings of neighborhood satisfaction, and actual neighborhood conditions. The article concludes with a discussion of the research and policy implications from this study.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 841-862
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1240762
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Author-Name: Nicole Johnston
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnston
Title: Strata title property rights: private governance of multi-owned properties
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 863-864
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1341746
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Author-Name: Alan Mace
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mace
Title: Second homes and leisure: new perspectives on a forgotten relationship
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 864-866
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1341748
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Author-Name: Dan Treglia
Author-X-Name-First: Dan
Author-X-Name-Last: Treglia
Title: The value of homelessness: managing surplus life in the United States
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 866-868
Issue: 6
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1341764
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Author-Name: Rachel Friedman
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Friedman
Author-Name: Gillad Rosen
Author-X-Name-First: Gillad
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosen
Title: The challenge of conceptualizing affordable housing: definitions and their underlying agendas in Israel
Abstract:
While critical work has focused on revealing underpinning motives of affordable housing strategy, there has been lesser attention given to how factors beyond affordability undergird affordable housing definition. The cultural embeddedness of affordable housing in Israel enables the concept to exist without formal definition, thus, laying bare the agendas and causal narratives and providing an effective laboratory to explore affordable housing’s varied interpretations. This research is based on 60 interviews, analysis of legislation, policy documents and newspaper articles. We use the framework of problem definition and social construction to explain how affordable housing can be manipulated by various institutions and actors to promote interests or agendas that may have little to do with affordability. The findings reveal that Israel’s affordable housing definition, or lack thereof, reflect both various demographic, fiscal, social and political interests and a perpetuation of an ideological shift from the social welfare state to a neoliberal regime.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 565-587
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1458289
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Author-Name: Jana Verstraete
Author-X-Name-First: Jana
Author-X-Name-Last: Verstraete
Author-Name: Marjan Moris
Author-X-Name-First: Marjan
Author-X-Name-Last: Moris
Title: Action–reaction. Survival strategies of tenants and landlords in the private rental sector in Belgium
Abstract:
The private rental sector (PRS) is growing in many Western countries after a period of decline. In Belgium, a renewed policy interest in the PRS emerges and the sector is believed to play an important role in addressing housing needs of low-income households. Steering these households to the PRS is however not without problems. The supply side of the market is not necessarily willing to accommodate vulnerable renters. Landlords and real estate brokers install mechanisms to exclude financially vulnerable households throughout the entire rental procedure. These in turn develop (counter)strategies to get round the obstacles and to increase their chances. In this article, we apply an interactional perspective to study the interplay of strategies developed by both sides of the market. The article is based on 58 in-depth interviews with landlords and brokers, testimonies of low-income tenants from 15 focus groups plus 5 in-depth interviews about the influence of different discrimination grounds on their private rental experiences.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 588-608
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1458290
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Author-Name: Taylor Harris
Author-X-Name-First: Taylor
Author-X-Name-Last: Harris
Author-Name: Genevieve Dunton
Author-X-Name-First: Genevieve
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunton
Author-Name: Benjamin Henwood
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Henwood
Author-Name: Harmony Rhoades
Author-X-Name-First: Harmony
Author-X-Name-Last: Rhoades
Author-Name: Eric Rice
Author-X-Name-First: Eric
Author-X-Name-Last: Rice
Author-Name: Suzanne Wenzel
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Wenzel
Title: Los Angeles housing models and neighbourhoods’ role in supportive housing residents’ social integration
Abstract:
Social integration is an indicator of programmatic success in supportive housing, yet is an ongoing challenge for residents. This study examines varying supportive housing models’ (i.e. congregate, single-site, scatter-site) and neighborhoods’ (i.e. Skid Row, Downtown Los Angeles [DTLA], Other) differential impact on social integration outcomes- measured by residents’ social networks (i.e. size, diversity, social support). Participants were formerly homeless English or Spanish speaking unaccompanied adults (N=405), aged 39 years or older, living in supportive housing for 3 months. Housing model and neighborhood were examined separately with social network measures in controlled multivariable linear regression models. Compared to Skid Row residents, DTLA residents reported less emotional support and less tangible support, while residents in Other neighborhoods reported less emotional support and less instrumental support. Findings suggest overall differing housing models may be less influential in social integration, while neighborhoods may facilitate social support.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 609-635
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1462308
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Author-Name: Louise Lawson
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawson
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Title: Changing contexts, critical moments and transitions: interim outcomes for children and young people living through involuntary relocation
Abstract:
The aim of this article is to understand how involuntary relocation – in the context of transformational regeneration – affects children and young people’s (CYP) interim outcomes through its impacts on residential contexts, and its intersections with their transitions and critical moments. Findings are based on a longitudinal qualitative study of 13 families’ (comprising 32 CYP) lives as they relocated from high rise flats to different housing and neighbourhoods over three years. Relocation altered two key contexts directly, home and neighbourhood, and may have indirectly altered the other contexts – peers, school and family. However, we found there were as many non-relocation related factors as relocation factors associated with outcomes, and a number of significant critical moments affecting CYP’s lives. Whilst relocation can seem the ‘big thing’ from the point of view of practitioners and researchers, from the perspective of CYP, it can seem a small part of the much bigger picture of change in their lives.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 636-665
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1468418
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Author-Name: A. D. H. (Tony) Crook
Author-X-Name-First: A. D. H. (Tony)
Author-X-Name-Last: Crook
Author-Name: Peter A. Kemp
Author-X-Name-First: Peter A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp
Title: In search of profit: housing association investment in private rental housing
Abstract:
The traditional mission of housing associations in England is to provide non-profit housing let at sub-market rents to low-income and disadvantaged households. And yet in recent years, large ‘property developer housing associations’ have begun to invest in for-profit private rental homes let at market rents. Despite long waiting lists for their accommodation, these housing associations are mainly letting their for-profit rental homes to middle-income tenants rather than their traditional low-income clientele. Drawing on a ‘historical institutional’ conceptual framework, and combining structural and ‘agency’ explanations, this paper explores the reasons for this new trend. It argues that investment by large developer housing associations in for-profit and more upmarket rental homes will become increasingly important relative to their non-profit social housing. Over time, this ‘partial recalibration’ of their landlord role is likely to gradually transform the institutional rules, everyday practices and norms that shape their behaviour.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 666-687
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1468419
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Author-Name: Véronique Flambard
Author-X-Name-First: Véronique
Author-X-Name-Last: Flambard
Title: Housing allowances: still struggling to make ends meet
Abstract:
Housing allowances aim at providing adequate and affordable housing. A theoretical discussion and literature review show why it is challenging for housing allowances to actually shield households from financial hardship. Using National French Housing Survey data, an original application with a probit model with a double sample selection (being a tenant, and being eligible for means-tested allowances) follows. Estimation results show that housing allowances help to cope with some life events but that otherwise their recipients remain more exposed to housing financial hardship than their counterparts do. The gap between recipients and non-recipients is larger for the households with children than for those without despite the goal of horizontal equity. A nonlinear decomposition shows that the difference in probability between recipients and non-recipients is mostly explained by the endowment of characteristics in 2001 and by the return to risk in 2013.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 688-714
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1468420
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Author-Name: Prentiss A. Dantzler
Author-X-Name-First: Prentiss A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dantzler
Author-Name: Jason D. Rivera
Author-X-Name-First: Jason D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rivera
Title: Settling in or moving out? Exploring the effect of mobility intentions on public housing exits
Abstract:
This paper seeks to understand how public housing residents’ mobility intentions affect their actual exits. The results suggest that mobility intentions do have a significant effect on public housing exits. However, the rate of exit among those who intend to move out of public housing was similar to those who did not intend to leave. In addition, tenure had a significant effect on the odds of exiting alluding to issues of duration dependence. However, neighbourhood conditions did not fully explain public housing exits. Our proxy for policy reform had a large effect on the odds of exiting of public housing. This result suggests that changes in housing assistance programmes and urban housing policy could largely account for public housing exits. Overall, the results imply that while public housing residents may have positive and negative mobility intentions, their exits may primarily be due to shifts in housing policy and social welfare programmes versus individual characteristics and neighbourhood conditions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 715-733
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1470229
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Author-Name: David Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: The divided city: poverty and prosperity in urban America
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 734-736
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1570718
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Author-Name: Rebecca Asady
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Asady
Title: Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 736-738
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1589098
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Author-Name: Greg Lloyd
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Lloyd
Title: Self-Build Homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 737-739
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1589103
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Author-Name: Paul Hickman
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Hickman
Title: Transforming Private Landlords: Housing, Markets and Public Policy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 869-871
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617925
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Author-Name: Ronan Paddison
Author-X-Name-First: Ronan
Author-X-Name-Last: Paddison
Title: Triumph of the City
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 863-864
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617926
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Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Title: The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 864-867
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617928
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Author-Name: Ray Forrest
Author-X-Name-First: Ray
Author-X-Name-Last: Forrest
Title: Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 867-869
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617929
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Author-Name: Clara Mulder
Author-X-Name-First: Clara
Author-X-Name-Last: Mulder
Author-Name: Michael Wagner
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner
Title: Moving after Separation: The Role of Location-specific Capital
Abstract: This paper addresses the role of location-specific capital—the ties that bind people to a place—in which ex-partners of two-sex couples move after separation or divorce. The study uses data from the first and second waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (N = 361) to test hypotheses on the impact of individual homeownership, prior residential history, and the nearby presence of parents on whether a separated person moves. Who owned the home and whether someone's ex-partner moved in upon partnership formation are of prime importance to whether a separated person moves. Furthermore, separated persons whose parents live nearby and those who have a long history of living in the same municipality have a smaller probability of moving than other separated persons.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 839-852
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.651109
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Author-Name: Lars Brännström
Author-X-Name-First: Lars
Author-X-Name-Last: Brännström
Author-Name: Yerko Rojas
Author-X-Name-First: Yerko
Author-X-Name-Last: Rojas
Title: Rethinking the Long-Term Consequences of Growing Up in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood: Lessons from Sweden
Abstract: Using extensive longitudinal register data for more than 80 000 young metropolitan Swedes, this study addresses the effect of a disadvantaged neighbourhood social context on groupings of outcomes that are important for the living conditions of young adults. The overall results show that growing up in a disadvantaged neighbourhood increases the risk of experiencing comparably more unemployment, having less education and receiving more social assistance than similar young people from more affluent neighbourhoods. However, when the estimated effects of neighbourhood are assessed by means of an epidemiological impact measure that takes the prevalence of the risk factor at population level into account; these effects prove to be minimal. We discuss possible drawbacks of placing too much emphasis on policies targeting disadvantaged neighbourhoods versus universal social policy measures.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 729-747
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.714460
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Author-Name: Elena Sautkina
Author-X-Name-First: Elena
Author-X-Name-Last: Sautkina
Author-Name: Lyndal Bond
Author-X-Name-First: Lyndal
Author-X-Name-Last: Bond
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Title: Mixed Evidence on Mixed Tenure Effects: Findings from a Systematic Review of UK Studies, 1995–2009
Abstract: Mixed tenure is a key feature of UK housing and regeneration policy. Following an earlier review-of-reviews pertaining to mixed tenure effects (Bond et al., 2011), this paper presents a systematic review of the UK evidence published between 1999 and 2005. The majority of the available evidence is cross-sectional, mostly derived from modest-quality case-study research across nearly 100 sites, supplemented by a very few secondary studies using national data. Six broad domains of outcomes have been investigated across 27 studies. Some positive impacts of mixed tenure were found in the social and residential domains, though notably without impacts on social capital. The evidence for mixed tenure effects in the environmental, safety and economic domains is very mixed. In the human capital domain of health and education, the evidence is sparse. A stronger theoretical base (including the assessment of causal mechanisms) is required to guide future research on mixed tenure effects, which should be longer term and longitudinal in nature, using comparison case studies and secondary data.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 748-782
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.714461
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Author-Name: Filip Sosenko
Author-X-Name-First: Filip
Author-X-Name-Last: Sosenko
Title: The Supply-Side Modernisation of Social Housing in England: Analysing Mechanics, Trends and Consequences
Abstract: The past 30 years have seen England's housing associations (HAs) transformed from marginal players in the wider housing market to a point where, in 2008, they overtook local authorities as majority social housing providers. This paper reviews theoretical perspectives on the evolution of the UK social housing and the rise of HAs since the 1970s, with a particular focus on the ‘modernisation’ thesis advanced by Malpass & Victory (2010). Against this backdrop, we analyse the sector's recent reconfiguration, integrating the impacts of housing stock transfers and HA mergers. Our analysis focuses on the consequences of sector restructuring in terms of organisational homogenisation and, at least as perceived, the growing dominance of giant landlords. Finally, within the context of the Coalition Government's localism rhetoric, we discuss the accountability implications of restructuring activity and the light our analysis sheds on theoretical understandings of social housing change processes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 783-804
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.714462
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Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Title: Young People, Homeownership and Future Welfare
Abstract: Homeownership has become a ‘normalised’ tenure of choice in many advanced economies, with housing playing a pivotal role in shifts from collective to asset-based welfare. Young people are, however, increasingly being excluded from accessing the housing ladder. Many are remaining in the parental home for longer, and even when ready to ‘fly the nest’ face significant challenges in accessing mortgage finance. This under-30 age group has become ‘generation rent’. As this policy review emphasises, this key public-policy issue has created a source of inter-generational conflict between ‘housing poor’ young people and their ‘housing rich’ elders. To fully understand the complexities at play however, this paper argues that we need to look beyond the immediate housing-market issues and consider how housing policy interacts with broader social, economic and demographic shifts, and how it is intimately connected to debates about welfare. This is illustrated with reference to the UK, although these debates have international resonance.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 853-862
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.714463
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Author-Name: Peter Mackie
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackie
Title: Housing Pathways of Disabled Young People: Evidence for Policy and Practice
Abstract: Most studies of disabled young people's housing experiences focus on structural constraints, with little attention given to the role of young people themselves in shaping their housing biographies. Using Clapham's (2002) housing pathways framework, this paper reflects on new empirical data to examine interactions between structure, agency and wider discourses in the housing pathways of disabled young people. The paper develops a typology of disabled young people's housing pathways, consisting of direct, staged and return pathways to independent living. Within each of these pathways, young people face key challenges of deciding to leave, finding suitable accommodation and maintaining their accommodation. The research identifies some of the complex interconnected factors that shape the ways young people negotiate these challenges and in doing so key messages emerge for policy makers and practitioners. Moreover, the paper not only informs policy and practice but also responds to questions that have recently been asked of the pathways framework and social constructionism more generally.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 805-821
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.714464
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Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Title: The Inspection House and Neglected Dynamics of Governance: The Case of Domestic Visits in Family Intervention Projects
Abstract: There has been an expansion in the provision of family intervention projects in Britain. These projects, in which housing providers are centrally implicated, aim to provide a form of coercive support to households subject to, or at risk of, legal sanctions. In both core accommodation and outreach models of these projects, the dwelling is a key site, and the inspection of domesticity a primary technique, of governance. This article argues that policy narratives and some academic critiques of these projects are heavily influenced by understandings of governmentality as a disciplinary power based upon Bentham's and Foucault's works on the panopticon. The article uses indicative findings from recent research to illustrate that such conceptualisations neglect the centrality of the social worlds, social class and habitus that embed non-clinical sites and modes of governance and influence the interactions between project workers and individuals subject to project interventions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 822-838
Issue: 6
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.714465
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Author-Name: Jordi Bosch
Author-X-Name-First: Jordi
Author-X-Name-Last: Bosch
Author-Name: Laia Palència
Author-X-Name-First: Laia
Author-X-Name-Last: Palència
Author-Name: Davide Malmusi
Author-X-Name-First: Davide
Author-X-Name-Last: Malmusi
Author-Name: Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo
Author-X-Name-First: Marc
Author-X-Name-Last: Marí-Dell'Olmo
Author-Name: Carme Borrell
Author-X-Name-First: Carme
Author-X-Name-Last: Borrell
Title: The impact of fuel poverty upon self-reported health status among the low-income population in Europe
Abstract:
This article examines the relationship between fuel poverty and poor health among the population in the two lower income quintiles in Europe using the 2012 EU-SILC dataset. Results confirm that fuel poverty is a key determinant of health among the low-income population: the probability of being fuel poor is substantially higher among the low-income population; fuel poverty among the low-income population is a prevalent problem across European countries, particularly in southern and transition countries, and among renters; the low-income population in fuel poverty is more likely to report poor health than the whole low-income population; and the low-income population in severe fuel poverty has a higher likelihood of reporting poor health than the whole fuel poor low-income population. In addition, variations between countries in prevalence ratios of poor health by fuel poverty indicator and housing tenure suggest that there are different types of fuel poverty in terms of health-related outcomes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1377-1403
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1577954
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Author-Name: Zhilin Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Zhilin
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Title: Supporting or dragging? effects of neighbourhood social ties on social integration of rural-to-urban migrants in China
Abstract:
Urban scholars have debated the complex effects of neighbourhood-based social ties on the economic and social integration of marginalized populations in the mainstream urban society. Studies of migrant populations in China have noted the existence of strong neighbourhood ties and solidarity in migrant communities, but few have examined whether strong neighbourhood cohesion enhances or hinders broader social integration of rural migrants. This article investigates the extent to which different types of social ties in the neighbourhood, as opposed to more social networks developed at the city level, predict more frequent intergroup interaction and stronger place attachment among rural migrants in Chinese cities. Statistical analysis, using data from a twelve-city migrant survey, reveals that, while the diversity of social networks does matter, the neighbourhood is a territorial anchor supporting, rather than dragging, the urban social integration of rural migrants. The findings highlight the importance of neighbourhood in China’s inclusive urbanization strategy and potential conflicts in recent deprived neighbourhood redevelopment programs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1404-1421
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1577955
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Author-Name: Shenghua Xie
Author-X-Name-First: Shenghua
Author-X-Name-Last: Xie
Title: Quality matters: housing and the mental health of rural migrants in urban China
Abstract:
This study goes beyond housing ownership and investigates how housing size, quality, and location affect the mental health of rural migrants in urban China. By using the RUMiC data, the results show that in addition to housing ownership, living space and housing quality are also significantly associated with the mental health of rural migrants. Moreover, with an increase in living space, the mental health of rural migrants who live in private rental housing tends to improve significantly slower than rural migrants who live in dormitories. Furthermore, housing quality and housing location do not moderate the effect of housing ownership on the mental health of rural migrants. This study highlights that it is important to go beyond homeownership and pay more attention to other attributes of housing when studying the mental health of rural migrants. Particularly, this study underscores that improving housing quality is an effective way to improve the mental health of rural migrants in urban China.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1422-1444
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1577956
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Author-Name: Ann-Kathrin Seemann
Author-X-Name-First: Ann-Kathrin
Author-X-Name-Last: Seemann
Author-Name: Christin Jahed
Author-X-Name-First: Christin
Author-X-Name-Last: Jahed
Author-Name: Jörg Lindenmeier
Author-X-Name-First: Jörg
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindenmeier
Title: Joint building ventures as a new instrument for urban development: a qualitative analysis of Baugruppen in Freiburg, Germany
Abstract:
This article reviews a special type of collaborative housing that has emerged in the German housing market in response to the growing need for urban housing and increasing focus on active and networking housing communities and stable neighbourhoods. Joint building ventures are projects in which private individuals jointly establish residential property. However, the academic literature on this issue is underdeveloped. To foster a better understanding of the topic, this article focuses specifically on detecting the strengths and weaknesses of this type of joint building venture and its contribution to a higher homeownership rate. The qualitative interview data were collected between December 2015 and March 2016 in Freiburg, Germany. The findings reveal perceived advantages in terms of supportive networks, customised solutions and potential cost savings, whereas the identified disadvantages are high financial risks, mutual dependencies and personal efforts. Practical implications and avenues for future research are derived.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1445-1464
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1581144
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Author-Name: Gregg Colburn
Author-X-Name-First: Gregg
Author-X-Name-Last: Colburn
Title: The effect of market conditions on the housing outcomes of subsidized households: the case of the US voucher programme
Abstract:
Since being created in the 1970s, housing vouchers have become the primary mode of federal housing support for low-income households in the US. The voucher programme was designed to provide recipients with the mobility needed to secure higher quality housing in neighbourhoods of their choice. Decades of analysis suggest that the programme has failed to produce the favourable outcomes envisioned by policymakers. To add to our understanding of the outcomes of this important federal programme, this paper seeks to underscore the importance of context-dependent policy analysis. In particular, this study analyses the impact of housing market conditions on the outcomes achieved by voucher recipients. Using neighbourhood and housing outcome data from the American Housing Survey, and median rent and rental market vacancy data, this paper demonstrates the important role that market conditions play in programme outcomes. The results from this study suggest that voucher recipients are successful at improving housing unit quality outcomes regardless of market conditions, but the ability to move to a better neighbourhood is a function of vacancy rates.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1465-1484
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1581145
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Author-Name: Christopher Feather
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Feather
Author-Name: Chris K. Meme
Author-X-Name-First: Chris K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Meme
Title: Strengthening housing finance in emerging markets: the savings and credit cooperative organisation (SACCO) model in Kenya
Abstract:
Savings have long been an essential source of funding for credit. Whether in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia or Latin America, community-based financial institutions have relied on deposits to make financial services accessible to moderate-income borrowers. Despite the foundational role savings and loans have had in financial sector development, emerging markets have largely overlooked the important role these institutions can have in providing shelter credit in their own contexts. Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs) in the Republic of Kenya illustrate the potential model for deposit-based lending to deliver housing finance for many of the country’s underserved prospective borrowers. This study draws upon the experiences of several savings and loan associations in the industrialized world with applications towards improving the Kenyan SACCO model that provides the most extensive credit union loans on the African continent. The article concludes community finance institutions merit strong consideration towards helping overcome the housing finance sector underdevelopment too often experienced in the developing world.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1485-1520
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1584663
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Author-Name: Tatiana Moreira de Souza
Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana
Author-X-Name-Last: Moreira de Souza
Title: Urban regeneration and tenure mix: exploring the dynamics of neighbour interactions
Abstract:
This article draws on in-depth research on the nature and intensity of neighbour relations in an area in Peckham, London, which underwent urban regeneration aimed at improving the urban environment and increasing the area’s tenure mix. Drawing on the literature on neighbouring, the article explores residents’ perceptions and attitudes towards their neighbours and the dynamics of their routine interactions. Despite findings pointing towards a general atmosphere of cordiality and solidarity, interactions were casual, coexisted with prejudiced views towards certain groups and areas, and were viewed by residents as part of their everyday social practices of community. As a result, very little else was exchanged between tenures, putting into question some policy assumptions that the increased physical proximity between housing tenures can potentially lead to instrumental interaction that can benefit low-income households in social housing. Reflecting on these findings, the article discusses some implications that have relevance for policy and research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1521-1542
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1585520
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Author-Name: Jelita Noviarini
Author-X-Name-First: Jelita
Author-X-Name-Last: Noviarini
Author-Name: Andrew Coleman
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Coleman
Author-Name: Helen Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Author-Name: Rosalind H. Whiting
Author-X-Name-First: Rosalind H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Whiting
Title: Housing liquidation and financial adequacy of retirees in New Zealand
Abstract:
This study investigates the impact of housing on financial adequacy of New Zealand retirees using the Survey of Family, Income, and Employment (SoFIE) data for the period 2002–2009. We examine the differential effect of housing liquidation options, rent imputation and asset liquidity on financial adequacy. We report evidence of financial adequacy variation across five housing liquidation options and this is influenced by rent imputation. The results show that non-homeowners are less financially adequate than homeowners. We find that Māori, renters and individuals living in multi-dwelling occupancies have much lower levels of financial adequacy. Individuals of Pākehā or Asian ethnicity, homeowners and those living alone benefit more from imputed rent derived through home ownership. Our study highlights the need for the New Zealand government to address the lack of suitable public housing, rising housing and rental prices and mandate compulsory contributory retirement savings plans.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1543-1580
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1585522
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Author-Name: David Allatt
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Allatt
Title: Making massive small change: building the urban society we want
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1581-1582
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1647995
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Author-Name: Peter Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Ownership, narrative, things
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1582-1584
Issue: 9
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1647997
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Author-Name: Luc Borrowman
Author-X-Name-First: Luc
Author-X-Name-Last: Borrowman
Author-Name: Gennadi Kazakevitch
Author-X-Name-First: Gennadi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kazakevitch
Author-Name: Lionel Frost
Author-X-Name-First: Lionel
Author-X-Name-Last: Frost
Title: How long do households remain in housing affordability stress?
Abstract:
We develop a model that specifies the duration of housing affordability stress for particular types of households. Using panel data from Australia, households are considered in semi- and parametric analysis against different household characteristics, revealing whether these characteristics predict the duration of housing affordability stress. For most types of households, an experience of housing affordability stress lasts less than one year. A group of household types disproportionately made up of renters and sole persons remains in stress for longer periods. Chronic housing affordability stress occurs if the duration of stress lasts for more than three years. Linking the duration of stress to household types, and demographic, financial and educational characteristics makes it possible to design more targeted, and therefore more efficient housing affordability policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 869-886
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1280140
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Author-Name: Nessa Winston
Author-X-Name-First: Nessa
Author-X-Name-Last: Winston
Title: Multifamily housing and resident life satisfaction in Europe: an exploratory analysis
Abstract:
Much of the literature on sustainable communities and compact cities calls for higher density housing including multifamily dwellings. Some researchers suggest problems with such dwellings. However, rigorous comparative research on this topic has not been conducted to date. This paper draws on a high quality, comparative data-set, the European Social Survey, to analyse (a) the quality of multifamily dwellings in European urban areas, (b) the characteristics of residents, (c) their life satisfaction compared with those living in detached housing and (d) the relative importance of built form in explaining life satisfaction. One of the main findings from the multivariate analyses is that residing in multifamily housing is not a statistically significant predictor of life satisfaction when you control for standard predictors of life satisfaction and housing and neighbourhood quality. Overall, the findings provide support for both place-based and people-based responses to urban regeneration. Both physical and social regeneration are required, addressing the education/training needs of residents and economic development strategies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 887-911
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1280776
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Author-Name: Nicole K. Jeffrey
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jeffrey
Author-Name: Paula C. Barata
Author-X-Name-First: Paula C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Barata
Title: When social assistance reproduces social inequality: intimate partner violence survivors’ adverse experiences with subsidized housing
Abstract:
This study examined women’s experiences using priority-subsidized housing programs for intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. Interviews with 10 women highlighted that subsidized housing programs, although very important, can impede women’s efforts to safely escape abuse. Our analysis explored three negative accounts: subsidized housing programs as stigmatizing, difficult to access and qualify for, and controlling. Results have important implications for improving practices and policies of subsidized housing programs and suggest that: (a) subsidized and nonsubsidized housing should be integrated; (b) eligibility should not be based on extent and timeframe of abuse; and (c) women should be permitted to choose their own housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 912-930
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1291912
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Author-Name: Kaylene Zaretzky
Author-X-Name-First: Kaylene
Author-X-Name-Last: Zaretzky
Author-Name: Paul Flatau
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Flatau
Author-Name: Bridget Spicer
Author-X-Name-First: Bridget
Author-X-Name-Last: Spicer
Author-Name: Elizabeth Conroy
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Conroy
Author-Name: Lucy Burns
Author-X-Name-First: Lucy
Author-X-Name-Last: Burns
Title: What drives the high health care costs of the homeless?
Abstract:
Existing research demonstrates that mean health care costs incurred by those experiencing homelessness are high. However, high mean health care costs mask the fact that a sizeable number of people experiencing homelessness incur low costs and that very high costs are driven by a minority of the homeless population. This paper examines health care costs estimated from two Australian surveys of those experiencing homelessness undertaken by the authors. It demonstrates three important findings. First, higher health care costs are most strongly associated with diagnosed mental health disorders, followed by long-term physical health conditions. Second, having a current drug or alcohol dependency, but no diagnosed mental health disorder or long-term physical health issue, is not associated with higher level health care costs. Finally, higher health care costs are incurred by those with long periods of rough sleeping. The findings of this research provide a significant economic argument for government intervention to break the cycle of homelessness as they reveal significant potential savings to effective interventions for homeless people with diagnosed mental health disorders and long-term rough sleeping.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 931-947
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1280777
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Author-Name: Elizabeth Sanderson
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Sanderson
Author-Name: Ian Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: Does locality make a difference? The impact of housing allowance reforms on private landlords
Abstract:
Housing subsidies are used by developed welfare states to ensure their citizens can access decent and affordable housing. This paper assesses the relative importance of individual and area level factors on the degree to which private sector landlords were affected by changes to Local Housing Allowance (LHA) in the UK. The changes were part of the government’s package of measures to reform LHA and reduce the welfare benefit bill. Multi-level modelling techniques have been applied to a longitudinal survey of 788 private sector landlords who had LHA tenants in 19 Local Authorities across GB. The analysis shows that whilst landlords were affected by reforms, area effects were not as pronounced as anticipated. In general, landlords were equally affected regardless of where they operate. The findings suggest tenants in the most affected areas have absorbed increases in their rent shortfall signifying income was not the overriding determinant of demand.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 948-967
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1291911
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Author-Name: Gertjan Wijburg
Author-X-Name-First: Gertjan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wijburg
Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers
Title: The alternative financialization of the German housing market
Abstract:
While many European countries experienced a global housing boom in the early/mid-2000s, house prices and mortgage debt in Germany stagnated. Therefore, the German housing system is considered to be operating outside financialized capitalism. Despite Germany’s apparent stability, we argue that an alternative trajectory of financialization in the German housing market can be observed. This trajectory has followed three stages or ‘waves’. The first wave started around the time of German unification and is characterized by the failed attempt of West German banks to marketize and liberalize German housing finance. The second wave started in the late 1990s and is characterized by the ‘financialized privatization’ of many public housing associations and the speculative investments of private equity firms and hedge funds. The third wave started during the global financial crisis and is characterized by booming housing prices and the market entry of listed real estate companies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 968-989
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1291917
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Author-Name: Indranil De
Author-X-Name-First: Indranil
Author-X-Name-Last: De
Title: Slum improvement in India: determinants and approaches
Abstract:
This paper investigates living conditions in Indian slums, extent of improvement of basic services between 2002 and 2012 and determinants of improvement based on National Sample Survey data. The pace of slum improvement has increased over the study period. Slums devoid of basic services have reduced in 2012 as compared to 2002. Security of tenure, strengthened especially through notification of slums, appears to be one of the most important determinants of slum upgradation. Improvements of electricity and water supply spur improvements of other basic services. Better approach roads lead to better housing but motorable pucca (tarmac) approach road or proximity to motorable road reduces likelihood of better housing. Government is the major provider of services in slums. The role of NGOs in improvement of basic services within slums has declined over time along with decline in associations for slum improvement. The paper advocates transfer of full property rights to slum dwellers and integration of different institutions for slum improvement.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 990-1013
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1291915
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Author-Name: Martine August
Author-X-Name-First: Martine
Author-X-Name-Last: August
Title: Integrating the Inner City: the promise and perils of mixed-income public housing transformation
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1014-1015
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1351193
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Author-Name: Madhu Satsangi
Author-X-Name-First: Madhu
Author-X-Name-Last: Satsangi
Title: Affordable homes in rural Scotland: the role of housing associations
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1016-1017
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1351196
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Author-Name: Andrew Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Addiction, modernity, and the city: a users’ guide to urban space
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1017-1019
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1351199
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Erratum
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1020-1020
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1302696
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Author-Name: Ida Borg
Author-X-Name-First: Ida
Author-X-Name-Last: Borg
Author-Name: Maria Brandén
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Brandén
Title: Do high levels of home-ownership create unemployment? Introducing the missing link between housing tenure and unemployment
Abstract:
A large number of studies have demonstrated that the proportion of home-owners in a region tend to be positively associated with the unemployment levels in that region. In this paper, we introduce a missing piece of explaining this commonly found pattern. By analysing individual-level population register data on Sweden, we jointly examine the effects of micro- and macro-level home-ownership on individuals’ unemployment. The findings indicate that even though home-owners have a lower probability of being unemployed, there is a penalty for both renters and home-owners on unemployment in regions with high home-ownership rates. Differences in mobility patterns cannot explain this pattern. However, when labour market size is considered, the higher probability of unemployment in high home-owning regions is drastically reduced. This suggests that high home-ownership regions tend to coincide with small labour markets, affecting the job matching process negatively.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 501-524
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1358808
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Author-Name: Sandy Darab
Author-X-Name-First: Sandy
Author-X-Name-Last: Darab
Author-Name: Yvonne Hartman
Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne
Author-X-Name-Last: Hartman
Author-Name: Louise Holdsworth
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Holdsworth
Title: What women want: single older women and their housing preferences
Abstract:
It is increasingly recognized in Australia that single, older women are particularly vulnerable to housing-related stress and homelessness. This paper reports on a qualitative study that explored the housing experiences of single, older, non-homeowning women in regional New South Wales, Australia. Interviews were conducted with 47 participants living independently in precarious housing. This paper focuses upon the housing preferences expressed by the participants. A feminist standpoint perspective was adopted and thematic analysis was employed to interrogate the data. Findings showed the women’s primary preference is security of tenure in housing that is affordable and suited to their needs. Further, they want to feel they have autonomy in the private sphere. Over the participants’ life course, twin discourses of patriarchy and neoliberalism were identified as influential in shaping social arrangements, both in Australia and other developed countries. These findings may assist policy-makers in planning future housing for this ageing cohort.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 525-543
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1359501
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Author-Name: David Mullins
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Mullins
Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan
Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne
Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan
Author-Name: Nico Nieboer
Author-X-Name-First: Nico
Author-X-Name-Last: Nieboer
Title: State directed hybridity? – the relationship between non-profit housing organizations and the state in three national contexts
Abstract:
This paper presents results from the first international comparative study of non-profit housing organizations in Australia, England and the Netherlands to engage with panels of organizational leaders. The study uses a ‘modified Delphi method’ with Likert-type scaled surveys, followed by in-depth interviews. The paper introduces the concept of hybridity as a way of understanding the interaction of state, market and community drivers in steering non-profit housing organizations. In all three countries, findings indicate that there are clear limits to independence from continued state influence. In England this takes the form of state-directed cross-subsidy and welfare reform, in Australia business development strategies have had to respond to volatility and reductions in state funding, while in the Netherlands public policy has recently restricted the remit of associations to a low-income niche and reduced commercial involvement. These findings lend support to ‘contested logics’ models of organizational hybridity rather than either ‘out-of-control monstrous hybrids’ or linear privatization models.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 565-588
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1373747
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Author-Name: Ricardo Duque-Calvache
Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Duque-Calvache
Author-Name: William A. V. Clark
Author-X-Name-First: William A. V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Clark
Author-Name: Isabel Palomares-Linares
Author-X-Name-First: Isabel
Author-X-Name-Last: Palomares-Linares
Title: How do neighbourhood perceptions interact with moving desires and intentions?
Abstract:
Research on residential mobility in the last two decades has increased our understanding about moving in general and how neighbourhoods play a role in actual residential choices. At the same time the way in which the neighbourhood interacts with deciding to move is less well understood. In this paper, we explore the interaction between the neighbourhood and the expression of intentions and desires to move. The present study uses multinomial logistic regression models to explore residential desires and intentions in the southern European city of Granada (Spain), with special attention to the differences due to context. The most important difference with international studies are in the respondents with ‘no desires but intentions’ to move, a combination frequently found in young adults before they leave the parental home. The results show that our set of neighbourhood measures (social interaction, satisfaction, perceived problems, and the socio-economic status of the area) work differently over desires and intentions. Satisfaction alone does not explain the effect of the neighbourhood over residential desires and intentions, and the addition of other variables increases the explanatory power of the models.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 589-612
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1373748
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Author-Name: Tatjana Ibraimovic
Author-X-Name-First: Tatjana
Author-X-Name-Last: Ibraimovic
Author-Name: Stephane Hess
Author-X-Name-First: Stephane
Author-X-Name-Last: Hess
Title: A latent class model of residential choice behaviour and ethnic segregation preferences
Abstract:
The nature of ethnic residential clustering involves diverse population segments which through their location decisions influence the spatial patterns of ethnic settlements. While residential location is in part determined by outside constraints, choice plays a role too, making the study of preferences an important research topic. Along with differences in socio-economic characteristics, literature often emphasizes the role of unobserved (behavioural) elements in the formation of preferences for ethnic neighbourhood composition. This paper tests the potential of latent class choice models to examine both observed and unobserved heterogeneity in residential choices across ethnic groups. The empirical example is estimated on stated preferences data from Lugano, Switzerland. The results indicate different ethnic attributes as key choice drivers for households belonging to three latent classes, where the origin of households is the best predictor of class membership. Swiss citizens are mainly concerned about high shares of foreigners, advantaged foreigners favour their co-nationals, while disadvantaged foreigners hold both of such preferences.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 544-564
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1373749
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Author-Name: Yuelong Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Yuelong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Yongze Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Yongze
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Author-Name: Yaqin Su
Author-X-Name-First: Yaqin
Author-X-Name-Last: Su
Title: Does the tender, auction and listing system in land promote higher housing prices in China?
Abstract:
Using monthly data on national housing prices from July 1998 to June 2015, we investigate the effect of the ‘Tender, Auction and Listing’ (hereafter TAL) system on housing prices in land, implemented on 31 August 2004. We apply the additional polynomial regression discontinuity method which effectively eliminates the effects of several confounding factors such as financial crisis, ‘New National Ten Provisions’ and ‘9.30 New Regime’. We find that, although the TAL has caused the national average housing prices to go up by 10%, accounting for 11% of total increase in housing prices in the last year, it does not constitute the major driver for housing prices. Furthermore, our results indicate that TAL has exerted a larger impact on commercial and residential properties, especially in the middle and west regions. By examining the transmission mechanisms, we find that the effects of TAL are mainly via government’s starvation-style land supply effect and market-reshuffling effect.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 613-634
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1373750
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Author-Name: Melanie J. Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Melanie J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Author-Name: Anna B. Williamson
Author-X-Name-First: Anna B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Williamson
Author-Name: Peter Fernando
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Fernando
Author-Name: Sandra Eades
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Eades
Author-Name: Sally Redman
Author-X-Name-First: Sally
Author-X-Name-Last: Redman
Title: ‘They took the land, now we’re fighting for a house’: Aboriginal perspectives about urban housing disadvantage
Abstract:
Aboriginal Australians experience substantial housing disadvantage on a range of measures, yet relatively little is known about how urban Aboriginal people perceive their housing circumstances. While most Aboriginal people live in urban or suburban areas, research and policy attention has tended to focus on remote housing issues. This paper draws on focus groups conducted with Aboriginal people at an Aboriginal Medical Service in Western Sydney (n = 38) about their housing experiences and beliefs about why many Aboriginal people experience the housing disadvantage they described. Participants described a landscape in which their housing experiences were materially affected by their Aboriginality and inextricably linked to racial discrimination, poverty, marginalization, the lack of social and affordable housing and disempowerment, all with negative implications for their psychosocial well-being. Participant views aligned with critical race theory, with race described as a fundamental structural force that created and deepened housing disadvantage beyond economic hardship alone.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 635-660
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1374357
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Author-Name: Kathleen Flanagan
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Flanagan
Title: Last project standing: civics and sympathy in post-welfare Chicago
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 661-662
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1461327
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Author-Name: Mark Stephens
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens
Title: Stories of house and home: soviet apartment life during the Khrushchev years
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 663-664
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1461329
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Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Title: Community as urban practice
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 665-666
Issue: 4
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1461331
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Author-Name: Andrew Power
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Power
Author-Name: Mariela Gaete-Reyes
Author-X-Name-First: Mariela
Author-X-Name-Last: Gaete-Reyes
Title: Neoliberal abandonment in disability housing provision: a look at England and Chile
Abstract:
Public or ‘social’ housing provision in many nations in the Global North is increasingly being driven by neoliberal strategies that include austerity cuts and market-led privatization. This context raises an important question of how likely the state’s reliance on the private sector can ensure that housing remains available and accessible to more disadvantaged low-income groups. To help answer this question, we draw on a comparative study of social housing provision for disabled people in England and Chile; two pioneers of neoliberal reform in this sector. Using interviews with key stakeholders, our findings reveal that the neoliberal reform strategies being employed have tended to dilute the statutory duties of providing accessible housing and to undermine disabled people’s choices in finding appropriate homes. Such lessons are timely and important in order to remain cognisant of the spaces of neoliberal abandonment that are leaving many people unable to gain access to appropriate housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 741-760
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1478068
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Author-Name: Douglas N. Evans
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Evans
Author-Name: Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Author-X-Name-First: Kwan-Lamar
Author-X-Name-Last: Blount-Hill
Author-Name: Michelle A. Cubellis
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cubellis
Title: Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history
Abstract:
Those who have been convicted of crimes are subjected to a stigma that affects many aspects of their social lives. The “felon” label brings collateral consequences that make it difficult to obtain basic human needs, including housing. This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offenses, placed phone calls to rental property owners across the Midwest to inquire about renting a property. We found powerful negative effects for those with a criminal record seeking apartments, regardless of whether the offense was sexual or drug-related. However, we found no differences between minority and non-minority testers. We explain these findings in the context of housing as an essential resource for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 761-778
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1478069
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Author-Name: Anita Aigner
Author-X-Name-First: Anita
Author-X-Name-Last: Aigner
Title: Housing entry pathways of refugees in Vienna, a city of social housing
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This article presents the findings of an empirical study investigating refugees’ difficult entry into Vienna’s ‘tight’ housing market. Arguing that newcomers’ access to housing can be better understood by a closer look at the actors involved in the housing search process, an actor-centred approach is used. Complementing the constructivist pathway framework with a model of search based on Bourdieu’s theory of practice, four types of housing entry pathways could be identified. This study draws on semi-structured in-depth interviews with forced migrants who arrived in Austria in recent years. The analysis of newcomers’ housing entry pathways not only sheds light on the coordination structures at work in a city of social housing, but also on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ rental housing submarkets that have emerged in the course of the recent refugee movement. The paper concludes that a high proportion of social housing does not provide any indication that newcomers are granted better access to secure affordable housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 779-803
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1485882
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Author-Name: Rebecca J. Walter
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walter
Author-Name: Ian Caine
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Caine
Title: The geographic and sociodemographic transformation of multifamily rental housing in the Texas Triangle
Abstract:
This study catalogues the location, clustering and sociodemographic distribution of the development of multifamily rental housing over the last five decades in the Texas Triangle, one of the fastest growing megaregions in the United States. The research reveals prior to the 1970s, apartments clustered in downtown areas; throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the development of apartments expanded to the suburbs and along major interstates; and in the 2000s, apartment growth continued in the peripheral areas while returning downtown. During this time period, apartments were developed most often in majority white, high-income and low-poverty neighbourhoods. These geographic and sociodemographic characteristics challenge widespread conceptions that equate multifamily rental housing with central city locations and low-income populations. The findings suggest that multifamily rental housing offers a powerful tool to increase residential density in downtown and suburban locations, while also accommodating a sociodemographically diverse population.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 804-826
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1487036
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Author-Name: Laryssa Mykyta
Author-X-Name-First: Laryssa
Author-X-Name-Last: Mykyta
Title: Housing crisis, hardship and safety net support: examining the effects of foreclosure on households and families
Abstract:
The housing market crash in the mid-2000s was characterized by unusually high rates of mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures. Thus, many householders and their families faced the prospect of losing their homes. This paper employs a unique data-set linking the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation with individual foreclosure event records from Realty Trac to examine the effects of foreclosure on changes in household well-being. Results from random effects models suggest that foreclosure was positively associated with hardship and food insecurity. Further, households at risk of foreclosure had greater odds of accessing government assistance programs but lower odds of receiving support from private safety nets. Results from lagged dependent variable models suggest that changes in foreclosure status are associated with increased hardship and reduced economic well-being. The lack of access to private safety nets suggests the need for comprehensive public programs to identify and assist homeowners at risk.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 827-848
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1487040
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Author-Name: Richard Dunning
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunning
Author-Name: Deborah Levy
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah
Author-X-Name-Last: Levy
Author-Name: Craig Watkins
Author-X-Name-First: Craig
Author-X-Name-Last: Watkins
Author-Name: Gareth Young
Author-X-Name-First: Gareth
Author-X-Name-Last: Young
Title: Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions
Abstract:
The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of estate agents in New Zealand and England we identify how they have adapted, directed and responded to technological and social changes. In England, three service levels of agency arose with varying roles for technological information dissemination, the matching process and the formulization of prices. In New Zealand the hegemony of high quality service has resisted other mediation forms; retaining socially negotiated housing outcomes. Despite these differences, the unique facets of housing, its complex sale procedure and emotional transaction nature have hitherto enabled the adaptive capacity of estate agents to continue influencing housing market processes and rationalize their ongoing construction of housing transaction processes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 849-867
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1487041
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Author-Name: David Firang
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Firang
Title: Exploring housing careers among Ghanaians in Toronto, Canada
Abstract:
The argument that a successful housing career plays an important role in the immigrant integration process has been well established in the literature. Most studies on immigrant housing career do so without reference to the housing situation of immigrants in their homeland. Since housing career relates to sequence of dwellings people occupy throughout their life-course, an analysis of immigrants housing career should also begin with immigrants housing situation in the homeland. Unless we understand the sequence of dwellings that immigrants occupy throughout their life course in both the country of origin and host society, we will fail to fully comprehend dynamics of their housing career over their life-course. Using mixed method, this study illustrates the role of housing career in the integration process of Ghanaians in Toronto in the Canadian society. The study adds to the housing career literature by capturing the sequence of dwelling that immigrants occupy throughout their life course in both the country of origin and destination country.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 868-891
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1489527
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Author-Name: Boyana Buyuklieva
Author-X-Name-First: Boyana
Author-X-Name-Last: Buyuklieva
Title: Rethinking the economics of land and housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 892-893
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1589679
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Author-Name: Jenny Hoolachan
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoolachan
Title: Generational interdependencies: the social implications for welfare
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 893-895
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1589680
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Title: Welfare conditionality
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 895-896
Issue: 5
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1589681
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Author-Name: Stephen Wheeler
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Wheeler
Title: Spatial Planning and Climate Change
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 157-158
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.603267
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Author-Name: Donald Houston
Author-X-Name-First: Donald
Author-X-Name-Last: Houston
Title: Governing for Sustainable Urban Development
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 155-157
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.603269
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Author-Name: Craig Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Craig
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: Inclusionary Housing in International Perspective: Affordable Housing, Social Inclusion, and Land Value Recapture
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 153-155
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.603270
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Author-Name: Mark Stephens
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens
Title: Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 151-153
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.603271
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Author-Name: Sanjaya DeSilva
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Author-Name: Yuval Elmelech
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Author-X-Name-Last: Elmelech
Title: Housing Inequality in the United States: Explaining the White-Minority Disparities in Homeownership
Abstract: As the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest ever level in 2004, the distribution of homeownership remained uneven along racial and ethnic lines. Using data from the 2005–2007 3-Year Sample of the American Community Survey (ACS), this paper employs a multivariate regression model and a decomposition technique to delineate the socio-economic and demographic characteristics as well as the immigration and spatial patterns that shape racial and ethnic inequality in homeownership. The findings reveal three distinct patterns; the Asian-white homeownership gap is explained entirely by differences in immigration and spatial patterns of residence, whereas the disadvantage of blacks and Puerto Ricans is attributable to demographic, socio-economic and unobserved factors. For Mexicans and other Hispanics, all four sources influence homeownership patterns, with socio-economic factors relatively important for Mexicans and spatial variables relatively important for other Hispanics.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-26
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.628641
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Author-Name: Ray Forrest
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Author-Name: Misa Izuhara
Author-X-Name-First: Misa
Author-X-Name-Last: Izuhara
Title: The Shaping of Housing Histories in Shanghai
Abstract: During the last half century or so, China has probably experienced more dramatic and fundamental changes than most other societies. Housing and family life have been embedded in a series of far-reaching societal changes, notably the communist victory of 1949, the period of the Cultural Revolution and the more recent drive towards a more market oriented society, with housing reforms at the forefront. This paper examines the way in which housing histories among families in Shanghai were shaped by these events and by their interaction with specific intergenerational dynamics. The paper draws on research carried out in Shanghai in 2008 which involved in-depth interviews with individual members of three linked generations. The research provides a unique account of family housing histories over three generations against a particularly turbulent backcloth.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 27-44
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.629292
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Author-Name: Florent Sari
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Title: Analysis of Neighbourhood Effects and Work Behaviour: Evidence from Paris
Abstract: This paper highlights the effects of being located in a deprived neighbourhood on unemployment. Interest is focused on the consequences of neighbourhood effects. The paper uses the 1999 Population Census for Paris and the three surrounding sub-regional administrative districts in order to estimate different models that take into account the potential endogeneity bias of the residential location choice. The study first runs a bivariate probit model that includes the residential location as an endogenous variable. A probit model is also run on a sub-sample of households living in public housing with the idea that for them the location choice is exogenous. Whatever the method used, it is shown that living within the most deprived neighbourhoods, in terms of local composition, decreases the probability of employment.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 45-76
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.629642
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Author-Name: Martin Lux
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Author-Name: Martina Mikeszova
Author-X-Name-First: Martina
Author-X-Name-Last: Mikeszova
Title: Property Restitution and Private Rental Housing in Transition: The Case of the Czech Republic
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to explain one phenomenon evident in the transformation of post-socialist states that has received insufficient scholarly attention to date: the restitution of the housing stock in terms of its causes and consequences. In this paper, the theory of social constructivism, including Kemeny's advanced application of this theory to the field of housing studies, is used to (a) explain the causes for a particular type of property restitution in the Czech Republic and (b) outline its consequences on the role and long-term social meaning of private rental housing. This research explains how restitution was viewed by the main participants in this discourse, and how the whole process was legitimised and socially constructed in the Czech Republic. The evidence presented stems from a multi-method analysis of discourse that integrates the results of in-depth interviews, content analysis of the press, and an analysis of data from attitude surveys. The paper shows how the initial state of consensus surrounding the image of restitution quickly dissolved. The emergence of divisions combined with the inadequate response of the state generated a biased image of private rental housing among Czech citizens—a pattern that persists to the present.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 77-96
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.629643
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Author-Name: Corianne Scally
Author-X-Name-First: Corianne
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Title: The Past and Future of Housing Policy Innovation: The Case of US State Housing Trust Funds
Abstract: State governments are increasingly expected to help fill the gap between the demand and supply of affordable housing within the US. Little systematic attention has been paid to state housing strategies over the years, despite a lengthening record of policy innovation. This paper asks what factors influence state adoption of housing trust funds (HTFs), and if these factors differ based on how the trust fund is financed and which state agency is responsible for administering it. Utilizing an event history analysis of pooled cross-sectional data, the paper finds that whether or not a state adopts a HTF, who administers it, and how they fund it, varies based on rates of new, single-family development, the size of the black population, prior state housing expenditures, and citizen ideology. The broader implications of these findings are considered for future housing policy innovations beyond states and HTFs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 127-150
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.631988
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Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Elise Whitley
Author-X-Name-First: Elise
Author-X-Name-Last: Whitley
Author-Name: Phil Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Phil
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Author-Name: Lyndal Bond
Author-X-Name-First: Lyndal
Author-X-Name-Last: Bond
Title: ‘Living the High Life’? Residential, Social and Psychosocial Outcomes for High-Rise Occupants in a Deprived Context
Abstract: The current period is one of ambiguity and contestation over the future of high-rise. A range of analyses is performed on survey data from deprived areas in Glasgow to examine the impacts of living in high-rise in comparison to other dwelling types. The findings show that many residential outcomes are worse for people in high-rise, especially related to noise and security issues in dwellings and buildings. Social and psychosocial outcomes are often worse in high-rise, particularly frequency of contact with neighbours and a number of aspects of control and recuperation at home. Further analysis shows that neighbourhood satisfaction and some social outcomes are better (or ameliorated) for people living higher up in tall buildings. There were different patterns of impacts for different household types. Contrary to much of the literature, the study found that negative impacts of high-rise were most wide ranging among adult-only households rather than families, with older persons least affected by negative social outcomes in high-rise.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 97-126
Issue: 1
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.632080
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Author-Name: Nicola Willand
Author-X-Name-First: Nicola
Author-X-Name-Last: Willand
Author-Name: Cecily Maller
Author-X-Name-First: Cecily
Author-X-Name-Last: Maller
Author-Name: Ian Ridley
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Ridley
Title: Understanding the contextual influences of the health outcomes of residential energy efficiency interventions: realist review
Abstract:
Residential energy efficiency interventions are complex social and construction programmes that may benefit health, yet the interactions between the material improvements, health and health-related outcomes, and householder responses are not well understood. While indoor winter warmth and householder satisfaction have been identified as the key mediators for physiological, mental and social health outcomes, this paper explores how programme contexts may have influenced the outcomes. This review revealed that common target populations were low income households, children and the elderly. The review found that people’s expectations and culturally constructed heating practices influenced indoor temperatures and householder satisfaction. Very deprived households were still affected by financial constraints despite the intervention measures. Excessive ventilation and limited technical mastery counteracted the beneficial effects of the intervention measures. Poor workmanship and ineffective handover undermined energy consumption objectives and led to householder dissatisfaction. Effective intervention design should address householder needs and the programme’s sociocultural context.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-28
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1363874
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Author-Name: Sarah Bierre
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Bierre
Author-Name: Philippa Howden-Chapman
Author-X-Name-First: Philippa
Author-X-Name-Last: Howden-Chapman
Title: Telling stories: the role of narratives in rental housing policy change in New Zealand
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This paper examines the emergence of the regulation of housing conditions in the private rental sector as a policy issue in New Zealand using an analysis of narratives in media, advocacy and political texts. Narratives are evident in public discourse and are the stories told by interest groups to identify and cast a problem as a policy issue in a way analogous to the beliefs of the speaker. This case study shows that while the narratives used by advocates for policy change were effective in raising the issue, they were ineffective in overcoming a counter-narrative of excessive regulation by the government and concerns of possible rent rises. This opposition to regulation of the private sector by a right-leaning government needs to be more effectively countered by more powerful intersecting narratives, if evidence on the relationship between housing, health and safety is to become the basis for effectively implemented government policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 29-49
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1363379
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Author-Name: Yener Coskun
Author-X-Name-First: Yener
Author-X-Name-Last: Coskun
Author-Name: Unal Seven
Author-X-Name-First: Unal
Author-X-Name-Last: Seven
Author-Name: H. Murat Ertugrul
Author-X-Name-First: H. Murat
Author-X-Name-Last: Ertugrul
Author-Name: Ali Alp
Author-X-Name-First: Ali
Author-X-Name-Last: Alp
Title: Housing price dynamics and bubble risk: the case of Turkey
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Housing prices have increased substantially in some emerging markets in recent years. Turkish housing market has also experienced a boom over the last decade with rapid house price appreciations. This study is the first to employ two different house price indexes to analyze housing bubble in Turkey in two different time periods, 2010:M1–2014:M12 and 2007:M6–2014:M12. We first capture the determinants of housing price by employing Bounds test and then examine whether rising house prices have been justified by fundamentals by employing OLS/FMOLS/DOLS, Kalman filter and ARIMA models. The Bounds test results suggest that there is a long-term cointegration among house price indexes and housing rent, construction cost and real mortgage interest rate. The results imply that the Turkish housing market has experienced some cases of overvaluation, but not bubble formation. This evidence has several implications for house price dynamics and risks in the Turkish housing market. Based on Turkish experience, the study also draws policy implications for emerging housing markets.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 50-86
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1363378
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Author-Name: Jenny Preece
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Preece
Author-Name: Joe Crawford
Author-X-Name-First: Joe
Author-X-Name-Last: Crawford
Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Author-Name: David Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Title: Understanding changing housing aspirations: a review of the evidence
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This article reviews the literature on changing housing aspirations and expectations in contemporary housing systems. It argues that there is a conceptual and definitional gap in relation to the term ‘housing aspirations’, as distinct from expectations, preferences, choices and needs. The article sets out working definitions of these terms, before discussing the evidence on changing housing (and related) systems. Emerging research has begun to consider whether trends such as declining homeownership, affordability concerns and precarious labour systems across a range of countries are fundamentally changing individuals’ aspirations for the forms of housing they aim to access at different stages of their lives. Whilst much of the research into housing aspirations has been considered in terms of tenure, and homeownership in particular, this article suggests that research needs to move beyond tenure and choice frameworks, to consider the range of dimensions that shape aspirations, from the political economy and the State to socialization and individuals’ dispositions for housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 87-106
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1584665
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Author-Name: Andrea Sharam
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharam
Title: ‘Deliberative development’: Australia’s Baugruppen movement and the challenge of greater social inclusion
Abstract:
German Baugruppen are the most well-known of the collaborative, self-organized alternatives to speculatively produced multi-residential housing, delivering housing at a significant price discount to market. However, Baugruppen have been criticized for excluding less affluent households with financing and social capital barriers identified by Hamiduddin and Gallent as reinforcing socio-economic stratification. Collaborative, self-organized housing is, however, under-researched and there has been scant attention to financing. Collaborative, self-organized multi-residential housing in Australia is known as ‘deliberative’ development to differentiate it from ‘speculative’ development. We draw on case studies of deliberative development in Australia to reveal how projects are financed and how financing impacts on social equity considerations. Proponents of contemporary deliberative development in Australia are deeply concerned about housing affordability and declining rates of home ownership. This has focused attention on development financing as a key to systemic change paving the way for inclusion of less wealthy households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 107-122
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1594712
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Author-Name: Simon Opit
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Opit
Author-Name: Karen Witten
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Witten
Author-Name: Robin Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Title: Housing pathways, aspirations and preferences of young adults within increasing urban density
Abstract:
There is growing recognition within housing preference studies that younger housing consumers are more amenable to compact dwellings. Yet, there remains uncertainty around the drivers of these preferences. In Auckland, the development of a spatial plan emphasizing intensification has attracted opposition from residents, reinforcing a notion that compact housing is largely unappealing. Utilizing a housing pathways approach, we question this notion through examining the housing narratives of Generation Y, a cohort whose preferences are largely ignored in this debate and poorly understood within housing research. This paper highlights the influence of past experiences on attitudes to changing urban environments, providing several themes related to housing experiences that have the potential to influence preferences. We conclude that a process of ‘acclimatisation’ to density is likely as Generation Y become exposed to higher-density housing. However, to encourage positive experiences, compact dwellings must attend to the dynamic nature of contemporary housing pathways and provide quality housing, located where young people aspire to live.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 123-142
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1584662
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Author-Name: Jennifer Harris
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Author-X-Name-Last: Harris
Title: The digitization of advice and welfare benefits services: re-imagining the homeless user
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Digitization is transforming the way in which people in England access advice and welfare benefits. Face-to-face advice provision is being increasingly replaced by telephone and online services, whilst the online application and management of benefit claims have become mandatory within the introduction of Universal Credit. This paper argues that the current shift to digitization fails to recognize the variation and complexity surrounding homeless people’s use of technology, with homeless people as technology users often placed into homogenizing categories. Based on findings from qualitative interviews and observations carried out with homeless people and voluntary sector organizations, this paper discusses the social and contextual factors affecting homeless people’s use of technology for advice and benefit purposes. The paper highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of homeless people’s use of technology.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 143-162
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1594709
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Author-Name: Salvatore Bimonte
Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore
Author-X-Name-Last: Bimonte
Author-Name: Arsenio Stabile
Author-X-Name-First: Arsenio
Author-X-Name-Last: Stabile
Title: The impact of the introduction of Italian property tax on urban development: a regional regression model
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Building on and empirically enlarging a previous study on aggregate Italian national data, this article tests whether the introduction of the property tax into the Italian system has dampened construction activity, as proxied by building permits. The latter are also good indicator of regulatory policy and local government behaviour. The heuristic hypothesis put forward in this article is that, because of concomitant favourable market conditions and the devolution process that began in the 1990s, the introduction of the property tax (ICI) induced municipalities to adopt less tight urban policies to offset budgetary needs and compensate for the reduction in central government transfers. To this end, it estimates an econometric model to verify the impact of the main economic variables on new housing supply. Unlike other studies, this article run an analysis at regional level and test for fixed effects and structural break. Our estimates support our hypothesis, evidencing a time effect. They also confirm that introduction of the ICI tax did not affect the construction sector. Careful attention, therefore, should be given to the issue of whether leaving urban planning and the power to levy property taxes under the same jurisdiction.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 163-188
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1594711
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Author-Name: Remus Creţan
Author-X-Name-First: Remus
Author-X-Name-Last: Creţan
Title: Ethnic spatial segregation in European cities
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 189-191
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1678240
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Author-Name: Andrew Clarke
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke
Title: Gentrification and displacement: the forced relocation of public housing tenants in inner-Sydney
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 191-193
Issue: 1
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1678242
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Author-Name: Dominika V. Polanska
Author-X-Name-First: Dominika V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Polanska
Author-Name: Katia Valenzuela-Fuentes
Author-X-Name-First: Katia
Author-X-Name-Last: Valenzuela-Fuentes
Author-Name: Anne Kaun
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaun
Title: Housing activism: overlooked forms, practices and implications
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1585-1587
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1658721
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Author-Name: Miguel A. Martinez
Author-X-Name-First: Miguel A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Martinez
Title: Bitter wins or a long-distance race? Social and political outcomes of the Spanish housing movement
Abstract:
This study investigates whether housing movements can produce significant outcomes. In particular, I examine the case of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), the main organization in the Spanish housing movement between 2009 and 2017. First, I discuss how their demands were framed according to specific contexts of legitimation. Second, I distinguish the nature and scope of the outcomes produced by this movement. My analysis uniquely combines a critical assessment of the PAH’s achievements with its unintended consequences and the significant social, political and economic contexts that help to explain its major outcomes. The global financial crisis, the convergence of the PAH with other anti-neoliberal movements and shifts among the dominant political parties determine the opportunities and constraints of the PAH’s development. Within this environment, the housing movement strategically operates by framing the culprits of the economic crisis in a new manner and by appealing to a broad social base beyond the impoverished mortgage holders. I also include the capacity of the movement’s organization to last, expand and increase its legitimacy as a relevant socio-political outcome. This is explained here through the articulation of the PAH’s agency (organizational form and protest repertoire) within the aforementioned contexts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1588-1611
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1447094
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Author-Name: Anna Domaradzka
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Domaradzka
Author-Name: Filip Wijkström
Author-X-Name-First: Filip
Author-X-Name-Last: Wijkström
Title: Urban challengers weaving their networks: between the ‘right to housing’ and the ‘right to the city’
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The article applies a field theory approach to further the analysis of grassroots movements in an urban context. By employing the theoretical framework of Strategic Action Fields merged with the concept of norm entrepreneurs and combined with an idea of networks of challengers, two parallel but different social movement networks in Poland are analyzed. In this comparison the authors discuss differences in strategy and political – discursive – opportunities mobilized within respective fields between the more established housing movement and an emerging Polish urban renewal movement in the light of on-going change in the urban realm. By comparing the networks of challengers in both fields and simultaneously trying to identify the dominant institutional logics within each, we test the usefulness of the Strategic Action Field approach.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1612-1634
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1657561
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Author-Name: Ngai Ming Yip
Author-X-Name-First: Ngai Ming
Author-X-Name-Last: Yip
Title: Housing activism in urban China: the quest for autonomy in neighbourhood governance
Abstract:
The creation of a neoliberal housing regime triggered extensive housing activism during the last decade by middle class homeowners who were protecting their rights to their neighbourhood. Yet such actions also signify the quest for autonomy from the ubiquitous control of the local state as the vanguard of political power hegemony at the grassroots level. Yet there is evidence of an escalation in “non-peaceful” actions in the richest cities in China despite the tight control of the authoritarian state. With data taken from official documents and interviews as well as from news reports about neighbourhood disputes in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, this article gives an analytic account of the disputes and actions of homeowners in residential neighbourhoods while making their claims as well as on the strategies used by the local state in controlling the homeowners' associations. The article is able to enrich our understanding of housing activism in a non-democratic regime.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1635-1653
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1580679
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Author-Name: Marc Parés
Author-X-Name-First: Marc
Author-X-Name-Last: Parés
Title: Socially innovative housing activism: local context and collective leadership practices in Barcelona and New York City
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Drawing upon a comparison between four socially innovative housing activism initiatives, this paper makes new theoretical propositions on the nature of social change by bringing together a contextual approach on housing activism and an agency analysis of collective leadership practices. On one hand, this paper analyses how historical and geographical neighbourhood features constrain and enable housing activism. On the other hand, the paper unveils collective leadership practices that democratize socially innovative initiatives and make social change happen. Assuming that housing activism is spatially and institutionally embedded, the paper concludes that some leadership practices not only enable the emergence of such processes but also foster their sustainability and increase their impact.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1654-1672
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1566521
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Author-Name: Febe De Geest
Author-X-Name-First: Febe
Author-X-Name-Last: De Geest
Author-Name: Simon De Nys-Ketels
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: De Nys-Ketels
Title: Everyday resistance: exposing the complexities of participatory slum-upgrading projects in Nagpur
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This paper exposes practices of informal, everyday resistance by slum-dwellers against the implementation of large-scale public housing projects in India. During the last few decades, various large-scale urban projects have been implemented in order to redevelop Indian cities. In these projects, the emphasis is on community participation. By focusing on the local level, we scrutinize how these projects are put into practice. Specifically, we look at how two slum communities react, contest and protest against the implementation of a large-scale public housing project. Using two case studies in Nagpur under the Basic Services to the Urban Poor—an overarching, nation-wide slum-upgrading scheme—this paper explores how standardized, participatory large-scale housing projects often clash with social realities on the ground, which results in various forms of everyday resistance and protest.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1673-1689
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1562056
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Author-Name: Maryam Dilmaghani
Author-X-Name-First: Maryam
Author-X-Name-Last: Dilmaghani
Title: Religious identity and real estate wealth accumulation: evidence from Canada
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The real estate wealth disparities associated with religious identity have rarely been investigated in the literature. Such investigation is important, since the benefits of investment in an owner-occupied residence expand beyond individual wealth accumulation. Homeowners have a greater incentive to invest in their neighbourhoods and are more engaged with their local communities. These individual incentives engender social benefits. Using the Canadian National Household Survey of 2011, this paper examines how religious identity associates with the patterns of real estate wealth accumulation in Canada. Three interrelated outcomes of homeownership, value of the dwelling and the likelihood of carrying a mortgage are considered. The differences among a number of religious groups are non-negligible and impervious to the inclusion of controls. In accord with the US patterns, conservative Protestants are found at a disadvantage in real estate wealth accumulation. Jews, the highest earning group, are found to have a lower likelihood of homeownership, compared with most other groups. But, conditional on owning, Jews have more valuable homes. Muslims, the lowest earning group, are found the least likely to own. But, conditional on homeownership, Muslims are less likely than all other groups to carry a mortgage. Sikhs are found to statistically significantly differ from Hindus, in their homeownership rates and the value of their dwellings. Various explanations are explored.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1690-1720
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1364714
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Author-Name: Lingqian Hu
Author-X-Name-First: Lingqian
Author-X-Name-Last: Hu
Author-Name: Liming Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Liming
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: Housing location choices of the poor: does access to jobs matter?
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This research investigates whether access to jobs affects poor households’ residential location choices using data from individual households in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Our results, based on discrete choice models, show that the effects of job accessibility on household location choices are contingent upon households’ automobile ownership and employment status. Places with higher job accessibility by public transit mode are more likely to attract poor households that do not own cars but have at least one employed worker or one labour force participant, while job accessibility by automobile travel mode has no positive effect on the location choices of poor households who own automobiles. The results stress the importance of job accessibility for those poor households with limited transportation mobility but strong needs for access to jobs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1721-1745
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1364354
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Author-Name: Dave Cowan
Author-X-Name-First: Dave
Author-X-Name-Last: Cowan
Title: Housing associations: a legal handbook
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1746-1747
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1647999
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: Reification and representation: architecture in the political-media complex
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1747-1749
Issue: 10
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648000
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Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Valerie Wright
Author-X-Name-First: Valerie
Author-X-Name-Last: Wright
Author-Name: Lynn Abrams
Author-X-Name-First: Lynn
Author-X-Name-Last: Abrams
Author-Name: Barry Hazley
Author-X-Name-First: Barry
Author-X-Name-Last: Hazley
Title: Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives
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Housing research rarely takes a long-term view of the impacts of short-term housing changes. Thus, in studies of post-war relocation, narratives of ‘loss of community’ and ‘dislocation’ have dominated the debate for decades. This paper combines a ‘re-study’ methodology with oral histories to re-examine the experience of relocation into high-rise flats in Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s. We find that both the immediate and longer term outcomes of relocation varied greatly; while some people failed to settle and felt a loss of social relations, many others did not. People had agency, some chose to get away from tenement life and others chose to move on subsequently as aspirations changed. Furthermore, relocation to high-rise was not always the life-defining event or moment it is often depicted to be. Outcomes from relocation are mediated by many other events and experiences, questioning its role as an explanatory paradigm in housing studies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 201-225
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1409342
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Author-Name: Megan Nethercote
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nethercote
Title: Kemeny revisited: the new homeownership-welfare dynamics
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This article connects homeowner subjectivities and state practice to specify how the post-war homeownership-welfare dynamic has radically transformed since the 1980s. Specifically, this article revisits, 35 years on and against the onset of financialized capitalism, Jim Kemeny’s seminal thesis on the relationship between homeownership and welfare. Focusing on Australia, as a less considered case in the liberal Anglophone cluster, it traces how the state actively overhauled the local post-war homeownership-welfare dynamic from the late 1970s. The analysis establishes how this refurbishment outdates Kemeny’s thesis by rendering features of the post-war homeownership model ineffective and, more significantly, by fashioning new homeowner subjectivities—namely, the investor subject. By bringing together Foucauldian perspectives (mortgage biopolitics) with Marxian political economy, this state-sensitive account both responds to Kemeny’s unexpected silence on the active hand of the Australian state in structuring its homeownership-welfare dynamic, and contributes to the asset-based welfare critique by emphasizing its post-1980s features and the structural drivers that explain its persistence, despite its unequal wealth and welfare outcomes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 226-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1458292
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Author-Name: Timothy Blackwell
Author-X-Name-First: Timothy
Author-X-Name-Last: Blackwell
Author-Name: Sebastian Kohl
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Kohl
Title: Historicizing housing typologies: beyond welfare state regimes and varieties of residential capitalism
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Comparative housing scholars have, for many years now, imported typologies from non-housing spheres to explain housing phenomena. Notably, approaches attempting to account for divergent housing tenure patterns and trends have frequently been organized around typologies based on the assumption that a causal relationship exists between homeownership rates and the type of welfare regime or, more recently, the variety of residential capitalism a country exhibits. While these housing-welfare regime approaches have provided important research tools, we argue that the typologies they generate represent cross-sectional snapshots which offer little enduring cogency. Based on long-run data, we show that the postulated associations between homeownership, welfare and mortgage debt are historically contingent. This paper makes the case for employing historicized typologies, proposing a country-based typology linking historical housing finance system trajectories to urban form and tenure, with regional dimensions. We argue the need for typologies which can accommodate longitudinal, path-dependent dimensions, both within and between countries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 298-318
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1487037
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Author-Name: Steffen Wetzstein
Author-X-Name-First: Steffen
Author-X-Name-Last: Wetzstein
Title: Comparative housing, urban crisis and political economy: an ethnographically based ‘long view’ from Auckland, Singapore and Berlin
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This paper follows a call for a ‘long view’ perspective on contemporary housing problems and policy. It applies this longitudinal lens to a multi-city comparative ethnographical study that investigates and relates place-specific and common trajectories and policies in regard to contemporary urban housing. By comparing Auckland, Singapore and Berlin from a heterodox political economy perspective, it demonstrates how contemporary challenges and proposed solutions over housing have deep-seated historical and geographical roots that are usually overlooked. It suggests that comprehending current housing issues as cumulative effects of developments and policy (non)-action taken in the past, and relating and evaluating those constitutive trajectories and transformations across (disparate) cities, current academic and policy debates can be enriched and deepened. One lesson is that ‘learning from the past’ may be a more promising crisis response than nowadays’ politically fetishised learning via global best practice and spatially mobilised policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 272-297
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1487038
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Author-Name: Daphne Habibis
Author-X-Name-First: Daphne
Author-X-Name-Last: Habibis
Author-Name: Rhonda Phillips
Author-X-Name-First: Rhonda
Author-X-Name-Last: Phillips
Author-Name: Peter Phibbs
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Phibbs
Title: Housing policy in remote Indigenous communities: how politics obstructs good policy
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When it comes to issues of housing policy, remote Indigenous housing often presents the extreme case. The failures of housing policy are most acute in remote Indigenous Australia, but despite the need to learn from the policy mistakes of the past, there has been little detailed analysis of the policy history. Through documentary and empirical analysis, we show that policies have either failed to be adapted to cultural and geographic contexts or, when they have been culturally responsive, they have lacked attention to the complexities of service delivery. Despite differences in policy settings, the long view is one of the normalization of Indigenous communities, although research points to the need for culturally appropriate arrangements. We argue that rather than politically motivated short-termism, governments need to develop a medium- to long-term approach that approaches policy solutions incrementally, builds capacity within the state and Indigenous communities, and is based on the evidence.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 252-271
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1487039
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Author-Name: Dave Cowan
Author-X-Name-First: Dave
Author-X-Name-Last: Cowan
Author-Name: Alex Marsh
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Marsh
Title: A perennial problem? On underoccupation in English council housing
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Addressing the issue of underoccupation has been a prominent feature in English social housing policy since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government was formed in 2010. A key move under the Coalition’s welfare reform agenda was the implementation of the underoccupancy penalty—the so-called ‘bedroom tax’—from April 2013. However, while this policy triggered high-profile protests, it does not represent a novel policy preoccupation. Variations on the theme have recurred in housing policy debates almost since the advent of council housing. This paper adopts a long-term perspective and presents a sociological institutionalist analysis which focuses on the mechanisms through which underoccupation has been governed. Drawing on a range of archival material, we argue that the government of underoccupation has undergone revealing transformations over the period since 1929. Not only does the broader policy context—understandings of the purpose of social housing and the role it fulfils in the housing market—differ over time, but, at the more detailed level of policy instruments, the mechanisms proposed to address underoccupation differ in ways that can be explained in terms of prevailing policy logics and institutional structures. Most significantly, the nature of the underoccupation problem has been framed differently: the rationales offered as justification for policy action draw on very different vocabularies, in ways that allow us to trace the influence of more fundamental shifts in policy discourse into the domain of housing policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 319-337
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1487928
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Author-Name: Kenneth Gibb
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibb
Author-Name: Geoffrey Meen
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Meen
Author-Name: Christian Nygaard
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Nygaard
Title: Long-run urban dynamics: understanding local housing market change in London
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Recently, a literature has emerged using empirical techniques to study the evolution of international cities over many centuries; however, few studies examine long-run change within cities. Conventional models and concepts are not always appropriate and data issues make long-run neighbourhood analysis particularly problematic. This paper addresses some of these points. First, it discusses why the analysis of long-run urban change is important for modern urban policy and considers the most important concepts. Second, it constructs a novel data set at the micro level, which allows consistent comparisons of London neighbourhoods in 1881 and 2001. Third, the paper models some of the key factors that affected long-run change, including the role of housing. There is evidence that the relative social positions of local urban areas persist over time but, nevertheless, at fine spatial scales, local areas still exhibit change, arising from aggregate population dynamics, from advances in technology, and also from the effects of shocks, such as wars. In general, where small areas are considered, long-run changes are likely to be greater, because individuals are more mobile over short than long distances. Finally, the paper considers the implications for policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 338-359
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1491533
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Author-Name: Hector Becerril
Author-X-Name-First: Hector
Author-X-Name-Last: Becerril
Title: The long-term effects of housing policy instrumentation: Rio de Janeiro’s case from an actor–network theory perspective
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This paper explores the long-term effects of Rio de Janeiro’s slum upgrading, a key policy instrument of municipal housing since the 1990s, and an essential reference for housing initiatives worldwide. From a theoretical stance, this paper builds on the Political Sociology of Public Policy Instruments (PPI) and actor–network theory (ANT). The paper argues that Rio’s slum upgrading instrumentation, that is, its constitution and use, has been key to the various housing policy oscillations over the past three decades. It also contends that this instrumentation contributed to the depoliticization of the municipal housing policy through the fostering of a ‘community of practice’ centred on slum upgrading, formed by a wide range of state and non-sate actors, and based on a technical rationality. This community and its practices have weakened the political control over Rio’s housing policy in the past decades.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 360-379
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1538448
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Author-Name: Nicole Gurran
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole
Author-X-Name-Last: Gurran
Title: Planning gain: providing infrastructure and affordable housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 380-381
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1558587
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: Champions of Change: Shelter NSW, Community Activism and Transforming NSW’s Housing System
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 382-383
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1558589
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Author-Name: Anaid Yerena
Author-X-Name-First: Anaid
Author-X-Name-Last: Yerena
Title: Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 384-385
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1558591
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Author-Name: Kathleen Flanagan
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Flanagan
Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: ‘The long view’: Introduction for Special Edition of Housing Studies
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 195-200
Issue: 2
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1558592
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Author-Name: Gisela P. Zapata
Author-X-Name-First: Gisela P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Zapata
Title: Transnational migration, remittances and the financialization of housing in Colombia
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Recently, various Latin American governments have sought to render migrants as development agents by channelling remittances to specific sectors such as housing and finance. The available literature has yet to articulate how these developments are reconfiguring the political economy of housing in the region. The paper draws on empirical data collected at both ends of the Colombia–UK migration network. It argues that the Colombian Government’s efforts to incorporate migrants into the polity through a renovated housing policy aim to institutionalize migrant households’ transnational practices and their links with global circuits of capital and finance. They are underpinned by the repositioning of housing away from consumption into an investment item and driver of economic growth and the financial sector as the main medium for households’ access to public and private housing, and other basic services. These developments have taken place in the context of a broader process of financialization of the global development agenda in the last three decades.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 343-360
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1344956
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Author-Name: Ivo Balmer
Author-X-Name-First: Ivo
Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer
Author-Name: Jean-David Gerber
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-David
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerber
Title: Why are housing cooperatives successful? Insights from Swiss affordable housing policy
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Housing policy is primarily regulated at the municipal level, especially in view of the international trend towards the withdrawal of the national state in this sector. This article examines recent developments in Swiss housing policy in five large cities, and the counter-reactions that are emerging due to an acute housing shortage. Relying on critical literature on housing, we present the main instruments of the Swiss housing policy and empirically analyse the political debates about their implementation. Results show that housing cooperatives are the housing support mechanism that the whole political spectrum can agree on. As the vast majority of cooperatives are non-profit, we observe the puzzling situation where neoliberal processes of state withdrawal in social policies lead to the promotion of a form of housing that is mostly common property-based and decommodified. The reasons behind their success are complex, but basing policies on private initiative rather than public property and targeting the middle class contributes to their popularity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 361-385
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1344958
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Author-Name: Julia Verdouw
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Verdouw
Author-Name: Daphne Habibis
Author-X-Name-First: Daphne
Author-X-Name-Last: Habibis
Title: Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: can one size fit all?
Abstract:
The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken the form of congregate-site housing, unlike the scatter-site housing that has been closely associated with PHP in the United States. This has raised questions about whether the translation of the PHP model to Australia has resulted in a loss of fidelity to the ‘active ingredients’ that explain its success. Drawing on an evaluation of two congregate-site facilities in Tasmania, we show how tensions between program fidelity and local factors shaping the program assemblage, have compromised program success in relation to flexibility of service response and client agency and choice. Our findings challenge policy-makers and service providers to attend carefully to how successful overseas programs are adapted to different policy and service contexts to ensure that features critical to their success are not lost in translation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 386-407
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1346192
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Author-Name: Qi Tu
Author-X-Name-First: Qi
Author-X-Name-Last: Tu
Author-Name: Jan de Haan
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: de Haan
Author-Name: Peter Boelhouwer
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Boelhouwer
Title: House prices and long-term equilibrium in the regulated market of the Netherlands
Abstract:
This paper establishes a simple affordability model that implicitly incorporates the major Dutch market features to elucidate long-run house prices under a regulatory environment. The results reveal a long-run relationship for house prices under strict regulations. The association among house prices, income, interest rates, and inflation is verified using an aggregated dataset. In the long-run, incomes and interest rates function as the two prime forces driving price dynamics, whereas the role of inflation is limited.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 408-432
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1346786
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Author-Name: Rosanna Scutella
Author-X-Name-First: Rosanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Scutella
Author-Name: Guy Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Title: Psychological distress and homeless duration
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We examine whether psychological distress levels vary with homeless and housed duration. We do this using longitudinal data from a national survey of persons facing housing insecurity that, unlike prior studies, is not restricted to those who are currently homeless (or to particular subsets of the homeless), but instead follows a nationally representative sample of Australians experiencing housing insecurity. This allows us to use methods that isolate the effects of changes in time spent homeless and time spent housed on psychological distress holding constant all unobserved person-specific effects that are time invariant. We find that the relationship between psychological distress and homelessness varies by gender and by type of homelessness. Males recently experiencing literal homelessness (i.e. sleeping rough or in crisis accommodation) exhibit the highest levels of distress, but consistent with the adaptation hypothesis, distress levels decline as homeless duration increases. This pattern is not seen when examining a broader notion of homelessness for males. Likewise, there is no clear pattern with regard to homeless duration for females.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 433-454
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1346787
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Author-Name: Ruoniu Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Ruoniu
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Rebecca J. Walter
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walter
Title: Tracking mobility in the housing choice voucher program: a household level examination in Florida, USA
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Previous research on the housing choice voucher (HCV) program has focused on neighbourhoods where voucher holders reside at one point of time. Little is known about mobility of voucher households during their tenure in the program. Using an administrative dataset that spans 11 years for the state of Florida, this study evaluates how often voucher households move and their mobility outcomes, measured by the change of neighbourhood poverty. Findings reveal that HCV households moved frequently beginning in the early years of program participation. Between 2007 and 2013 there was a notable decrease of voucher presence in high-poverty areas. Regression analysis further suggests that rental housing market conditions are significantly associated with mobility outcomes. White, non-Hispanic households and those with higher incomes were more likely to move to lower poverty neighbourhoods, whereas disabled and formerly homeless households moved more frequently and were not as successful in accessing lower poverty areas.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 455-475
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1347608
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Author-Name: Geng Niu
Author-X-Name-First: Geng
Author-X-Name-Last: Niu
Author-Name: Guochang Zhao
Author-X-Name-First: Guochang
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao
Title: Living condition among China’s rural–urban migrants: recent dynamics and the inland–coastal differential
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Using data from the Rural–Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, this paper evaluates the very recent dynamics of living condition among China’s rural–urban migrants during 2008–2014, scrutinizing in particular the differential between the inland region and the coastal region. Along with their improved economic conditions, housing conditions of migrants have in general improved, although compared to urban locals their disadvantages persist over time. The improvement is especially fast among those migrants residing in the inland region. Multivariate regression results indicate that education, income, place of origin and family composition are important determinants of migrants’ housing conditions. Finally, decomposition analysis suggests that even after controlling for those observable factors, there is still a large inland–coastal differential. Over time, China’s rural–urban migrants are becoming more stable and settled in host cities. The temporary nature of China’s migrants, claimed in many previous studies, might be changing. Updated and regional-specific migrant policies are needed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 476-493
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1351924
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Author-Name: Greg Suttor
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Suttor
Title: Sweat equity: cooperative house-building in Newfoundland, 1920–1974
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 494-495
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1419908
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Author-Name: Harry Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Harry
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: Slums: how informal real estate markets work
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 495-497
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1419909
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Author-Name: Alison Wallace
Author-X-Name-First: Alison
Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace
Title: Property, family and the Irish welfare state
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 497-499
Issue: 3
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1419911
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Author-Name: Shammi Akter Satu
Author-X-Name-First: Shammi Akter
Author-X-Name-Last: Satu
Author-Name: Rebecca L. H. Chiu
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca L. H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu
Title: Livability in dense residential neighbourhoods of Dhaka
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Prime cities in developing countries, like Dhaka experience haphazard and intense horizontal densification. The livability of dense neighbourhoods needs to be investigated, particularly, the role of housing and planning in mitigating density problems and capitalizing the advantages of high-density living. This article argues that housing form and planned community facilities giving respect to socio-cultural practices can significantly influence Dhaka’s livability. Also, a wider definition of housing should be adopted to facilitate improvements in livability. As well, an integrated approach of residential planning is important in intensified housing development projects or planning for dense areas, encompassing housing standards, community facilities, public transport, open space provision and socio-cultural habits. This paper recommends the Bangladeshi Government to ensure enforcement of residential plans, to establish density zones in Dhaka’s main urban areas to guide spatial and transport development and neighbourhood facility provision, and to give greater respect for cultural practices in neighbourhood planning.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 538-559
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1364711
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Author-Name: Chris Hamnett
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Hamnett
Author-Name: Jonathan Reades
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Reades
Title: Mind the gap: implications of overseas investment for regional house price divergence in Britain
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The UK has had a long-standing regional house price gap with prices in London much higher than the rest of the UK. Using price data from 1969 to 2016 we track price differentials through several cycles of boom and bust, and note the growing divergence of London, particularly central London, from the rest of Britain. In explaining this divergence, we highlight the growing importance of international investment since the global financial crisis. We conclude that, although ‘Brexit’ may have brought the latest long London boom to a close, there is nothing to suggest that the regional house price gap will close. Given the ongoing importance of global financial inflows to major world cities, this has significant implications for how governments approach affordability and housing policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 388-406
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1444151
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Author-Name: Martina Gentili
Author-X-Name-First: Martina
Author-X-Name-Last: Gentili
Author-Name: Joris Hoekstra
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoekstra
Title: Houses without people and people without houses: a cultural and institutional exploration of an Italian paradox
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According to basic economics, when vacancy rates rise, house prices should decrease and vice versa, responding to supply and demand mechanisms. However, previous studies have observed that, before the economic crisis, this was not the case in Spain and Malta. It has been questioned whether this paradox is a Mediterranean phenomenon or simply the result of isolated cases of malfunctioning housing market. This paper contributes to this discussion by reviewing the pre-crisis housing market of a third case study: Italy. A Mediterranean housing system perspective is used to analyse the paradox, and methodological issues regarding the definition and measurement of vacancy are addressed. Moreover, the paper explores the consequences of the high Italian vacancy rate within a context of housing shortages and affordability problems. We argue that a better understanding of the characteristics and implications of vacancy is necessary in order to be able to implement sustainable housing and planning policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 425-447
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1447093
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Author-Name: Hanan Haber
Author-X-Name-First: Hanan
Author-X-Name-Last: Haber
Author-Name: Nir Kosti
Author-X-Name-First: Nir
Author-X-Name-Last: Kosti
Author-Name: David Levi-Faur
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Levi-Faur
Title: Welfare through regulatory means: eviction and repossession policies in Singapore
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The study and provision of welfare have long been synonymous with direct social spending. The provision of welfare through regulatory means poses a complementary perspective to the study of social policy. In this context, this paper focuses on policies aimed at preventing mortgage borrowers’ eviction and repossession in Singapore, a world leader in state-led owner occupancy but a welfare laggard in terms of social spending. The findings show a disparity between a high rate of arrears on housing credit, and a low level of eviction and repossession. We test several explanations for this disparity, and argue that it is the result of policy aiming to minimize eviction and repossessions. This policy is driven by institutional interdependencies within the state, which have tied citizens’ housing credit to other aspects of their individual welfare savings. The findings shed light on the central role of regulation in welfare.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 407-424
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1447095
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Author-Name: Rodrigo Hidalgo Dattwyler
Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo
Author-X-Name-Last: Hidalgo Dattwyler
Author-Name: Luis Daniel Santana Rivas
Author-X-Name-First: Luis Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Santana Rivas
Author-Name: Felipe Link
Author-X-Name-First: Felipe
Author-X-Name-Last: Link
Title: New neoliberal public housing policies: between centrality discourse and peripheralization practices in Santiago, Chile
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The lack of geographical equality in the development of neoliberal social housing models is evidence of differing ideological discourses and socio-spatial practices in the production of social housing. Based on a critical analysis of the Housing Policy for Quality Improvement and Social Integration promoted in Chile in 2006—the basis for a set of subsequent policies—this study seeks to identify the link between state discourse promoting further urban centralization of social housing and neoliberal subsidy allocation practices that have shaped the geography of recent residential production (2007–2012). Using an ideological critique and a descriptive spatial analysis to assess the notions of urban centrality, we found that equality and integration form the rhetoric used to legitimize and reproduce practices that lead to peripheralization of the poor. These practices are not limited to the city but have expanded to the extended urban area, creating a larger niche for the real estate industry.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 489-518
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1458287
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Author-Name: Margarita Chudnovskaya
Author-X-Name-First: Margarita
Author-X-Name-Last: Chudnovskaya
Title: Housing context and childbearing in Sweden: a cohort study
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Previous research has established the link between individuals’ housing characteristics and their childbearing behavior. This study contributes to this literature by examining the association between first, second and third parity transitions and housing tenure and type. The study design distinguishes between owner-occupied apartments, rental apartments and owner-occupied detached houses. This study also uniquely takes into account individual housing histories in relation to later life fertility outcomes. The data used are an extract from Swedish registers covering 25% of the population. Housing information is available from 1986 to 2006, and the study follows four birth cohorts of women who are aged 15–18 when the study starts, until ages 35–38. Descriptive results on housing and childbearing transitions over the life course are complemented by event-history models to model the parity transitions. Women living in detached housing have the highest likelihood of parity transitions, while women living in rental apartments have the lowest likelihood. Although women from different housing backgrounds have similar outcomes in terms of parity and timing, housing of origin is related to housing context during childbearing transitions, and thus, serves as a good insight to individual housing norms and constraints.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 469-488
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1458288
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Author-Name: Lili Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Lili
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Author-Name: Yang Bian
Author-X-Name-First: Yang
Author-X-Name-Last: Bian
Author-Name: Wei Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Wei
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: Housing ownership and housing wealth: new evidence in transitional China
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Ever since housing was transformed from the most important welfare benefit to the most valuable form of private property through radical housing reform in 1998, housing allocation mechanisms in China have been characterized by the coexistence of market logic and socialist legacy. Thus, the Chinese housing system exhibits a transitional nature as the country moves away from a socialist housing system towards a privatized housing system. Using the 2011 Chinese Household Finance Survey, we not only examine these changes in private ownership of housing, but also give an updated evaluation of the privatization process with new empirical evidence. We develop a conceptual framework and an empirical analysis to shed light on distinct housing inequality patterns in transitional urban China. Our results show that both socioeconomic characteristics and socialist institutions contribute to housing inequality, but they follow different paths in the reform and have different impacts on housing inequality.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 448-468
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1458291
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Author-Name: Tahire Erman
Author-X-Name-First: Tahire
Author-X-Name-Last: Erman
Title: From informal housing to apartment housing: exploring the ‘new social’ in a gecekondu rehousing project, Turkey
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This article engages with the question of the ‘new social’ that emerges in the relocation of the poor in slum renewal projects. Drawing upon both Lefebvre’s theorization of abstract space of capital and social space of people, and the neoliberal framework in which the economic dominates the social, the complex relationship between the spatial and the social embedded in political economy is demonstrated. In the Turkish context, the ‘new social’ is situated at the intersection of spatial transformations, housing representations, neoliberalism and Islam. In the housing estate of the case study, the abstract space was challenged by the bottom-up responses of some residents who tried to create their social space rooted in their previous experiences in the gecekondu; it was reacted by other residents who embraced the higher status of apartment living. The void produced by destroying the gecekondu habitus was filled by religious activities and consumption-inspired everyday practices.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 519-537
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1458293
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Author-Name: David Allatt
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Allatt
Title: Trans-Europe express, tour of a lost continent
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 560-561
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1558596
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Author-Name: Janet Oluwabunmi Ige
Author-X-Name-First: Janet
Author-X-Name-Last: Oluwabunmi Ige
Title: Environmental health and housing: issues for public health
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 561-562
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1558597
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 563-564
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1558599
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Title: Jürgen Friedrichs
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 387-387
Issue: 3
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1606967
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Author-Name: Rory Coulter
Author-X-Name-First: Rory
Author-X-Name-Last: Coulter
Title: Parental background and housing outcomes in young adulthood
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Scholars and policy-makers are concerned that young adults’ housing opportunities are becoming more dependent on their family background. This could hinder social mobility and exacerbate inequality. Using data from three cohorts of young people drawn from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study of England and Wales, this study examines how parental attributes in childhood are linked to young adults’ housing outcomes two decades later. The results show that young adults’ housing outcomes have changed considerably over time and are persistently stratified by parental class and tenure in ways that vary by gender. Housing outcomes have become somewhat more polarised by parental tenure over time as the children of renters became relatively less likely to enter homeownership and more likely to rent privately. This suggests that renters became an increasingly ‘marginalised minority’ in the late twentieth century, with consequences for their children’s housing careers and future social inequality.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 201-223
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1208160
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Author-Name: Oana Druta
Author-X-Name-First: Oana
Author-X-Name-Last: Druta
Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Title: Intergenerational support for autonomous living in a post-socialist housing market: homes, meanings and practices
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This paper explores housing trajectories of young adults and practices of intergenerational support in Romania drawing on narratives of a group of people aged 25–39 living (quasi-) autonomously in Bucharest, and those of kin that support them. It describes three housing arrangements in which family (parental) resources and property play an important role, and argues that in this context of high interdependence, unequal relationships develop between parents and adult children marked by professed entitlement on the part of children and controlling generosity on the part of parents. It shows how interdependent practices of homemaking and material support combine to shape housing trajectories and define the boundaries of ownership over homes that are shared, gifted or given in use within kin networks, sheltering young adults from the vagaries of the market.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 299-316
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1280141
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Author-Name: Sue Heath
Author-X-Name-First: Sue
Author-X-Name-Last: Heath
Title: Siblings, fairness and parental support for housing in the UK
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Financial support from parents has become critical to the capacity of many single young adults to attain and sustain independent housing in the United Kingdom. Utilising data from a qualitative study of early housing pathways, this paper applies Lüscher’s theory of ambivalence in a context previously unexplored via this framework, analysing how participants talked about competing claims between siblings for finite parental resources in support of independent living. Most expressed faith in the assumed fairness of parental behaviours in providing support whilst often constructing themselves as ‘more responsible’ or ‘more deserving’ than their siblings. Whilst parental support was routinely made available regardless of recipients’ current housing tenure, there was nonetheless a sense that support for owner occupation fell into a distinct category of assistance, reinforcing notions of tenure prejudice. Given ongoing dependency on family support, participants were largely resigned to these disparities, regarding them as integral to the ambivalent nature of inter- and intragenerational family relationships.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 284-298
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1291914
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Author-Name: Christian Lennartz
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz
Author-Name: Ilse Helbrecht
Author-X-Name-First: Ilse
Author-X-Name-Last: Helbrecht
Title: The housing careers of younger adults and intergenerational support in Germany’s ‘society of renters’
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Through narrative interviews with younger adults and their parents, this paper explores how the housing transitions of younger adults, both within the rental sector and into homeownership, are shaped through intergenerational intra-family support in Germany’s society of renters. Our findings highlight the profound qualitative differences between regular transfers for establishing and retaining residential independence in the rental sector and inter vivos gifts for house purchase. Where the former support type is given and taken unconditionally, transfers for house purchase follow a different logic and carry different meanings. Being a necessary condition for property acquisition at young age, they have the power to completely rebalance family relations and undermine younger adults’ autonomy accordingly. In an aggregate perspective, our study further suggests increasing socio-spatial inequalities within the younger generation which run along both class and spatial origin, sharply dividing the housing market opportunities of ‘original Berliners’ and those who have moved to the city from more affluent regions in Germany.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 317-336
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1338674
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Author-Name: Marco Albertini
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Albertini
Author-Name: Marco Tosi
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Tosi
Author-Name: Martin Kohli
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kohli
Title: Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe
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Housing careers have important consequences for individuals’ well-being. The present study focuses on the role of parents’ housing careers in affecting the way and extent to which they provide economic support to their adult children. By adopting a family life course perspective, it shows that while housing tenure has relatively little effect on parents’ transfer behaviour, mobility between different tenures can elicit or suppress intergenerational support; moreover, the quality of the house positively affects intergenerational co-residence. Support received to acquire a home along one’s life course has an important demonstration effect: those parents who have received their home as a gift or have received economic support for buying it are more prone to provide help to their adult children. The empirical results do not allow to identify macro-contextual conditions that shape the effect of parents’ housing careers on intergenerational support, but they show that the demonstration effect plays only a marginal role in Southern Europe.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 160-177
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1363875
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Author-Name: Bettina Isengard
Author-X-Name-First: Bettina
Author-X-Name-Last: Isengard
Author-Name: Ronny König
Author-X-Name-First: Ronny
Author-X-Name-Last: König
Author-Name: Marc Szydlik
Author-X-Name-First: Marc
Author-X-Name-Last: Szydlik
Title: Money or space? Intergenerational transfers in a comparative perspective
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The provision of living space as well as financial transfers are important elements of functional solidarity between parents and adult children in contemporary European societies. However, prior research has revealed substantial discrepancies not only within but also between countries. Against this background, this paper investigates the relevance of money and space transfers and the connections between the two forms of support simultaneously using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The empirical results indicate that the needs of adult children as well as the opportunities of their parents are important determinants of support. Furthermore, parents in southern European countries with low levels of public family expenditures predominantly support their adult children by providing living space, whereas parents in northern European countries with more generous welfare states give direct financial support. Differences in country-specific transfer patterns can theoretically and empirically be traced back to welfare state support in general and national housing regimes and markets in particular.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 178-200
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1365823
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Author-Name: Stephan Köppe
Author-X-Name-First: Stephan
Author-X-Name-Last: Köppe
Title: Passing it on: inheritance, coresidence and the influence of parental support on homeownership and housing pathways
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The family home is often the single most valuable asset, when it is passed down generations. In recent years, this pathway towards homeownership has become more complex. Young people are increasingly depending on their parents, both financially (deposit) and in-kind (guarantor, living rent-free at parental home), to acquire their first home. This paper contributes to this debate by investigating the influence of bequests and in-kind generational transfers on housing wealth pathways. Based on the British Household Panel Study, this paper shows that receiving an inheritance seems less relevant than other socio-demographic control variables. Still life-time renters are significantly missing out on inheritances. However, young people who are living with their parents are benefiting from this in-kind support in the long term and are able to purchase their first home earlier than independent mortgagers who are saving up for a deposit while renting. These results are discussed in the wider context of housing policy, welfare and generational support.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 224-246
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408778
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Author-Name: Christa Hubers
Author-X-Name-First: Christa
Author-X-Name-Last: Hubers
Author-Name: Caroline Dewilde
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Dewilde
Author-Name: Paul M. de Graaf
Author-X-Name-First: Paul M.
Author-X-Name-Last: de Graaf
Title: Parental marital dissolution and the intergenerational transmission of homeownership
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Children of homeowners are more likely to enter homeownership than are children whose parents rent. We investigate whether this association is dependent on parental divorce, focusing on parental assistance as a conduit of intergenerational transmission. Event history analyses of data for England and Wales from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) show that the intergenerational transmission of homeownership is stronger for children of divorced parents compared with children of married parents. Such an effect may arise from two channels: (1) children of divorced parents are more in need of parental assistance due to socio-economic disadvantages associated with parental divorce; and (2) compared with married parents, divorced homeowning parents (mothers) rely more on housing wealth, rather than financial wealth, for assisting children. Findings support both explanations. Children of divorced parents are furthermore less likely to co-reside. We find limited evidence that when they do, co-residence is less conductive to homeownership compared with children from married parents.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 247-283
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1408779
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Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Title: Reimagining home in the 21st century
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 337-338
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1415785
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Author-Name: Brian J. McCabe
Author-X-Name-First: Brian J.
Author-X-Name-Last: McCabe
Title: Housing wealth and welfare
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 338-340
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1415787
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Author-Name: Alex Schwartz
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwartz
Title: No simple solutions: transforming public housing in Chicago
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 340-342
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1415788
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Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Author-Name: Christian Lennartz
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz
Title: Housing careers, intergenerational support and family relations
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The home and family have always been mutually embedded, with the former central to the realization and reproduction of the latter. More recently, this mutuality has taken on a more critical salience as realignments in housing markets, employment and welfare states in many countries have worked together to undermine housing access for new households. In this context, families have become increasingly involved in smoothening the routes of young adults members up the ‘housing ladder’ into home ownership. Intergenerational support appears to have become much more widespread and not just confined to familialistic welfare regimes. The role of intergenerational support for housing remains, however, highly differentiated across countries, cities and regions, as well as uneven between social and income classes. This introduction to the Special Issue explores how the role of housing wealth transfers has impacted the renegotiation of the generational contract. In doing so, it sets the scene for the articles that follow, each of which contribute significantly to advancing understanding of housing as a key driver of contemporary social relations and inequalities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 147-159
Issue: 2
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1416070
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Author-Name: Laurence Troy
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Troy
Author-Name: Hazel Easthope
Author-X-Name-First: Hazel
Author-X-Name-Last: Easthope
Author-Name: Bill Randolph
Author-X-Name-First: Bill
Author-X-Name-Last: Randolph
Author-Name: Simon Pinnegar
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Pinnegar
Title: It depends what you mean by the term rights’: strata termination and housing rights
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Strata title was introduced in Australia over 50 years ago and offered a legal mechanism for space to be vertically subdivided and traded. Importantly, it allowed individualised property rights to be applied to multi-unit housing. In New South Wales, recent changes to the Strata Scheme Development Act allow termination of strata schemes with less than unanimous support of owners. A central feature of the discussion surrounding the implementation of these changes was to question the rights associated with ownership of strata. This paper presents findings from key-informant interviews undertaken in the lead up to the reforms to the NSW legislation governing strata termination. Analysis of these interviews demonstrates the complex ways in which property rights are understood in relation to strata termination within the broader context of housing. This paper argues that successful implementation of the new legislation impacting upon property rights in strata will require concerted engagement with wider social concepts and understanding of housing within the Australian community.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-16
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1171827
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Author-Name: Tony Manzi
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Manzi
Title: ‘The party’s over’: critical junctures, crises and the politics of housing policy
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The key argument set out in this article is that historical and comparative forms of investigation are necessary if we are to better understand the ambitions and scope of contemporary housing interventions. To demonstrate the veracity of our claim, we have set out an analysis of the UK housing polices enacted in the mid-1970s as a basis for comparison with those pursued 40 years later. The article begins with a critical summary of some of the methodological approaches adopted by researchers used to interpret housing policy. In the main section, we present our critical analysis of housing policy reforms (implemented by the Labour government between 1974 and 1979) noting both their achievements and limitations. In the concluding section, we use our interpretation of this period as a basis to judge contemporary housing policy and reflect on the methodological issues that arise from our analysis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 17-34
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1171829
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Author-Name: Lúðvík Elíasson
Author-X-Name-First: Lúðvík
Author-X-Name-Last: Elíasson
Title: Icelandic boom and bust: immigration and the housing market
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The housing market boom in Iceland in 2004–2007 was driven by international and domestic developments. A simple demand and supply model is fitted to data through the recent boom–bust period. The price equation (demand) is improved by including net immigration as an explanatory variable showing that demographic factors, in addition to mortgage market restructuring, help in explaining swings in the housing market. Evidence of a house price bubble is no longer detected when accounting for the effects of immigration with 1 per cent net immigration yielding a 4–6 per cent rise in house prices. Accuracy in forecasting house price developments is improved by accounting for housing investment behaviour in a separate (supply) equation. The sharp fall in housing investment in 2009 cannot, however, be modelled without the introduction of a dummy variable, accounting for the sudden stop in financing as the Icelandic banking sector failed in late 2008.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 35-59
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1171826
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Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Author-Name: Jenny Muir
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Muir
Author-Name: Tom Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: Housing policy in the UK: the importance of spatial nuance
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The UK has been engaged in an ongoing process of constitutional reform since the late 1990s, when devolved administrations were established in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. As devolution has evolved there has been a greater trend towards divergence in housing policy, which calls into question any notion of a ‘UK experience’. Whilst the 2014 Scottish independence referendum again returned constitutional reform high onto the political agenda, there still remain tensions between devolved governments and the UK Government in Westminster, with England increasingly becoming the outlier in policy terms. Informed by ideas of social constructionism, which emphasises the politics of housing, this paper draws on an analysis of policy narratives to highlight the need for greater geographical sensitivity. This requires not only more spatial nuance, but also a recognition that these differences are underpinned by divergent political narratives in different parts of the UK. This emphasis on the politics underpinning policy has relevance internationally in other geographical contexts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 60-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181722
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Author-Name: Julie Tian Miao
Author-X-Name-First: Julie Tian
Author-X-Name-Last: Miao
Author-Name: Duncan Maclennan
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: Maclennan
Title: Exploring the ‘middle ground’ between state and market: the example of China
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Studies of housing systems lying in the ‘middle ground’ between state and market are subject to three important shortcomings. First, the widely used Esping-Andersen (EA) approach assesses only a subset of the key housing outcomes and may be less helpful for describing changes in housing policy regimes. Second, there is too much emphasis on tenure transitions, and an assumed close correspondence between tenure labels and effective system functioning may not be valid. Third, due attention has not been given to the spatial dimensions in which housing systems operate, in particular when housing policies have a significant devolved or localised emphasis. Updating EA’s framework, we suggest a preliminary list of housing system indicators in order to capture the nature of the housing systems being developed and devolved. We verified the applicability of this indicator system with the case of China. This illustrates clearly the need for a more nuanced and systematic basis for categorising differences and changes in welfare and housing policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 73-94
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181723
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Author-Name: Wilfred Uunk
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred
Author-X-Name-Last: Uunk
Title: Does the ethnic gap in homeownership vary by income? An analysis on Dutch survey data
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Lower levels of homeownership among immigrant populations have frequently been related to the particular financial constraints that immigrant households can face. Various problems have been raised with this explanation for the ethnic gap in homeownership rates. This paper responds to these criticisms by sensitizing the financial constraints explanation to the possibility of differential effects of ethnicity depending upon level of income. The hypothesis that the ethnic gap is stronger for lower income groups is tested through logistic analyses of the housing tenure of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants and a comparison group of native citizens in the Netherlands. High-income Turks are revealed to have comparable rates of homeownership to high-income natives, whereas in low-income groups a large ethnic gap exists. The ethnic gap in homeownership among low-income groups could not be explained by other financial constraints (education, couple’s earning status, parental resources). Housing preferences and discrimination are possible explanations for this ethnic gap among low-income households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 95-114
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181718
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Author-Name: Lars Benjaminsen
Author-X-Name-First: Lars
Author-X-Name-Last: Benjaminsen
Title: Housing first: ending homelessness, transforming systems, and changing lives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 115-116
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1240401
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: A world of homeowners: American power and the politics of housing aid
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 116-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1240402
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Author-Name: Regina Serpa
Author-X-Name-First: Regina
Author-X-Name-Last: Serpa
Title: Immigration and housing in the Republic of Ireland
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 118-119
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1240403
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Author-Name: Nicky Morrison
Author-X-Name-First: Nicky
Author-X-Name-Last: Morrison
Title: Institutional logics and organisational hybridity: English housing associations’ diversification into the private rented sector
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State withdrawal combined with challenges in raising private finance has led not-for-profit housing organisations in a range of countries to diversify into commercial activities as means to generate additional income streams and cross subsidise their core social operations. Within England, an increasing number of housing associations (HAs) has looked for new forms of investment, notably from private rental housing, to generate additional cash flows and fill gaps in the housing market. Drawing on the concepts of institutional logics and organisational hybridity, the paper uses organisational archetypes to examine the different hybrid financing, governance structures and housing products that two pioneering London-based HAs have employed to undertake private rental activities alongside their social businesses. The paper argues that the trends identified are indicative of wider institutional change, with not-for-profit housing organisations facing difficult strategic choices about how to fund their core business in a world of lower public subsidy and uncertainty over future sources of private finance.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 897-915
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1150428
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Author-Name: Aleksandra Zubrzycka-Czarnecka
Author-X-Name-First: Aleksandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Zubrzycka-Czarnecka
Title: Democracy of housing policy as exemplified by Poland. Political and linguistic analysis
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The subject of this paper is the issue of restrictions related to the democracy of housing policies within the context of welfare state reforms. The paper aims to provide answers to the following questions: Is housing policy affected by political discursive practices? If so, what effect do they have on the democracy of housing policy, particularly housing policy placed against the background of a welfare state subject to changes and reforms? An example is provided in the form of the housing policy in Poland for the period 1989–2014. The theoretical approach used in the study is based on the concept of deliberative democracy. The analysis verifies the research hypothesis according to which housing policy in Poland lacks the deliberative discursive practices which constitute an instrument of democratic housing policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 916-934
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1164833
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Author-Name: Michael J. Thomas
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas
Author-Name: Clara H. Mulder
Author-X-Name-First: Clara H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mulder
Title: Partnership patterns and homeownership: a cross-country comparison of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
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Using detailed micro-level survey data for three advanced European welfare-state economies (Germany, Netherlands and UK), our analyses suggest a fairly common hierarchy to homeownership, according to partnership status, exists. In all three countries, a variety of interrelated factors appear to encourage greater propensities for homeownership amongst co-residential households (married/cohabiting), as compared to single-person households. However, important macro-contextual differences do appear to play a significant role in mediating the magnitude of difference within this hierarchy. For instance, in Germany the importance of marriage as a predictor of homeownership is found to be particularly strong, with married couples having far higher propensities for homeownership, even when compared to non-married cohabiters. In the Netherlands and UK, where an emphasis on traditional family and marriage is less pronounced, and where homeownership is generally more popular and accessible, the differentiation between married/unmarried partners is greatly reduced. Furthermore, we find no evidence to suggest that living-apart-together partners are more/less likely to own their home than singles.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 935-963
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1164832
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Author-Name: Tara Coleman
Author-X-Name-First: Tara
Author-X-Name-Last: Coleman
Author-Name: Robin A. Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Robin A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Janine Wiles
Author-X-Name-First: Janine
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiles
Title: Older adults’ experiences of home maintenance issues and opportunities to maintain ageing in place
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This paper addresses the question of how older adults’ experiences of home maintenance issues shape their opportunities to maintain ageing in place. We explore this question through a case study of ageing in place on Waiheke Island, near Auckland, New Zealand. We draw on in-depth interviews with 28 older adults aged 65 to 94, as well as participatory photo elicitation interviews and research journals conducted with 11 of these participants. We argue that older adults’ diverse personal circumstances and wider social contexts influence how home maintenance concerns are understood and addressed. We find that maintenance issues may cause stress and anxiety, thereby rupturing affective ties to place, limiting access to preferred identities and reducing well-being. Yet many feel connected to social networks and gain a positive sense of self and autonomy through participation in home maintenance tasks. Ultimately, how older adults experience their home maintenance issues influences their opportunities to maintain ageing in place.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 964-983
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1164834
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Author-Name: Hannah Rabinovitch
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah
Author-X-Name-Last: Rabinovitch
Author-Name: Bernadette Pauly
Author-X-Name-First: Bernadette
Author-X-Name-Last: Pauly
Author-Name: Jinhui Zhao
Author-X-Name-First: Jinhui
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao
Title: Assessing emergency shelter patterns to inform community solutions to homelessness
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The goal of this study was to examine individuals’ emergency shelter stay records to gain insight into cycles of homelessness and strategies to end homelessness. We examined over 46 000 records of 4332 unique individuals from six of Victoria, Canada’s adult emergency shelters from May 2010–May 2014. Individuals’ stay records were clustered using the k-means cluster analysis, based on total days stayed and total number of episodes of homelessness over the four-year period. Consistent with other Canadian cities, three significant clusters emerged from the analysis: temporary, episodic and long stay. The episodic and long-stay cluster accounted for more than 50 percent of shelter bed nights. Age and gender were analyzed, with seniors more likely to be represented in the long-stay cluster. These findings highlight the need for prevention and rapid re-housing initiatives for those experiencing temporary shelter use, and housing with intensive supports for those in the episodic and long-stay clusters.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 984-997
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1165801
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Author-Name: Yue Ray Gong
Author-X-Name-First: Yue Ray
Author-X-Name-Last: Gong
Title: Rental housing management as surveillance of Chinese rural migrants: the case of hillside compound in Dongguan
Abstract:
Governance of numerous rural migrants has always been crucial to China’s social stability. Through a Foucauldian lens, this paper discusses surveillance of rural migrants and studies a new local approach called rental housing management (RHM). During recent years, local authorities in Dongguan have been developing RHM into an operation of incremental Panopticism that consists of gradually reinforced surveillance techniques—partitioning, monitoring, digital entrance guarding, and local registration—in retrofitted rental residences. The RHM enforces local authorities’ inspection and control of migrants, and induces migrants’ self-reporting, self-inspection, and self-protection. This creates difficulties with migrants’ social interaction and community building. This paper reveals that local authorities have been transforming surveillance approaches from management based on hukou (household registration) into RHM that furthers localized spatial governance of rural migrants in the hukou reform.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 998-1018
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1171828
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Title: Key concepts in urban studies (second edition)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1019-1020
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Richard Crisp
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
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Title: After urban regeneration: communities, policy and place
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1020-1022
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Rowena Hay
Author-X-Name-First: Rowena
Author-X-Name-Last: Hay
Title: The changing image of affordable housing: design, gentrification and community in Canada and Europe
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1022-1023
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1225393
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Title: Editorial board
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 8
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1243371
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Author-Name: Peter Malpass
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Author-X-Name-Last: Malpass
Title: Poverty: A Study of Town Life
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 398-404
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.617908
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Author-Name: Chau Do
Author-X-Name-First: Chau
Author-X-Name-Last: Do
Title: Withdrawing Home Equity: Differences Across Race and Ethnicity
Abstract: Extracting home equity has become increasingly popular in the last decade, especially among subprime borrowers. Using the American Housing Survey, this paper examines the differences in the propensity to extract home equity across non-Hispanic black, Hispanic and non-Hispanic white homeowners in the United States. It focuses on two popular types of methods to extract home equity—cash-out refinance and home equity lines of credit. Controlling for housing and socio-economic characteristics, the study finds differences in the extensive margin in withdrawing equity, but not in the intensive margin. That is, while Non-Hispanic black homeowners are less likely to extract home equity in general than non-Hispanic whites there is no difference in the amount of equity withdrawn. However, much of this difference is driven by their lower propensity to withdraw equity using a home equity line of credit; non-Hispanic black and Hispanic homeowners are just as likely to withdraw equity using a cash-out refinance than non-Hispanic white homeowners.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 299-323
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
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Author-Name: Zoltán Kovács
Author-X-Name-First: Zoltán
Author-X-Name-Last: Kovács
Author-Name: Günter Herfert
Author-X-Name-First: Günter
Author-X-Name-Last: Herfert
Title: Development Pathways of Large Housing Estates in Post-socialist Cities: An International Comparison
Abstract: Large housing estates in former state-socialist countries had been hardly affected by social erosion before the political changes. However, the emergence of new, capitalist forms of housing after 1990 started to endanger the position of large housing estates on the local housing market. The question was repeatedly raised in the literature about whether large housing estates of post-socialist cities would experience physical decay and social downgrading similar to the West. This paper investigates the socio-economic differentiation of large housing estates in the former state-socialist countries using a case study approach. Housing satisfaction and mobility of residents in four post-socialist housing estates were analysed through a standardised household survey. Empirical data confirm that despite their similar physical appearance, the attitude of people towards large housing estates and their position on the local housing market vary significantly. The authors conclude that even though socialist large housing estates are affected by social downgrading, nevertheless they represent relative social stability and can offer affordable housing to people who are at the start of their housing career.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 324-342
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
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Author-Name: Ya Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Ya
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Lei Shao
Author-X-Name-First: Lei
Author-X-Name-Last: Shao
Author-Name: Alan Murie
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Murie
Author-Name: Jianhua Cheng
Author-X-Name-First: Jianhua
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng
Title: The Maturation of the Neo-liberal Housing Market in Urban China
Abstract: Neo-liberalism has dominated policy formulation and implementation for three decades and been influential in reshaping urban housing provision in different countries. However, the nature and impact of neo-liberal housing policy developments are also affected by previous arrangements, the exact nature, timing and pace of policy change and by how governments and markets have responded to emerging global and local challenges. This paper examines neo-liberal urban housing reform and market development in China and focuses on market performance and government responses following initial reform. The era of neo-liberal housing policy has been associated with turbulence, market changes and unequal housing and asset distribution. Housing reform and regulation policies have changed frequently in response; and this maturation of the neo-liberal system has important implications for policy and the structure and operation of the market.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 343-359
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.651106
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Author-Name: Nick Gallent
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Gallent
Author-Name: Steve Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Title: Community Perspectives on Localness and ‘Priority’ Housing Policies in Rural England
Abstract: Policy actors tasked with delivering against rural housing needs face a key conceptual conundrum familiar to researchers: how to define need and how to link that concept to the idea of localness. Community perspectives on this issue reveal that ‘official’ priorities are often not considered to reflect the true nature of local need. There is considerable appetite for setting ‘community priority’ and for assuming direct responsibility for housing delivery. Discussions with community groups in different parts of rural England are used to expose these concerns, which accord with the UK government's localism agenda, a component of which is the empowerment of parish councils to deliver additional homes for ‘local need’, above planned allocations. However, although community perspectives may become vital in driving future policy outcomes, there are associated risks. These perspectives may belong to a dominant minority, with a tendency to draw narrow definitions of localness and local interest as a means of closing the door to unwanted development.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 360-380
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
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Author-Name: Bruce Walker
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Author-Name: Pat Niner
Author-X-Name-First: Pat
Author-X-Name-Last: Niner
Title: Welfare or Work? Low-Income Working Households' Housing Consumption in the Private Rented Sector in England
Abstract: This paper is concerned with issues of equity and efficiency in the Housing Benefit (HB) system in the private rented sector (PRS) in England. Using information from a survey of low- income working households (LIWH) and in-depth interviews with LIWH families, it addresses two policy-relevant questions. First, there are mixed findings on whether the current HB system enables HB recipients to consume more housing than is available to otherwise similar non-HB-recipient households in the PRS. HB rules on eligible property size appear not to unduly favour HB claimants compared with LIWH. LIWH, however, tend to pay a rent which is less than the maximum amount an HB recipient could receive. This is particularly true for LIWH families with children who are most likely to be living in properties smaller than allowed by HB regulations. Second, there is no evidence that the HB system incentivises LIWH to give up work or otherwise seek to become eligible for HB.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 381-397
Issue: 3
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.651108
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Author-Name: Hugo Priemus
Author-X-Name-First: Hugo
Author-X-Name-Last: Priemus
Author-Name: Marietta E. A. Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta E. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Title: How to redesign a rent rebate system? Experience in the Netherlands
Abstract:
In 2006, responsibility for implementing the Dutch housing allowance system was transferred from the Ministry of Housing to the Tax Authority. It has since been renamed, and is now known as the ‘rent rebate system’. A number of dilemmas have become evident since the 2006 changes. Attention has shifted to how to implement the system effectively: how to limit the overconsumption of housing services, how to avoid moral hazard, how to reduce outright fraud, how to reduce the poverty trap, and how to prevent the escalation of public spending. These new dilemmas have led to the central research question in this article: how to redesign a system of rent rebates? The discussion of these dilemmas points to further changes. Proposals for a redesign of the rent rebate system in the Netherlands are presented. These proposals could also be relevant for other countries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 121-139
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181721
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Author-Name: Wasan Nagib
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Author-X-Name-Last: Nagib
Author-Name: Allison Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Allison
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Toward an autism-friendly home environment
Abstract:
This study explores the challenges faced by children with autism and their families in the home environment and how physical elements of the home environment can be designed or modified to alleviate these challenges and create an autism-friendly home. The research employs qualitative methods to learn from the experiences of key informants involved in creating or modifying the home environment of people with autism; this involved interviews with architects and occupational therapists. To learn from the families themselves, an online survey of the families of children with autism across Canada and the United States was conducted. The study provides insight into the physical, social, and psychological challenges affecting the quality of life of children with autism and their families in their home environment and the contribution of home modifications to alleviating the challenges. The appropriateness of the three housing typologies – detached houses, attached houses, and apartments – to accommodate autism-related needs is discussed together with potential policy implications.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 140-167
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181719
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Author-Name: Marianna Brunetti
Author-X-Name-First: Marianna
Author-X-Name-Last: Brunetti
Author-Name: Costanza Torricelli
Author-X-Name-First: Costanza
Author-X-Name-Last: Torricelli
Title: Second homes in Italy: every household’s dream or (un)profitable investments?
Abstract:
The use of a second home may result in different outcomes for households, ranging from financial profit and holiday use to uses that are clearly unprofitable. We contribute to the literature on second homes by exploring the case of second homes that are not let out, representing the least profitable outcome from an economic viewpoint. The empirical investigation relies on the 2002–2012 Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), which also provides extensive information on property, including the actual use. Our results highlight: a gender gap, whereby the unprofitable use of second homes tends to be more clearly associated with male decision-makers; a lack of association with the economic characteristics of the household; and a strong association with the specific characteristics of the property, with inherited property more likely to be used unprofitably. In addition to casting doubt on the effectiveness of second homes as an investment vehicle, our results may have important policy or regulatory implications for housing and rental markets.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 168-185
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181720
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Author-Name: Richard Casey Sadler
Author-X-Name-First: Richard Casey
Author-X-Name-Last: Sadler
Author-Name: Don J. Lafreniere
Author-X-Name-First: Don J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lafreniere
Title: Racist housing practices as a precursor to uneven neighborhood change in a post-industrial city
Abstract:
Racial dynamics and discrimination have been extremely important in influencing decline in the American Rust Belt. The mid-twentieth century departure of white and middle-class populations from cities was precipitated by a breakdown of discriminatory housing practices. This study examines the relationship among housing condition, vacancies, poverty, and demographics in Flint, Michigan, from 1950 to 2010. Historical census data from the National Historical GIS and housing condition data from the City of Flint government are aggregated to neighborhoods defined by economic condition factor (n = 102). Results of rank-difference correlation and geographically weighted regression indicate that, across neighborhoods with the greatest decline in housing condition, the strongest correlate was most often the increase in vacancy rates driven initially by racially motivated suburbanization – suggesting that demographic change alone is not primarily responsible for neighborhood decline. This research is important to understanding the long-term and ongoing consequences of mid-twentieth century racist housing practices, particularly as it relates to the implications of maintaining legacy infrastructure.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 186-208
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181724
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Author-Name: Tony Manzi
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Manzi
Author-Name: Jo Richardson
Author-X-Name-First: Jo
Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson
Title: Rethinking professional practice: the logic of competition and the crisis of identity in housing practice
Abstract:
The relationship between professionalism, education and housing practice has become increasingly strained following the introduction of austerity measures and welfare reforms across a range of countries. Focusing on the development of UK housing practice, this article considers how notions of professionalism are being reshaped within the context of welfare retrenchment and how emerging tensions have both affected the identity of housing professionals and impacted on the delivery of training and education programmes. The article analyses the changing knowledge and skills valued in contemporary housing practice and considers how the sector has responded to the challenges of austerity. The central argument is that a dominant logic of competition has culminated in a crisis of identity for the sector. Although the focus of the article is on UK housing practice, the processes identified have a wider relevance for the analysis of housing and welfare delivery in developed economies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 209-224
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1194377
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Author-Name: Shomon Shamsuddin
Author-X-Name-First: Shomon
Author-X-Name-Last: Shamsuddin
Author-Name: Lawrence J. Vale
Author-X-Name-First: Lawrence J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vale
Title: Hoping for more: redeveloping U.S. public housing without marginalizing low-income residents?
Abstract:
Urban restructuring policies have uprooted residents and dismantled communities. Previous studies focus on housing redevelopment that minimizes the fraction of housing units left for poor residents and on interviewing residents only once the redevelopment has been announced. By contrast, this paper examines how residents over time experienced the HOPE VI redevelopment of the Orchard Park public housing project in Boston, which sought to preserve a low-income community. Using official records and a unique set of interviews with residents before and after redevelopment, we find marked declines in crime and increased residential satisfaction, which are attributed to changes in tenant composition. The redevelopment process reduced the total number of public housing units yet maintained the vast majority of housing for poor families while creating a new social mix. The findings suggest that to more fully capture the impacts of restructuring, existing theory must be expanded to consider who is displaced and how poverty is deconcentrated.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 225-244
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1194375
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Author-Name: Laura Crommelin
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Crommelin
Title: Experiencing Cities (3rd Edition)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 245-246
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1269521
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Author-Name: Quintin Bradley
Author-X-Name-First: Quintin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bradley
Title: Understanding community: politics, policy and practice
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 246-247
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1279718
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Author-Name: Timothée Labelle
Author-X-Name-First: Timothée
Author-X-Name-Last: Labelle
Title: From local action to global networks: housing the urban poor
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 248-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1269523
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Title: Erratum
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 251-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1272863
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Author-Name: Ray Forrest
Author-X-Name-First: Ray
Author-X-Name-Last: Forrest
Author-Name: Shi Xian
Author-X-Name-First: Shi
Author-X-Name-Last: Xian
Title: Accommodating discontent: youth, conflict and the housing question in Hong Kong
Abstract:
Young people across many societies face growing problems in making the transition from the parental home to independent living. Rising house prices and the lack of affordable alternatives to home ownership is most commonly blamed. This paper explores these issues in relation to young people in Hong Kong. The paper argues that the housing question in Hong Kong has distinct local characteristics and cannot be disconnected from wider political and economic tensions. It also shows that the housing choices and views of young people are shaped by more than issues of cost and access. The paper draws on a unique data-set which explores the attitudes and expectations with regard to housing among young people in Hong Kong. Addressing the housing problem is widely regarded as a political priority and essential to maintain social cohesion. However, political imperatives and economic interests are pulling in different directions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-17
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1342775
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Author-Name: Karin Grundström
Author-X-Name-First: Karin
Author-X-Name-Last: Grundström
Title: Grindsamhälle: the rise of urban gating and gated housing in Sweden
Abstract:
Sweden does not have gated communities, but this paper argues that processes of gating and the associated consequences are apparent in Sweden, particularly in metropolitan regions. Based on interviews, observations and analysis of previous research, the article identifies the rise of urban gating and gated housing. Urban gating restricts access to previously public land through material gating and results in a loss of the right to use-value of urban land. The rise of a new and exclusive form of gated housing associated with the lifestyles of the mobile middle class, referred to here, as the residential hotel, is spotlighted, prompting questions about the concentration of affluence in already privileged areas and the reinforcing effect of gating on existing patterns of socio-spatial polarization.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 18-39
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1342774
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Author-Name: Michele Lancione
Author-X-Name-First: Michele
Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione
Author-Name: Alice Stefanizzi
Author-X-Name-First: Alice
Author-X-Name-Last: Stefanizzi
Author-Name: Marta Gaboardi
Author-X-Name-First: Marta
Author-X-Name-Last: Gaboardi
Title: Passive adaptation or active engagement? The challenges of Housing First internationally and in the Italian case
Abstract:
In recent years, a peculiar homelessness policy that goes under the name of ‘Housing First’ has become increasingly popular all over the world. Epitomising a quintessential case of policy-mobility, Housing First can today be considered an heterogeneous assemblage of experiences and approaches that sometimes have little in common with each other. Introducing and commenting upon this heterogeneity, the paper critically analyses why and how Housing First has become a planetary success and what are the issues at stake with its widespread implementation. If recent scholarship published in this journal has granted us a fine understanding of Housing First’s functioning in the US, this paper offers something currently absent from the debate: a nuanced and critical understanding of the ambiguities related to the international success of this policy, with specific references to the challenges associated to its translation in the Italian case.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 40-57
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1344200
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Author-Name: Anna Ziersch
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziersch
Author-Name: Kathy Arthurson
Author-X-Name-First: Kathy
Author-X-Name-Last: Arthurson
Author-Name: Iris Levin
Author-X-Name-First: Iris
Author-X-Name-Last: Levin
Title: Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Estate, Melbourne, Australia
Abstract:
In this paper, we report on the level of support for tenure mix policies of residents living proximate to the Carlton Housing Estate mixed tenure redevelopment in Melbourne Australia. In a telephone survey of 200 residents living in the area surrounding the estate, the majority of respondents were supportive of tenure mix. Those who were financially comfortable or only spoke English were significantly more supportive than those reporting more difficult financial circumstances or who spoke a language other than English. The reasons for support for tenure mix included avoiding ghettoization, building community and social role modelling. The reasons for opposing tenure mix reflected a concern for the loss of public housing, a view that public and private tenants would not want to be co-located and that public tenants weren’t as deserving as others of living in a good inner city location. There were also concerns from both groups about how tenure mix might work in practice. Policy implications are discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 58-76
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1344201
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Author-Name: Alan Morris
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Morris
Title: Housing tenure and the health of older Australians dependent on the age pension for their income
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The article examines how the housing tenure of older Australians, who are primarily or solely dependent on the government age pension for their income, impacts on their health. Drawing on 125 in-depth interviews with older private renters, social housing tenants and homeowners, it focuses mainly on interviewees’ narratives as to the impacts of their housing tenure on their mental health and outlook. It illustrates that security of tenure and cost of accommodation potentially has a profound impact on the psychological health of older Australians. Most of the older private renters told of being constantly stressed due to concerns about being given notice to vacate or an untenable rent increase. In contrast, the strong security of tenure and limited accommodation costs of older social housing tenants and homeowners created a foundation for a positive outlook and the capacity to lead a decent life.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 77-95
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1344202
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Author-Name: Glen Bramley
Author-X-Name-First: Glen
Author-X-Name-Last: Bramley
Author-Name: Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzpatrick
Title: Homelessness in the UK: who is most at risk?
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Is the common pressure group and media refrain that ‘we are all two pay cheques away from homelessness’ justified by the evidence? Drawing on multivariate analysis of two cross-sectional datasets (the ‘Scottish Household Survey’ and the UK-wide ‘Poverty and Social Exclusion’) Survey and one longitudinal data-set (the ‘British Cohort Study 1970’), this paper provides a systematic account of the social distribution of homelessness in the UK. Informed by a critical realist explanatory framework, our analysis underlines the centrality of poverty, especially childhood poverty, to the generation of homelessness, while also demonstrating the impact of broader labour and housing market contexts, and certain demographic, personal and social support characteristics. These findings reinforce the moral imperative for policy action on homelessness, while at the same time signalling opportunities to target preventative interventions on high risk groups.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 96-116
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1344957
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Author-Name: Manish Shirgaokar
Author-X-Name-First: Manish
Author-X-Name-Last: Shirgaokar
Author-Name: Andrew Rumbach
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Rumbach
Title: Investigating housing tenures beyond homeownership: a study of informal settlements in Kolkata, India
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Improving the lives of households in informal settlements is a major development challenge. Though ownership is the predominant housing tenure arrangement pursued in national and international housing policies, there is a growing consensus that forms of tenure beyond homeownership may provide greater benefits to some households. In Kolkata, informal settlements (bastis) are the primary source of affordable housing for the urban poor. Relying on detailed household survey data, we investigate the utility gained from the diversity of housing tenure arrangements in bastis and the factors that increase the length of time a household lives in a settlement, using multinomial logit and ordinary least squares regression specifications. Our analyses show that in comparison to ownership, leasing or renting benefits large households and new migrants. Our findings suggest that policies targeted at households who rent and lease, along with improving housing and supporting infrastructure, can be effective mechanisms for improving household well-being.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 117-139
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1344955
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Author-Name: Edgar Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Edgar
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Title: The Australian dream: housing experiences of older Australians
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 140-141
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1384159
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Author-Name: Kesia Reeve
Author-X-Name-First: Kesia
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeve
Title: Squatting in Britain 1945–1955: housing, politics and direct action
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 141-143
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1384162
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Author-Name: Walter A. Imilan
Author-X-Name-First: Walter A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Imilan
Title: For a proper home. Housing rights in the margins of urban Chile, 1960–2010
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 143-145
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1384164
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Author-Name: Alan Walks
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Walks
Title: Homeownership, Asset-based Welfare and the Neighbourhood Segregation of Wealth
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The asset-based welfare approach, which has foremost encouraged homeownership, has led to rising homeownership rates, house prices and household debt levels. While this shift has helped raise the net worth of some among the middle and working classes who own property, the implications for the spatial distribution of wealth in cities have not yet been explored. This paper examines the spatial implications of the rise of policies promoting asset-based welfare, by examining statistically how variables related to homeownership rates and housing prices relate to measures of urban wealth segregation among neighbourhoods. Canadian cites are used as the main case study for the empirical analysis. The findings suggest that while homeownership in general has an equalizing effect, rising rates of homeownership (and to some extent, rising house prices) are associated not with greater spatial equalization and dispersal of wealth, but instead with greater spatial segregation and concentration of wealth within cities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 755-784
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1132685
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Author-Name: Mai Thi Nguyen
Author-X-Name-First: Mai Thi
Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen
Author-Name: William Rohe
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Rohe
Author-Name: Kirstin Frescoln
Author-X-Name-First: Kirstin
Author-X-Name-Last: Frescoln
Author-Name: Michael Webb
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Webb
Author-Name: Mary Donegan
Author-X-Name-First: Mary
Author-X-Name-Last: Donegan
Author-Name: Hye-Sung Han
Author-X-Name-First: Hye-Sung
Author-X-Name-Last: Han
Title: Mobilizing social capital: Which informal and formal supports affect employment outcomes for HOPE VI residents?
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Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examines the relationship between informal social support and formal support services and employment outcomes among residents of a public housing development relocated as part of a HOPE VI project in Charlotte, North Carolina. Informal social supports are resources accessible through family and friends within a neighborhood and formal support services are provided by case managers and service providers. We find that when former public housing residents are enrolled in case management longer and have high satisfaction with their case manager, this leads to better employment outcomes. In addition, having strong bonding ties among public housing neighbors has a negative influence on employment. This study sheds light on how case managers play a role in promoting economic mobility by mitigating social and economic crises and providing bridging capital for poor families.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 785-808
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1140724
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Author-Name: Heather Shearer
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Shearer
Author-Name: Eddo Coiacetto
Author-X-Name-First: Eddo
Author-X-Name-Last: Coiacetto
Author-Name: Jago Dodson
Author-X-Name-First: Jago
Author-X-Name-Last: Dodson
Author-Name: Pazit Taygfeld
Author-X-Name-First: Pazit
Author-X-Name-Last: Taygfeld
Title: How the structure of the Australian housing development industry influences climate change adaptation
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The separation of Australian housing production from its consumption has long-term consequences for sustainability in the built environment, and for anticipatory adaptation to climate change. This article investigates how the institutional structure of the Australian private housing development industry influences its risk profile and its ability to innovate, particularly in the type of housing produced. Consumers on the other hand are reluctant to invest in climate-adapted housing, particularly if adaptive products are costlier. Using the results of a multi-method study, including a questionnaire survey and a series of interviews and focus groups, the broader issue of sustainability in housing development is revealed. The article highlights the complex and diverse structure of the various players in the development industry, and shows how their position within the broader structure of the housing and financial market influences their adaptive capacity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 809-828
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1150430
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Author-Name: Yang Xiao
Author-X-Name-First: Yang
Author-X-Name-Last: Xiao
Author-Name: Chris Webster
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Webster
Author-Name: Scott Orford
Author-X-Name-First: Scott
Author-X-Name-Last: Orford
Title: Can street segments indexed for accessibility form the basis for housing submarket delineation?
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We test an approach to spatial housing submarket delineation using street segment as the spatial unit and using finely grained measures of accessibility derived from spatial network analysis. The underlying idea is that street segment connectivity captures fine variations in homebuyers’ preferences for the location. The advantage of the approach is that it is spatially fine grained; it uses the street segment, intuitively the most fundamental spatial unit for spatial housing market analysis; it allows the use of statistical tests to optimize within-submarket similarities, identifying spatial groups of street segments with the most similar accessibility features; it avoids the predefined arbitrary geographic boundaries usually used in spatial submarket delineation; it increases the variability of accessibility information in submarket delineation, accessibility being the principal spatial determinant of housing price; and it allows for normalized measures of accessibility at different spatial scales making it appropriate for comparative analysis across cities and across time. Using a case study of Cardiff, UK, we compare the results with a market segmentation scheme based on prior-knowledge, notably one relying on building-type classification. We conclude that street layout can be used to efficiently delineate housing submarkets, and that the estimation is very close to the scheme requiring prior-knowledge. It has advantages, however, that make it worthy of further investigation, namely its adaptability, scale-specificity and lower reliance on local knowledge of housing market culture and data.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 829-851
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1150433
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Author-Name: Fulong Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Fulong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Title: Housing in Chinese Urban Villages: The Dwellers, Conditions and Tenancy Informality
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While it is widely acknowledged that Chinese urban villages provide an important source of rental housing for low-income populations, the composition of their dwellers, housing conditions and rental contracts has not been adequately studied. Drawing from surveys of sixty urban villages in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, this study finds that housing in urban villages is more family oriented; that over half of dwellers work in the tertiary sector; and that although they have relatively stable jobs, few have job security with contracts. In predominantly rental housing, the housing unit is small. Tight control by the city government over housing development has led to quite expensive rentals measured by unit space as well as poorer housing conditions. Tenancy informality in terms of the absence of formal contracts is widespread and most severe in Shanghai. The lack of formal contracts is largely independent of the status of dwellers or their job status but is rather dependent upon the rent value.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 852-870
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1150429
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Author-Name: Diana Hernández
Author-X-Name-First: Diana
Author-X-Name-Last: Hernández
Title: ‘Extra oomph:’ addressing housing disparities through Medical Legal Partnership interventions
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Low-income households face common and chronic housing problems that have known health risks and legal remedies. The Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) program presents a unique opportunity to address housing problems and improve patient health through legal assistance offered in clinical settings. Drawn from in-depth interviews with 72 patients, this study investigated the outcomes of MLP interventions and compares results to similarly disadvantaged participants with no access to MLP services. Results indicate that participants in the MLP group were more likely to achieve adequate, affordable, and stable housing than those in the comparison group. Study findings suggest that providing access to legal services in the healthcare setting can effectively address widespread health disparities rooted in problematic housing. Implications for policy and scalability are discussed with the conclusion that MLPs can shift professionals’ consciousness as they work to improve housing and health trajectories for indigent groups using legal approaches.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 871-890
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1150431
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Author-Name: Richard Harris
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Harris
Title: Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 891-892
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1205268
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Author-Name: Tom Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: The rent trap: how we fell into it and how we get out of it
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 892-894
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1205269
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Author-Name: Helen Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor
Title: The principles of housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 894-896
Issue: 7
Volume: 31
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1205270
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Author-Name: David Adams
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Adams
Title: Property Asset Management (Third edition)
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 296-297
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.615985
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Author-Name: Susan Pringle
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Pringle
Title: Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 294-296
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.615986
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Author-Name: Mohammad Radfar
Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad
Author-X-Name-Last: Radfar
Title: Urban Microclimate, Designing the Spaces Between Buildings
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 293-294
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.615987
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Author-Name: David Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 291-292
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2011.615988
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Author-Name: Kristin Natalier
Author-X-Name-First: Kristin
Author-X-Name-Last: Natalier
Title: Means and Ends. Why Child Support Money is not Used to Meet Housing Costs
Abstract: In Australia, as in other jurisdictions, recent legislation and policy addressing child support was introduced as a response to child poverty in single-parent families. However, there has been very little research conducted on the question of how child support money is used by sole parents. This paper extends current knowledge by exploring how— and indeed, if—child support money is a useful resource in meeting the housing needs of the children of separated parents. The study reports on the findings arising out of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 33 parents who received child support money. The impact of child support is often limited by three factors: the amounts paid, the circumstances of its payment (and in particular, unreliable payments), and the values guiding its allocation. The paper argues that ultimately, the benefits of child support are constrained because it is a privatised response to gendered, structural inequalities in housing, care and income following separation and divorce.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 174-188
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.632619
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Author-Name: Nick Bailey
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Bailey
Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Mark Livingston
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Livingston
Title: Place Attachment in Deprived Neighbourhoods: The Impacts of Population Turnover and Social Mix
Abstract: This paper examines the determinants of individual place attachment, focusing in particular on differences between deprived and other neighbourhoods, and on the impacts of population turnover and social mix. It uses a multi-level modelling approach to take account of both individual- and neighbourhood-level determinants. Data are drawn from a large sample government survey, the Citizenship Survey 2005, to which a variety of neighbourhood-level data have been attached. The paper argues that attachment is significantly lower in more deprived neighbourhoods primarily because these areas have weaker social cohesion but that, in other respects, the drivers of attachment are the same. Turnover has modest direct impacts on attachment through its effect on social cohesion. Social mix has very limited impacts on attachment overall but its effects also vary between social groups. In general, higher status or more dominant groups appear less tolerant of social mix.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 208-231
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.632620
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Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Title: Home is Where the House is: The Meaning of Home for People Sleeping Rough
Abstract: Contributors to the housing field broadly agree that home is a multi-dimensional concept. Indeed, informed by the proposition that home and housing should not be conflated, the social, psychological and emotional elements of home have been well documented. Home is thought to be subjectively experienced. As such, some have shown that people defined as homeless may not actually feel homeless, but rather experience their accommodation or situation as home. This paper is based on ethnographic research with a group of people sleeping rough in Brisbane, Australia. It argues that their problematic experiences residing in public places, together with their biographies of feeling disconnected from society, underpinned their ideas of home. For people in this study, housing and home were synonymous. The physical structure of a house was important to assume control over their day-to-day lives. Home, however, stood for something beyond housing. Home was constructed as a signifier of normality, and as a commitment to participation in Australian society.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 159-173
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.632621
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Author-Name: Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzpatrick
Author-Name: Nicholas Pleace
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Pleace
Title: The Statutory Homelessness System in England: A Fair and Effective Rights-Based Model?
Abstract: The statutory homelessness system, first established by the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977, is an important but frequently criticised element of the British welfare state. Drawing upon a survey of 2053 ‘statutorily homeless’ families in England, this paper applies a utility-maximising conceptual framework to demonstrate that (a) the statutory homelessness system is on the whole ‘fair’ with respect to the housing needs that it addresses, and (b) ‘effective’, in that it can bring about significant net gains in the welfare of those households its assists. These encouraging findings are relevant not only to current concerns about the future direction of homelessness policy in England, but also to policy debates in many countries across the developed world where there are calls to develop a ‘rights-based’ approach to addressing homelessness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 232-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.632622
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Author-Name: Tom Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Title: Empowering Local Communities? An International Review of Community Land Trusts
Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the premise that community land trusts (CLTs) offer a method of delivering affordable housing that empowers local communities and provides democratic management of community assets. The paper provides a comparative analysis of CLT developments in England, Scotland and the USA, reviewing the policy and literature to identify two key approaches that underpin CLTs: an approach to property development that emphasises resale restrictions used to preserve housing use for the CLT's target clientele, and an approach to citizen governance that privileges local communities. The paper identifies a variation of practices that underpin the operation of CLTs in each country and uses the advanced developments in Scotland and the USA to illustrate some of the challenges that remain if the CLT sector in England is to continue its recent growth.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 280-290
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.647306
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Author-Name: Stanley Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Stanley
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Stefan Rayer
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Rayer
Author-Name: Eleanor Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Eleanor
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Zhenglian Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Zhenglian
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Yi Zeng
Author-X-Name-First: Yi
Author-X-Name-Last: Zeng
Title: Population Aging, Disability and Housing Accessibility: Implications for Sub-national Areas in the United States
Abstract: The older population in many countries is large and growing rapidly, increasing the number of people with disabilities and driving up the need for accessible housing. In a previous study, the authors projected the number of households in the USA with at least one disabled resident and estimated the probability that a newly built single-family detached unit will house at least one disabled resident during its expected lifetime. This study extends the analysis to the sub-national level by constructing similar estimates and projections for four states that differ widely on two characteristics affecting the need for accessible housing: age structure and disability rates. The results vary from state to state, but all four display a substantial need for accessible housing. Homebuilders, planners and policy makers are urged to account for this need when building new homes and making modifications to the current housing stock.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 252-266
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.649468
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Author-Name: Anita Blessing
Author-X-Name-First: Anita
Author-X-Name-Last: Blessing
Title: Magical or Monstrous? Hybridity in Social Housing Governance
Abstract: While a growing number of national social housing strategies rely on the work of hybrid entities blending social and commercial tasks, the state/market dualism continues to dominate the conceptual landscape of housing research. This exploratory paper develops a conceptual approach to support research into the role of not-for-profit social entrepreneurs in the housing market. It looks for insights within their ‘hybrid’ status, spanning state and market, and subject to multiple sets of institutional conditions. Four frames of hybrid identity are developed, and then substantiated via a discussion of two different sectors of not-for-profit social entrepreneurs in Australia and the Netherlands. As the growth trajectory of each sector is traced and the construction of hybrid identity is explored from both public and private perspectives, institutional pressures are revealed that set the current context for development. This brings forth implications for existing conceptual tools, as well as directions for new research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 189-207
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.649469
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Author-Name: Anthony O'Sullivan
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Sullivan
Author-Name: Kenneth Gibb
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibb
Title: Housing Taxation and the Economic Benefits of Homeownership
Abstract: This paper re-considers the arguments for reforming housing taxation in the UK on the basis of a review of evidence on the macro- and micro-economic effects of homeownership. The paper then examines the political economy of feasible tax reform. This currently involves a context of extreme fiscal pressure and a political system wedded to the housing tax status quo. The paper concludes by suggesting elements of a strategy to progress a much-needed debate on taxation that is consistent with but goes beyond arguments recently made by Shelter and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Housing Market Task Force.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 267-279
Issue: 2
Volume: 27
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.649470
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Author-Name: Kath Hulse
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse
Author-Name: Judith Yates
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Yates
Title: A private rental sector paradox: unpacking the effects of urban restructuring on housing market dynamics
Abstract:
The private rental sector (PRS) is growing in many advanced economies due to declining home ownership and retrenchment in social housing. This paper examines changes in the PRS in the context of housing market change and ongoing urbanisation processes. Using the example of Australia, it identifies a paradox when examining detailed changes in PRS composition between 1996 and 2011. Increasing demand from higher and lower income households has occurred alongside increasing concentration of supply in mid-market segments. The paper discusses possible explanations of this mismatch. It suggests that middle/higher income households rent through a mixture of constraint and choice in areas with a high level of amenity, adding to understanding of gentrification of inner-city areas. Urban restructuring, evident in increased land values in inner areas of large cities, has resulted in limited ‘filtering down’ of older housing into low-rent private rental stock and a concentration of investment in supply in mid-market segments with greatest prospects for resale and rental.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 253-270
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1194378
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Author-Name: Kwok Yu Lau
Author-X-Name-First: Kwok Yu
Author-X-Name-Last: Lau
Author-Name: Alan Murie
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Murie
Title: Residualisation and resilience: public housing in Hong Kong
Abstract:
Public housing has been an important element in the welfare state and a substantial literature has analysed its origins and growth in different places. However, as it has matured and been redefined by privatisation and regeneration, debates have changed and increasingly been concerned with residualisation and decline. This paper outlines considerations affecting comparative analysis of public housing and presents new material related to explanations for the resilience of public housing in Hong Kong.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 271-295
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1194376
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Author-Name: Hans Skifter Andersen
Author-X-Name-First: Hans Skifter
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersen
Title: Selective moving behaviour in ethnic neighbourhoods: white flight, white avoidance, ethnic attraction or ethnic retention?
Abstract:
Spatial concentrations of ethnic minorities might in principle be created and maintained by four different kinds of moving behaviour stemming from special housing preferences and options among either ethnic minorities or the native population. Inclination among natives to move away from neighbourhoods dominated by ethnic minorities has been called ‘White Flight’ in the literature, and disposition to avoid them ‘White Avoidance’. Preferences among ethnic minorities for living together with kinsmen or countrymen might create an inclination to move into multi-ethnic neighbourhoods, in this paper called ‘Ethnic Attraction’, or to remain there, called ‘Ethnic Retention’. This paper estimates the importance and size of these four kinds of behaviour based on an extensive database from Denmark using new statistical methods. It is concluded that white avoidance is the strongest reason for spatial concentrations of Non-Western ethnic minorities followed by ethnic attraction. White flight has a smaller impact and ethnic retention is without importance.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 296-318
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1208161
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Author-Name: Deirdre Pfeiffer
Author-X-Name-First: Deirdre
Author-X-Name-Last: Pfeiffer
Author-Name: Karna Wong
Author-X-Name-First: Karna
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong
Author-Name: Paul Ong
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ong
Author-Name: Melany De La Cruz-Viesca
Author-X-Name-First: Melany
Author-X-Name-Last: De La Cruz-Viesca
Title: Ethnically bounded homeownership: qualitative insights on Los Angeles immigrant homeowners’ experiences during the U.S. Great Recession
Abstract:
Immigrant homeowners’ function within ethnic boundaries in the housing market may have helped or hindered them during the recent U.S. Great Recession. This research explores this theme through interviews with immigrant and non-immigrant homeowners from four ethnic communities in Los Angeles County and the non-profit organizations that tried to assist them. Immigrant homeowners turned to co-ethnics for advice and support and formed multigenerational households as a strategy to achieve and sustain homeownership. Language and cultural barriers primed them for risky loans and thwarted their pursuit of refinance and modification when they struggled to make mortgage payments. These findings conform to existing evidence of ethnic segmentation in the housing market and imply that analyses of home buying and homeownership in areas with significant immigrant populations should factor in the role of ethnicity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 319-335
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1208159
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Author-Name: Emma R. Power
Author-X-Name-First: Emma R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Power
Title: Renting with pets: a pathway to housing insecurity?
Abstract:
Companion animals are rarely considered in rental policy or research. This absence belies their prevalence and growing centrality within practices of family and home, and persists despite evidence of links between companion animals and rental insecurity. This paper begins to address this gap. Through an online survey and in-depth interviews with people who rented with companion animals in Sydney, Australia, over the 10 years to 2013, the paper identifies connections between pet ownership and rental insecurity, including perceptions about the low availability and poor quality of advertised ‘pet-friendly’ properties. The paper argues that pet ownership can trigger feelings of rental insecurity, and advocates for inclusion of pet ownership as a variable impacting secure occupancy. It suggests companion animals are an escalating rental risk, their significance to their owners causing some to accept accelerating levels of rental insecurity by keeping pets without landlord knowledge. These experience impact on the ability of renters to feel ‘at home’ in rental properties.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 336-360
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1210095
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Author-Name: Shuangshuang Tang
Author-X-Name-First: Shuangshuang
Author-X-Name-Last: Tang
Author-Name: Jianxi Feng
Author-X-Name-First: Jianxi
Author-X-Name-Last: Feng
Author-Name: Mingye Li
Author-X-Name-First: Mingye
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: Housing tenure choices of rural migrants in urban destinations: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China
Abstract:
In China, rural migrants to urban destinations often experience poor living conditions and a low rate of homeownership, which are viewed as the results of urban institutional restrictions. Previous studies have primarily focused on rural migrants’ living conditions and comparisons of housing tenure between migrants and local citizens in large, high-level cities. However, the status and determinants of housing tenure choices of rural migrants in urban destinations other than large cities are generally overlooked. Moreover, several factors, such as rural landholding and migrants’ intention, are rarely studied. Using data from a 2010 survey conducted in Jiangsu Province, multinomial logistic regression models are adopted to explore the features and determinants of rural migrants’ tenure choices in urban destinations. In addition to the urban institutional scheme and housing market, rural land and migrants’ intention are found to play important roles in tenure choices of rural migrants in urban destinations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 361-378
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1210096
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Author-Name: Laura Crommelin
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Crommelin
Title: DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 379-380
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1279719
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Author-Name: Jago Dodson
Author-X-Name-First: Jago
Author-X-Name-Last: Dodson
Title: The new American suburb: poverty, race and the economic crisis
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 380-382
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1269522
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Author-Name: Jane Franklin
Author-X-Name-First: Jane
Author-X-Name-Last: Franklin
Title: Remembering the cultural geographies of a childhood home
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 382-383
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Year: 2017
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1279720
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Author-Name: Mark Tsun On Wong
Author-X-Name-First: Mark Tsun On
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong
Title: Intergenerational family support for ‘Generation Rent’: the family home for socially disengaged young people
Abstract:
This paper critically discusses the concept of intergenerational family support in housing for young people. Recognizing increased difficulties faced by the younger generation in the housing market, this paper highlights that support from older family members is increasingly important. Nonetheless, it is critiqued that the role of the family home has been largely ignored in the current ‘generation rent’ discourse. By drawing on recent youth studies debates, this paper argues living in the family home could be an important form of support in housing, especially for marginalized youth. This paper presents insights from qualitative studies in Hong Kong and Scotland and analyses interview accounts of socially disengaged young people. It reflects how remaining at the family home could be interpreted as intergenerational support, and further elicits complexities in expectations, negotiations and emotions involved. This analysis offers new evidence and a more nuanced perspective of intergenerational family support in housing research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-23
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1364713
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Author-Name: Kristen A. Hackett
Author-X-Name-First: Kristen A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hackett
Author-Name: Susan Saegert
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Saegert
Author-Name: Deshonay Dozier
Author-X-Name-First: Deshonay
Author-X-Name-Last: Dozier
Author-Name: Mariya Marinova
Author-X-Name-First: Mariya
Author-X-Name-Last: Marinova
Title: Community land trusts: releasing possible selves through stable affordable housing
Abstract:
Housing affordability – a long-standing issue for low-income households – is crucial for the flourishing of both households and communities. When housing is unaffordable, households struggle to attain and maintain housing, which negatively effects household well-being. Since the foreclosure crisis, community land trusts (CLTs) have emerged as a viable housing policy. Relying on quantitative and qualitative data collected by a Minneapolis-based CLT, this study examines the experiences of 91 CLT homeowners. Our analysis illustrates how the CLT’s institutional framework alters the political, economic, social and material relations that characterize the lives of these households to facilitate the provision of previously unavailable resources. Beyond indefinitely stabilizing households, this new arrangement of relations creates a foundation for the cultivation of ontological security and contributes to the opening up of possibilities and the unfolding of life in ways not previously possible.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 24-48
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1428285
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Author-Name: Paul Sissons
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Sissons
Author-Name: Donald Houston
Author-X-Name-First: Donald
Author-X-Name-Last: Houston
Title: Changes in transitions from private renting to homeownership in the context of rapidly rising house prices
Abstract:
A period associated with the emergence of the current housing crisis in Britain provides a testbed in which to investigate household tenure choice in the context of rapidly rising house prices. We compile a bespoke data-set combining data from the British Household Panel Survey and sources of local and national housing and mortgage market information covering the period 1994–2008. During this period, we observe three key changes in behaviour associated with the emergence of the housing crisis: (i) increasing acceptance of long-term renting; (ii) the emergence of local house prices as a factor inhibiting entry to homeownership at district level; and (iii) the cessation of moving to a lower cost district as a strategy to enter homeownership. We interpret these findings as some private tenants reducing their aspiration for homeownership, and those seeking entry to homeownership shifting strategy from moving to cheaper districts in favour of staying put and saving.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 49-65
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1432754
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Author-Name: Ali Jadidzadeh
Author-X-Name-First: Ali
Author-X-Name-Last: Jadidzadeh
Author-Name: Nick Falvo
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Falvo
Title: Patterns of exits from housing in a homelessness system of care: the case of Calgary, Alberta
Abstract:
Public officials around the world seek to target subsidized housing as purposely and efficiently as possible. With limited availability of subsidized housing, it is helpful to know which household types require specific types of housing support and for how long. With this in mind, we undertake survival analysis and hazard models on clients placed into housing funded by the Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF) to characterize patterns of exit from Calgary’s homeless system of care. To do this, we use data from Calgary’s Homelessness Management Information System from 1 April 2012 until 31 March 2015. We find singles without dependents to require housing support for the longest period of time, while families require the support for the least amount of time. One important finding is that women require housing support for longer periods of time than men (even though we control for employment and income).
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 66-91
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1432755
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Author-Name: Nele Aernouts
Author-X-Name-First: Nele
Author-X-Name-Last: Aernouts
Author-Name: Michael Ryckewaert
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryckewaert
Title: Reproducing housing commons. Government involvement and differential commoning in a housing cooperative
Abstract:
Since the late nineteenth century, reoccurring economic depressions and related housing crises have led to the development of collectively shared and managed housing systems. Nowadays depicted as ‘housing commons’, these systems are rooted in the early twentieth-century cooperative garden city housing model. Some of these housing initiatives have been marketed, while others have been scaled-up or co-opted by the state. Through a detailed discussion of changing government involvement in a rental cooperative neighbourhood in the Brussels Capital Region, and an analysis of participative practices, we discuss the relevance of the cooperative model today. Rather than an obsolete system, the paper shows that differential forms of commoning reproduce the cooperative model, resulting in capacity building and increased social capital among participating inhabitants. This sheds a different light on common-pool resource theory, which prescribes strict regulations to prevent free-ridership or enclosure.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 92-110
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1432756
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Author-Name: Lucie Kalousová
Author-X-Name-First: Lucie
Author-X-Name-Last: Kalousová
Author-Name: Michael Evangelist
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Evangelist
Title: Rent assistance and health: findings from Detroit
Abstract:
This study assesses the relationship between rent assistance and health in a longitudinal, population-representative sample collected in the Detroit metro area. Previous research has found that rent assistance recipients are less healthy than otherwise similar non-recipients in the cross-section, but the evidence about the effects of rent assistance on health in the long run is ambiguous. Our study uses panel survey data to compare the health of recipients and eligible non-recipients at the study’s onset and four years later at follow-up with respect to an extensive set of physical, mental and behavioural health outcomes. Our results demonstrate that rent assistance recipients are in worse overall health than non-recipients, but also provide suggestive evidence that the programme may buffer health declines in the medium term. However, the positive buffering effects may be erased in the long run, as we simultaneously observed an increase in smoking among rent assistance recipients. Our study shows that the current shortage of rent assistance may have implications for population health.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 111-141
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1441977
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Author-Name: Stewart Smyth
Author-X-Name-First: Stewart
Author-X-Name-Last: Smyth
Title: Embedding financialization: a policy review of the English Affordable Homes Programme
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Decent, affordable housing continues to be a major concern for policy-makers, providers and society at large. This paper contributes to the debate over the future of social housing in England by reviewing the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP). The AHP (2011–2015) saw the level of grant funding reduced dramatically; with the shortfall to be filled from housing associations own resources, increased rents and borrowing. To understand the implications of the AHP, this paper utilizes the concept of financialization. Financialization is a multifaceted process that seeks to explain the increased role and power of the financial markets in society. Specifically, the paper shows that the AHP leads to increased debt levels in the social housing sector, is predicated on short-termism and accumulation by dispossession. Finally, by employing financialization the paper also addresses debates about the nature of housing policy and how it can best be conceptualized.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 142-161
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1442561
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Author-Name: Kusum Mundra
Author-X-Name-First: Kusum
Author-X-Name-Last: Mundra
Author-Name: Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Author-X-Name-First: Ruth
Author-X-Name-Last: Uwaifo Oyelere
Title: Homeownership trends among the never married
Abstract:
In recent years, the population of unmarried single adults has grown globally especially in the developed world. In this paper, we explore homeownership among never married singles in the US from 2000 to 2013 using a sample from the Current Population Survey. In particular, we investigate potential differences in the relationship between several homeownership determinants for the never married in comparison to the married. We also test for heterogeneous effects across education levels and ethnicity in homeownership determinants for the never married. Our results show that age, gender and number of children affect the probability of homeownership differently for singles compared to those who are married. We also find that while on average there is a higher probability of homeownership from 2007 onwards for singles, there are significant gender, education and racial differences. In particular, our results show that among the never married, those with at least a college education reverse the gender gap in homeownership.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 162-187
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1442562
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Author-Name: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Dagen
Author-X-Name-Last: Bloom
Title: Still renovating: a history of Canadian social housing policy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 188-189
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1598626
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Author-Name: Glen Bramley
Author-X-Name-First: Glen
Author-X-Name-Last: Bramley
Title: English planning in crisis: 10 steps to a sustainable future
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 189-191
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1598627
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Author-Name: Yong-Chang Heo
Author-X-Name-First: Yong-Chang
Author-X-Name-Last: Heo
Title: Housing politics in the United Kingdom: Power, planning and protest
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 191-193
Issue: 1
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1598630
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Author-Name: Greg Lloyd
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Lloyd
Title: Self-Build Homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 738-739
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1589103
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: X-X
Issue: 4
Volume: 34
Year: 2019
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1586349
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Author-Name: Velma Zahirovic-Herbert
Author-X-Name-First: Velma
Author-X-Name-Last: Zahirovic-Herbert
Author-Name: Karen M. Gibler
Author-X-Name-First: Karen M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibler
Title: Neighbouring house transaction response to assisted living facilities and nursing homes
Abstract:
Senior group housing that offers services signals that its residents have physical and/or cognitive limitations, which may be viewed as a neighbourhood disamenity. Buyers may discount house values near group homes due to negative perception of the residents or the structure. Most senior group home residents come from the surrounding community; therefore, residents of neighbourhoods with a large proportion of older residents may perceive nearby senior housing as desirable. We employ a system of equations to examine the influence of assisted living and nursing homes on single-family house sales prices and time-on-the market. The results indicate that the presence of a senior group home, especially a nursing home, within one-half mile has a significant negative effect on single-family house prices. The effect is most evident in neighbourhoods with few elderly residents. A clustering effect is present in non-distressed sales. The scale of a nearby senior group home contributes to a longer marketing duration, especially for distressed sales.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 195-213
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1594714
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Author-Name: Thomas Wimark
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Wimark
Author-Name: Eva K. Andersson
Author-X-Name-First: Eva K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson
Author-Name: Bo Malmberg
Author-X-Name-First: Bo
Author-X-Name-Last: Malmberg
Title: Tenure type landscapes and housing market change: a geographical perspective on neo-liberalization in Sweden
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Discussions of tenure mix have received renewed interest as many have suggested that neo-liberalization has made way for gentrification of neighbourhoods and increasing segregation. Yet, few scholars have studied country-wide changes in tenure mix, due to the lack of data and appropriate methods. In this article, we propose to use tenure type landscapes to analyse changes in housing policy. We do so while acknowledging the evolution of housing policies in Sweden since 1990. Using individualized and multi-scalar tenure type landscapes to measure change in neighbourhoods, we analyse housing clusters in 1990 and 2012. We show that the tenure landscape in 1990 at the height of the welfare state was fairly diverse and mixed. During the next 22 years, however, the landscape changed to become more homogenized and dominated by ownership through tenure conversions and new housing. We argue that awareness of these changes is essential to understanding present and future segregation and gentrification processes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 214-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1595535
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Author-Name: April Jackson
Author-X-Name-First: April
Author-X-Name-Last: Jackson
Title: Accountability matters: beyond commitment, the role of accountability mechanisms in implementing plans in mixed income communities
Abstract:
This article explores the role of formal accountability mechanisms as a necessity to fulfill HOPE VI plan goals and the limitations of participant commitment during plan implementation. The presence of accountability mechanisms, such as a consent decree, often influences participation level, unit mix, tenant selection, design, and community building efforts during plan implementation. This article draws from a comparative case study of two mixed-income planning efforts in Chicago. This qualitative research illustrates the differences in project plan trajectories relative to their accountability mechanisms. My findings indicate a range of commitment varying across phases of development. In short, commitment matters at earlier stages of development, while accountability matters at the later stages of development. However, without accountability mechanisms in place, projects moved further away from intended project plans. Overall, this research suggests several ways to embed accountability mechanisms in the development of mixed-income housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 238-265
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1595536
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Author-Name: Sarah Payne
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Payne
Title: Advancing understandings of housing supply constraints: housing market recovery and institutional transitions in British speculative housebuilding
Abstract:
The vicissitudes and volatilities of recent housing market cyclicality have restructured, reconfigured and reorganized housing systems and their supply demand characteristics. Surprisingly, little attention has been paid to (re)examining supply side outcomes, much less the influencing effect of supply behaviour in response to demand-side change and their interactions. Indeed, one of the biggest unanswered questions in housing studies today is how supply side characteristics, specifically those of speculative housebuilders, have been affected by the turbulent, transitionary context presented by the global financial crisis. Addressing the gap, this paper presents a novel analysis of how Britain’s biggest housebuilders respond to significant institutional shock in their operating environment and considers how this enables and constrains housing supply outcomes in the post-recession context.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 266-289
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1598549
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Author-Name: Victoria F. Burns
Author-X-Name-First: Victoria F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Burns
Author-Name: Julie Deslandes- Leduc
Author-X-Name-First: Julie Deslandes-
Author-X-Name-Last: Leduc
Author-Name: Natalie St-Denis
Author-X-Name-First: Natalie
Author-X-Name-Last: St-Denis
Author-Name: Christine A. Walsh
Author-X-Name-First: Christine A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh
Title: Finding home after homelessness: older men’s experiences in single-site permanent supportive housing
Abstract:
Although research on supportive housing models for older homeless adults is gaining momentum, few studies have considered the unique experiences of formerly homeless older adults residing in single-site permanent supportive housing (PSH). Drawing on the concepts of home and social exclusion, this qualitative case study explored the everyday experiences of 10 formerly homeless older men residing in single-site PSH. A constructivist grounded theory methodology and in-depth interviews revealed that participants felt largely at home in PSH because the congregate design and surveillance fostered a sense of safety. However, certain design features coupled with housing rules triggered processes of territorial exclusion. Further, members of minority groups experienced identity and institutional exclusion because of discrimination linked to their ethnicity, language, and sexual orientation. Recommendations are provided to promote more inclusive, home-like models of supportive housing for older homeless adults.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 290-309
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1598550
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Author-Name: Meagan Cusack
Author-X-Name-First: Meagan
Author-X-Name-Last: Cusack
Author-Name: Ann Elizabeth Montgomery
Author-X-Name-First: Ann Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Montgomery
Author-Name: Anneliese E. Sorrentino
Author-X-Name-First: Anneliese E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Sorrentino
Author-Name: Melissa E. Dichter
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Dichter
Author-Name: Manik Chhabra
Author-X-Name-First: Manik
Author-X-Name-Last: Chhabra
Author-Name: Gala True
Author-X-Name-First: Gala
Author-X-Name-Last: True
Title: Journey to Home: development of a conceptual model to describe Veterans' experiences with resolving housing instability
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Recent research has focused on risk factors for Veteran housing instability and programmatic responses. However, little is known about Veterans’ experiences of becoming unstably housed and navigating available resources to resolve housing crises. This qualitative paper, based on open-ended interviews with Veterans (n = 60), presents the Journey to Home conceptual model, which offers a framework for understanding Veterans’ journeys through housing instability, including the factors that contribute to vulnerability, the range of housing conditions that Veterans describe as inadequate, how Veterans connect to assistance through VA and community providers, and barriers and facilitators to connecting with and using available assistance, resulting in either continued housing instability or successful housing outcomes. Ongoing efforts to end Veteran homelessness should prioritize strategies that respond to complex vulnerabilities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 310-332
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1598551
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Author-Name: Quintin Bradley
Author-X-Name-First: Quintin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bradley
Title: The use of direct democracy to decide housing site allocations in English neighbourhoods
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The aim of this article is to reclaim the democratic legitimacy of self-selecting and informed publics in citizen engagement in housing development planning. It argues for an approach to public participation in which the issues, and the articulation of conflicting attachments to those issues, are understood as the occasion for democratic politics. The article illustrates this approach in an analysis of the use of direct democracy to decide housing allocations in the policy of neighbourhood planning in England. Drawing on literature from Science and Technology Studies and actor–network theory, it evidences the public articulation of house-building as a matter of concern and identifies the agency of housing in enrolling publics, translating interests and in fostering debate and contention. It concludes that the articulation of conflicting interests can deepen democratic engagement in housing development planning and open up the exclusions through which this issue is currently framed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 333-352
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1598548
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Author-Name: Karine Perreault
Author-X-Name-First: Karine
Author-X-Name-Last: Perreault
Author-Name: Mylène Riva
Author-X-Name-First: Mylène
Author-X-Name-Last: Riva
Author-Name: Philippe Dufresne
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Dufresne
Author-Name: Christopher Fletcher
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Fletcher
Title: Overcrowding and sense of home in the Canadian Arctic
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This study examines the relationship between living in overcrowded conditions and sense of home among 289 Inuit, the Indigenous population living in the Canadian Arctic. This study was conducted in Nunavut and Nunavik, two of the four Inuit regions in Canada, where the prevalence of overcrowding is six times the national average. Sense of home was derived from the conceptual notion of ontological security, where home is defined as a symbolic place for making claims of cultural identity and belonging. Sense of home was operationalized according to participants’ perception of their home in relation to space, identity, control, privacy, satisfaction, relationships, location, and security. Overcrowding was negatively associated with sense of home. In overcrowded dwellings, fewer women reported positive perceptions of their house with regards to sufficient space, feeling of identity, satisfaction and domestic relationships. Relational and cultural aspects of housing resonate with sense of home and may be particularly interesting to examine as potential mechanisms leading to individual and community wellbeing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 353-375
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1602720
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Author-Name: Mayra Mosciaro
Author-X-Name-First: Mayra
Author-X-Name-Last: Mosciaro
Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers
Title: Asset-based welfare in Brazil
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The idea of asset-based welfare (ABW) has been widely discussed since the 1990s. This paper presents a policy developed in Brazil in the 1960s that could also be perceived as an ABW policy. The Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Serviço (FGTS) is a compulsory savings scheme, managed by the state and financed through monthly deposits made by employers on behalf of their employees. The FGTS resembles a personalized public pension, but the balance of an individual FGTS account can also be used to facilitate access to homeownership. We do not argue that this is an inclusionary and redistributive policy, but we do argue that the FGTS acts as a facilitator of asset-building for those included in the formal labour market. Contrary to ABW practices in the Global North, in Brazil, the introduction of ABW policies represents the expansion rather than the retrenchment or readjustment of the welfare state.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 376-389
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1364712
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Author-Name: Samuel Burgum
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Burgum
Title: Neoliberal housing policy: an international perspective
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 390-391
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1704972
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Author-Name: Ella Horton
Author-X-Name-First: Ella
Author-X-Name-Last: Horton
Title: A research agenda for housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 392-393
Issue: 2
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1704973
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Author-Name: Deborah G. Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Author-Name: Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani
Author-X-Name-First: Azadeh
Author-X-Name-Last: Hadizadeh Esfahani
Author-Name: Olivia R. Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Olivia R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Author-Name: Richard Kruger
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Kruger
Author-Name: Joseph Pierce
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph
Author-X-Name-Last: Pierce
Author-Name: James DeFilippis
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: DeFilippis
Title: Meanings of limited equity homeownership in community land trusts
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Discourses regarding homeownership in the United States emphasize housing as an economic investment. This focus fosters a number of problems, including inflated housing values, increased segregation, economic divisions, and the foreclosure crisis. Community land trusts (CLTs) put land in a non-profit trust to keep it affordable long-term. We examine CLTs as affordable housing organizations where individual residents own homes in the trust and lease the land underneath from the CLT. Interviews of CLT homeowners and staff in Minnesota, USA, show that the use value of CLT housing creates opportunities for different life choices. CLT homeowners cite stability and autonomy as the primary benefits of homeownership. They expressed newfound confidence and freedom to pursue personal goals and live less restricted lives after moving into CLT homes, a finding also emphasized by CLT staff. Limited equity housing such as CLTs can both reinforce dominant meanings of homeownership as providing security and autonomy, while also fostering access and affordability for low-income residents.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 395-414
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1603363
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Author-Name: Madhu Satsangi
Author-X-Name-First: Madhu
Author-X-Name-Last: Satsangi
Author-Name: Michael Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: Do housing costs impact on poverty in rural areas?
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This research examines evidence for whether housing costs are more likely to be associated with poverty in rural than in urban Scotland. It reports the results from probit modelling of British Household Panel Survey data from 1999 to 2008. Empirical work is set in the context of understandings of factors associated with poverty, defined on an income basis, and specific features associated with rural locations. Attention is drawn to the way in which rurality is defined and that definition operationalized. The finding from the multivariate analysis is that a household’s housing costs do not appear to have a different association with its propensity to experience poverty in rural as opposed to urban Scotland. The paper sets out conclusions in the recognition of possible limitations and identifies ways in which the evidence can be extended.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 415-438
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1610556
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Author-Name: Angela Maye-Banbury
Author-X-Name-First: Angela
Author-X-Name-Last: Maye-Banbury
Author-Name: Martin McNally
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: McNally
Title: Fortifying futures: how older boomerangers in English multigenerational households boost resilience through social capital accumulation and distribution
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Multigenerational households (MGHs) are the UK’s fastest growing household type. This paper critically explores the relative influence of ‘Generation X’ in shaping social capital accumulation and distribution strategies within English MGHs. We contend that this cohort, described here as ‘amalgamation generation’, (older ‘boomerangers’) recognize how the quintessential inter/intra generational forms of social capital present in MGHs may be consolidated to boost resilience at a time of economic uncertainty and social instability. We challenge therefore the largely negative discourse surrounding boomerangers which exist in existing scholarship. Our analysis highlights the dialectical relationship between the concepts of resilience and social capital when applied to multigenerational living. In doing so, we highlight the relevance of network centrality, shared family values, an awareness of the natural life cycle and the importance of family ‘social capital bank’ in promoting the overall cohesion of the MGH. The extent to which English MGHs may be construed as a liquid, temporal and fluid asset over space, place and time is explored.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 439-458
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1612037
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Author-Name: Paula Mayock
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayock
Author-Name: Sarah Parker
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Parker
Title: Homeless young people ‘strategizing’ a route to housing stability: service fatigue, exiting attempts and living ‘off grid’
Abstract:
While access to housing has been identified as a crucial enabler to young people exiting homelessness, relatively little is known about the experiences of youth who encounter barriers in their attempts to secure housing. Mobilizing a pathways approach, this paper examines homeless young people’s experiences of seeking housing in a context of housing market forces that blocked their efforts to carve a route out of homelessness. The research, which is biographical and longitudinal, was conducted in Ireland between 2013 and 2016 and involved the collection of data at two points in time. At baseline, 40 young people aged 16–24 years and 10 of their family members were recruited (Phase 1) and, at the point of follow-up two years later (Phase 2), 74% of participants were retained in the study. By Phase 2, just 24% of the study’s young people were housed, pointing to significant barriers of access to housing. Moving beyond the identification of the impact of housing market forces on young people’s ability to exit homelessness, the analysis examines young people’s responses, focussing on the strategies used by them as they attempted to reclaim autonomy and control over their housing futures. Implications for the development of sustainable housing solutions that specifically cater to the needs of homeless youth are discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 459-483
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1612036
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Author-Name: Emma R. Power
Author-X-Name-First: Emma R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Power
Author-Name: Kathleen J. Mee
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mee
Title: Housing: an infrastructure of care
Abstract:
In this article, we conceptualize housing as an infrastructure of care. Drawing on the recent infrastructural turn in social sciences we understand infrastructures as dynamic patterns that are the foundation of social organization. New infrastructural analyses attend to how infrastructures pattern social life and identify the values that are selectively coded into infrastructures, (re)producing social difference through use. We argue that housing patterns care across three domains: through housing materialities, markets and governance. First, we identify how housing patterns the organization of care at a household and social scale. Second, we attend to the relational politics of care through housing, asking how care is ordered through housing and to whose benefit. Third, we consider where and how care is located in housing. This third direction opens a substantively new approach in housing scholarship, identifying housing as a sociomaterial assemblage that is constitutive of care. We provoke housing researchers to ask: is this a housing system that cares?
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 484-505
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1612038
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Author-Name: Francesca Fiori
Author-X-Name-First: Francesca
Author-X-Name-Last: Fiori
Author-Name: Elspeth Graham
Author-X-Name-First: Elspeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Graham
Author-Name: Zhiqiang Feng
Author-X-Name-First: Zhiqiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Feng
Title: Inequalities in the transition to homeownership among young people in Scotland
Abstract:
Homeownership levels among young adults in the UK are declining. This paper compares youth transitions to homeownership in Scotland during the 1990s and 2000s by examining the roles of both personal and parental socio-economic characteristics and local house prices. It demonstrates demographic diversity among young people, with gender and partnership status interacting to shape their transitions to homeownership. The findings reveal that, although single women are less likely than single men to become homeowners, women are more likely to make the transition if they live with a partner. For all young adults, patterns of advantage and disadvantage are defined by personal resources and parental background. While many of these inequalities have persisted over time, the distance between the most and least advantaged has widened, new inequalities have emerged and local housing markets have come to play a greater role for some.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 506-536
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1614537
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Author-Name: Disha Bhanot
Author-X-Name-First: Disha
Author-X-Name-Last: Bhanot
Author-Name: Manav Khaire
Author-X-Name-First: Manav
Author-X-Name-Last: Khaire
Author-Name: Arti Kalro
Author-X-Name-First: Arti
Author-X-Name-Last: Kalro
Author-Name: Shishir K. Jha
Author-X-Name-First: Shishir K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jha
Title: Affordable housing finance companies in India: how do they ‘differently’ serve the underserved?
Abstract:
Over the years, the importance of access to affordable finance has inevitably been recognized as a critical component of developing the third world. Against the backdrop of huge under-penetration of the housing finance sector in India, this study reflects on the functioning of Affordable Housing Finance Companies (AHFCs), which are among the important stakeholders providing affordable housing loans to the low-income segment households. However, the process through which these new entrants have been able to down-market housing finance remains a black box till date. In light of this research gap, this study proposes a conceptual model that succinctly captures the business process of AHFCs across three main dimensions: Outreach Approach, Lending and Underwriting Practices and Risk Management Interventions. This model reflects on the kaleidoscope of process innovations that the AHFCs have embraced to cater to the housing finance needs of the low-income customers, while achieving profitability and social impact.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 537-566
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1614538
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Author-Name: Mara Ferreri
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Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreri
Title: Common spaces of urban emancipation
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 567-568
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Lindsey McCarthy
Author-X-Name-First: Lindsey
Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy
Title: Thinking home: interdisciplinary dialogues
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 569-570
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 571-571
Issue: 3
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1728047
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
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Author-Name: Tony Manzi
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Manzi
Title: Neoliberalism as entrepreneurial governmentality: contradictions and dissonance within contemporary English housing associations
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This paper has two aims: to provide a critical commentary on the value of neoliberalism in explaining contemporary housing policy and to critically examine recent practices that have been shaped by ideas most commonly associated with neoliberalism. It begins by distinguishing different interpretative variants of neoliberalism and some of the criticisms regarding its explanatory capability. Taking the example of housing associations in England, the paper makes use of Dardot and Laval’s notion of ‘entrepreneurial governmentality’ to interpret how contemporary welfare professionals attempt to reconcile the competing tensions of individualism and egalitarianism in practice. Amongst the arguments put forward is that the extension of commercialism, commodification and competition have generated new fissures and dissonance within the sector. The conclusion suggests that contemporary variants of neoliberalism are best understood as a rationality that establishes entrepreneurial governmentality across sectors of government, the economy and social life.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 573-588
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Bronwyn Bate
Author-X-Name-First: Bronwyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Bate
Title: Rental security and the property manager in a tenant’s search for a private rental property
Abstract:
This article builds on current understandings of rental security by exploring the important role of the property manager in a tenant's search for a private rental property. In the absence of any legislated right to housing, as is the case in many Anglophone societies, the decision to accept or reject a tenancy application is in the hands of the landlord, and, in many cases, the property manager, who provides expert advice to the landlord. A qualitative content analysis of blogs featured on two national websites advertising rental properties in Australia, identifies six aspects of interactions between the tenant and property manager argued to impact a tenant’s ability to secure a rental property: responsibility, making an impression, established relationships, honesty, flexibility and creative thinking. Findings suggest that understandings of rental security need to extend beyond a tenant’s experience while leasing and must incorporate experiences during the search for a private rental property.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 589-611
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1621271
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Author-Name: David Prentice
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Author-X-Name-Last: Prentice
Author-Name: Rosanna Scutella
Author-X-Name-First: Rosanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Scutella
Title: What are the impacts of living in social housing? New evidence from Australia
Abstract:
In this paper, we apply statistical matching methods to a national longitudinal dataset of Australians facing housing insecurity to estimate the impacts of social housing on employment, education, health, incarceration and homelessness. We find social housing in Australia provides an important `safety net’ protecting people from homelessness. However, at least in the short run, individuals in social housing have similar outcomes in terms of employment, education, physical and mental health, and incarceration to other comparable individuals not in social housing. These are the first estimates of causal impacts of social housing, simultaneously estimating impacts on a range of shelter and non-shelter outcomes highlighted as important by the broader social housing literature. They also provide an interesting contrast with the existing US estimates. These results are potentially due to strict targeting of individuals into social housing and that they represent the average effect across individuals who may experience substantially different impacts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 612-647
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1621995
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Author-Name: Paul Flatau
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Flatau
Author-Name: Kaylene Zaretzky
Author-X-Name-First: Kaylene
Author-X-Name-Last: Zaretzky
Author-Name: Emma Crane
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Crane
Author-Name: Georgina Carson
Author-X-Name-First: Georgina
Author-X-Name-Last: Carson
Author-Name: Adam Steen
Author-X-Name-First: Adam
Author-X-Name-Last: Steen
Author-Name: Monica Thielking
Author-X-Name-First: Monica
Author-X-Name-Last: Thielking
Author-Name: David MacKenzie
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: MacKenzie
Title: The drivers of high health and justice costs among a cohort young homeless people in Australia
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Our study utilizes Australian survey evidence to estimate the heath and justice costs of a cohort of young homeless people. Health and justice costs for young homeless people are highly skewed with median costs well below mean costs. This is particularly true of justice costs resulting from a relatively high proportion of young homeless people having no interaction with the justice system. Having a diagnosed mental health condition is a primary driver of both health and justice costs. Having been homeless or sleeping rough in the previous year is associated with approximately four times mean health and justice costs compared with not having experienced homelessness. High justice costs are associated not only with having a diagnosed mental health condition homelessness and rough sleeping, but also a high-risk of dependence on one or more drugs or alcohol, identifying as Indigenous and a history of out-of-home care before the age of 18.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 648-678
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1626352
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Author-Name: Michelle Maroto
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Maroto
Author-Name: Meryn Severson
Author-X-Name-First: Meryn
Author-X-Name-Last: Severson
Title: Owning, renting, or living with parents? Changing housing situations among Canadian young adults, 2001 to 2011
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Homeownership is a central component of wealth, but many young adults today struggle to enter the housing market, opting to rent or live at home with their parents instead. Despite these trends, few recent Canadian studies have addressed the housing arrangements of young adults. We use pooled cross-sectional General Social Survey data from 2001 to 2011 to analyze three types of housing arrangements among 18- to 35-year-olds. Findings show that although the proportion of young adults living at home increased dramatically since 2001 and the proportion renting declined, rates of homeownership among young adults remained fairly constant over the three waves. Changes over time were most dramatic among the youngest age group of 18- to 24-year-olds, first-generation immigrants, and young adults with higher levels of education. Findings further demonstrate persistent socioeconomic and demographic disparities between young adults who can move out of their parents’ homes and into homeownership and those who either remain at home or become renters, with important repercussions on lifetime wealth inequality.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 679-702
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1630559
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Author-Name: Cathy L. Antonakos
Author-X-Name-First: Cathy L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Antonakos
Author-Name: Claudia J. Coulton
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Coulton
Author-Name: Robert Kaestner
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaestner
Author-Name: Mickey Lauria
Author-X-Name-First: Mickey
Author-X-Name-Last: Lauria
Author-Name: Dwayne E. Porter
Author-X-Name-First: Dwayne E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Porter
Author-Name: Natalie Colabianchi
Author-X-Name-First: Natalie
Author-X-Name-Last: Colabianchi
Title: Built environment exposures of adults in the moving to opportunity experiment
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This article describes environmental exposures of adult participants in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) for Fair Housing experiment over a four to seven year period from baseline to the interim evaluation. The MTO experiment randomized participants living in public housing or private assisted housing at baseline into experimental and control groups and provided a housing voucher for experimental group participants to move to neighbourhoods with less than 10% of the population below the poverty line. However, few studies have examined how this move affected exposures to health promoting environments. We used data on residential locations of MTO participants and archival data on the built and food environment to construct environmental exposure variables. MTO participants in the experimental and Section 8 groups lived in neighbourhoods with higher food prices, less high intensity development and more open space relative to the control group. The findings suggest that housing policies can have potential health consequences by altering health-related environmental exposures.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 703-719
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1630560
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Author-Name: William Ka Shing Cheung
Author-X-Name-First: William Ka Shing
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung
Author-Name: Julian Tsz Kin Chan
Author-X-Name-First: Julian Tsz Kin
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Author-Name: Paavo Monkkonen
Author-X-Name-First: Paavo
Author-X-Name-Last: Monkkonen
Title: Marriage-induced homeownership as a driver of housing booms: evidence from Hong Kong
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Buying a home for marriage is customary in many societies. Traditionally, therefore, young couples getting married is a key driver of demand for homeownership. Yet the idea of marriage-induced demand for homeownership is a relatively underexplored component of housing price change. We examine the role of marriage-induced demand for homeownership in Hong Kong, a relatively self-contained housing market with fewer options for migration than most large cities. We use an instrumental variable strategy to test the hypothesis that more unmarried individuals at the prime age for marriage increases housing prices. We find that an additional one thousand marriage-aged but unmarried individuals leads to a seven per cent increase in housing prices. These findings confirm the importance of demographic factors such as cohort size and marriage rates on housing price projections, housing needs assessments, and housing policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 720-742
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1632422
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Author-Name: Michael Byrne
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne
Title: Generation rent and the financialization of housing: a comparative exploration of the growth of the private rental sector in Ireland, the UK and Spain
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This article analyses the growth of the private rental sector over recent years through a comparative analysis of three classic homeowner societies: Ireland, the UK and Spain. The article argues that theories of financialization provide a useful framework for understanding ‘generation rent’. In particular, the cyclical nature of credit markets tends to undermine homeownership over the medium term. This contributes to and intensifies the wider set of policy changes associated with neoliberalism. The article also accounts for the divergent experiences of our three case study countries within their common trajectory. It does so through an analytical focus on the interaction between global aspects of financialization and more nationally based ones, such as mortgage markets, as well as on how both are mediated by national policy regimes. The article thus aims to contribute to the emerging literature seeking to explain ‘generation rent’ and explore its significance, and more broadly to political economy approaches to housing system change.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 743-765
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1632813
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Author-Name: Brendan Edgeworth
Author-X-Name-First: Brendan
Author-X-Name-Last: Edgeworth
Title: The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in Neoliberal Britain
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 766-767
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1727629
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Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Pineda-Zumaran
Title: Improvised cities: architecture, urbanization and innovation in Peru
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 768-769
Issue: 4
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1727633
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Author-Name: Matthew Palm
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Palm
Author-Name: Carolyn Whitzman
Author-X-Name-First: Carolyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Whitzman
Title: Housing need assessments in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Melbourne: normative science or neoliberal alchemy?
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Governments in much of the Global North have responded to dramatic increases in house prices and rents by setting supply-side targets for new housing in regional and local plans, based on calculations of need. We apply social constructionism to assess widely divergent needs assessments underlying housing strategies in San Francisco, US; Vancouver, Canada; and Melbourne, Australia. In San Francisco, authorities use an approach required by the state government that ignores overcrowding and other ‘invisible’ criteria. In Vancouver, authorities have taken an ambitious approach that goes beyond a minimum quantum of affordable housing to discuss limits to market production. In Melbourne, the state government has chosen to ignore its own commissioned needs assessment to de-prioritize concerns around affordable housing shortages. We conclude by recommending that planners apply greater rigor in housing needs assessments, that can inform public debates around more equitable housing policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 771-794
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1636001
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Author-Name: Sonia Roitman
Author-X-Name-First: Sonia
Author-X-Name-Last: Roitman
Author-Name: Redento B. Recio
Author-X-Name-First: Redento B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Recio
Title: Understanding Indonesia’s gated communities and their relationship with inequality
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Income inequality continues to increase worldwide and is highly visible in cities. This rising income inequality, along with the growing upper-middle class, has accelerated the development of gated communities (GC) as a desired housing for the ‘successful’ groups and a manifestation of how the city reproduces inequality. We analyze GC development in Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and offer a typology for this housing option in that country where income inequality has been growing and is now a serious government concern. Although the early 2000s saw isolated GC in only a few cities, now they are developing vigorously. This article contributes twofold. First, it provides evidence on the emergence and features of GC. Second, it shows a relationship between income inequality, social differences and GC development for upper-middle class residents in Indonesia. We argue that there is a mutually reinforcing relationship between inequality and GC: increasing income inequality leads to higher number of GC and this material artefact entrenches ‘emplaced inequality’.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 795-819
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1636002
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Author-Name: Graeme Guthrie
Author-X-Name-First: Graeme
Author-X-Name-Last: Guthrie
Title: Incentivizing residential land development
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The owners of undeveloped urban land are often blamed for restricting housing supply and thereby driving up house prices in the face of increasing demand. This article shows how greater variation in amenity values across a housing market reduces competition between developers and makes delaying development more attractive to landowners. Competition can be enhanced, and development of land accelerated, by reducing this variation. In particular, governments can increase housing supply in more desirable areas by taking actions that boost the amenity value of land in less desirable areas.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 820-838
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1636003
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Author-Name: Megan Nethercote
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nethercote
Title: Build-to-Rent and the financialization of rental housing: future research directions
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With the expansion of institutional investors into urban rental markets, many cities have witnessed a rise in Build-to-Rent (BtR). This article reviews the financialization of rental housing literature and identifies opportunities for urban housing scholars to progress understandings of BtR through future empirical and theoretical efforts. In particular, it proposes a broadening of the housing research agenda around three analytical entry points. These entry points relate to relatively understudied structural transformations of our urban housing systems implicated in the rise of BtR, namely: (1) the diversification of build-to-sell development models; (2) the evolution of the private rental sector; and (3) labour market–housing market realignments. Comparative inquiry promises to enrich understandings of BtR by revealing how city rental accommodation and tenancies are recalibrated by the investment imperatives of institutional investors and BtR asset shareholders, and with what benefits and at what costs to whom. Such contributions will also provide rich data to progress conceptual efforts to locate BtR within broader processes of housing financialization.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 839-874
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1636938
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Author-Name: Louisa Vogiazides
Author-X-Name-First: Louisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Vogiazides
Author-Name: Guilherme Kenji Chihaya
Author-X-Name-First: Guilherme Kenji
Author-X-Name-Last: Chihaya
Title: Migrants’ long-term residential trajectories in Sweden: persistent neighbourhood deprivation or spatial assimilation?
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Despite time being a key element in the theories on international migrants’ socio-spatial mobility, it has not been sufficiently addressed in empirical research. Most studies focus on discrete transitions between different types of neighbourhoods, potentially missing theoretically important temporal aspects. This article uses sequence analysis to study the residential trajectories of international migrants in Sweden emphasising the timing, order, and duration of residence in neighbourhoods with different poverty levels. It follows individuals of the 2003 arrival cohort during their first 9 years in the country. Results show that 81% of migrants consistently reside in the same type of neighbourhood; 60% consistently live in a deprived area and mere 12% follow a trajectories starting at deprived and ending at middle-income or affluent neighbourhoods. Thus, spatial assimilation is neither the only nor the most frequent trajectory followed by migrants in Sweden. Lastly, there are persistent differences in neighbourhood attainment between immigrant groups, suggesting either place stratification or ethnic preference.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 875-902
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1636937
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Author-Name: Dan Immergluck
Author-X-Name-First: Dan
Author-X-Name-Last: Immergluck
Author-Name: Jeff Ernsthausen
Author-X-Name-First: Jeff
Author-X-Name-Last: Ernsthausen
Author-Name: Stephanie Earl
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Earl
Author-Name: Allison Powell
Author-X-Name-First: Allison
Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Title: Evictions, large owners, and serial filings: findings from Atlanta
Abstract:
Evictions cause substantial harm to lower-income families and neighborhoods. We find that eviction filings include many ‘serial filings’, in which landlords file repeatedly on the same tenant. We analyze serial and nonserial filing rates at the property level, and the share of a property’s filings that are serial filings. Regressions on building, location, and neighborhood characteristics reveal factors associated with higher serial and nonserial filing rates and serial share. We find that the largest owners and larger buildings tend to have high serial shares. When looking at nonserial filings, which are more likely to result in tenant displacement, neighborhood race is a strong independent predictor; properties in Black neighborhoods have substantially higher nonserial filing rates, other things equal. Another key result is that sales in the prior three years have a significant, nontrivial positive effect on the nonserial filing rate, so that property turnover is a significant predictor of rising evictions. We discuss implications for policy and further research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 903-924
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1639635
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Author-Name: Carole Brunet
Author-X-Name-First: Carole
Author-X-Name-Last: Brunet
Author-Name: Nathalie Havet
Author-X-Name-First: Nathalie
Author-X-Name-Last: Havet
Title: Homeownership and job-match quality in France
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Our empirical study stems from previous research on the inter-relations between residential status and microeconomic labor market outcomes. It focuses on employees and assesses the a priori ambiguous effect of homeownership on job-match quality. We use the French data set of the 1995–2001 European Community Household Panel to build a subjective measure of job downgrading. We estimate a recursive trivariate probit with partial observability that simultaneously models the residential status choice, its impact on the probability of being downgraded, and the selection into employment. Taking into account, the double selection process, into employment and into homeownership, and controlling unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find that private renters have between 30% and 40% higher probability of subjective downgrading than homeowners. Mortgage constraints increase the downgrading probability, but their effect is of a limited scope (around +2% percentage points for mortgagers compared with outright owners). We show that these results are robust to various specifications and instruments choice. Consequently, homeownership seems not to be associated to some harmful effects on the job-match quality. Our conclusions are consistent with recent microeconometric studies which call into question Oswald’s hypothesis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 925-953
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1642451
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Author-Name: Andrew Clarke
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke
Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Margarita Vorsina
Author-X-Name-First: Margarita
Author-X-Name-Last: Vorsina
Title: The role of housing policy in perpetuating conditional forms of homelessness support in the era of housing first: Evidence from Australia
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Despite widespread enthusiasm for Housing First approaches to addressing homelessness, conditional models of support that require ‘housing readiness’ persist in many jurisdictions. Existing research cites an ongoing commitment to conditionality amongst homelessness services providers as a key reason for its persistence. In this paper, we argue that State housing policies also play an important role in perpetuating conditionality in the homelessness sector. Drawing on research carried out in an Australian jurisdiction, we show how policies regarding the supply and allocation of social housing compel homelessness service providers—including Housing First services—to employ conditionality practices. We also demonstrate the detrimental impact this has on the housing outcomes of homelessness people with complex needs. We conclude that our findings challenge the claim made by some that Housing First constitutes a ‘paradigm shift’, and instead highlight the complex processes of policy translation and assemblage that shape the adaptation of Housing First in different contexts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 954-975
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1642452
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Author-Name: Ozlem Celik
Author-X-Name-First: Ozlem
Author-X-Name-Last: Celik
Title: The political economy of housing financialization
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 976-977
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1754001
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Author-Name: Sarah Mawhorter
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Mawhorter
Title: Introduction to housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 978-979
Issue: 5
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Kath Hulse
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse
Author-Name: Margaret Reynolds
Author-X-Name-First: Margaret
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds
Author-Name: Chris Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: The Everyman archetype: discursive reframing of private landlords in the financialization of rental housing
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This article investigates the politico-cultural processes underpinning the financialization of private rental housing. Exploring the case of Australia, it shows how debt-financed landlords have been discursively reframed as ‘mum and dad investors’ who are valorized politically as enterprising, self-reliant and providing essential housing. This article then critically appraises this depiction based on available secondary data, and finds that protagonists are, predominantly, midlife and older households with higher household incomes and higher wealth levels. Furthermore, deployment of an Everyman archetype is a politico-cultural device for normalizing this type of activity as part of the financialization of everyday life. Discursive reframing bolsters political and public support for investor-landlordism as an important contributor to asset-based welfare.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 981-1003
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1644297
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Author-Name: Edgar Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Edgar
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Hazel Blunden
Author-X-Name-First: Hazel
Author-X-Name-Last: Blunden
Title: Cultural diversity and sensitivity in public estate renewals: evidence from an Australian longitudinal study
Abstract:
Social mixing has been part of government policies regarding estate renewals in many countries. It is mostly achieved through tenure diversification, such as introducing privately owned and rented dwellings. Concurrently, in many residualized social housing sectors, larger shares of tenants now have high and complex needs, including recently settled refugees. Therefore, social and spatial manifestations of multiculture have become more complex. Consequently, a non-tenure-related form of social mixing, primarily one of cultural difference, occurs. This article considers the unintended effects of wider policies around resettlement of refugees in the context of estate renewal. Considering Wacquant et al.’s (2014, Territorial stigmatization in action, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 46, pp. 1270–1280) discussions of dissimulation and microdifferences, it reflects on the experiences of residents living on estates that are currently undergoing renewal in suburban Adelaide, South Australia, and reports on tensions that sometimes emerge between long-established and more recently settled residents as well as efforts (by managing authorities, support services and the residents) to foster cross-cultural engagement and cultural sensitivity on these estates.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1004-1024
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1644296
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Author-Name: Stefan R. Treffers
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Treffers
Author-Name: Randy K. Lippert
Author-X-Name-First: Randy K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lippert
Title: Condominium self-governance? Issues, external interests, and the limits of statutory reform
Abstract:
Condominiums are assumed in enabling statutes, related regulations, and statutory reforms to resemble ‘self-governing communities’ of owners whom collectively undertake numerous governance responsibilities to manage and sustain their buildings and living arrangements. Drawing from intensive interviews with condo owners and condo industry representatives in Ontario and New York State and a large qualitative survey of condo owners from Ontario, we outline five overlapping and longstanding governance issues that challenge the notion of self-governance and reveal it to be more illusion than reality. This disjuncture stems not only from common dilemmas of collective governance, but also from the growing influence of external and mostly commercial interests in condominiums broadly consistent with neo-liberalization. We also consider more recent reform attempts by Ontario and New York State and discuss statutory limitations in addressing these issues. We express doubt that condo statutory reform alone can successfully remedy the governance problems facing condo housing and proffer remedies including moving beyond the perception of condominiums as autonomous, self-governing realms.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1025-1049
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1646217
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Author-Name: Steve Rolfe
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Rolfe
Author-Name: Lisa Garnham
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Garnham
Author-Name: Isobel Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Isobel
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Author-Name: Pete Seaman
Author-X-Name-First: Pete
Author-X-Name-Last: Seaman
Author-Name: Jon Godwin
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Godwin
Author-Name: Cam Donaldson
Author-X-Name-First: Cam
Author-X-Name-Last: Donaldson
Title: Hybridity in the housing sector: examining impacts on social and private rented sector tenants in Scotland
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Housing Associations in many countries exhibit increasing levels of ‘hybridity’, as reductions in state financing for social housing, exacerbated by austerity policies since the 2008 crash, have instigated ‘enterprising’ approaches to maintaining income. Alongside this, hybrid organisations have emerged in the Private Rented Sector (PRS), responding to sectoral growth and consequent increases in vulnerable households entering private renting. These developing hybridities have been considered at a strategic level, but there has been little exploration of the impacts on tenants. This article examines two organisations, operating across the social and private rented sectors, to elucidate potential implications for tenants. The research suggests that different forms of hybridity can affect tenant outcomes and, moreover, that examining such impacts is important in understanding hybridity itself. Furthermore, the study suggests that emerging forms of hybridity, particularly in the PRS, may be blurring the boundaries between housing sectors, with implications for policy and research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1050-1072
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648770
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Author-Name: Katrina Koehn
Author-X-Name-First: Katrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Koehn
Author-Name: Alexandra B. Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Author-Name: Heather Burgess
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Burgess
Author-Name: Otto Von Bischoffshausen
Author-X-Name-First: Otto
Author-X-Name-Last: Von Bischoffshausen
Author-Name: Megan Marziali
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Marziali
Author-Name: Kate A. Salters
Author-X-Name-First: Kate A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salters
Author-Name: Robert S. Hogg
Author-X-Name-First: Robert S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hogg
Author-Name: Surita Parashar
Author-X-Name-First: Surita
Author-X-Name-Last: Parashar
Title: Understanding the pervasiveness of trauma within a housing facility for people living with HIV
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Trauma exposure is highly prevalent among marginalized people living with HIV (PLHIV). Trauma influences experiences in environments where PLHIV reside and access support services, in addition to impacting mental and physical health. This qualitative study of 24 PLHIV examined how trauma and socio-structural inequities shaped participants’ experiences living in a supportive housing facility for PLHIV, impacted health-related outcomes, and affected engagement in services. Participant narratives highlighted the frequency of traumatic experiences, which were often related to participants’ social locations (e.g., gender, race, and ethnicity). These experiences complicated how participants engaged with other residents and accessed support services within the housing facility. Participants reported self-isolation as a mechanism to avoid re-traumatization through interactions within the building, and to work towards attainment of what they viewed to be a ‘normal’ life. Supportive housing facilities that incorporate trauma-informed practices have the potential to attenuate the negative impacts of social marginalization within housing environments.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1073-1087
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648773
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Author-Name: Can Cui
Author-X-Name-First: Can
Author-X-Name-Last: Cui
Author-Name: Youqin Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Youqin
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Fenglong Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Fenglong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: A relay race: intergenerational transmission of housing inequality in urban China
Abstract:
Housing affordability has become a critical challenge worldwide, consequently constraining young generation from entering the housing market. Despite growing attention to housing inequality in China, little research has been undertaken to reveal the extent to which a family of origin contributes to housing inequality among young adults. Family resources could support the young generation to achieve homeownership not only directly through intergenerational transfers of wealth, but also indirectly through intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic characteristics. Using the 2013 Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey, this study constructs a structural equation model to examine the direct and indirect influence of parents’ resources on the young generation’s housing outcomes. The results show that the direct influence of parents’ homeownership is prominent, whereas the impact of transmitted socioeconomic status is limited. Housing advantages of parents, derived from their superior institutional status during China’s housing reforms, are being transmitted to their offspring, particularly to sons.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1088-1109
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648771
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Author-Name: Mustapha Bangura
Author-X-Name-First: Mustapha
Author-X-Name-Last: Bangura
Author-Name: Chyi Lin Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Chyi Lin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: House price diffusion of housing submarkets in Greater Sydney
Abstract:
Despite numerous studies investigating house price diffusion between regional cities, few have considered a spillover effect among housing submarkets within a metropolitan city. This study expands upon the limited literature to examine house price diffusion of housing submarkets (namely, low-priced and high-priced submarkets) in Greater Sydney, one of the most diverse housing markets in Australia, using convergence tests, cointegration techniques, Granger causality and dynamic ordinary least square cointegration tests. The results show that a long-run relationship in house prices exists between these two submarkets in Greater Sydney. Importantly, the empirical results show that a large degree of diffusion takes place from the less prosperous submarket to the high-end submarket. This supports the equity transfer hypothesis via a filtering process in which house prices in the low-priced submarket will be transmitted into the high-priced submarket. The study also finds that the low-priced submarket is the primary reactor to changes in economic fundamentals. These findings have some profound implications for policy-makers and housing investors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1110-1141
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648772
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Author-Name: Daniel Kuhlmann
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuhlmann
Title: Coveting your neighbour’s house: understanding the positional nature of residential satisfaction
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Do the characteristics of our neighbour’s house affect how we view our own home? In this paper, I examine the importance of local comparisons in housing assessments by testing whether the size of one’s home relative to others in their neighbourhood influences their housing satisfaction. I use a unique feature of the 1993 American Housing Survey, in which the US Census Bureau randomly surveyed 988 housing units around the country and a cluster of approximately 10 of their nearest neighbours. I use these data to test whether a unit’s relative size in its neighbourhood influences the occupant’s housing satisfaction while controlling for a series of occupant and unit characteristics. I find evidence that relative position matters. Those living in comparatively small houses are more likely to express dissatisfaction with their home than people living in units that are large relative to other houses in their neighbourhood cluster.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1142-1162
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1651832
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Author-Name: William Haynes
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Haynes
Title: Home: ethnographic encounters
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1163-1164
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1754004
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Author-Name: Michael Darcy
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Darcy
Title: Housing, neoliberalism and the archive: Reinterpreting the rise and fall of public housing,
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1165-1166
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1754007
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Author-Name: Jaakko Jussila
Author-X-Name-First: Jaakko
Author-X-Name-Last: Jussila
Author-Name: Katja Lähtinen
Author-X-Name-First: Katja
Author-X-Name-Last: Lähtinen
Title: Effects of institutional practices on delays in construction – views of Finnish homebuilder families
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For many consumers, buying a home is the most important purchasing decision they will ever make. Although consumer needs are well met in the detached house business, particularly compared to the multi-story house business, deficiencies still exist. These deficiencies are caused not only by companies’ strategies, but also by institutional factors discouraging the development and launch of innovative business solutions. The purpose of this study is to provide information on the role of institutional practices in the housing markets and construction sector that cause delays in detached house building processes. The analysis employed qualitative data gathered from homebuilder families by phone interviews in January 2015. According to the results, institutional practices pose many challenges in building projects (e.g. acquiring of building permits and financing). In the future, the project planning phase in particular should be developed (e.g. area construction business models and administrative services) to decrease delays caused by purchasers’ lack of decision-making power and administrative skills.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1167-1193
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1651831
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Author-Name: Anne Tervo
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Tervo
Author-Name: Jukka Hirvonen
Author-X-Name-First: Jukka
Author-X-Name-Last: Hirvonen
Title: Solo dwellers and domestic spatial needs in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland
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Solo dwellers’ housing issues have received little attention in housing studies. This article addresses their domestic spatial needs in the context of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (HMA) where dwelling sizes have decreased rapidly. A critical stance towards the trend of constructing small one-room apartments and related norm deregulation is based on the notion that dwellings should be at least 50 m2 and contain more than one room in order to overcome the shortage of space experienced by solo dwellers (N = 1453). Emphasizing the perspective of housing design, the findings provide insights into floor plan design by focussing on apartment types and sizes in relation to kitchen types and the experienced shortage of space. All in all, the article demonstrates that solo dwellers’ domestic spatial needs are more diverse than expected based on their household size and related public discussion on urban housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1194-1213
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1652251
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Author-Name: Jenny Preece
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Preece
Author-Name: Paul Hickman
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Hickman
Author-Name: Ben Pattison
Author-X-Name-First: Ben
Author-X-Name-Last: Pattison
Title: The affordability of “affordable” housing in England: conditionality and exclusion in a context of welfare reform
Abstract:
Contemporary debates around affordability have largely focused on homeownership and private renting. This article considers the affordable social rented sector in England, in which reforms to social welfare assistance, reduced security of tenure, and a shift towards mid-market rents, are changing access to ‘affordable’ housing for those on the lowest incomes. Drawing on in-depth interviews with housing associations and stakeholders, the article highlights the increasing use of affordability assessments for prospective tenants. These assessments interact with mid-market rental products to increase the potential for exclusion from affordable housing on the grounds of ability to pay. This conditionality is applied not only at the point of tenancy access, but also at renewal of fixed-term tenancies. The research highlights that the combination of welfare and housing policies, in the context of a financialising housing association sector, has the potential to erode access to social housing for those who are perceived as a financial risk, reshaping the focus of social housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1214-1238
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1653448
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Author-Name: Floris Peters
Author-X-Name-First: Floris
Author-X-Name-Last: Peters
Title: Naturalization and the transition to homeownership: an analysis of signalling in the Dutch housing market
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This article pioneers in investigating a citizenship premium for homeownership of first-generation immigrants, using Dutch register data from Statistics Netherlands (N = 106,187). I hypothesize that naturalization favourably influences the risk-calculation of lenders through positive signalling among employed migrants, who are likely to meet the basic financial criteria for credit. Results confirm that, all else constant, employed immigrants who have naturalized are 26% more likely to be homeowner. Additional analyses specifically designed to isolate endogeneity bias show that the effect is smaller, but still reveal an increase in the probability of homeownership after naturalization. Citizenship acquisition matters less for migrants with a native-born partner, suggesting that legal status discrimination may be an underlying mechanism. I find no evidence that the relevance of citizenship is conditioned by cultural distance of the origin country or the post-2008 economic crisis. I conclude that naturalization matters in the housing market, but that its relevance cannot be generalized to all migrant groups.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1239-1268
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1654601
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Author-Name: Shomon Shamsuddin
Author-X-Name-First: Shomon
Author-X-Name-Last: Shamsuddin
Author-Name: Hannah Cross
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah
Author-X-Name-Last: Cross
Title: Balancing act: the effects of race and poverty on LIHTC development in Boston
Abstract:
The debate about where to build affordable housing remains unresolved. Fair housing advocates encourage placement in low poverty neighborhoods while community development proponents support the opposite approach. Prior work notes the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is disproportionately found in Black and poor areas but the results are based on 20-year old data and ignore effects within LIHTC neighborhoods. This paper uses recent data and multivariate analysis to explore the impact of neighborhood racial composition and poverty rate on LIHTC development in the Boston metropolitan region. We find race is associated with the presence of LIHTC development while poverty is associated with the amount of LIHTC housing built, which reveals important differences between project siting and size. LIHTC units are not more heavily concentrated in Black or poor neighborhoods, conditional on LIHTC development. The findings suggest how the LIHTC program can be used to balance competing fair housing and community development priorities in developing affordable housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1269-1284
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1657072
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Author-Name: Colin Gordon
Author-X-Name-First: Colin
Author-X-Name-Last: Gordon
Author-Name: Sarah K. Bruch
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruch
Title: Home inequity: race, wealth, and housing in St. Louis since 1940
Abstract:
The persistence and severity of the gap between black and white wealth, and the role of housing discrimination in creating and sustaining this gap are both well documented. But given the chronological and spatial limits of national data sets, we have little direct empirical evidence about the local mechanisms shaping race, housing and wealth in the era when most of the damage was done. We employ the newly available 1940 full count census and the archival records of the St. Louis Assessors office to traced housing values, tenure, and disposition for a sample of 1940 owners and addresses. We show that sustained residential segregation carved the City into zones with very different trajectories of housing opportunity, and trapped African-American homeowners into long tenures of ownership in distressed and depreciating neighbourhoods.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1285-1308
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1657073
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Author-Name: Lindsey McCarthy
Author-X-Name-First: Lindsey
Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy
Title: Homeless women, material objects and home (un)making
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There is a growing body of literature that attests that self-articulation is carried out through the building, decorating and arranging of home. This, for the most part, has tended to overly focus on inhabitants of private, secure and permanent housing. Addressing a gap in literature and theory, this article explores the possibilities of homemaking for the growing sections of society in insecure housing or homelessness situations—for whom housing is neither stable, secure nor a necessarily positive entity. It does so by drawing on in-depth interviews and participant-produced photographs from women accessing homelessness services in the North of England. Of interest here is how homeless women relate to, engage with and use material culture (objects, possessions and the physical dwelling) to simultaneously make and unmake home. The article subsequently offers a new empirical focus for material culture studies which has so far largely neglected the experiences of marginalized groups.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1309-1331
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1659235
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Author-Name: Ryan Powell
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Title: Home-land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State, by Rachel Humphris, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2019, 256 pp., £80.00 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-5292-0192-5
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1332-1333
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1770483
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Author-Name: David Allatt
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Allatt
Title: The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1333-1335
Issue: 7
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1770485
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Author-Name: Jiang Chang
Author-X-Name-First: Jiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Chang
Author-Name: Hongsheng Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Hongsheng
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Zhigang Li
Author-X-Name-First: Zhigang
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Laura A. Reese
Author-X-Name-First: Laura A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Reese
Author-Name: Dongyuan Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Dongyuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Author-Name: Junjie Tan
Author-X-Name-First: Junjie
Author-X-Name-Last: Tan
Author-Name: Dixiang Xie
Author-X-Name-First: Dixiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Xie
Title: Community attachment among residents living in public and commodity housing in China
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Since China’s housing reform, increasing attention has been paid to public housing. While the quantity of public housing units is increasing, residents’ attachment to the community remains underexplored. This study evaluates the social dimension of public housing from the perspective of community attachment in Guangzhou, China. We use a mixed methods approach to examine what factors influence community attachment in both public and commodity housing communities. We first analyse quantitative data (N = 344) collected from four public housing and commodity housing communities in Guangzhou using confirmatory factor analysis, hierarchical regression, and moderation analysis. Results show that housing type has no significant effect on community attachment. Housing type moderates the relationship between community ties, perceived public services, and community attachment, whereas community ties and perceived public services are positively associated with community attachment only for commodity housing residents. Qualitative data from 21 semi-structured interviews are then used to explain the quantitative results. Our findings support the rationality of the public housing strategy in China from the perspective of community attachment. We also argue that community attachment must be analysed in a contextualized approach.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1337-1361
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1667489
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Author-Name: Naeun Gu
Author-X-Name-First: Naeun
Author-X-Name-Last: Gu
Title: Korean apartment complexes and social relationships of the residents
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Korean apartment housing, where more than half of the population lives, has drawn attention with its spatial, historical, and cultural uniqueness. Among many questions on Korean apartments, this article explains how the socio-spatial characteristics of apartment housing have impacts on the social relationships among the residents. This article first analyses the historical, socio-cultural, and spatial characteristics of Korean apartments, and then synthesizes up-to-date empirical study results to examine how the diverse characteristics can be associated with the residents’ social relations. The empirical evidence clarifies the effects of Korean apartments’ characteristics on residents’ social relations—the exclusive complex design, spatial configurations, shared spaces including community facilities, heights of the units, public/private housing types, social homogeneity, and community programs are all associated with social relations of the residents. Key methodological problems in current studies as well as implications for future apartment planning are highlighted.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1362-1389
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1667491
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Author-Name: Rowan Arundel
Author-X-Name-First: Rowan
Author-X-Name-Last: Arundel
Author-Name: Christian Lennartz
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz
Title: Housing market dualization: linking insider–outsider divides in employment and housing outcomes
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Past decades of economic growth, relatively widespread employment security and expanding mortgage markets promoted growing homeownership. Recent years have witnessed this growth undercut across advanced economies, evidenced by a rise in other tenures and increasing housing precarity. Studies have shown that these housing outcomes follow more fundamental changes in labour markets. By adapting the established concept of labour market dualization to housing, this paper examines how employment and housing positions are intertwined under late capitalism, and how their relationship has changed through the Global Financial Crisis. Examining the salient case of the Netherlands through household-level data from the LISS panel, we demonstrate that being a labour market ‘outsider’ vastly increases the likelihood of being an ‘outsider’ across housing market dimensions, in terms of housing equity, affordability and prospective asset accumulation. Comparing housing and labour dualization over 2008 and 2016, we further show that the share of multiply disadvantaged households has grown substantially, both among labour market insiders and outsiders.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1390-1414
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1667960
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Author-Name: Alexa Eisenberg
Author-X-Name-First: Alexa
Author-X-Name-Last: Eisenberg
Author-Name: Roshanak Mehdipanah
Author-X-Name-First: Roshanak
Author-X-Name-Last: Mehdipanah
Author-Name: Margaret Dewar
Author-X-Name-First: Margaret
Author-X-Name-Last: Dewar
Title: ‘It’s like they make it difficult for you on purpose’: barriers to property tax relief and foreclosure prevention in Detroit, Michigan
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All U.S. states permit local governments to recover unpaid property taxes through a tax lien foreclosure process. Tax relief policies can reduce household tax burdens and prevent the foreclosure of owner-occupied homes, but little is known about their use and effectiveness. Like other cities, Detroit, Michigan, experienced a rise in tax foreclosures following the 2008 deep recession. Michigan law requires cities to exempt low-income homeowners from some or all of their property tax obligation. Implementation of this policy, the Poverty Tax Exemption, nevertheless failed to protect many low-income homeowners from dispossession through tax foreclosure. State-mandated and locally-determined procedures placed the burden of learning about and applying for the exemption on financially stressed homeowners, restricting widespread access to this critical tax relief. Eliminating institutional barriers to tax relief can prevent many owner-occupied tax foreclosures, especially in cities where a high need for tax relief occurs under local conditions of fiscal austerity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1415-1441
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1667961
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Author-Name: Laura Bates
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Bates
Author-Name: Robin Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Tara Coleman
Author-X-Name-First: Tara
Author-X-Name-Last: Coleman
Author-Name: Janine Wiles
Author-X-Name-First: Janine
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiles
Title: ‘You can’t put your roots down’: housing pathways, rental tenure and precarity in older age
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In light of housing affordability concerns, we examine older people’s experiences of renting within a context of enduring home-ownership norms and aspirations. Adapting Clapham’s housing pathways framework, we ask: How is rental tenure experienced by older people who have encountered precarity in their housing history? Drawing on interviews with 13 older tenants, we observe the uneasy relationship between tenure insecurity and housing quality, and tensions between choice and luck in experiences of renting in later life. Three pathways related to renting in older age were apparent: life-long renting; loss of homeownership through adversity; and deliberate decisions to transition to renting. We note that challenges encountered in current and previous housing situations lead to diverse narratives of precarity in later life. These precarious experiences can be exacerbated by intersecting uncertainties associated with health, financial and personal circumstances. Older tenants’ housing pathways and experiences illuminate ways in which precarity can disrupt opportunities for ageing well and ageing in place.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1442-1467
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1673323
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Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Author-Name: Jennifer Hoolachan
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoolachan
Title: ‘Generation rent’ and the emotions of private renting: self-worth, status and insecurity amongst low-income renters
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The UK private-rented sector is increasingly accommodating a diverse range of households, many of whom are young people struggling to access other forms of housing. For those at the bottom end of the sector, who typically have limited economic resources, it is a precarious housing tenure due to its expense and insecurity, yet few studies have explored qualitatively the emotional consequences of this for well-being. We address this gap in the ‘generation rent’ literature by focusing attention on those voices that have been less prominent in the literature. Informed by the theoretical lens of ‘residential alienation’, our study illustrates the emotional toll of private renting upon low-income groups in a national context where state regulation is more limited. In doing so, we add nuance to the literature surrounding socio-economic differentiation within the UK private-rented sector. Our arguments are also relevant to an international audience given global concerns about housing precarity and the politics of housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1468-1487
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1676400
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Author-Name: Anne Green
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Title: Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1488-1489
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1798609
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Author-Name: Rowland Atkinson
Author-X-Name-First: Rowland
Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson
Title: The entangled city: crime as urban fabric in Sao Paulo
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1489-1491
Issue: 8
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1798610
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Author-Name: Hazel Easthope
Author-X-Name-First: Hazel
Author-X-Name-Last: Easthope
Author-Name: Emma Power
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Power
Author-Name: Dallas Rogers
Author-X-Name-First: Dallas
Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers
Author-Name: Rae Dufty-Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Rae
Author-X-Name-Last: Dufty-Jones
Title: Thinking relationally about housing and home
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1493-1500
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1801957
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Author-Name: Laurence Murphy
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy
Title: Performing calculative practices: residual valuation, the residential development process and affordable housing
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This article examines the ways in which post-social and relational theories have the potential to add to our understanding of housing issues. Drawing on the work of the sociologist Michel Callon and the geographer Susan Smith, it examines the ways in which housing markets are made. In particular, focusing on calculative practices it examines how the performative nature of residual valuation calculations has profound implications for the operation of housing markets and ultimately challenges the capacity of the development sector to produce affordable housing. In addition, using the example of planning practice in England, it examines the ways in which potentially transgressive adaptations of ‘locked-in’ calculative practices are resisted. It is argued that a research focus on calculative practices challenges ‘externalized’ understandings of housing markets and has the potential to render the performative nature of calculations visible.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1501-1517
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1594713
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Author-Name: Hilton Penfold
Author-X-Name-First: Hilton
Author-X-Name-Last: Penfold
Author-Name: Gordon Waitt
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon
Author-X-Name-Last: Waitt
Author-Name: Pauline McGuirk
Author-X-Name-First: Pauline
Author-X-Name-Last: McGuirk
Author-Name: Alfred Wellington
Author-X-Name-First: Alfred
Author-X-Name-Last: Wellington
Title: Indigenous relational understandings of the house-as-home: embodied co-becoming with Jerrinja Country
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The paper considers what housing studies can learn from Indigenous understandings of the house-as-home. Explored through Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies of the house-as-home, the objective of the paper is to offer nuanced understandings of the social and material work of the house itself in the making and unmaking of home. We draw on an Indigenous/non-Indigenous collaborative research, led by Jerrinja elders. The research design included veranda yarning sessions and Indigenous talking circles. Three dimensions emerged strongly from Jerrinja people’s understandings of the making and unmaking of house-as-home: home as an objective capacity, an aesthetic sensibility, and an affective experience of Country. These dimensions are discussed through a relational framework that combines Panelli’s discussion of ‘Country-as-home’, Prout’s idea of ‘kinship-as-home’ and Bissell’s thinking around materiality in achieving comfort. The paper concludes by reflecting on the importance of including Indigenous knowledge if housing studies as a field is to go beyond a Western cultural politics of the house-as-home.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1518-1533
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1676399
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Author-Name: Sophia Maalsen
Author-X-Name-First: Sophia
Author-X-Name-Last: Maalsen
Title: Revising the smart home as assemblage
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Although aspirations for the ‘smart home’ have existed since the 1950s, the recent understanding of smart technological interventions as ecosystems of policy, material, people, ICT and data that drive social and spatial change, suggests we need to revise the smart home. From increased leisure time to increased energy efficiency – the smart home has promised, and frequently failed to deliver its utopian promises. First, this paper argues the smart home can be conceptualized as an assemblage of social, economic, political and technological apparatuses. Thinking about the smart home as assemblage allows us to see the network of relationships which constitute it, the work they do in the world, and the subsequent possibilities of becoming. Second, the paper offers innovative methodologies for researching the smart home that draws on the agentive capacities of ‘smart’ technologies. Such unpacking is critical to understand the work and possibilities of the smart home. The methodologies are productive for thinking about the future of housing research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1534-1549
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1655531
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Author-Name: Eric Goldfischer
Author-X-Name-First: Eric
Author-X-Name-Last: Goldfischer
Title: From encampments to hotspots: the changing policing of homelessness in New York City
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This article examines a shift in language and enforcement around homeless dwellings in New York City that occurred in 2015. Amidst a rising tide of anti-homeless sentiment, city officials and police department administrators switched from calling such dwellings ‘encampments’ to ‘homeless hotspots’, which were defined as anywhere with two or more homeless people in public space. Using data from city policy memos, interviews with homeless people, ethnographic fieldwork with a homeless-led organization, and data from the city’s 311 user-driven complaint system, this article argues that in practice, the shift to hotspots demonstrates the relational geography of homelessness. Selective enforcement of the visible ‘homeless hotspot’ took place in recently-gentrified neighbourhoods, suggesting that the idea of a homeless hotspot itself and the financialized home are co-produced and co-dependent, created through one another. This relational geography, in turn, sheds light on the pervasiveness of anti-homelessness, force that changes with political winds but retains its power in producing borders and boundaries of urban space.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1550-1567
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1655532
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Author-Name: Michael R. Glass
Author-X-Name-First: Michael R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Glass
Author-Name: Rachael A. Woldoff
Author-X-Name-First: Rachael A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Woldoff
Author-Name: Lisa M. Morrison
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Morrison
Title: Saving the neighbourhood: understanding tenant activism in middle-class Manhattan
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Recent debates question whether assemblage urbanism provides an appropriate framework for addressing the housing question under late capitalism. On one side, proponents note the capacity of assemblage to reveal the complex emergence of events, places and processes, whereas critics argue assemblage accounts provide deep empirical detail but avoid engaging with political economy. This paper addresses such criticism through an assemblage account of local activism in the context of ownership changes that threatened the rent-regulated Stuyvesant Town neighbourhood in Manhattan. We adopt an assemblage methodology to examine this case of privileged tenant activism and find that it provides an additive lens for understanding the networks of relations that influenced the community during the mid-2000s. Noting that assemblage and the financial ecologies approach are similar in their attendance to relational thinking, we describe how these approaches can be used in conjunction to better understand the linkages between housing and financialization.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1568-1585
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1693520
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Author-Name: Ashraful Alam
Author-X-Name-First: Ashraful
Author-X-Name-Last: Alam
Author-Name: Andrew McGregor
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: McGregor
Author-Name: Donna Houston
Author-X-Name-First: Donna
Author-X-Name-Last: Houston
Title: Women’s mobility, neighbourhood socio-ecologies and homemaking in urban informal settlements
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The paper contributes to the growing research on relational thinking about housing and home by exploring the informal homes of rural migrants in Khulna city, Bangladesh. The concept of ‘unbounding’ is used to trace the fluidity and connections established between migrant homes and neighbourhood socio-ecologies. Walking interviews exploring women’s livelihoods reveal that different expendable agencies of the urban environment (e.g. trash, weeds and animal excreta) create conditions for labour in which migrant women hold specific competencies to secure essential resources for home. Unbounding positions home within a socio-ecology of multiple houses that women traverse to support their urban living. The approach offers opportunities to examine the unique ways urban homeless populations strategically as well as affectively engage with under-recognized agencies and actors in informal settlements. Unbounding provides a useful lens with which to raise new conceptual and empirical questions about housing and home in relation to the city that contributes to the homes and livelihoods of marginalized populations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1586-1606
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1708277
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Author-Name: Julia Heslop
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Heslop
Author-Name: Colin McFarlane
Author-X-Name-First: Colin
Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane
Author-Name: Emma Ormerod
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Ormerod
Title: Relational housing across the North–South divide: learning between Albania, Uganda, and the UK
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In this paper, we examine how to understand housing as a relational process. Drawing on research in three diverse cities, we stage an unlikely dialogue that brings together narratives of housing across the global North–South divide. In doing so, we are concerned with thinking housing relationally in two broad senses: first, housing as a relational composite of economy, space, politics, legality and materials, structured by particular relations of power and resource inequality. Second, housing as a space of learning through comparison, which connects geographically and culturally in distinct cities. What do we learn about relational thinking with regards to housing when we compare it across the global North–South divide? In response, we explore a dialogue between a set of cities often off-the-map in debates on housing and urban research: Gateshead (UK), Kampala (Uganda) and Tirana (Albania). In comparing how housing is produced, distributed and inhabited, we seek to contribute to a wider understanding of the relationalities of housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1607-1627
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1722801
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: Understanding affordability
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1628-1629
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1811447
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Author-Name: Alex Schwartz
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwartz
Title: Housing Policy in Australia: A Case for System Reform
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1630-1631
Issue: 9
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1813958
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Author-Name: Paulo Nascimento Neto
Author-X-Name-First: Paulo
Author-X-Name-Last: Nascimento Neto
Author-Name: Luis Salinas Arreortua
Author-X-Name-First: Luis
Author-X-Name-Last: Salinas Arreortua
Title: Financialization of housing policies in Latin America: a comparative perspective of Brazil and Mexico
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The transformation of housing policies worldwide by the application of capital from the global financial markets has been the subject of recent research. This model leads to the reshaping of housing policies into a business model, transforming housing from a basic right to a commodity based on the ability of individuals to access credit. This issue is particularly significant in Latin American countries; the latter have been overshadowed by a historical process of urban exploitation, especially in metropolitan areas, which are territories of socioeconomic concentration. Thus, this article investigates the factors that have caused obstacles to the coordination of housing policies in metropolitan areas of Latin American countries, based on a case study of the policies promoted by the national governments of Brazil and Mexico. The results highlight the need to reflect on the process of the financialization of housing at the national and sub-national levels, which represents a major obstacle to integrated, metropolitan housing management.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1633-1660
Issue: 10
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1680815
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Author-Name: Jenni Kuoppa
Author-X-Name-First: Jenni
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuoppa
Author-Name: Niina Nieminen
Author-X-Name-First: Niina
Author-X-Name-Last: Nieminen
Author-Name: Sampo Ruoppila
Author-X-Name-First: Sampo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruoppila
Author-Name: Markus Laine
Author-X-Name-First: Markus
Author-X-Name-Last: Laine
Title: Elements of desirability: exploring meaningful dwelling features from resident’s perspective
Abstract:
The need for more dweller-oriented approaches to the development of residential environments is widely agreed upon. In the theoretical discussion, the concept of affordances has been seen as promising in grasping the desirable dwelling features and how they become meaningful in everyday uses. However, the concept has been used surprisingly little in empirical housing studies. This article introduces an inventive method to study affordances and contributes to the understanding of the concept by reflecting its usefulness in the context of housing research. The method consists of focus group interviews guided by participant-produced photographs, which allows the participants more freedom to define what they consider meaningful in their dwellings. The results reveal some desirable dwelling features largely uncovered by the public or scholarly discussions yet. From residents’ perspective, developing higher quality housing means paying greater attention to the mundane “secondary spaces”, the sensory experiences and the related atmospheric qualities, as well as the continuums between interior and exterior spaces. The results also emphasize an active role of the resident in discovering and shaping the affordances.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1661-1683
Issue: 10
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1680812
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Author-Name: Suvi Raitakari
Author-X-Name-First: Suvi
Author-X-Name-Last: Raitakari
Title: Explaining homelessness as a movement using metaphors in European academic writings of homelessness
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The article shows how researchers conceptualize first-person experiences of homelessness using metaphors of movement. It is argued that the choice of metaphors in academic writing is consequential and critical—by making these choices, researchers hold the power to interpret and portray personal experiences and causalities from particular viewpoint. The present study scrutinized peer-reviewed academic articles published in three housing and homelessness research journals with European affiliations: European Journal of Homelessness (EJH), Housing Studies (HS), and Housing, Theory and Society (HTS) during the years 2012–2016. A data collection process resulted in 15 articles concentrating on homeless persons’ experiences. Articles were analyzed by applying a discursive metaphor analysis. The findings are presented by focusing on the predominant movement metaphor of ‘pathways’ and the more rarely used movement metaphor of ‘circle’. The discursive power of metaphors needs to be further studied and critically reflected in the housing and homelessness studies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1684-1700
Issue: 10
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1680813
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Author-Name: Loretta Lees
Author-X-Name-First: Loretta
Author-X-Name-Last: Lees
Author-Name: Hannah White
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah
Author-X-Name-Last: White
Title: The social cleansing of London council estates: everyday experiences of ‘accumulative dispossession’
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London’s council estates and their residents are under threat like never before. Council tenants are being forced out of their homes due to estate renewal, welfare reforms, poverty, and the precarity of low-income work. Social cleansing can be understood as a geographical project made up of processes, practices, and policies designed to remove council estate residents from space and place, what we call a ‘new accumulative form of (state-led) gentrification’. We outline these accumulative processes, practices and policies, but more importantly we present grounded, empirical evidence of council tenants and leaseholders’ everyday experiences of dispossession, focusing our lens on three south London boroughs identified as eviction hotspots.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1701-1722
Issue: 10
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1680814
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Author-Name: Jürgen Friedrichs
Author-X-Name-First: Jürgen
Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrichs
Author-Name: Jörg Blasius
Author-X-Name-First: Jörg
Author-X-Name-Last: Blasius
Title: Neighborhood change – results from a dwelling panel
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One major focus of urban research is the study of neighborhood change over time. We argue that a dwelling panel, ie a panel in which the dwelling is the sample unit, is the most appropriate method to study such changes, which we demonstrate using gentrification as an example. We use data from a four-wave dwelling panel in two neighborhoods of Cologne, Germany, with N = 1009 households participating in the first wave. We first discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a dwelling panel compared to a conventional panel, as well as compared to repeated cross-sectional surveys in the same neighborhood. Second, we show the different results obtained from both panels, while describing the process of change which alters the composition of social groups throughout the process of gentrification. We then document changes in unit rental costs and residents’ years of schooling based on data from the two panels. In the concluding section, we outline opportunities for further research using dwelling panels.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1723-1741
Issue: 10
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1699032
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Author-Name: Chris Batt
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Batt
Title: The property lobby: the hidden reality behind the housing crisis, Bob Colenutt, Bristol, Policy Press, 2020, 157 pp., £16.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1447348160
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1742-1743
Issue: 10
Volume: 35
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1805864
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Author-Name: Seham Elmansuri
Author-X-Name-First: Seham
Author-X-Name-Last: Elmansuri
Author-Name: Barry Goodchild
Author-X-Name-First: Barry
Author-X-Name-Last: Goodchild
Title: Tradition, modernity and gender in the Arab home: a study from Tripoli (Libya)
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This socio-spatial study explores the meaning of home in an Arab context in terms of the response of residents to three case study sites that reflect different eras of development and involve different house types- traditional courtyard houses in the Medina and two collective housing estates. Based upon the triadic distinctions of Lefèbvre, a mixed methodology is applied to these case study sites, with relevant information coming from interviews and focus groups with architects and residents, a satisfaction survey and a space syntax analysis. Unlike many previous studies, the interviews and focus groups document the experience and views of female residents. The results highlight the continuing impact of religion and culture on the meaning of the home. The Arab-Libyan home constitutes a family and a feminine ideal, based on gender segregation and female privacy. The traditional courtyard house offers a suitable house type, but not the only possible type that meets the practices and preferences of Arab Libyan families.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-22
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1676401
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Author-Name: Stefen MacAskill
Author-X-Name-First: Stefen
Author-X-Name-Last: MacAskill
Author-Name: Rodney A. Stewart
Author-X-Name-First: Rodney A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stewart
Author-Name: Eduardo Roca
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Roca
Author-Name: Benjamin Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Oz Sahin
Author-X-Name-First: Oz
Author-X-Name-Last: Sahin
Title: Green building, split-incentives and affordable rental housing policy
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We investigate the notion of capitalizing on investments in energy, water and gas efficiency within the context of affordable rental housing subsidy schemes; how associated utility savings offer a means to deliver policy designed to mitigate for issues of split-incentives. An Australian case study representing a typical affordable housing development is analyzed for two scenarios - a ‘Business as usual’ and ‘Green-certified’ case. Over a 10-year rental tenancy, operational utility efficiencies, achieved through green building principles are modelled to reduce total housing costs by 1.7–3.8% (AUD $5–18 per week), for one- and four-person households, respectively. Over the building lifecycle, the net present value of improvements are forecasted to be positive, signalling favourable support for policy interventions. The findings provide evidence to support a broader notion of ‘housing assistance’ to one that includes improved standards on residential utility efficiency. We present three policy options on how to deliver these benefits to stakeholders.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 23-45
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1677861
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Author-Name: Gregg Colburn
Author-X-Name-First: Gregg
Author-X-Name-Last: Colburn
Title: The use of markets in housing policy: a comparative analysis of housing subsidy programs
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Many countries use demand-side housing subsidies to support low-income households. Unlike public or social housing programs, demand-side subsidies require recipients to enter the private market to use their benefits. The focus of this study is the experiences of assisted households in the private housing market and the outcomes they achieve. Given the link between policy design and program outcomes and because all housing subsidy programs are not created equal, one might expect the experiences and outcomes of recipients to also vary. To examine this relationship, using data from national housing surveys, this study analyzes cross-national variation in housing support programs and compares the housing and neighbourhood outcomes of subsidized households in the US, the UK, and the Netherlands. The findings of this study highlight that market context and policy design are associated with housing outcomes. In particular, the strong tenant supports and favourable design of housing assistance in the Netherlands is associated with favourable outcomes for subsidized households. In the US and the UK, subsidized households, in general, underperform their unsubsidized peers. This article underscores the importance of institutional context and program design when public assistance programs require recipients to enter the private market to use a benefit.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 46-79
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1686129
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Author-Name: Seungbeom Kang
Author-X-Name-First: Seungbeom
Author-X-Name-Last: Kang
Title: Beyond households: regional determinants of housing instability among low-income renters in the United States
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Scholars have increasingly highlighted housing instability, often represented by negative forms of residential mobility, as a growing problem in the United States. However, little empirical evidence exists about the role of regional conditions in making low-income renter households more vulnerable to housing instability. This paper examines the regional determinants of housing instability by analyzing Panel Study of Income Dynamics data uniquely combined with several secondary data sources. This study confirms that a significant regional variation in the likelihood of experiencing housing instability exists across metropolitan areas, even when all measurable household-level characteristics are controlled. The results reveal that low-income renter households are likely to experience housing instability in metropolitan areas where the poverty rate and the degree of automobile dependency are high. Notably, low-income renter households are placed at a heightened risk of housing instability when they have no private vehicle and reside in highly automobile-dependent metropolitan areas.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 80-109
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1676402
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Author-Name: Lyrian Daniel
Author-X-Name-First: Lyrian
Author-X-Name-Last: Daniel
Author-Name: Emma Baker
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Baker
Author-Name: Andrew Beer
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Beer
Author-Name: Ngoc Thien Anh Pham
Author-X-Name-First: Ngoc Thien Anh
Author-X-Name-Last: Pham
Title: Cold housing: evidence, risk and vulnerability
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Cold housing is not widely recognized as a problem that occurs in mild-climate countries like Australia. But emerging evidence suggests that it is an important, albeit under-acknowledged, problem that may contribute to high rates of ill health and mortality during the winter months. We bring together two historically important theoretical developments to better understand the social and economic distribution of cold housing. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey between 2001 and 2016, we find that the characteristics of households unable to adequately heat their homes strongly reflects known patterns of inequality across, for example, tenure, employment and health, but that there are also more unexpected trends in age and income. Critically, our analyses demonstrate that individuals’ vulnerability to cold housing risk can be anticipated, which has important implications for public policy and community-based interventions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 110-130
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1686130
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Author-Name: Terje Wessel
Author-X-Name-First: Terje
Author-X-Name-Last: Wessel
Author-Name: Erik Bjørnson Lunke
Author-X-Name-First: Erik Bjørnson
Author-X-Name-Last: Lunke
Title: Raising children in the inner city: still a mismatch between housing and households?
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Recent research suggests that inner-city parents have become more loyal to urban living. If this is true, it is certainly good news for compact-city policies, which incorporate residential stability as part of the package. We investigate this issue with empirical evidence from Oslo, using longitudinal data for first-time parents with native and non-native background. Our first analysis tracks two parental cohorts, from 1995 and 2005, over 10 years, and shows that non-native parents have become less stable, whereas native parents have the same stability in both periods. A second observation is that native parents, and only this group, are more stable in areas with spacious dwellings. Finally, we also show that parents who leave the inner city, especially non-natives, increase their representation in low-rise houses. The results as a whole indicate that minority integration and compact-city policies may collide. They also indicate that Oslo, despite green city awards, has failed to create stable inner-city communities. We conclude with policy recommendations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 131-151
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1686128
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Author-Name: Tomoko Kubo
Author-X-Name-First: Tomoko
Author-X-Name-Last: Kubo
Title: Housing in post-growth society: Japan on the edge of social transition, Yosuke Hirayama and Misa Izuhara
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 152-153
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2020
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1858528
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Author-Name: Maxime Felder
Author-X-Name-First: Maxime
Author-X-Name-Last: Felder
Title: Home and community, by Sandra Costa Santos, Nadia Bertolino, Stephen Hicks, Camilla Lewis and Vanessa May
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 154-155
Issue: 1
Volume: 36
Year: 2020
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1858529
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Author-Name: Joe Humphries
Author-X-Name-First: Joe
Author-X-Name-Last: Humphries
Author-Name: Sarah L. Canham
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Canham
Title: Conceptualizing the shelter and housing needs and solutions of homeless older adults
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Estimates of the number of homeless older adults are highly variable, but the proportion is expected to increase in Western countries as the general population ages. Much of the current literature on homelessness among older adults focuses on the causes of homelessness in later life, along with the health outcomes and service needs of this population. However, there is a dearth of research investigating potential shelter/housing solutions specific to homeless older adults that would meet their unique needs. This scoping review investigated the needs for housing homeless older adults and potential solutions. Based on thematic analysis of findings from 19 sources of primary research, we developed a conceptual model that suggests distinct, senior-specific needs and shelter/housing solutions of both newly and chronically homeless older adults.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 157-179
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1687854
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Author-Name: Albert Adu-Gyamfi
Author-X-Name-First: Albert
Author-X-Name-Last: Adu-Gyamfi
Author-Name: Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Brandful
Author-X-Name-Last: Cobbinah
Author-Name: Michael Poku-Boansi
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Poku-Boansi
Title: Positionality of women in homeownership: a process of gender contract negotiation
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Literature is replete with information indicating that the roles, status and positions of men and women in society have evolved significantly over the years. Yet, there is a little understanding of how such changes have occurred in homeownership attainment in developing countries where there is male dominance. Using Ghana as a case study, this study explores the evolution of women’s role in homeownership. Findings show that although men exercise greater control in terms of investment and ownership, gender contract renegotiations often lead to an increase in women’s participation in homeownership mainly in supportive capacities. Renegotiations have mostly occurred to demystify the normative ideology tying men with the sole responsibility of housing investments. As a consequence, there is evidence of women making financial contributions, supervising construction activities and exploring cost-saving measures to aid the process of family house construction. Generally, findings show that homeownership enhances reproductive roles, uplifts status of men and acknowledges the contributions of women. Similarly, new norms of inheritance supported by statutory and customary law offer ownership stakes to women. In view of this benefit, women tend to be motivated towards providing support for the attainment of family homeownership.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 180-212
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1690131
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Author-Name: Iain White
Author-X-Name-First: Iain
Author-X-Name-Last: White
Author-Name: Gauri Nandedkar
Author-X-Name-First: Gauri
Author-X-Name-Last: Nandedkar
Title: The housing crisis as an ideological artefact: Analysing how political discourse defines, diagnoses, and responds
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It is a truism that politicians from countries around the world claim to be in the midst of a ‘housing crisis’. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause? This paper provides a critical evaluation of the emergence and scope of political discourse connected to the housing crisis in New Zealand under three National Party led governments (2008-2017), with a view to better understanding the ways in which the issue has been problematized in politics and operationalized in policy. It finds that although researchers draw upon multiple strands of evidence and recognize housing as a complex problem, the political framing of a housing crisis is simpler and shows a closer relationship to long standing ideological perspectives, notably an inefficient planning system and low supply of development land. This raises critical questions for how housing researchers can better influence politics and challenge both the lived experience of crisis and existing claims of normalcy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 213-234
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1697801
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Author-Name: Paul Hickman
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Hickman
Title: Understanding social housing tenants' rent payment behaviour: evidence from Great Britain
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The Governments of many Western countries have been increasingly concerned with influencing the behaviour of their citizens. One way that they have done this is by giving them new responsibilities. In the UK, an example of this is ‘direct payment' which sees social housing tenants in receipt of income-related housing allowance (‘Housing Benefit') assuming responsibility for paying their rent. Drawing on a comprehensive data-set generated by the direct payment pilot evaluation, this paper examines tenants' rent payment behaviour. It draws on a conceptual framework from behavioural science - COM-B - which presents behaviour (B) as a result of the interaction between the capabilities (C) of subjects, the opportunity (O) they have to enact behaviours, and their motivation (M). Tenants' behaviour was influenced by all elements of the model, with it being more than just a consequence of opportunity, and their financial circumstances, specifically, although it was the most important one.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 235-257
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1697799
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Author-Name: Valesca Lima
Author-X-Name-First: Valesca
Author-X-Name-Last: Lima
Title: Urban austerity and activism: direct action against neoliberal housing policies
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The struggle for affordable housing reflects the widespread structural tensions that exist between property markets and the provision of housing. Recent years have seen frequent protests that have highlighted problems in the Irish housing sector, along with the emergence of various housing movements, especially in Dublin, where the lack of affordable housing is severe. This paper argues that these campaigns have contributed to the increased public debate on commodified housing models, signalling a strong demand for a coherent and inclusive national housing policy in Ireland. In particular, I examine the activities of the Home Sweet Home movement (HSH), a collective organization of housing activists that occupied the Apollo House building in Dublin’s inner city in 2016–2017. This movement challenged private housing market solutions and the central role played by financialisation in economic and social life. Whilst considering that Ireland is suffering a housing crisis which cannot be easily solved, this paper combines a critical analysis of housing movements that resist neoliberal housing models, the HSH action in this context, and the challenges involved in changing the government’s approach to housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 258-277
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1697800
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Author-Name: Xu Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Xu
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Jan Van Weesep
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Weesep
Author-Name: Shuangshuang Tang
Author-X-Name-First: Shuangshuang
Author-X-Name-Last: Tang
Title: To move or not to move? Residential mobility of rural migrants in a medium-sized Chinese city: the case of Yangzhou
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This article evaluates the residential mobility decisions of rural migrants with a history of living in urban villages in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu province. Many were displaced by its demolition–redevelopment policy (forced movers); some chose to move voluntarily to improve their housing utility (voluntary movers); others decided to stay put in substandard housing (voluntary non-movers). A survey of their current housing conditions revealed that, compared to voluntary non-movers, most forced movers had not become better-off. But the voluntary movers had done much better than both of the other groups, implying that a timely move could have led to their improved housing conditions. However, even voluntary moves proved to have a downside, namely, that voluntary migrants would likely end up living somewhere more remote from coveted facilities and locations of jobs in the inner city. Logistic regression analysis showed how differences in socio-demographic characteristics between voluntary movers and non-movers could explain why some decided to move. For those who decided to stay, the analysis also indicates how the advantages of the current location may compensate for housing deficiencies. These results correspond to the motives migrants expressed in supplementary in-depth interviews: migrants intending to become permanent residents were most likely to move for better housing. The findings also point to structural constraints on residential mobility. For poor migrants without a Jiangsu hukou, moving to better housing was simply not an option. This suggests that further hukou reform is needed if urban redevelopment is not only meant to improve the image of the city but also the migrants’ housing conditions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 278-301
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1701634
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Author-Name: Tanya Ekanayake
Author-X-Name-First: Tanya
Author-X-Name-Last: Ekanayake
Title: Planning Australia’s healthy built environments, by Jennifer Kent and Susan Thompson
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 302-303
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1858550
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Author-Name: Maria Faraone
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Faraone
Title: 5 Rules for tomorrow’s cities: Design in an age of demographic change, and a disappearing Middle class, by Patrick M. Condon
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 303-305
Issue: 2
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1858552
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Author-Name: Richmond Juvenile Ehwi
Author-X-Name-First: Richmond Juvenile
Author-X-Name-Last: Ehwi
Author-Name: Nicky Morrison
Author-X-Name-First: Nicky
Author-X-Name-Last: Morrison
Author-Name: Peter Tyler
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Tyler
Title: Gated communities and land administration challenges in Ghana: reappraising the reasons why people move into gated communities
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Gated communities are proliferating in most developing countries. Scholars, however, continue to rely on mainstream demand-based arguments mostly framed in developed countries to explain this phenomenon, without giving sufficient attention to context-specific factors. Presenting the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana and using household surveys and key informant interviews, this article emphasizes Ghana’s land administration challenges and demonstrates how these challenges influence people’s reasons to move into gated communities. Using principal component analysis, our results show that land administration challenges significantly influenced the decisions of households living in inner-city gated communities relative to their counterparts in peri-urban areas. However, in peri-urban areas, both mainstream demand-based arguments and land administration challenges were equally influential. Household and expert interviews illuminate our results. Although, empirically, this paper focuses on Ghana, the importance of the land factor and its spatio-temporal dimension has considerable resonance elsewhere, as scholars across the globe grapple with understanding why gated communities continue apace.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 307-335
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1702927
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Author-Name: Damian Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Damian
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Author-Name: Madeleine Stout
Author-X-Name-First: Madeleine
Author-X-Name-Last: Stout
Title: Does Housing First policy seek to fulfil the right to housing? The case of Alberta, Canada
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Housing First (HF) operates on the premise that permanent housing is the first need of people experiencing chronic homelessness. It understands housing as a resource to which everyone is entitled, not a privilege that must be earned. In these respects, HF is consistent with housing as a human right. However, little is known about if or how HF policy seeks to fulfil this right. To address this gap, we conducted keyword and content analyses of HF policy in Alberta, Canada. Direct references to the right to housing were few in number and lacking in detail and justification. Terms related to rights were also seldom referenced, although the presence and absence of ‘conditions’ within HF were discussed. Plans to end homelessness focused on affordability, but failed to consider other necessary components of the right to housing. Greater engagement with international human rights law would provide HF policy with a normative foundation for addressing homelessness as a severe breach of the right to housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 336-358
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1707782
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Author-Name: Michelle Norris
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Norris
Author-Name: Aideen Hayden
Author-X-Name-First: Aideen
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayden
Title: Funding incentives, disincentives and vulnerabilities in the Irish council housing sector
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This article examines the incentives and vulnerabilities generated by arrangements for funding local government-provided social housing in Ireland (aka council housing). These arrangements are unusual in a Western European context because the capital costs of providing this housing are almost entirely covered by central government grants, rather than non-governmental debt finance as is the norm elsewhere. Furthermore, no housing allowances are provided to council tenants in Ireland; rather affordability is ensured by charging rents which are linked (progressively) to tenants’ incomes. Although the character and development of Irish council housing has of course been shaped by macro level political, ideological, social and economic factors, the argument offered here is that funding arrangements have also exerted a strong independent influence. These arrangements render Irish council housing more vulnerable to retrenchment and residualization than the social housing funding arrangements used in most other Western European countries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 359-379
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1707781
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Author-Name: Lynne McMordie
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: McMordie
Title: Avoidance strategies: stress, appraisal and coping in hostel accommodation
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Living in temporary accommodation (TA) can impact negatively on social and emotional well-being, particularly where it is poor-quality, large-scale, or congregate in nature. None-the-less, the ‘avoidance’ of TA, where an individual will sleep rough or squat when a bed space is available for their use, often provokes puzzlement on the part of the public, service providers and policy makers. Homeless people who abandon or avoid TA are often viewed as holding beliefs, characteristics or traits that render them unable or unwilling to make choices which prioritise their own well-being. Drawing on cognitive appraisal theory, and qualitative testimony from those with direct experience of TA in Belfast, this article challenges these perspectives, arguing that the avoidance of TA is better understood as a rational and reasoned response to an environment where intolerable levels of stress often pertain and individual control over stressors is extremely limited.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 380-396
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769036
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Author-Name: Troy W. Heffernan
Author-X-Name-First: Troy W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Heffernan
Author-Name: Emma E. Heffernan
Author-X-Name-First: Emma E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Heffernan
Author-Name: Nina Reynolds
Author-X-Name-First: Nina
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds
Author-Name: Wai Jin (Thomas) Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Wai Jin (Thomas)
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Paul Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Title: Towards an environmentally sustainable rental housing sector
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Rental houses in Australia represent approximately one third of all homes, and this proportion has been growing over recent decades. However, the quality, comfort and environmental credentials of these houses are often poor, particularly when compared to owner-occupied homes. With climate change, the urgency increases to move to a more sustainable built environment. Consequently, exploring how to make rental properties more sustainable warrants further investigation and action. Using data gathered from a broad range of experts through a four-stage Policy Delphi technique, findings reveal four key enabling forces: communication, facilitation, incentivization, and regulation. These forces both influence and are influenced by rental market conditions. A conceptual framework is presented which highlights the interplay between the stakeholders and enabling forces, which has the potential to lead to a Win-Win-Win scenario for landlords, tenants and the environment. With a clear social and environmental imperative to move to a more sustainable rental sector, this research presents a pathway to reach this goal.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 397-420
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1709626
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Author-Name: Sophie-May Kerr
Author-X-Name-First: Sophie-May
Author-X-Name-Last: Kerr
Author-Name: Natascha Klocker
Author-X-Name-First: Natascha
Author-X-Name-Last: Klocker
Author-Name: Chris Gibson
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibson
Title: From backyards to balconies: cultural norms and parents’ experiences of home in higher-density housing
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Families increasingly make home in higher-density housing, a major transition for low-density suburban cities. Adjusting to everyday life in apartments requires distinctive material and emotional homemaking practices, particularly for families with children. Dominant cultural norms frame detached housing as more appropriate, with apartments merely transitional, or ‘unhomely’ and unsuitable for children. Scarcely has research examined how cultural norms shape parents’ experiences of home in apartments. This paper responds by analysing experiences of 18 apartment-dwelling families in Sydney, Australia. Conceptual influences from emotional geographies reveal the work of making apartments home. While parents associate apartment living with lifestyle benefits, their sense of home is undermined by persistent questioning of parenting and housing choices. Contradictory experiences result in doubt about future capacities to make apartments home. Alongside uncertainty, parents feel guilty about ‘failing’ children through housing constraints and choices. Such experiences signal a need to rethink urban consolidation discourses, planning regulations and building design to better recognise the diversity of apartment residents.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 421-443
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1709625
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Author-Name: Martha Mingay
Author-X-Name-First: Martha
Author-X-Name-Last: Mingay
Title: Reconstructing public housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 444-445
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1898772
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Author-Name: Yosuke Hirayama
Author-X-Name-First: Yosuke
Author-X-Name-Last: Hirayama
Title: Neoliberal urbanism, contested cities and housing in Asia
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 446-447
Issue: 3
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1898778
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Author-Name: Shenjing He
Author-X-Name-First: Shenjing
Author-X-Name-Last: He
Author-Name: Ying Chang
Author-X-Name-First: Ying
Author-X-Name-Last: Chang
Title: A zone of exception? Interrogating the hybrid housing regime and nested enclaves in China-Singapore Suzhou-Industrial-Park
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Focusing on the highly ‘successful’ China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), this study taps into a less explored topic of housing development in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) through the conceptual lenses of housing regime and enclave urbanism. Drawing on empirical evidence garnered from interviews, survey, observation, and secondary sources, this study transcends methodological nationalism and cityism to present a situated and close-up examination of housing regime at the intra-urban level. It also enriches the concept of enclave urbanism by delving into the nested enclave structure in SIP. A hybrid housing regime featuring a (neo)liberal logic in the disguise of the semi-social democratic regime for landless farmers and a productivist regime for the variegated workforce is identified. Two key players – the local state and transnational corporations, via formal and informal institutions, gave rise to a nested enclave structure. Instead of ‘a zone of exception’, SIP epitomises the ubiquitous neoliberalisation and aggravated precarity endured by low-skilled migrants, and foregrounds housing stratification and segregation within SEZs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 592-616
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1814208
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Author-Name: Julia Verdouw
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Verdouw
Title: Airbnb, Short-Term rentals and the future of housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 618-619
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928493
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Author-Name: Ngai Ming Yip
Author-X-Name-First: Ngai Ming
Author-X-Name-Last: Yip
Author-Name: Jie Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Jie
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: The role of housing in China’s social transformation
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 449-454
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1914410
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Author-Name: Yourong Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Yourong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Jianyu Ren
Author-X-Name-First: Jianyu
Author-X-Name-Last: Ren
Author-Name: Chengdong Yi
Author-X-Name-First: Chengdong
Author-X-Name-Last: Yi
Author-Name: Youqin Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Youqin
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Xiulian Ma
Author-X-Name-First: Xiulian
Author-X-Name-Last: Ma
Title: The temporal change of housing inequality in urban China
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This paper reveals temporal changes of housing inequality in housing space and access in urban China and explores the effects over time of underlying socioeconomic factors (education, occupation, industrial type, and migration status). Household-level micro data from 2000 and 2010 of the national population censuses were pooled. Our results showed that inequality in per capita space increased during the new century’s first decade, both within and between social classes. Regression analysis and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition showed that although the changes in these socioeconomic factors partially explain the enlarged inequality in per capita space, the changes in these factors’ returns were the main causes. For housing access, there were no signs of prioritization in the allocations of state-subsidized housing for those in the low-ranked social strata. Further, the roles of education, occupation, and monopoly industry in accessibility to subsidized housing gradually weakened, and the allocation of subsidized housing began covering other households besides local urban residents.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 544-566
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1788711
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Author-Name: Jin Zhu
Author-X-Name-First: Jin
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu
Author-Name: Bingqin Li
Author-X-Name-First: Bingqin
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: The end of ‘toleration’? Policy ambiguity and converted-housing occupancy in China
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An uncommon ‘homeowner’ protest in Shanghai in 2017 manifested public anger towards a government crackdown on commercial property converted apartments (CPCAs). Spotlighting this previously hidden but significant Chinese housing submarket, the episode highlighted ‘homeowner’ concerns over insecure property rights. Internationally, commercial-to-residential conversion is nothing new. Indeed, it has been championed as a contributor to addressing housing shortage. How has an internationally well-established practice generated such tensions in China? Focusing on the Shanghai case, this paper analyzes the processes involved in commercial-to-residential apartment conversion by examining interactions between state, market players and ‘homebuyers’, drawing on discourse and policy analysis. Reflecting consideration for short-term gains and conflict avoidance, state regulations were historically vague and open to interpretation. Non-government stakeholder behaviour was underpinned by hopes that legitimacy of residential use would be subsequently confirmed. The 2017 ‘policy clarification’ has placed CPCA owners at risk of major financial losses and possibly even homelessness. Historic policy ambiguity and erratic enforcement stored-up trouble for the future.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 479-499
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648774
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Author-Name: Lan Deng
Author-X-Name-First: Lan
Author-X-Name-Last: Deng
Author-Name: Xiang Yan
Author-X-Name-First: Xiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Yan
Author-Name: Jie Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Jie
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: Housing affordability, subsidized lending and cross-city variation in the performance of China’s housing provident fund program
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This study examines the cross-city variation in the performance of China’s Housing Provident Fund (HPF) program, a collective saving scheme that provides subsidized lending to support participants’ home purchases. It finds that while the program as a whole is limited in both participation and benefit provision, the level of HPF activities has differed across localities. Panel-data analysis of HPF lending in seven cities reveals that local housing affordability was an important determinant of who benefited from the program. Rising housing price increased the demand for HPF loans. But if price rose too high relative to household income, the share of participants who used HPF loans declined. This shows that as the program currently operates, expanding HPF participation would only increase the inequality in the distribution of program benefits. Finally, we did not find evidence for the counter-cyclic effects that HPF lending was expected to have in relation to bank lending. These findings have important implications for the program’s future reform.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 455-478
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1585521
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Author-Name: Ryan Powell
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Title: City of segregation: 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 617-618
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928477
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Author-Name: Fenglong Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Fenglong
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Chuanyong Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Chuanyong
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: Housing differentiation and subjective social status of Chinese urban homeowners: evidence from CLDS
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Chinese urbanites’ housing differentiation is a subject that attracts increasing scholarly attention. Previously, housing differentiation was measured by access to homeownership and housing tenure. Given high Chinese homeownership rates, however, heterogeneity among urban Chinese homeowners should be further decomposed. Many studies identified links between housing differentiation and social stratification, but few have examined residents’ responses to their homes. Based on the China Labour-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), this study decomposes homeowners’ housing differentiation along three dimensions: housing conditions, housing wealth, and neighbourhood environment. We also examine the impacts of these dimensions on homeowners’ subjective social status (SSS). Significant differentiation is found among homeowners in housing conditions, neighbourhood environment, and housing loans. Furthermore, housing wealth and neighbourhood environment affect homeowners’ perceived social status. These findings advance housing differentiation studies and have important implications for policies aimed at reducing social inequality and housing poverty.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 567-591
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1793915
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Author-Name: Colleen Chiu-Shee
Author-X-Name-First: Colleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu-Shee
Author-Name: Siqi Zheng
Author-X-Name-First: Siqi
Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng
Title: A burden or a tool? Rationalizing public housing provision in Chinese cities
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Public housing, a crucial component of the welfare state, is often viewed as an economic burden. We confront this conventional view and provide an alternative understanding of public housing in mixed economies. Through the lens of China, we conduct case studies and investigate the rationales of public housing provision in two high-profile, industrializing and deindustrializing cities – Chongqing and Shenzhen, respectively. We find that, despite variegated local conditions, Chinese municipal governments strategically provide public housing as an instrument of city development. We construct an open-ended framework that forges intricate links among cost-benefit considerations. It systematizes hypotheses that assemble the patterns of dynamic relationships among constituents of local decision-making, mediating the dimensions of development stage, time and space. The framework facilitates a new and illuminating way of conceptualizing policy rationales and of explaining variations in local programmes. Our proposition complements theories of the mixed economy of welfare and invites further elaboration.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 500-543
Issue: 4
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1667490
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Author-Name: Marisa McArthur
Author-X-Name-First: Marisa
Author-X-Name-Last: McArthur
Author-Name: Elaine Stratford
Author-X-Name-First: Elaine
Author-X-Name-Last: Stratford
Title: Housing aspirations, pathways, and provision: contradictions and compromises in pursuit of voluntary simplicity
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Housing is a caring act prompting individuals and groups to challenge the contours of housing policies and systems as they pursue housing aspirations, shape housing pathways, and secure housing provision. In this article, we think critically about housing as part of an infrastructure of care and about how housing aspirations, pathways, and provisioning inform moral and caring acts known as voluntary simplicity. We focus on housing aspirations, pathways, and provisioning to document how those three ‘rub up’ against four specific provision processes (preparation, purchase, design, and permissions and implementation) and conclude that voluntary simplicity could be a powerful tool by which to shape more caring housing futures – if it was troubled by fewer contradictions and compromises in its application and if those subscribing to it were supported by a few key resources. Findings point to general and widespread opportunities to think more about the relationship of voluntary simplicity to housing studies, including in small-scale studies in regional centres.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 714-736
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1720614
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Author-Name: Jinyhup Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Jinyhup
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Housing accessibility for seniors with mobility and grasping disabilities: lessons from the American Housing Survey
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As the aging population increasingly grows over the coming decades, the number of new constructions or modifications made to housing units that need basic accessibility features is projected to rise considerably in the United States. This study focuses on the living conditions of existing housing for stayers – those who have remained in their place of dwelling since reaching the retirement age of 65. In doing so, this study investigates how accessible stayer housing is to meet the daily needs for aging in place, particularly for seniors with mobility and grasping disabilities. The lack of housing stock designed to meet the needs of the aging population is a critical concern that housing policy must address. Using national American Housing Survey (AHS) data, this study provides critical insights on this issue.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 758-783
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1729963
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Author-Name: Tim Cresswell
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Cresswell
Title: Everyday life in Avant-Garde housing estates: a phenomenology of Post-Soviet moscow
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 784-785
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928494
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Author-Name: Catherine Hastings
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Hastings
Title: Homelessness and critical realism: a search for richer explanations
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Homelessness is an increasingly prevalent social problem with devastating consequences. Yet homelessness causality literature is characterised by confusion due to a diversity of homelessness definitions, research approaches, understandings of causality and welfare state contexts. To bring some clarity, homelessness literature is first categorised as having risk factor, pathways, subjective or theoretically orientated research approaches—each of which is evaluated for its capacity to explain homelessness. Second, the philosophy of critical realism is presented as a meta-theoretical approach with potential to strengthen the explanatory power of homelessness research. This paper offers both a systematic summary of the core principles of critical realism and suggests seven practical implications of using its epistemological and ontological assumptions to guide better homelessness research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 737-757
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1729960
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Author-Name: Daniela Zupan
Author-X-Name-First: Daniela
Author-X-Name-Last: Zupan
Title: De-constructing crisis: post-war modernist housing estates in West Germany and Austria
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This article examines the crises of post-war modernist housing estates in West Germany and Austria, illuminating the key differences that emerged despite the strong similarities in terms of urban design and share in overall housing stock. With an analysis of the different framing and narration in the professional discourse between 1960 and 1990, the paper reveals that the estates served as a battleground for negotiating broader socio-political questions, resulting in different politizations of the estates. By deciphering the complex and partly contingent entanglements between the built form and politics, the paper contributes to research on post-war modernist housing estates and to the reassessment of these urban structures. It also enhances our understanding of the varied perceptions and performances of the ‘same’ built structures, thereby opening up new perspectives for the ongoing discussions about the revival of mass housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 671-695
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1720613
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Author-Name: Daniël M. Bossuyt
Author-X-Name-First: Daniël M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bossuyt
Title: The value of self-build: understanding the aspirations and strategies of owner-builders in the Homeruskwartier, Almere
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This paper investigates the aspirations and strategies of self-builders of owner-occupied homes in a facilitated self-build scheme. It draws on a qualitative case-study of the Homeruskwartier in Almere, the Netherlands, one the largest assisted self-build schemes in present-day Europe, which caters to lower- and middle-income households. The study problematizes the notion that self-building necessarily leads to the pursuit of use values over exchange values. This questions the positive benefits attributed to self-building. The aspirations of self-builders are not only framed by social and material conditions, but are also being reframed in the action process. The paper stresses the contingent nature of aspirations and strategies and emphasizes the experimental nature of the self-building process.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 696-713
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1720616
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Author-Name: Thea Shahrokh
Author-X-Name-First: Thea
Author-X-Name-Last: Shahrokh
Title: ‘Race,’ space and multiculturalism in Northern England: the (M62) corridor of uncertainty
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 785-787
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928523
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Author-Name: Kangni Chai
Author-X-Name-First: Kangni
Author-X-Name-Last: Chai
Author-Name: Changchun Feng
Author-X-Name-First: Changchun
Author-X-Name-Last: Feng
Title: Sons, daughters, and differentiated tenure choice of multiple homes: evidence from urban China
Abstract:
Multiple-home ownership has become an increasingly common phenomenon in Chinese cities. In addition to the purposes that have been widely discussed, such as leisure and investment, households may also choose to purchase additional homes for their children. Whether families adjust the consumption of multiple homes according to the gender of their children has a profound impact on housing inequality and gender inequality. Using household-level data from urban China, we investigate how and why having sons and daughters differentially affects the household tenure choice of multiple homes. We found a robust and positive impact of having sons on multiple-home ownership. Having at least one unmarried son of marriageable age significantly increases a family’s consumption of and demand for additional homes. The results are mainly heterogeneous across families with different levels of intra-family resources. We confirm the mechanism behind the positive effect of adult unmarried sons on multiple-home ownership reflects the differentiated strategies developed by parents for the marriage of their sons.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 644-670
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1709807
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Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Author-Name: Chris Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: Rental property investment in disadvantaged areas: the means and motivations of Western Sydney’s new landlords
Abstract:
For more than two decades, Australia’s private rental sector (PRS) has seen rapid growth, as latterly replicated in most other anglophone nations. Commentary and scholarly attention have generally focused on the population occupying this growing sector – so-called ‘generation rent’. The corollary, ‘generation landlord’, has meanwhile remained largely obscure. This article argues that the emerging literature on the ‘financialization of housing’ offers insights into the ongoing rise of investor landlords. Our analysis also contributes to the picture of financialized rental property investment; here drawing on a survey of investor landlords and their properties in an Australian PRS growth centre: disadvantaged suburbs in western Sydney. Most investors lived elsewhere; the attractions of western Sydney property acquisition being the expectation of unusually large capital gains, the prospect of amassing multiple properties and the local scope for intensified asset utilization. Referencing existing research evidence, this suggests that, even by comparison with the 2000s, a more professional, financialized investor mindset is emerging.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 621-643
Issue: 5
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1709806
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Author-Name: Michael Beenstock
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Beenstock
Author-Name: Daniel Felsenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Felsenstein
Author-Name: Dai Xieer
Author-X-Name-First: Dai
Author-X-Name-Last: Xieer
Title: Long-term housing affordability in spatial general equilibrium
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We argue that housing affordability is as much about incomes as it is about house prices. Consequently, a comprehensive analysis of housing affordability should be conducted in which incomes and house prices are determined through the specification of labor, capital and product markets in addition to housing markets. A spatial econometric model for Israel is used to study the effects on the regional distribution of housing affordability of income generating shocks in labor and capital markets, as well as supply shocks in housing markets. Particular attention is paid to the effects on affordability of planning delays in tendering land for housing construction and the issue of building permits. Spatiotemporal impulse responses for housing affordability show that region-specific shocks, such as accelerated planning permission and the provision of regional investment grants, percolate across the economy as a whole. Implications for place-based regional policy are discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 935-968
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1736520
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Author-Name: Christian Fang
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Fang
Author-Name: Ilse van Liempt
Author-X-Name-First: Ilse
Author-X-Name-Last: van Liempt
Title: ‘We prefer our Dutch’: International students’ housing experiences in the Netherlands
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This article investigates how international students find and maintain housing and what constraints they have to deal with in the process. It reveals how the interplay between personal characteristics and housing-market features shapes housing biographies and unequally disadvantages certain international students over others. Eighteen in-depth interviews with international students were conducted about the housing situation for them in Utrecht, a Dutch student city. Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) of the interview data found that international students’ housing biographies differ substantially, both in progression and outcomes. Despite some students successfully finding adequate housing, many described living involuntarily in conditions of stress, instability and insecurity and a number experienced progressively worsening housing conditions. The students ascribed their difficulties to discrimination and structural disadvantages on the housing market. In light of these findings, this article calls for a re-evaluation of the Dutch student housing system.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 822-842
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1720618
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Author-Name: Zhou Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Zhou
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Title: Homeownership attainment of adult children in urban China: parental attributes and financial support
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Soaring homeownership and housing prices have made it more difficult for newcomers to climb the housing ladder without parental support. This study relies on China Household Finance Survey microdata in 2015 to examine the role of parental attributes (PA) and financial support on adult children’s homeownership attainment. Results show that, after controlling for covariates, parental lending for housing would triple the adult children’s odds of homeownership. Parental financial support plays a marginal role in maintaining homeownership. Adult children are more likely to transfer income to their parents than to receive, which is detrimental to the adult children’s homeownership. The relative importance of PA is secondary to that of parental support and the adult children’s institutional attributes—hukou status and access to housing provident fund. While the housing market is maturing, some advantages embedded in the socialist institutional arrangements have persisted. Young adults and rural migrants, who are burdened by financially supporting their parents, will struggle more in their housing careers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 789-821
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1720617
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Author-Name: Yunpeng Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Yunpeng
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: Urban displacements: governing surplus and survival in global capitalism
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 969-970
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1954788
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Author-Name: Martin Lux
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lux
Author-Name: Petr Sunega
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Sunega
Author-Name: Ladislav Kážmér
Author-X-Name-First: Ladislav
Author-X-Name-Last: Kážmér
Title: Simulating trends in housing wealth inequality in post-socialist Czech society
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The goal of this paper is to predict, by using microsimulation modelling under alternative market scenarios, housing wealth inequality in Czech society up to the year 2050. These predictions can be useful for assessing the rationale for attempts to use housing assets as a way of supplementing state pensions; and thus add to existing studies on asset-based welfare (ABW) that focused only on the recent and past situation. The models predicted small increase in housing wealth inequality among the future elderly but larger increases in inequality in the society as a whole. Rise in wealth inequality was especially steep when consumption of housing assets by future elderly was accompanied by an interruption of financial transfers to the next generations. Reduction of intergenerational transfers may thus significantly enhance wealth inequality in a society and thus pose a risk to social peace. We showed that similar outcome may appear in broader number of countries, including those with much lower homeownership rate.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 885-905
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1729961
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Author-Name: Laura Eramian
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Eramian
Title: Moving on by settling down? Ambiguities of urban housing and home in post-genocide Rwanda
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What can Rwandans’ post-genocide experiences of house and home tell us about how people live with histories of violence? Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the university town of Butare, I argue that educated town residents’ relationships to ‘home’ are a nexus of the genocide’s legacy, of the contingencies of lives not lived, and of post-genocide politics. Drawing from participant observation and interviews, I delineate four relationships between home, temporality, and genocide to elicit the broader tension between settlement and what remains unsettled in the wake of violence. Central to this tension is how seemingly private talk of home offers a powerful critique of the former colonizer, of the actors who planned the genocide, and of post-genocide social and political conditions. Butare residents’ relationships to house and home thus uncover the inherent contradictions in the idea that people ‘move on’ from violence by ‘settling down.’
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 867-884
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1729962
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Author-Name: Julia Heslop
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Heslop
Title: Learning through building: participatory action research and the production of housing
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This paper examines potentials for using the philosophies and practices of participatory action research (PAR) within the production of housing. Drawing on findings from a collaborative build project, working with a group in housing need in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, the paper explores the added social and educational value that processes of collaborative design and making can offer those that might be socially and spatially isolated. The paper argues that participation in housing is often colonized by those that have existing social, economic or knowledge capital and therefore bringing PAR into conversation with housing offers some unique opportunities, and also challenges, that other forms of collaborative housing may not. In assessing these opportunities the paper focuses on the mechanics of participation, including ethics, processes of learning through making, power, care and the potential for personal and collective transformation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 906-934
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1732880
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Author-Name: Cassidy I-Chih Lan
Author-X-Name-First: Cassidy I-Chih
Author-X-Name-Last: Lan
Author-Name: Chen-Jai Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Chen-Jai
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Property-led renewal, state-induced rent gap, and the sociospatial unevenness of sustainable regeneration in Taipei
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Property-led renewal has become the mainstream approach of entrepreneurial governance but may change the sociospatial pattern of the classical rent gap and cause problems such as neighborhood commodification, overlooked public interest, and uneven development. Considering the extensive application of marketized measures such as the floor-area-bonus and right transformation in Taipei’s urban renewal system, we explore the role of the state in rent gap production and the obstacles to realizing sustainable regeneration. The legislative framework indicates that urban renewal in Taipei has prompted growth network among property market, property-led incentive, and stakeholders to exploit the state-induced rent gap. From the micro-level, we select two cases in the old and new districts in Taipei for comparison and find that the sociospatial unevenness has not been balanced but intensified by the property-led renewal since the 2000s. Profit-making has engendered a governing barrier detrimental to implementing sustainable regeneration while distorting the publicity to property appreciation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 843-866
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1720615
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: Urban lowlands: a history of neighborhoods, poverty, and planning
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 971-972
Issue: 6
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1954787
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Author-Name: Marie-Josée Fleury
Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Josée
Author-X-Name-Last: Fleury
Author-Name: Guy Grenier
Author-X-Name-First: Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Grenier
Author-Name: Zhirong Cao
Author-X-Name-First: Zhirong
Author-X-Name-Last: Cao
Author-Name: Nadia L’Espérance
Author-X-Name-First: Nadia
Author-X-Name-Last: L’Espérance
Title: Profiles of persons with current or previous experience of homelessness using emergency departments
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A typology for emergency department (ED) use was developed among persons with current or previous experience of homelessness in Quebec (Canada) (n = 455). Cluster analysis identified four profiles: (1) Low or high ED users in permanent housing: high use of primary care services; (2) High ED users in temporary housing or emergency shelters: complex health problems, frequent hospitalizations, without case managers; (3) Low or non-ED users in temporary housing: middle-aged, low quality of life, few chronic physical illnesses, little service use; and (4) Non-ED users in permanent housing: high quality of life, few affected by stigma, infrequent service use. Needs factors mainly accounted for ED use, but use of diversified health services and professionals reduced ED use. Results also suggested that improving access to health services may reduce stigma. Living in permanent housing and having a case manager were related to lower ED use, fewer hospitalizations, and greater satisfaction with services.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1067-1085
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1745762
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Author-Name: Gerald Koessl
Author-X-Name-First: Gerald
Author-X-Name-Last: Koessl
Title: Housing shock: the Urish housing crisis and how to solve it
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1143-1144
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1965511
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Author-Name: Mylene Riva
Author-X-Name-First: Mylene
Author-X-Name-Last: Riva
Author-Name: Karine Perreault
Author-X-Name-First: Karine
Author-X-Name-Last: Perreault
Author-Name: Philippe Dufresne
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Dufresne
Author-Name: Christopher Fletcher
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Fletcher
Author-Name: Gina Muckle
Author-X-Name-First: Gina
Author-X-Name-Last: Muckle
Author-Name: Louise Potvin
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Potvin
Author-Name: Ross Bailie
Author-X-Name-First: Ross
Author-X-Name-Last: Bailie
Author-Name: Marie Baron
Author-X-Name-First: Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Baron
Title: Social housing construction and improvements in housing outcomes for Inuit in Northern Canada
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One-third of Inuit households in the Canadian Arctic are in core housing need-three times the national average. In 2014–2015, over 400 social housing units were constructed in Nunavik and Nunavut, two of the four Inuit land claims regions in Canada. This article examines whether rehousing, following this large-scale construction commitment, is associated with significant improvements in housing outcomes. People on the waiting list for social housing were recruited in 12 communities in Nunavik and Nunavut. Of the 186 adults who were rehoused, 102 completed the study. Questionnaires were administered 1–6 months before and 15–18 months after rehousing. After rehousing, household crowding, major repairs needed, and thermal discomfort were significantly reduced. The sense of home, including factors such as perceived control, privacy, and identity, improved significantly post-move. Social housing construction significantly improves living conditions in Nunavik and Nunavut. Integration of housing and social policies are needed to maximize benefits of new housing construction and to avoid or mitigate unintended effects.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 973-993
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1739233
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Author-Name: Darran Stonehouse
Author-X-Name-First: Darran
Author-X-Name-Last: Stonehouse
Author-Name: Guinever Threlkeld
Author-X-Name-First: Guinever
Author-X-Name-Last: Threlkeld
Author-Name: Jacqui Theobald
Author-X-Name-First: Jacqui
Author-X-Name-Last: Theobald
Title: Homeless pathways and the struggle for ontological security
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Homelessness is a significant social problem across advanced capitalist societies, with enduring effects on those who experience it. Consequently, detailed enquiry into people’s lived experiences of homelessness is critical to enhance understanding and inform more effective responses to the problem. This paper presents findings of a study examining nine individuals’ experiences of homelessness in Australia. Narrative analysis foregrounds the ontological dimensions and implications of their experiences, demonstrating how their homeless pathways were characterised by enduring feelings of ontological insecurity. Discussion of these findings highlights how participants’ attempts to overcome homelessness and attain ontological security represent an ongoing struggle, shaped by individual biographies and the structural constraints within contemporary Australian society. The paper argues that further consideration of the material and non-material dimensions of ontological security across all phases of homeless pathways can enhance understanding of homelessness and inform efforts to develop more effective responses to this complex social problem.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1047-1066
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1739234
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Author-Name: Bernard Nzau
Author-X-Name-First: Bernard
Author-X-Name-Last: Nzau
Author-Name: Claudia Trillo
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: Trillo
Title: Harnessing the real estate market for equitable affordable housing provision: insights from the city of Santa Monica, California
Abstract:
Inclusionary housing is considered a powerful local policy tool that can help address housing affordability and social inclusion issues. This paper draws from empirical research conducted in the City of Santa Monica in California to provide fresh insights on a successful innovative inclusionary housing program, the Affordable Housing Production Program (AHPP). This program was established to increase affordable housing production and enable social integration. Based on the Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE) of the General Plan, the AHPP seeks to capture some of the increase in land value resulting from planned increases in the intensity of development. Our research shows that the program increased inclusionary housing production by market-rate developers by 15% over the previous inclusionary housing policy. The study finds that land use policies and planning can, through inclusionary housing, help harness the strength of the real estate market to (1) increase affordable housing production, and (2) achieve effective social integration in neighborhoods of opportunity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1086-1121
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1746244
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Author-Name: Deirdre Pfeiffer
Author-X-Name-First: Deirdre
Author-X-Name-Last: Pfeiffer
Author-Name: Alex Schafran
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Schafran
Author-Name: Jake Wegmann
Author-X-Name-First: Jake
Author-X-Name-Last: Wegmann
Title: Vulnerability and opportunity: making sense of the rise in single-family rentals in US neighbourhoods
Abstract:
The growth of single-family rentals (SFRs) in the wake of the US foreclosure crisis has recently begun attracting overdue scholarly attention. The transformation of millions of single-family homes from owner- to renter- occupied over the past decade raises numerous important questions about the vulnerabilities and opportunities created by this historic tenure shift for both households and neighbourhoods. This research reports on the demographics and housing conditions of single-family renters and the characteristics and trajectories of high SFR growth neighbourhoods over the recent housing market cycle. We show that SFRs are distinguished by their high prevalence of children, particularly those living in poverty, and conspicuous lack of tenant protections. Further, SFR growth is most intense in racially diverse yet economically segregated neighbourhoods. Overall, these findings suggest the need for urgent policy responses to reduce vulnerabilities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1026-1046
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1739235
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Author-Name: Arend Jonkman
Author-X-Name-First: Arend
Author-X-Name-Last: Jonkman
Title: Patterns of distributive justice: social housing and the search for market dynamism in Amsterdam
Abstract:
Housing policy changes in the Netherlands have been in line with OECD and IMF policy advice to increase market dynamism by downsizing the large social rental sector. The impact of such policies on households, however, is rarely acknowledged. Therefore, in this article, distributive effects on social housing tenants in Amsterdam between 2004 and 2014 are evaluated against two standards for distributive justice: sufficiency and priority. These standards befit the policy aim to provide adequate (sufficient) housing for households with a certain need (priority). The analysis shows housing policies have amplified the impacts of the global financial crisis on households. The occurrence of sufficiency increased significantly until 2008, but decreased thereafter. In regards of the priority standard more households with a significant need benefitted from social housing after 2008. However, many of these households still do not meet the sufficiency threshold. While spatial patterns remained rather stable, the impact has been greater in the areas with already relatively low residual incomes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 994-1025
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1739232
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Author-Name: Andreas Alm Fjellborg
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Alm
Author-X-Name-Last: Fjellborg
Title: Leaving poor neighbourhoods: the role of income and housing tenure
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To date, few studies have adopted a particular focus on the role of housing tenure when analysing ethnic and socioeconomic differences in out-mobility from poor neighbourhoods. This study contributes to filling this gap. The paper uses a full population data set covering every individual in the capital region of Sweden during the period 2006–2008. The findings indicate that the likelihood of leaving poor neighbourhoods increase for the foreign background population if their income is higher and they own their housing unit, while native Swedes seem to be less constrained by income. This lends support to the theoretical framework of place stratification. The results warrant efforts to broaden residential mix policy beyond the discussion on housing tenure if policy-makers want to counteract the ethnic and socioeconomic imbalances of residential mobility reproducing segregation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1122-1142
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1748177
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Author-Name: Maurizio Artero
Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio
Author-X-Name-Last: Artero
Title: Urban crisis, urban hope: a policy agenda for UK cities
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1145-1146
Issue: 7
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1965512
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Author-Name: Laura Ryser
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryser
Author-Name: Greg Halseth
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Halseth
Author-Name: Sean Markey
Author-X-Name-First: Sean
Author-X-Name-Last: Markey
Title: Moving from government to governance: addressing housing pressures during rapid industrial development in Kitimat, BC, Canada
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In resource-based communities, housing can be a contributing asset or challenge to attracting and retaining workers and families. In Kitimat, BC, Canada, a housing crisis threatened vulnerable, low income, and middle income residents during a period of rapid growth associated with renewed industrial investments. Even though housing policy and public housing provision falls under provincial government jurisdiction, the crisis response was largely mobilized by local stakeholders. Drawing upon a five year tracking study, this paper traces the rise of new governance arrangements to address local housing pressures. These governance arrangements fostered greater community awareness of housing issues; strengthened relationships across community, industry, and some senior government stakeholders; and renewed local housing assets. This collective capacity to manage housing pressures, however, remains vulnerable due to public policy incoherence that undermines or fails to adequately support local governance initiatives.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1618-1643
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1789564
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Author-Name: James O’Donnell
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Donnell
Title: Does social housing reduce homelessness? A multistate analysis of housing and homelessness pathways
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This article presents a multistate demographic approach for analyzing the longitudinal dynamics of housing and homelessness. The approach is applied to a sample of highly disadvantaged individuals in Australia to assess whether private housing markets and interpersonal support networks provide stable housing trajectories vis-à-vis public and community (social) housing. Discrete-time competing risk survival models are specified to estimate the probabilities of exiting housing to six housing and homeless states. Model outputs are applied to a microsimulation model to estimate the duration of episodes and the cumulative incidence of subsequent episodes of housing and homelessness. The results suggest that private housing markets carry an increased risk of housing exit relative to social housing. The homes of family and friends are the most common destination, though this type of support is usually time limited and often precipitates episodes of homelessness. These findings warrant policy consideration as to how housing markets can provide better affordability and security for low income households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1702-1728
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1549318
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Author-Name: Kenneth W. Soyeh
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Soyeh
Author-Name: Paul K. Asabere
Author-X-Name-First: Paul K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Asabere
Author-Name: Anthony Owusu-Ansah
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony
Author-X-Name-Last: Owusu-Ansah
Title: Price and rental differentials in gated versus non-gated communities: the case of Accra, Ghana
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Gated communities have become part of a global lifestyle for most residents. The study extends the literature on this global phenomenon by investigating the impact of gated developments on property values and rents using Accra, Ghana, as our study area. Applying a propensity-score matching technique to 2620 housing transactions and 811 rental units, our results reveal that houses in gated communities sell at 42% and 48% more than non-gated properties. Additionally, property owners charge 48% more for rent in gated properties when compared to other non-gated houses in our sample. The sales premiums we find are larger than premiums documented in developed economies. The article provides nascent evidence about rental premiums in gated communities. We posit that the sales and rental premiums we observe in gated properties in Accra are driven by the need for quality housing services, prestige, personal security and security of tenure. This work should be of interest to real estate developers and policymakers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1644-1661
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1789566
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Author-Name: Erlend Fikse
Author-X-Name-First: Erlend
Author-X-Name-Last: Fikse
Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers
Title: The really big contradiction: homeownership discourses in times of financialization
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Belgium is a typical homeowner society where homeownership is not only the largest but also the ‘normalized’ form of tenure. The origins of the Belgian homeownership ideology go back to the early days of industrialization but the discourses surrounding the ideology are reproduced in the 21st century. Our investigation of the largest region of Belgium, Flanders, reveals four main homeownership discourses: affordable homeownership, conservative housing finance, asset-based welfare and tenure neutrality. With a nod to Kemeny’s ‘The Really Big Trade-Off Between Homeownership and Welfare’, we demonstrate that there is also a ‘Really Big Contradiction’ between the discourses that support homeownership as the ‘normalized’ form of tenure in Belgium and the reality of declining affordability, progressively less conservative housing finance, the fractions and inequalities of housing-based wealth, and the lack of tenure neutrality. In short, we argue that the financialized homeownership model is undermining the stability of homeowner realities and practices, but not so much the discourses and ideologies that support and reinforce the homeowner society.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1600-1617
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1784395
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Author-Name: Bonnie Lashewicz
Author-X-Name-First: Bonnie
Author-X-Name-Last: Lashewicz
Author-Name: Raidah Noshin
Author-X-Name-First: Raidah
Author-X-Name-Last: Noshin
Author-Name: Nick Boettcher
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Boettcher
Author-Name: Faizah Tiifu
Author-X-Name-First: Faizah
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiifu
Title: Meanings of home: an illustration of insideness and outsideness for two adults with developmental disabilities
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Meaning is fundamental to experiences of home, yet little is known about the meanings of home for adults with developmental disabilities. In this instrumental case study, contrasting experiences of two adults with developmental disabilities living in Alberta are examined. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews dedicated to learning about configurations of support, challenges and successes in giving and receiving support, and future plans for support for each participant. Data were thematically analysed using theoretical concepts of existential insideness and outsideness. Our findings present one adult’s experience of being safe, enclosed and at ease as evidence of insideness, and the second adult’s experience of being threatened, exposed and stressed as evidence of outsideness. We discuss how meanings of home can be shaped by the nature of disability related behaviors and the corresponding responsiveness of caregivers and offer theory and policy implications of a relational interpretation of insideness and outsideness for adults with developmental disabilities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1729-1749
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1796928
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Author-Name: Kiera Chapman
Author-X-Name-First: Kiera
Author-X-Name-Last: Chapman
Title: Philosophy and the city: interdisciplinary and transcultural perspectives, by Keith Jacobs and Jeff Malpas (Eds.), London, Rowman and Littlefield International Ltd., 2019, 305 pp., £97.00 (hbk)/£32.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-78660-459-0
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1750-1751
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1993659
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Author-Name: Xun Bian
Author-X-Name-First: Xun
Author-X-Name-Last: Bian
Title: Disability and mortgage delinquency
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In this study, we examine the effect of disability on mortgage delinquency. Using 2007–2017 data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we study the impact of disability on ex-post delinquency rate and ex-ante self-assessed delinquency risk. We find that disability substantially increases a household’s likelihood of falling behind on mortgage payments. Our point estimates suggest that on average, households with disabilities are about 41.65 percent more likely to be delinquent. This effect is highly cyclical and is much stronger during economic downturns. Households with disabilities are 56.38 percent more likely to be delinquent during the 2007–2009 U.S. housing crisis and its aftermath, and whereas the effect is rather muted during the subsequent economic recovery. Additionally, we discover that households with disabilities are generally conscious of their greater vulnerability to financial troubles. Households with disabilities are 27.28 percent more likely to report possible future delinquencies. This finding suggests that in addition to increasing ex-post delinquency rates, disability can also be psychologically burdensome for many homeowners, and this effect spreads beyond households who actually fall into delinquency.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1537-1565
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1777945
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Author-Name: Ade Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Ade
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Seemanti Ghosh
Author-X-Name-First: Seemanti
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghosh
Author-Name: Phil Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Phil
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Author-Name: Matt Egan
Author-X-Name-First: Matt
Author-X-Name-Last: Egan
Title: Could “holistic” area-based regeneration be effective for health improvement?
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Regeneration is intended to tackle the negative effects of area disadvantage. Studies of health impacts of regeneration over thirty years have produced mixed and inconsistent results. This study translates the theory of wider determinants of health into a framework of five residential environments that may be impacted by regeneration: physical; services; economic; social; and psychosocial. It uses repeat cross-sectional survey data across a decade to assess differential change in physical and mental health for residents of regeneration areas compared with other areas. Across the deprived areas in the study, all five types of environment are associated with mental health, but associations are fewer and less consistent for physical health. The results indicate a small negative association between living in a regeneration area and physical health and a modest positive association with mental health. Suggestions are made for how regeneration might become more holistic and effective as a public health intervention.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1662-1701
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1789565
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Author-Name: Keir Matthews-Hunter
Author-X-Name-First: Keir
Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews-Hunter
Title: Purpose-built rental housing and household formation among young adults in Canadian cities, 1991–2016
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In recent decades, several Canadian cities have experienced a significant restructuring of their housing demand as young adult aspirations and expectations of maintaining independent households have been confronted by soaring housing costs, falling vacancy rates, and a rental supply system that is characterized by an overreliance on rental condominiums and other provisional forms of ‘secondary’ rental housing. The study presented in this paper focuses on intra-metropolitan variation in household formation among young adults and attempts to explain it from a macro perspective, emphasizing the importance of a community’s ‘primary’ or purpose-built rental sector. Following a review of the international literature on the impacts of housing supply and availability on household formation, panel regression models are estimated to examine the effects of changes in the relative supply and real cost of purpose-built rental housing on changes in young people’s household formation in Canadian metropolitan areas between 1991 and 2016. The results indicate that a 1% increase in the relative supply of purpose-built rental housing leads to 0.24% and 0.14% increases in the rates of family and non-family household formation of young adults. These estimates are generated using instrumental variables, controlling for potential simultaneity between household formation and purpose-built rental supply.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1566-1599
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1784396
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Title: Correction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: (i)-(i)
Issue: 10
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1899791
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Author-Name: Julia Cook
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Cook
Title: Keeping it in the family: understanding the negotiation of intergenerational transfers for entry into homeownership
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House prices have risen sharply in most Australian capital cities in recent years. Due to Australia’s strong identity as a homeowning nation and the related tendency towards entering the housing market within the 25–34 age bracket the impact of rising property prices has been distinctly generational, with young adults experiencing significant challenges entering the property market. A growing number of studies have identified financial transfers within families as a means through which entry into the housing market is facilitated for young adults. This article contributes to this discussion by drawing on interviews conducted with 29–30-year-old homeowners in Australian capital cities to address the negotiation of intergenerational support. Specifically, it considers how the conditions under which transfers are received may impact upon the ways in which they are subsequently understood. In so doing this article contributes to growing international debate about intersubjective understandings of intergenerational transfers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1193-1211
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1754347
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Author-Name: Martin Lux
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lux
Author-Name: Petr Sunega
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Sunega
Author-Name: Ladislav Kážmér
Author-X-Name-First: Ladislav
Author-X-Name-Last: Kážmér
Title: Intergenerational financial transfers and indirect reciprocity: determinants of the reproduction of homeownership in the post-socialist Czech Republic
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Using a representative survey of the Czech population, we demonstrate that intergenerational within-family financial (wealth) transfers represent the main mechanism in the reproduction of homeownership in Czech post-socialist society. The provision of a transfer or the lack of one largely determines the housing tenure of Czech young adults. Without transfers, the children of homeowners are significantly less likely to also become homeowners. We also show that the probability of an adult child receiving a transfer and the size of the transfer are closely linked (a) to the adult child’s within-family socialisation and (b) to the fact of whether the parents had also received a transfer from their parents in the past and how large that transfer was. These findings have important implications for how housing markets operate and for social inequalities. For example, if an established history of within-family transfers is a predictor of homeownership in future cohorts, this may mean that an important part of society will be systemically and predictably excluded from access to homeownership and a fixed axis of reproduced housing wealth inequality may form.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1294-1317
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1541441
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Author-Name: Gertjan Wijburg
Author-X-Name-First: Gertjan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wijburg
Title: The de-financialization of housing: towards a research agenda
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Housing financialization, or the increased dominance of financial markets in the housing sector, has not stopped in the wake of the crisis. Rather, it has reinforced and rescaled itself, expanding into new market segments and urban territories. However, while academic scholarship has convincingly exposed the reconfiguration of financialization processes, it has paid surprisingly little attention to how these processes are also contested from within society and the economy. In response to this gap in the literature, I propose in this contribution a threefold research agenda, calling out for more research on (i) financial market reforms aimed at dismantling finance-led housing accumulation; (ii) policy focused on strengthening the public and affordable housing sector; and (iii) changing modes of urban governance and ‘anti-political’ social movements which can contest housing financialization locally. Taking into account these three fields of inquiry, I invite housing scholars to explore how – and if –de-financializing tendencies can become ecologically dominant in post-crisis urban housing markets.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1276-1293
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1762847
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Author-Name: Saleh Kalantari
Author-X-Name-First: Saleh
Author-X-Name-Last: Kalantari
Author-Name: Mardelle Shepley
Author-X-Name-First: Mardelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Shepley
Title: Psychological and social impacts of high-rise buildings: a review of the post-occupancy evaluation literature
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Rapid global urbanization has led to a construction boom in high-rise buildings, and this trend seems unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. But what are the social, psychological, and behavioral effects of living and working in high-rise environments? Researchers have only just begun to gather systematic empirical data about the positive and negative effects of high-rises for their human occupants. Many of the existing studies are limited in scope, and some provide conflicting results, so it is important to consider the body of research literature as a whole. The current review provides a broad and systematic evaluation of high-rise post-occupancy studies, in order to assess the state of our current knowledge, determine if provisional conclusions can be drawn from the existing research, and identify vital areas for future investigations. The overview suggests that certain negative psychological and social impacts have been consistently associated with high-rise environments, particularly for lower-income populations. At the same time, however, the literature provides evidence that many of these impacts can be reduced or eliminated through responsible design innovation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1147-1176
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1752630
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Author-Name: Phillipa Watson
Author-X-Name-First: Phillipa
Author-X-Name-Last: Watson
Title: Blueprint for greening affordable housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1343-1344
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1983155
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Author-Name: Youqin Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Youqin
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Daichun Yi
Author-X-Name-First: Daichun
Author-X-Name-Last: Yi
Author-Name: William A. V. Clark
Author-X-Name-First: William A. V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Clark
Title: A homeownership paradox: why do Chinese homeowners rent the housing they live in?
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China is an ownership society, but with a paradox – many homeowners do not live in the apartments/houses they own, and instead live in rental housing. This is different from the pattern in Western economies where households own multiple properties but still live in an owned unit. The paper is situated within the literature on the financialization of housing and the changing meaning of homeownership. We examine the paradox by studying its patterns and dynamics using 2017 China Household Finance Survey data. We find that the owner-renting in China is a result of spatial, temporal and functional mismatches between housing needs. The intrinsic investment strategy and services linked to homeownership have made it imperative to own homes, regardless a household’s housing needs. Young, single, better-off and split households, and those in large, expensive cities are more likely to be owners-renting. In addition, institutional barriers in the housing market such as migrant status, housing purchase limit policy, and subsidized housing encourage owner-renting.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1318-1340
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1793916
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Author-Name: Noah J. Durst
Author-X-Name-First: Noah J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Durst
Author-Name: Elena J. Cangelosi
Author-X-Name-First: Elena J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cangelosi
Title: Self-help housing and DIY home improvements: evidence from the American Housing Survey
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Self-help housing has been widely studied across the developing world. Little is known, however, about the contemporary use of self-help housing in the U.S. In this study we examine self-help housing in the U.S. and its potential links to two related concepts: incremental development and informal housing. We use data from the American Housing Survey from 1997 to 2011 to examine the prevalence, location, and the development process of self-help housing in comparison with that of conventional housing. Our analysis shows that self-help housing is common in the United States, comprising approximately 10% of new owner-occupied single-family housing units nationwide and more than double that in rural areas across the country. We analyse home improvement activity for self-help and conventional homeowners, illustrating the incremental process by which self-builders improve their homes, widespread reliance on do-it-yourself (DIY) methods, and the impact of these methods on housing affordability. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for housing research and policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1231-1249
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1759514
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Author-Name: Gemma Burgess
Author-X-Name-First: Gemma
Author-X-Name-Last: Burgess
Author-Name: Valentine Quinio
Author-X-Name-First: Valentine
Author-X-Name-Last: Quinio
Title: Unpicking the downsizing discourse: understanding the housing moves made by older people in England
Abstract:
The UK’s ageing population has generated contradictory policy responses. On the one hand, facing the lack of specialist housing for the elderly, older people are incentivised to ‘age in place’; on the other, to move to smaller homes to free-up family housing, reducing pressure on housing supply. This ‘downsizing’ discourse is presented as a ‘win-win’ situation which benefits older people and the rest of society. However, a survey and interviews conducted with over 55 s in England reveals more nuanced patterns of residential moves, behaviours and aspirations than suggested by ‘downsizing’. Only a minority of older households choose to downsize. This paper looks into this mismatch between observed housing choices and the construction of downsizing as a policy goal. It suggests that theoretically speaking, the very notion of downsizing is problematic and difficult to define and is an over-simplistic concept which in reality applies to a heterogeneous group of people.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1177-1192
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1754346
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Author-Name: Igor Costarelli
Author-X-Name-First: Igor
Author-X-Name-Last: Costarelli
Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans
Author-X-Name-First: Reinout
Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans
Author-Name: Silvia Mugnano
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Mugnano
Title: ‘Active, young, and resourceful’: sorting the ‘good’ tenant through mechanisms of conditionality
Abstract:
Governments’ attempts to link the provision of welfare services to (more) responsible self-conduct of citizens (i.e. responsibilization) is seen as a distinctive feature of the post-welfare state. Responsibilization often requires welfare receivers to comply with specific duties or behavioural patterns (i.e. conditionality). Except for UK-based studies, little is known about responsibilization strategies of social housing tenants based on specific allocation policies or management approaches. To fill this gap, this paper examines recent cases of tenants’ responsibilization through conditionality, i.e. allocation of housing on the condition that receivers regularly engage in supportive activities, in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Milan (Italy). Through a qualitative methodology, this paper unpacks the use of conditionality as a means to increase tenants’ responsibilization. The paper contributes by showing both innovative aspects, such as eligibility criteria, obligations, accountability measures, and potential pitfalls connected to diverging expectations between tenants and professionals, and to specific context-related factors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1250-1275
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1759789
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Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Title: The private rental sector in Australia: Living with uncertainty
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1341-1342
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1983150
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Author-Name: Paweł Ulman
Author-X-Name-First: Paweł
Author-X-Name-Last: Ulman
Author-Name: Małgorzata Ćwiek
Author-X-Name-First: Małgorzata
Author-X-Name-Last: Ćwiek
Title: Measuring housing poverty in Poland: a multidimensional analysis
Abstract:
This study aims to determine the scale of housing poverty and its determinants using a multi-dimensional tool to measure housing quality. Its main contribution is the proposed new approach to the study of housing poverty using the Integrated Fuzzy and Relative (IFR) methodology, which allows a large number of variables of a quantitative and qualitative as well as objective and subjective nature to be included in the analysis. This approach solves the problem of correlation between variables by assigning weights, rather than limiting the number of variables as before. The risk evaluation of bad housing situation is based on micro-data from the Household Budget Survey conducted by the Central Statistical Office in Poland in 2017. Polish households falling into the housing poverty sphere in different sections of society were also examined. The multidimensional approach adopted in this study captures the diversity of housing poverty risk between areas of assessment, which is impossible to achieve using traditional housing deprivation measures.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1212-1230
Issue: 8
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1759515
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: Advanced introduction to housing studies
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1533-1535
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1985748
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Author-Name: Michelle Norris
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Norris
Author-Name: Michael Byrne
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne
Title: Funding resilient and fragile social housing systems in Ireland and Denmark
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This article explores the impact of social housing financing arrangements for the fragility and resilience of this tenure as evidenced by its propensity to shrink or expand over the long-run. To do so, it examines the cases of Ireland and Denmark and employs and develops the concept of ‘financial circuits’. This concept refers to dynamic flows of capital and revenue which move through the built environment in ways which are structured by the different funding streams which make them up, and by their interaction with the wider socio-economic context. The key insight offered here is that the cyclicality, permeability and breadth of financial circuits are key to understanding finance’s impact on the size and trajectory of the social housing tenure. The Danish social housing sector has doubled in size since the 1960s partially because it draws on broad financial circuits which consist of many different types of finance, including government, non-profit and financialised private sources. This insulates the sector from reductions in funding from any single source and avoids the boom/bust investment cycles common in Ireland where the sector relies almost entirely on government grants for funding.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1469-1489
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1777944
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Author-Name: Camila Cociña
Author-X-Name-First: Camila
Author-X-Name-Last: Cociña
Title: Housing as urbanism: the role of housing policies in reducing inequalities. Lessons from Puente Alto, Chile
Abstract:
This article explores the potential of housing policies to reduce economic, social and political inequalities. Understanding inequalities as issues of distribution and recognition, housing policies have the potential to tackle them by encouraging more equal outcomes and processes. Presupposing the centrality of the urban dimension in current debates, this article puts forward the idea of housing as urbanism as a framework of analysis. This framework is used to discuss the Chilean case, a market-led housing system that is considered as a financial model by many countries in the global South. However, urban shortcomings have encouraged policy makers to incorporate explicit urban equality ambitions in recent years. Based on empirical work conducted in Bajos de Mena, Santiago, the article presents two programmes with equality aspirations, examining their economic, social and political impacts. To draw lessons from the cases contributing to wider debates, it identifies the main challenges in addressing inequality, reflecting on the relevance of these conclusions beyond the Chilean case.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1490-1512
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1543797
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Author-Name: Jan Cloete
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Cloete
Author-Name: Lochner Marais
Author-X-Name-First: Lochner
Author-X-Name-Last: Marais
Title: Mine housing in the South African coalfields: the unforeseen consequences of post-apartheid policy
Abstract:
Historically, many mining companies in South Africa housed their white workforce in towns established and managed by the company and their black workforce in single-sex hostels or compounds. By the early 2000s, most company towns had been ‘normalised’, the mining industry had abolished the compound system and homeownership had become the dominant policy goal. We use evolutionary governance theory and the concepts of social disruption and place attachment to reveal two problems: the path dependency of the migrant labour system and the goal dependency of government policy. To illustrate the effects on the residents of a coal mining town, we identify three housing clusters: renters, homeowners and informal settlers. Using findings from a survey of one South African mining town (Emalahleni), we show how the housing system created by normalisation places undue pressure on municipal services. We argue that by ignoring the continued migration and the likelihood of mine decline or closure government policy is putting homeowners at risk.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1388-1406
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769038
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Author-Name: Chris Foye
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Foye
Title: Social construction of house size expectations: testing the positional good theory and aspiration spiral theory using UK and German panel data
Abstract:
This paper examines the social construction of house size expectations in two national panel datasets: German Socio Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) and the British Household Panel Study (BHPS). More specifically, it tests the aspiration spiral theory and positional good theory using data on housing/life satisfaction and house size judgements. In both countries, it finds substantial evidence that the current space expectations of individuals who have ‘upsized’ depends on the level of living space they experienced in the past year. For downsizers, however, the evidence in support of the aspiration spiral theory is weaker. In terms of the positional good theory, this paper finds no consistent evidence that an individual’s space expectations are influenced by those around them. In both countries, the paper tests for two reference groups – the average level of living space in the region, and the mean size of the largest decile of houses in the region – and neither are found to be significant.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1513-1532
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1795086
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Author-Name: Alicja Bobek
Author-X-Name-First: Alicja
Author-X-Name-Last: Bobek
Author-Name: Sinead Pembroke
Author-X-Name-First: Sinead
Author-X-Name-Last: Pembroke
Author-Name: James Wickham
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Wickham
Title: Living in precarious housing: non-standard employment and housing careers of young professionals in Ireland
Abstract:
There is a growing understanding amongst researchers that traditionally defined linear housing career paths are becoming more difficult to follow, especially for young people. This seems to be particularly the case in the context of changing labour markets and the rise of flexible employment. In this paper we use the example of Ireland to demonstrate how non-standard and precarious work influences housing pathways of young professionals. Due to the employment circumstances, these ‘middle class’ workers are increasingly excluded from home ownership; they also experience difficulties in the private rental market. Consequently, they often rely on different forms of alternative housing arrangements. Such arrangements include prolonged sharing with friends and strangers, or moving back with parents. As a result, these young professionals tend to follow non-traditional housing pathways and are not able to move up the housing ladder. Their housing mobility, on the contrary, often consists of vertical or even ‘backward’ movements.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1364-1387
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769037
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Author-Name: Melissa García-Lamarca
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa
Author-X-Name-Last: García-Lamarca
Title: Real estate crisis resolution regimes and residential REITs: emerging socio-spatial impacts in Barcelona
Abstract:
This paper explores the development of residential Spanish Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs, known as SOCIMIs) in the country’s growing rental market, unpacking their connection with the resolution of the 2008 financial crisis. Focus is placed on the emerging socio-spatial dynamics of one of the country’s first large-scale residential SOCIMIs in Barcelona from the global private equity firm Blackstone. I argue that SOCIMIs manifest a housing regime enabled by the Spanish state and EU backed post-crisis management of toxic real estate assets, a model built from the dispossession underlying hundreds of thousands of foreclosures and evictions and the public financial system bail out. Mapping 110 Blackstone SOCIMI properties in Barcelona in relation to neighbourhood rental prices and findings from a social media group created by Blackstone SOCIMI tenants suggests that these new residential REITs reinforce socio-spatial urban inequality and dispossession. The discussion and conclusions unpack the implications of these findings vis-à-vis urban housing access, affordability and inequalities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1407-1426
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769034
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Author-Name: Hanna Kettunen
Author-X-Name-First: Hanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kettunen
Author-Name: Hannu Ruonavaara
Author-X-Name-First: Hannu
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruonavaara
Title: Rent regulation in 21st century Europe. Comparative perspectives
Abstract:
The general housing policy trend in Europe has been towards neoliberalization meaning less state involvement in housing market and less government support for housing production. However, private rental markets are still regulated in many European countries. Here, we classify 33 European countries based on rent regulation system and welfare state regime. There seems to be some but not too much correspondence between the welfare state regime and whether rents are controlled. However, it seems that the role of rent regulation depends on the context and one should take a closer look at specific cases. We look at Nordic welfare states that are similar in that all represent the social democratic welfare model but different in their housing regimes by which we mean the basic principles of how housing provision in the country is organized.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1446-1468
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769564
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Author-Name: Francois Bonnet
Author-X-Name-First: Francois
Author-X-Name-Last: Bonnet
Author-Name: Julie Pollard
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Pollard
Title: Tenant selection in the private rental sector of Paris and Geneva
Abstract:
This article seeks to make sense of tenant selection in the private rental sector. It is based on 51 interviews with real estate agents in Paris (France) and Geneva (Switzerland). Tenant selection is a process whereby real-estate agents primarily assess whether prospective tenants can be a stable source of income for landlords. First, real estate agents use the income criterion as a category to organize the worthiness of a rental applicant. Our comparative design shows that financial risk assessment depends on particular institutional features of national tenancy regulations. Second, a “good tenant” is more than just a financially-solvent one. A good tenant pays rent regularly, stays in the apartment, maintains it in good condition, and does not cause any trouble. We show that real estate agents use many different categorical stereotypes related to these unobservable characteristics to dismiss applicants, just as employers on the low-wage labor market rely on stereotypes to identify soft skills of prospective employees.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1427-1445
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769565
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Author-Name: Karen Witten
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Witten
Author-Name: Robin Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Simon Opit
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Opit
Author-Name: Emma Fergusson
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Fergusson
Title: Facebook as soft infrastructure: producing and performing community in a mixed tenure housing development
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Place-based community networks provide a resource that can be drawn on to protect and promote the wellbeing of residents. We investigate the role of social networking sites (SNSs) in community formation in a new master-planned, mixed tenure, affordable housing estate in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Waimahia Inlet was developed by a consortium of Māori organizations and community housing providers. Community formation was an explicit developer goal with public spaces to encourage face-to-face interaction designed into the development and social infrastructure nurtured on site. New residents were invited to join a closed Facebook group, created and moderated by a residents’ association set up by the developer. In-depth interviews with 38 residents between 2017/18 revealed synergies between residents’ use of online and offline interactional spaces for producing and performing an engaged and supportive community. Neighbourhood networks contributed to strengthened attachment to place and sense of security by residents.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1345-1363
Issue: 9
Volume: 36
Year: 2021
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1769035
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Author-Name: Malcolm Tait
Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm
Author-X-Name-Last: Tait
Title: Planning and knowledge: how new forms of technocracy are shaping contemporary cities
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 181-182
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2004039
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Author-Name: Eva K Andersson
Author-X-Name-First: Eva K
Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson
Author-Name: Thomas Wimark
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Wimark
Author-Name: Bo Malmberg
Author-X-Name-First: Bo
Author-X-Name-Last: Malmberg
Title: Tenure type mixing and segregation
Abstract:
We examine the ‘overlap’ or to which degree tenure form patterns are similar to socio-economic segregation patterns. The issue has been discussed concerning mixing policies; does mixing of tenure hinder socio-economic segregation? If mixing tenure is to be an effective policy against segregation, the overlap has to be understood. Using Swedish register data, we cross tenure-type landscapes with patterns of high/mixed/low-income and with European/non-European/Swedish-born. To what degree is there overlap among tenure, income and country of birth? Is the overlap related to geographical scale and polarization? Is the overlap of tenure forms with socio-economic characteristics consistent across regions? We find strong overlap of large-scale cooperative tenure landscapes with very high incomes as well as with Swedish-born. Small-scale tenure-landscapes provide mixing opportunities for incomes wherever they are located; however, these landscapes have a small non-Swedish-born population nearby. Some tenure-type landscapes vary in characteristics depending on location; e.g. public rental concentrated areas are high-income in urban cores but low-income in urban peripheries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 26-49
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1803803
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Author-Name: Mikael Lundholm
Author-X-Name-First: Mikael
Author-X-Name-Last: Lundholm
Title: Credit expansion and socio-economic heterogeneity of debtors in foreclosure: the case of Sweden 2000–2014
Abstract:
Credit expansion is the trend of households gaining access to more credit. It is correlated with increasing socio-economic heterogeneity of indebted homeowners. Increasing heterogeneity implies that a more diverse span of homeowners is put at risk of foreclosure. This empirical study explores socio-economic heterogeneity in the case of Swedish debtors in foreclosure between 2000 and 2014. Employing individual-level data, the study observes variability over time for socio-economic variables within and between three groups of debtors with mortgage, consumer, and tax debt, respectively. The results indicate that there were trends towards increasing socio-economic heterogeneity within these three groups and that these trends were particularly strong among the group with mortgage debt. For the mortgage debt group, a greater number of socio-economically weak debtors entering foreclosure over time drives increasing heterogeneity. The discussion focuses on the role of increasing scope—access to credit for previously excluded households—and increasing scale—more access to credit generally—in explaining these findings.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1793914
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Author-Name: Ka Man Leung
Author-X-Name-First: Ka Man
Author-X-Name-Last: Leung
Author-Name: Chung Yim Yiu
Author-X-Name-First: Chung Yim
Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu
Author-Name: Kin-kwok Lai
Author-X-Name-First: Kin-kwok
Author-X-Name-Last: Lai
Title: Responsiveness of sub-divided unit tenants’ housing consumption to income: a study of Hong Kong informal housing
Abstract:
This is the first empirical study of income elasticity of housing demand of low-income households living in sub-divided units (SDUs) of Hong Kong. Housing affordability is commonly measured by either price-to-income ratio (PIR) or rent-to-income ratio (RIR), and the latter method is often found to be relatively stable over time and across countries. We contend that RIR cannot accurately reflect affordability situations because of the income elasticity of housing demand. Informal housing markets exist in Hong Kong for low-income households to pay lower and more "affordable" rent by living in units of smaller size and poorer quality, which are often with irregularities. This study found that SDU households have a relatively low income elasticity of housing demand and a relatively high RIR. They face difficulties in adjusting their housing service quality and quantity to balance their income and expenditure budget. Even so, SDU households are observed to further downsize and forgo housing facilities to make their rents affordable.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 50-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1803799
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Author-Name: Michael Byrne
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne
Author-Name: Rachel McArdle
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: McArdle
Title: Secure occupancy, power and the landlord-tenant relation: a qualitative exploration of the Irish private rental sector
Abstract:
Ireland has recently seen a wide-ranging attempt to reform its growing private rental sector. New legislation has strengthened security of tenure and regulated rents. However, these measures have been largely ineffective due to high levels of non-compliance on the part of landlords, which is in turn enabled by the absence of security for tenants. This article examines the interaction of security, tenants’ agency and the landlord-tenant power relationship. It presents data from in-depth qualitative research with tenants to analyse the multi-dimensional ways in which security is undermined for tenants, disempowering them and facilitating a culture of non-compliance among landlords. The article draws on the concept of ‘secure occupancy’ to capture the construction of insecurity across the domains of legislation, markets and culture, and argues that insecurity and the power asymmetry between landlord and tenant are deeply intertwined.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 124-142
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1803801
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Author-Name: Christopher Parker
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Parker
Title: The role of biographies in determining recovery in Housing First
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Housing First (HF) aims to overcome homelessness by offering immediate, independent accommodation in the community. In doing so, the model seeks to provide a foundation for client centred support that enables recovery from the ‘multiple and complex’ needs that multiply excluded homeless (MEH) adults experience. The majority of HF literature has focussed on the model’s very positive housing related outcomes. However, outcomes related to recovery and desistance have been less clear. This article draws on a qualitative, longitudinal evaluation of a HF service in a northern English city, following 18 MEH adults over 16 months in their HF tenancy. A situational approach was used to explore participants’ ability to utilize the foundation provided by HF achieve outcomes related to recovery and desistance. Findings demonstrated the importance of participants’ biographies in determining their ability to progress towards these outcomes. A key output of the article is a typology of participant’s biographies that was predictive of their trajectories in HF.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 103-123
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1803800
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Author-Name: Stuart Hodkinson
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart
Author-X-Name-Last: Hodkinson
Title: Urban warfare: housing under the empire of finance
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 179-181
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2004038
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Author-Name: Mustapha Bangura
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Author-Name: Chyi Lin Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Chyi Lin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Housing price bubbles in Greater Sydney: evidence from a submarket analysis
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Recognising the rapid increase in housing prices and the presence of socio-economic and demographic disparities that often characterise a metropolitan city, we adopted a sub-city approach and deployed an array of methods to detect bubbles in the different regions of Greater Sydney – western, inner-west, southern, eastern and northern – over 1991 to 2016, using Westerlund error correction-based panel cointegration, backward supremum augmented Dickey–Fuller (BSADF) procedure, and dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) tests. Our cointegration results show no evidence of cointegration between real house price and rent in the western region. However, there is strong evidence of cointegration in the eastern and northern regions. This confirms the existence of housing submarkets in Greater Sydney, and an indication of housing price bubbles in Western Sydney. Further, the formal BSADF bubble tests reveal strong evidence of explosive price bubbles in Western Sydney, while there is no comparable evidence for the other regions of Sydney, which further highlights the importance of submarket analysis. Importantly, the DOLS results suggest that housing investment plays a major role in the build-up of housing bubbles in Western Sydney, supporting Shiller's Psychological Theory of bubbles which posits that bubbles occur via the speculative behaviour of investors. The implications of the findings are also discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 143-178
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1803802
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Author-Name: Tom Archer
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Title: The mechanics of housing collectivism: how forms and functions affect affordability
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In countries worldwide, limited access to affordable housing is fuelling interest in collectivist solutions. Different organizational models are being developed to enable groups of people to own and control housing collectively. The benefits of such models have been widely promoted, not least in terms of delivering enhanced housing affordability for residents. However, evidence to support such claims is scarce and it remains unclear whether affordability is the product of collective forms and functions, or some other factor(s). To address this gap in knowledge, the paper presents findings from three case studies of English and Canadian housing collectives. Applying realist theories of causation, the processes affecting housing affordability are explained, conceptualizing two causal mechanisms which depict how organizational form, internal rules and regulatory activity, along with the unique role of the resident-owner, influence the setting of rents and prices. Further research is required to understand the prevalence of these mechanisms and their general application.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 73-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1803798
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Author-Name: Jinwei Hao
Author-X-Name-First: Jinwei
Author-X-Name-Last: Hao
Author-Name: Jin Zhu
Author-X-Name-First: Jin
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu
Author-Name: Sian Thompson
Author-X-Name-First: Sian
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson
Title: Surviving in the post-repatriation era: home-making strategies of homeless people in post-socialist China
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While Chinese people are technically guaranteed a place to live through the hukou system, homelessness is still an issue in China. Our paper aims to explore the home-making strategies of homeless people in the context of China’s homelessness policy transition from repatriation to assistance in the post-socialist era, using in-depth interviews with homeless people and others interacting with them in Shanghai’s high-prestige downtown area. Drawing on Giddens’ structuration theory, we find that homeless people work to create a sense of home through: 1) avoiding the government service centres where freedom, privacy and social contact are restricted; 2) adapting their routines to rigid place management in the daytime and benefitting from strict security at night; and 3) tactically utilising surrounding spaces and facilities to carry out daily activities and develop a sense of home and control. Government assistance through the service centres is inadequate and may even be diametrically opposed to home-making, highlighting room for improvement in government homelessness policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 292-314
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1867082
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
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Title: Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 352-354
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2031748
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Author-Name: Dahlia Namian
Author-X-Name-First: Dahlia
Author-X-Name-Last: Namian
Title: Homemaking among the ‘chronically homeless’: a critical policy ethnography of Housing First
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Housing First (HF) has become a prevalent public response to homelessness in North America and Europe. It supports individuals who have experienced long-term or ‘chronic’ homelessness in accessing independent housing without having to comply with addiction or mental health treatment. This article examines some of the challenges faced and expressed by HF program participants. Based on a critical policy ethnography of HF in two Canadian cities (Ottawa and Gatineau) and by drawing from a theoretical framework on meanings and feelings of home, it highlights how long term shelter users respond and adapt to housing with means of homemaking that challenge normative conceptions of ‘doing home’. Through fieldwork observations, the article describes how homeless shelters can represent ‘home-like’ sites and highlights a typology of homemaking, which reveals areas for policy improvement.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 332-349
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2009777
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Author-Name: Paul Jenkins
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Jenkins
Title: Broken cities: inside the global housing crisis
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 350-351
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2031745
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Author-Name: Nicholas Pleace
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Author-X-Name-Last: Pleace
Author-Name: Eoin O’Sullivan
Author-X-Name-First: Eoin
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Sullivan
Author-Name: Guy Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Title: Making home or making do: a critical look at homemaking without a home
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This paper critically examines the concept of alternative forms of ‘homemaking’ among people without a settled home. The introductory section establishes the framework for the paper, providing an overview of homelessness and the homemaking literature. Strengths in the homemaking approach are identified, which reconceptualises homelessness as a human-centered phenomenon that can be understood as ‘resistance’ to societies that block accesses to mainstream housing for people who are (also) socially and economically marginalised. Homemaking moves beyond mainstream academic analyses which explore homelessness in terms of ‘sin’ (addiction and criminality), ‘sickness’ (poor health, especially poor mental health) and ‘systems’ (housing market failure and inadequate social protection and public health systems). The paper argues that, while important in refreshing our thinking about homelessness by offering a new, radical epistemology of housing, homemaking is limited by not contextualising the dwelling practices it seeks to explain, particularly in respect of how it defines ‘homelessness’ and also risks misinterpreting transitory behavioural adaptations as something deeper.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 315-331
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1929859
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Author-Name: Johannes Lenhard
Author-X-Name-First: Johannes
Author-X-Name-Last: Lenhard
Title: The economy of hot air – habiter, warmth and security among homeless people at the Gare du Nord in Paris
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Many of my rough sleeping informants were competing for surface-space on the hot air vents emanating heat around Paris’ Gare du Nord. During the winter months in particular, warm space was a scarce commodity and the hot air vents were an ideal starting point for shelter-making, or habiter. Introducing you to Ma, Miles and a group of Polish people I will demonstrate how my informants ordered the space around the vents, personalised it with physical objects and routines and hence managed to make (temporary) homes. Conflicts both internally and with security forces rendered this process perpetually cyclical, a movement that was made even more permanent with the introduction of hostile architecture. My observations were indicative of deep fault lines in the make-up of the city space of many metropolis: between public and private space, between what home is for one person and a transit space for another, between defending the property rights of the train station and home making practices carving out shelter.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 250-271
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1844158
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Author-Name: Jennifer Hoolachan
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoolachan
Title: Making home? Permitted and prohibited place-making in youth homeless accommodation
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Based on the premise that ‘home’ is more than bricks and mortar, a growing body of literature has considered how the concept might be applied to homelessness. Aligned with ‘home’, home-making refers to the construction of living spaces so that their sensory features and the practices that occur there create a pleasant environment that enhances wellbeing. However, the instability and structural constraints within which homeless people live can limit their ability to home-make. Hence, in this article, ‘place-making’ proved a useful alternative concept. This article draws on an ethnographic study in Scotland involving 22 young people and 27 staff who lived and worked respectively in a supported accommodation hostel. It demonstrates how the residents engaged in sensory practices within the tightly regulated confines of the hostel. A distinction is made between ‘permitted’ and ‘prohibited’ practices to argue that home-making is not a morally-neutral concept. Rather there are ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ ways for homeless people to personalise their living spaces.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 212-231
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1836329
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Author-Name: Ayham Dalal
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Author-X-Name-Last: Dalal
Title: The refugee camp as urban housing
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This paper is a call to examine refugee camps and urban housing as interlinked phenomena. By comparatively examining the spatial-material arrangements of three Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, it suggests that the ‘how’ question (or how to plan refugee camps) has invited the housing agenda to appear spatially. In the Jordanian case, this has led to the production of three distinctive models of camps-housing namely a ghetto, a gated community and a mass housing project. In the German context, it has led to the production of camps phased into permanent and hybrid models of housing. Finally, and by underlying that the camp is first and foremost a form of urban housing, it suggests that the concepts, themes and analytical tools developed in housing studies has the potential to unpack the complexity of the camp and how it interlinks with our cities and urban realities today.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 189-211
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1782850
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Author-Name: J. Lenhard
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Author-X-Name-Last: Lenhard
Author-Name: L. Coulomb
Author-X-Name-First: L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Coulomb
Author-Name: A. Miranda-Nieto
Author-X-Name-First: A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Miranda-Nieto
Title: Home making without a home: dwelling practices and routines among people experiencing homelessness
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 183-188
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2022862
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Author-Name: Emma Bimpson
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bimpson
Author-Name: Sadie Parr
Author-X-Name-First: Sadie
Author-X-Name-Last: Parr
Author-Name: Kesia Reeve
Author-X-Name-First: Kesia
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeve
Title: Governing homeless mothers: the unmaking of home and family
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The home is a central place where women's identity as 'mother' is socially constructed and negotiated. Social policy is inexorably implicated in (re)producing these dominant visions of mothers, mothering, home-making and home. Yet, we know very little about how these same social policies are also implicated in women's loss of home. The article begins to address this evidence-gap. It draws on biographical research with homeless women to explore the ways in which key governing frameworks (associated with child protection processes, housing allocation policy and temporary accommodation provision in England) interact with women's status as mother, to shape the spaces they inhabit as home or not-home, materially and emotionally. We present data that illustrates how women's capacity to retain, make or rebuild a family home in times of crisis is significantly hampered by the policies and procedures they encounter in housing and social welfare systems.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 272-291
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853069
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Author-Name: Luisa T. Schneider
Author-X-Name-First: Luisa T.
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Title: ‘My home is my people’ homemaking among rough sleepers in Leipzig, Germany
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By combining an analysis of the unhoused response with an ethnographic study of the lived experiences of unhoused people in Leipzig, Germany, this article offers insights into how rough sleepers understand home. The focus is on men and women who exited unhoused shelters and returned to the streets; on their experiences in shelters and their practices of homemaking on the streets. Whereas legal and policy frameworks often equate home with house, unhoused people locate home in relationships, affects, routines and in time. In Leipzig shared shelters that are separated by sex are used to move as many people off the streets as possible. But to unhoused people home is first and foremost their relationships. Policy and practice misunderstand that unhoused people exit shelters because they cannot live intimate, personal and family life there, not because they refuse assistance. To be effective, services must overcome the dissonance between their perceptions of home (infrastructural, spatial) and those of their target groups (social).
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 232-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1844157
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Author-Name: Beverley Lorraine James
Author-X-Name-First: Beverley Lorraine
Author-X-Name-Last: James
Author-Name: Laura Bates
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Bates
Author-Name: Tara Michelle Coleman
Author-X-Name-First: Tara Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Coleman
Author-Name: Robin Kearns
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns
Author-Name: Fiona Cram
Author-X-Name-First: Fiona
Author-X-Name-Last: Cram
Title: Tenure insecurity, precarious housing and hidden homelessness among older renters in New Zealand
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Homelessness among older people is growing in western countries including New Zealand. The rise in renting among middle-aged and older people highlights tenure insecurity and the risk of homelessness for the first time in later life. We report on a dataset drawn from a larger project in which 108 tenants aged 55 and older were interviewed. Of those, nineteen had experienced homelessness (as defined by Statistics New Zealand) within the previous five years, including residing in temporary housing, temporarily sharing accommodation, living in uninhabitable dwellings, and being without shelter. We examine factors precipitating participants’ homelessness, their living environments, and pathways out of homelessness. National data on renting trends among older age groups are also presented. The paper argues that homelessness risk is central to older tenants’ experience of New Zealand’s under-regulated rental market. We conclude that within this context, tenure insecurity is generated through unaffordable rents, no-cause termination, poor dwelling condition and housing that is unsuitable for an ageing population.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 483-505
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1813259
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Author-Name: Claire Cahen
Author-X-Name-First: Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: Cahen
Author-Name: Erin Lilli
Author-X-Name-First: Erin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lilli
Author-Name: Susan Saegert
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Saegert
Title: Ethical action in the age of austerity: cases of care in two community land trusts
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As social housing diminishes in the U.S., community land trusts have tried to adapt to the age of austerity, growing in numbers and expanding their terrain. We argue their continued success and growth greatly depends on enacting—to borrow from Gibson-Graham et al. (2019)—matters of care. These include all ethical and experimental actions taken to repair worlds in crises. We study two community land trusts that emerged two decades ago and argue that their work is based on two braided strands of care: care for people and care for place. The efforts of these community land trusts are varied and evolving, as they work closely with their contexts over time, combatting displacement, and responding to place-based crises through experimentation and the nurturing of community ties. This article challenges mechanistic accounts which attribute the success of community land trusts not to the care they enact but to the shared-equity organizational model.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 393-413
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1807472
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Author-Name: Anita Aigner
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Author-X-Name-Last: Aigner
Title: What's wrong with investment apartments? On the construction of a ‘financialized’ rental investment product in Vienna
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This article sheds light on the investment-driven construction sector in Vienna and provides a critique of the Austrian rental investment product Vorsorgewohnung (VSW), a tax-saving investment construction primarily aimed at small private investors. Building on ‘new’ new economic sociology and a performative take on markets, the focus is on the social construction and the making of a market around this product. The transformation of housing into an investment product is examined by drawing on the advertising discourse, especially the VSW-market makers' webites. The negative effects of financialized housing production on the micro and urban level are also discussed. Against economic common sense, it is argued that the VSW market is not a ‘natural’ matter of a given demand and supply, but the product of a twofold social construction to which the Austrian state and the local banks make a significant contribution. What appears rational and advantageous from the investors’ individual point of view is, in various ways, a disadvantage for the urban community.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 355-375
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1806992
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Author-Name: Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Author-X-Name-First: Cesare
Author-X-Name-Last: Di Feliciantonio
Author-Name: Myrto Dagkouly-Kyriakoglou
Author-X-Name-First: Myrto
Author-X-Name-Last: Dagkouly-Kyriakoglou
Title: The housing pathways of lesbian and gay youth and intergenerational family relations: a Southern European perspective
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Against the heteronormativity of the increasing field of studies around intergenerational family relations within asset-based welfare systems, the paper analyses the housing pathways of lesbian and gay young people, focusing on family intergenerational relations and the implications concerning emotional, private and sexual life. The paper focuses on Greece and Italy, two countries characterized by the so-called ‘Southern European’ model of welfare system centred around the family. Given the persistence of homo/lesbophobia, this process pushes lesbian and gay youth to negotiate between housing choices and personal lives in ambivalent ways. The housing strategies analysed are regrouped into four categories: (i) the return to the family house; (ii) the dependence on the family of origin to buy or rent; (iii) international migration to be more autonomous; (iv) the experience of alternative housing models, mostly squatting, or sharing (including Airbnb). Our categorization must not be interpreted as fixed or immutable since people might try different solutions over time.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 414-434
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1807471
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Author-Name: Shinichiro Iwata
Author-X-Name-First: Shinichiro
Author-X-Name-Last: Iwata
Author-Name: Norifumi Yukutake
Author-X-Name-First: Norifumi
Author-X-Name-Last: Yukutake
Title: Housing wealth and consumption among elderly Japanese
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This paper proposes an alternative channel for elderly consumption response to housing value changes by focusing on the informal financial markets. This channel may be important, particularly in a society where the elderly are less mobile and have limited access to the formal financial markets. In such a society, elderly homeowners may leave their housing assets to their children, and in exchange receive cash to fund consumption. Japanese household-level data on the elderly are used to examine this possibility. The results indeed suggest that the consumption of the elderly responds to changes in their house values through the intrafamily finance channel alone. The marginal propensity to consume out of housing wealth is only 0.01.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 376-392
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1807470
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Author-Name: Emma R. Power
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Author-Name: Charles Gillon
Author-X-Name-First: Charles
Author-X-Name-Last: Gillon
Title: Performing the ‘good tenant’
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Renters in homeowner societies like Australia, the United States and United Kingdom occupy a complex moral landscape, maligned for failure to achieve homeownership but pivotal to the value of investment properties. Identification of ‘good’ and ‘risky’ tenants is an important landlord practice. We investigate how tenants conceptualise and perform the ‘good tenant’ through research with 36 single older women renting in greater Sydney, Australia: a cohort on the margins of secure housing. The good tenant demonstrates responsibility through paying rent on time and property stewardship (reporting repairs, making home). However, these practices are made necessary and risky through limited tenure security. The emotional and financial risks attending performances of the good tenant drive paradoxical relations; a good tenant is also acquiescent and silent, not reporting property repairs or lapsed leases to avoid rent increases and/or evictions. Variegated performances of the ‘good tenant’ reflect cultural property norms and valorize the investment function of housing yet could also productively unsettle tenant-landlord relations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 459-482
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1813260
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Author-Name: Jason Slade
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Author-X-Name-Last: Slade
Title: From improvement to city planning: spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the civil war decade
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 508-509
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2051950
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Author-Name: Juan Yan
Author-X-Name-First: Juan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yan
Author-Name: Marietta Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Author-Name: Marja Elsinga
Author-X-Name-First: Marja
Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga
Title: Embracing market and civic actor participation in public rental housing governance: new insights about power distribution
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In recent decades, government intervention in welfare states has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from hierarchical government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors. Such terminology has also entered Chinese policy language on public rental housing (PRH) provision. To unravel the perceived power distribution in the relationships between the involved actors, this article draws from in-depth interviews in two Chinese cities: Chongqing and Fuzhou. The article thereby contributes new insights to the perceived power relations in Chinese PRH provision on the ground. It also develops an analytical framework based on Billis by complementing it with Social Network Analysis to measure the power relations. Such a framework will allow the comparison of different governance systems across time and different jurisdictions within and beyond China. This study shows the structures and mechanisms for non-governmental actors to play a role, which they do not have in the ‘government’ period, in the governance of PRH.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 435-458
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1813258
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: Boyle heights: how a Los Angeles neighborhood became the future of American democracy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 506-507
Issue: 3
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2051871
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Author-Name: Gavin A. Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Gavin A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood
Author-Name: Rachel Ong
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Ong
Author-Name: Marietta E. A. Haffner
Author-X-Name-First: Marietta E. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner
Title: Housing wealth and aged care: asset-based welfare in practice in three OECD countries
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The transition of the baby boomer bulge into old age and their increasing longevity will lift the numbers of elderly in residential aged care. Population ageing and associated fiscal pressures have motivated governments to shift responsibility for the financing of aged care to the individual. We consider policies that include owner-occupiers’ housing wealth and imputed rental incomes in means tests that determine co-contribution charges for residential aged care. Differences in how housing wealth is included in the residential aged care resource tests of three OECD countries – Australia, England and the Netherlands – are documented. We find some neglected equity implications as tenants in all three countries typically pay higher co-payments for their residential aged care than homeowners with similar wealth holdings. These outcomes are a consequence of the concessional treatment of owners’ housing equity stakes, and of wider significance given the growing importance of asset-based welfare strategies. England has relatively progressive asset and income tests that offer more limited concessions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 511-536
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1819966
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Author-Name: Arthur Acolin
Author-X-Name-First: Arthur
Author-X-Name-Last: Acolin
Title: Owning vs. Renting: the benefits of residential stability?
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In housing research, owning, as compared to renting, is generally depicted as more desirable and associated with better outcomes. This paper explores differences in outcomes between owners and renters in 25 European countries and whether these differences are systematically smaller in countries in which owners and renters have more similar levels of residential stability (smaller tenure length gap). The results indicate that the direction of the relationship between tenure type and the selected outcomes is largely similar across countries. Owners generally exhibit more desirable outcomes (including life satisfaction, civic participation, educational outcomes for children, and physical and mental health). However, when looking at the relationship between outcomes and country level differences in tenure length gap, findings suggest that renters have outcomes that are more similar to owners in countries in which tenure length gaps are smaller. These results point to the potential benefits of policies that would increase residential stability, particularly for renters.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 644-667
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1823332
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Author-Name: Tony Manzi
Author-X-Name-First: Tony
Author-X-Name-Last: Manzi
Title: The fall and rise of social housing: 100 years on 20 estates
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 669-671
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2060557
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Author-Name: Mikko Jalas
Author-X-Name-First: Mikko
Author-X-Name-Last: Jalas
Author-Name: Jenny Rinkinen
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Rinkinen
Title: Valuing energy solutions in the housing markets: the role of market devices and real estate agents
Abstract:
New energy technologies present opportunities for low-carbon housing but also significant upfront costs for house owners. Due to the long service life of such technologies, market valuation impacts on the feasibility of such investments. Yet, existing evidence on the market valuation of energy investments in private housing is inconclusive. Furthermore, despite significant policy efforts, energy performance certificates remain ineffective. This paper addresses these gaps with a study of real estate agents and the use of market devices, such as tools, databases, classification schemes, inspection protocols and market practices. Our analytical framework builds on the sociology of markets, actor network theory and pragmatist theories of valuation in order to highlight the material and discursive assemblages and arrangements that intervene in the construction of markets. Drawing on empirical evidence from Finland, the results point to asymmetries in market devices and valuation practices that disfavour energy investments compared to the other key quality attributes of housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 556-577
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1819967
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Author-Name: Rebecca Marie Shakespeare
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Shakespeare
Title: Staying in place: narratives of middle-income renter immobility in New York City
Abstract:
Existing research has enumerated why people move; this article responds to recent calls for increased focus on residential immobility – or staying in place – by focusing on why and how middle-income renters remain immobile as housing costs change around them. This article examines how middle-income renters make sense of housing cost change and their ability to remain in place. Using thirty-two semi-structured interviews with middle-income renters in New York City, this research analyses housing narratives to understand the financial and social complexities of remaining in place. Middle-income renters who are intentionally immobile explain how they stay in their neighbourhood area by making financial trade-offs and negotiating landlord relationships to avoid rent increases. Within a broader narrative of inevitable price displacement, this demonstrates how structural processes of urban housing and urban change manifest in the housing narratives of middle-income renters as they act to defer their own displacement and actively hold their place in changing neighbourhoods.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 537-555
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1819968
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Author-Name: Trond Løyning
Author-X-Name-First: Trond
Author-X-Name-Last: Løyning
Title: Re-politicizing financial regulation: a sociological analysis of the debate on loan-to-value regulation in Norway
Abstract:
While financial regulation became highly contested in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the specifics of such regulation is usually debated among professionals, in specialized fora. This article analyses an exception to this; the debate on the loan-to-value ratio regulation introduced in Norway in 2010. Newspaper articles are analysed, using Boltanski & Thevenot’s pragmatic perspective on how actors legitimize their arguments and critique. Unlike other critical approaches (i.e., critical discourse analysis) this perspective focuses on actors own critical capacity and it is argued that the approach is useful in analyzing re-politicizing efforts of social actors. The main finding is that most arguments opposing the regulation are based in the civic “regime of justification”, while arguments supporting the regulation are based in the industrial regime of justification. Few arguments enact the market regime as justification. The article discusses reasons why the regulation has not been repelled, despite the widespread criticism.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 624-643
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1823328
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Author-Name: David Allatt
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Allatt
Title: Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 668-669
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2060556
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Author-Name: Lewis Abedi Asante
Author-X-Name-First: Lewis Abedi
Author-X-Name-Last: Asante
Author-Name: Richmond Juvenile Ehwi
Author-X-Name-First: Richmond Juvenile
Author-X-Name-Last: Ehwi
Title: Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi
Abstract:
This paper investigates housing transformation, the rent gap and gentrification in compound houses in Bantama, a sub-metro in Ghana’s second-largest city, Kumasi. It argues that the ongoing housing transformation has altered the ‘classic’ features of compound houses, namely the dwelling unit, the use of shared space and the socio-demographic profile of households. It demonstrates that the physical transformation of compound houses predominantly involves the modification of dwelling units with shared facilities in compound houses into apartments where tenants have exclusive access to bathrooms, toilets, kitchens and electricity meters. Following such transformation, landlords obtain the rental power to capture at least 100 percent uplift in rents payable. There is evidence that the traditional form of housing that has, for many decades, provided shelter to low-income households is undergoing gentrification. The paper concludes by reflecting on the potential consequences of this transformation and makes a case for urgent policy intervention in the ongoing transformation of compound houses.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 578-604
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1823331
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Author-Name: Sien Winters
Author-X-Name-First: Sien
Author-X-Name-Last: Winters
Author-Name: Katleen Van den Broeck
Author-X-Name-First: Katleen Van den
Author-X-Name-Last: Broeck
Title: Social housing in Flanders: best value for society from social housing associations or social rental agencies?
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Social housing in Flanders is provided by two types of organizations. Social Housing Associations (SHAs) build and buy houses. Social Rental Agencies (SRAs) rent houses on the private market. Both types of organizations have a similar goal: to provide affordable and good quality housing to households in need. In this article, we describe the SHA and SRA model, assess the cost for the government of both models and evaluate their cost-effectiveness, which we define as the value for society (the outcome) given the government budget. The conclusion is that an SRA dwelling in Flanders on average has a higher cost to the government than an SHA dwelling. With respect to outcomes, we find some are better for SHAs and other are better for SRAs. The main contribution of this article is that it proposes a methodology for assessing the cost and the cost-effectiveness of different models of social housing, which can also be applied in other institutional contexts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 605-623
Issue: 4
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1823329
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Author-Name: Paul Jenkins
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Jenkins
Title: Scotland’s rural home: nine stories about contemporary architecture
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 833-835
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2069322
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Author-Name: Willem Rogier Boterman
Author-X-Name-First: Willem Rogier
Author-X-Name-Last: Boterman
Title: School choice and school segregation in the context of gentrifying Amsterdam
Abstract:
Changes in the school-aged population due to gentrification can have paradoxical effects on school, choice dynamics and segregation. This article seeks to understand the changing school choice dynamics in gentrifying Amsterdam. Drawing on individual-level geocoded data, this article reveals the school choice of different groups of parents and how they are contingent on social class composition of their residential neighbourhood. It finds that different groups of parents enrol their children in different types of schools even if they live in the same neighbourhoods. This is in large part due to processes of disaffiliation and selective belonging from the part of ‘’white’ middle classes who choose specific schools within and outside of their neighbourhood. Yet, other groups of parents also have their children in schools outside of the neighbourhood thereby contributing to high levels of segregation too. Nonetheless, the article concludes that gentrification paradoxically leads to both greater concentration of highly educated and more mix in other schools.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 720-741
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1829563
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Author-Name: Bence Kováts
Author-X-Name-First: Bence
Author-X-Name-Last: Kováts
Title: Did state-socialism restrict self-build in the semiperiphery? The case of Hungary
Abstract:
Existing literature on self-building suggests classic state-socialism restricted the practice and it expanded only during the disintegration of the regime. The current article challenges this, to date empirically little supported, statement by estimating the extent of the practice in Hungary between 1921 and 2013 with the help of historical sources on housing construction and housing statistics. Contradicting earlier assumptions, data suggest self-build remained relatively stable throughout the twentieth century, was affected positively rather than negatively by the introduction of state-socialism, but there is no evidence of its substantial expansion during the disintegration process. The comparison of Hungarian data with evidence from countries across the world indicates that based on the time of the decline of the practice, a division among countries can be identified by the three tiers of the world-economy defined by Wallerstein: the core, the semiperiphery and the periphery. Hungary seems to have followed the semiperipheral course of development regardless of its state-socialist past.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 809-830
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1836330
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Author-Name: Shmulik Szeintuch
Author-X-Name-First: Shmulik
Author-X-Name-Last: Szeintuch
Title: Homeless without benefits: the non-take-up problem
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Despite the extensive literature on non-take-up of rights in welfare states, the problem has been little studied in relation to homelessness specifically. Part of a larger research project on homelessness services, the present study examined the issue in Israel. The review of the literature points to methodological problems in assessing non-take-up, which may be reduced by using administrative data. Based on questionnaire responses of 107 participants working with people experiencing homelessness, 13 interviews, grey literature and quantitative administrative data, the findings suggest that in 2016, only 38% and 48% of people experiencing homelessness in Israel have taken up income and rent support, respectively, due to structural and bureaucratic barriers and cost-benefit calculations that factor in social stigmas. Ways of reducing bureaucratic barriers and ensuring welfare provision to prevent and end homelessness are discussed, as is the possibility of institutional compassion as a way of increasing take-up.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 673-692
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1823330
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Author-Name: Ella Horton
Author-X-Name-First: Ella
Author-X-Name-Last: Horton
Title: The new politics of home: housing, gender and care in times of crisis
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 831-832
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2069324
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Author-Name: Stefanie Puszka
Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Puszka
Title: A politics of care in urban public housing: housing precarity amongst Yolŋu renal patients in Darwin
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People with chronic diseases are likely to require some form of domestic care, however their care needs acquire low visibility in housing policy frameworks. Amongst Yolŋu (Indigenous Australians from north-east Arnhem Land), high rates of kidney disease reinforce needs for housing and care. I consider how access to housing shapes relations and practices of care in the families of Yolŋu renal patients in Darwin, Australia; and how Yolŋu relations and practices of care are implicated in housing policy. Through an ethnographic case study approach, I show that in Yolŋu families, practices of extending shelter to kin are care practices fundamental to the performance of domestic labour. I argue that while housing policy frameworks rely on familial relations and practices of care to reduce rough sleeping and achieve other policy objectives, Yolŋu relations and practices of care are also marginalised through the governance of public housing. The politics of care that play out in their places of residence reproduce housing precarity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 769-788
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1831445
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Author-Name: Sukriti Issar
Author-X-Name-First: Sukriti
Author-X-Name-Last: Issar
Title: Conceptualizing the connections of formal and informal housing markets in low- and middle-income countries
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In many cities in low- and middle-income countries, a sizable proportion of households live in informal housing. This paper proposes a framework for analysing the connections between formal and informal housing markets, both at the city-level in terms of the mechanisms that link the two housing markets, and at the individual-level in terms of the preferences of residents for whom informal housing is a possible housing choice. The framework identifies the mechanisms by which formal and informal housing markets are connected at the city-level, including competition, disamenity or negative spillover, and redevelopment or positive spillover. Informal housing in Mumbai serves as an empirical case to demonstrate the applicability of this framework. Results from field research suggest that the connection between formal and informal housing markets is dynamic – it can work in different causal directions, change over time and vary by scale. The preferences of residents in informal housing are diverse, and have varying implications for urban policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 789-808
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1831444
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Author-Name: Jan Sýkora
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Sýkora
Author-Name: Petra Špačková
Author-X-Name-First: Petra
Author-X-Name-Last: Špačková
Title: Neighbourhood at the crossroads: differentiation in residential change and gentrification in a post-socialist inner-city neighbourhood
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The inner areas of post-socialist cities are experiencing dynamic transformation. However, changes are often selective and differ between capital, large and provincial cities, and their neighbourhoods. This article aims to analyze variations in residential change in individual localities within Holešovice, Prague’s inner-city district. The analysis is performed with reference to the concepts of contextual residential change and gentrification of neighbourhoods and uses quantitative data at the micro-level of census tracts to detect physical and social changes. Supplementary interviews with local stakeholders are used to understand the factors that affect the development of the neighbourhood. Gentrification influences Holešovice simultaneously with other types of residential change. The most common type of change is incumbent upgrading related to the privatization of the housing stock. At the same time, several stagnating areas were identified. The neighbourhood development indicates the concurrent presence of diversified neighbourhood trajectories with drivers at various spatial and temporal scales.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 693-719
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1829562
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Author-Name: William Riggs
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Riggs
Author-Name: Menka Sethi
Author-X-Name-First: Menka
Author-X-Name-Last: Sethi
Author-Name: Wesley L. Meares
Author-X-Name-First: Wesley L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Meares
Author-Name: David Batstone
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Batstone
Title: Prefab micro-units as a strategy for affordable housing
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Increasingly large cities find themselves with a scarcity of affordable housing stock and cannot increase inventory quickly enough to meet urban growth trends. Some limitations include, lot size, regulatory barriers as well as environmental concerns. We focus on these barriers, first providing a background on these trends in the United States and then offering cases of how these opportunities might be applied as supply-side solutions to housing market demands, specifically using prefab technology for the micro-unit typology. We then use a proforma-based approach to model the impacts of this combination. We find that combining prefabricated or modular technology with small unit design can be effective in increasing affordable housing production across markets, and that addressing limitations with zoning and providing additional financial tools can accelerate this trend.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 742-768
Issue: 5
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1830040
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Author-Name: Lutfun Nahar Lata
Author-X-Name-First: Lutfun Nahar
Author-X-Name-Last: Lata
Title: Charity and poverty in advanced welfare states
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1075-1077
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2080265
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Author-Name: Morten Nielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Morten
Author-X-Name-Last: Nielsen
Title: Speculative cities: housing and value conversions in Maputo, Mozambique
Abstract:
Based on ethnographic research carried out in Maputo, Mozambique, in this article I explore the significance of housing in an urban context infused by spectacular speculation. As I will argue, in order for different everyday rationalities to become commensurable through speculative investments, they may have to manifest and activate unique and even opposing horizons of value and economic orientations. By thus considering housing beyond conventional dichotomies – Global South vs. Global North, informality vs. formality, global vs. local – we may acquire a more nuanced understanding of those manifold forms of urban engagements that make housing a way of establishing a sense of order and belonging by activating often contradictory moral orientations and hierarchies of value.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 889-909
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935770
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Author-Name: Charlotte Lemanski
Author-X-Name-First: Charlotte
Author-X-Name-Last: Lemanski
Title: Infrastructural citizenship: conceiving, producing and disciplining people and place via public housing, from Cape Town to Stoke-on-Trent
Abstract:
This paper examines public housing as an art of government to conceive, produce and discipline a normative ideal of ‘good’ citizenship through people and place. Using the framework of infrastructural citizenship, case studies from state-subsidised homeownership programmes in Cape Town (South Africa) and Stoke-on-Trent (UK) demonstrate how public housing provides a physical mediator for the politicisation of citizenship. Infrastructural citizenship is explored through both state expectations (of housing, of citizens) and citizens’ everyday practices, revealing state-society contestation and conformity in how ‘order’ and ‘decency’ materialise. In bridging the global south/north the paper not only generates new knowledge from two rarely contrasted contexts, but also illuminates and challenges the dominance of global north examples in public housing debates. By juxtaposing contemporary case studies where neither is the dominant lens for analysis, the paper argues that difference is particularly illuminating for knowledge production, and that housing theory and policy need to embrace postcolonial perspectives to ensure global relevance and legitimacy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 932-954
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1966390
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Author-Name: Tanzil Shafique
Author-X-Name-First: Tanzil
Author-X-Name-Last: Shafique
Title: Re-thinking housing through assemblages: Lessons from a Deleuzean visit to an informal settlement in Dhaka
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A spectre haunts how we think about housing—describing it in binaries, in oppositions, in ‘essentialised’ identities (formal/informal, north/south, social/spatial, product/process). What does a more nuanced understanding of assemblages—drawn from the original work of Deleuze and Guattari—have to offer housing studies to move beyond such dichotomies? This paper outlines a conceptual framework where housing is re-thought as an unfolding of socio-material processual-relations and desires forming a field of intensities. This theoretical framework is used to think through empirical findings from a six-month socio-spatial ethnography conducted in Karail, the largest informal settlement in Dhaka that houses 300,000 people. The findings, seen through assemblages, allow identifying, firstly, the interconnections between different actors across different binaries that make it work and secondly, the different modes of settlement’s production itself. Lastly, the paper recasts the settlement as a manifestation of a landscape of intersecting desires in an effort to speak of housing in a new language transcending the stifling dichotomy of top-down/bottom-up.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1015-1034
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1988065
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Author-Name: Ifigeneia Dimitrakou
Author-X-Name-First: Ifigeneia
Author-X-Name-Last: Dimitrakou
Title: A sense of absence: Resituating housing vacancy in post-crisis Athens
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The article focuses on the everyday making of housing vacancy in Athens and discusses the multiple housing struggles and cross-tenure dispossessions this process entails. The analysis draws on interview material collected during a six-month fieldwork, particularly on the narratives of inhabitants in a neighbourhood of the city experiencing increasing vacancy levels and being represented as ‘declining’ in the public debate. Through a relational reading of vacancy, the often unknowingly related actors involved and affected by this process, their practices and understandings, are analysed. The findings reveal the different, perceived or actualised processes, human and material agencies sustaining vacancy in place, showing how (unequally) affected actors, despite their geographical and social distance, shape this process through their interdependencies. The paper discusses some dichotomies dominating the conceptualization of vacancy, suggesting also that these seemingly inactive spaces are not natural outputs or abstract representations of the market, but spaces constituted through action, embroiled in social antagonisms and conflicts over power and agency.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 997-1014
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1988064
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Author-Name: Mara Ferreri
Author-X-Name-First: Mara
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreri
Author-Name: Romola Sanyal
Author-X-Name-First: Romola
Author-X-Name-Last: Sanyal
Title: Digital informalisation: rental housing, platforms, and the management of risk
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The eruption of disruptive digital platforms is reshaping geographies of housing under the gaze of corporations and through the webs of algorithms. Engaging with interdisciplinary scholarship on informal housing across the Global North and South, we propose the term ‘digital informalisation’ to examine how digital platforms are engendering new and opaque ways of governing housing, presenting a theoretical and political blind spot. Focusing on rental housing, our paper unpacks the ways in which new forms of digital management of risk control access and filter populations. In contrast to progressive imaginaries of ‘smart’ technological mediation, practices of algorithmic redlining, biased tenant profiling and the management of risk in private tenancies and in housing welfare both introduce and extend discriminatory and exclusionary housing practices. The paper aims to contribute to research on informal housing in the Global North by examining digital mediation and its governance as key overlooked components of housing geographies beyond North and South dichotomies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1035-1053
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2009779
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Author-Name: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Author-X-Name-First: Franklin
Author-X-Name-Last: Obeng-Odoom
Title: Architecture in global socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1073-1075
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2080264
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Author-Name: Lucia Shimbo
Author-X-Name-First: Lucia
Author-X-Name-Last: Shimbo
Author-Name: Fabrice Bardet
Author-X-Name-First: Fabrice
Author-X-Name-Last: Bardet
Author-Name: José Baravelli
Author-X-Name-First: José
Author-X-Name-Last: Baravelli
Title: The financialisation of housing by numbers: Brazilian real estate developers since the Lulist era
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This article examines the emergence of large-scale real estate developers in the Minha Casa, Minha Vida [My House, My Life] housing programme launched in 2009 by the Lula government and their repositioning caused by the economic crisis that hit the country five years later. Their development, based on a systematic use of financial valuations in their governance, strongly connected with international investor requirements, enables us to defend an extended notion of financialisation of housing policies, characterised by the colonisation of managers’ activities by financial metrics. The question of trust in financial numbers is essential when splitting the sector into two groups that occurred with the crisis: some developers worked even closer to investors, while others substantiated public economic power, balancing investors’ demands. The argument is that the entanglements between the circulation of financialised valuations in professional activities of private agents gradually transformed the structure of housing provision itself.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 847-867
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2033175
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Author-Name: Simone Tulumello
Author-X-Name-First: Simone
Author-X-Name-Last: Tulumello
Title: The “Souths” of the “Wests”. Southern critique and comparative housing studies in Southern Europe and USA
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Southern urban critique has enriched our understanding of global uneven development, but often ended up constructing a dichotomous understanding of two apparently homogeneous fields: the Global North (or West) and South. This has been particularly evident in housing studies. In this article, I advocate for a relational, multi-scalar and comparative approach to southern urban critique, capable of exposing quasi-colonial relations within the urban “West”; and apply it to the exploration of housing dynamics and systems in Southern Europe and Southern USA—two regions linked to their continental “cores” by historical patterns of uneven and combined development. Despite being characterized by different urban frameworks and housing systems, these regions have in common analogous patterns of globalization and neoliberalization, with similar impacts over housing, especially in the aftermaths of the global economic crisis. By discussing how global trends intersect with regional contexts, I aim to provide conceptual and epistemological instruments for deepening the analytical grasp and political relevance of southern (urban) critique.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 975-996
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1966391
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Author-Name: Ryan Powell
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Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Author-Name: AbdouMaliq Simone
Author-X-Name-First: AbdouMaliq
Author-X-Name-Last: Simone
Title: Towards a global housing studies: beyond dichotomy, normativity and common abstraction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 837-846
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2054158
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Author-Name: Nitin Bathla
Author-X-Name-First: Nitin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bathla
Title: Planned illegality, permanent temporariness, and strategic philanthropy: tenement towns under extended urbanisation of postmetropolitan Delhi
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This paper examines the planned externalisation of affordable workers housing under Delhi’s ongoing extended urbanisation. Drawing upon recent literature on planned illegalities, subaltern urbanisation, and agro-urban transformations in India and specifically in the Delhi region, the paper proposes tenement towns as a relational settlement category to understand the planned externalisation of housing. It examines three manufacturing clusters spread over an extensive territory in the DMIC urban corridor running out of Delhi. Finding evidence for how the workers housing is externalised into spaces marked as ‘rural outsides’ in the masterplanning documents. It examines the role of parallel agrarian institutions and social structures in enabling the illegal growth of the tenement towns. Finally, the paper critically examines the role such settlements play in maintaining a permanently temporary surplus workforce crucial for cheap global manufacturing. Through introducing tenement towns as a relational category, the paper attempts to contribute towards a global housing studies that transcends space-time and north-south boundaries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 868-888
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1992359
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Author-Name: Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Duyne
Author-X-Name-Last: Barenstein
Author-Name: Philippe Koch
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe
Author-X-Name-Last: Koch
Author-Name: Daniela Sanjines
Author-X-Name-First: Daniela
Author-X-Name-Last: Sanjines
Author-Name: Carla Assandri
Author-X-Name-First: Carla
Author-X-Name-Last: Assandri
Author-Name: Cecilia Matonte
Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia
Author-X-Name-Last: Matonte
Author-Name: Daniela Osorio
Author-X-Name-First: Daniela
Author-X-Name-Last: Osorio
Author-Name: Gerardo Sarachu
Author-X-Name-First: Gerardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Sarachu
Title: Struggles for the decommodification of housing: the politics of housing cooperatives in Uruguay and Switzerland
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After the Global Financial Crisis, activists and scholars have turned to collective forms of housing as a strategy to decommodify housing. We argue that housing cooperatives might take a crucial role in this strategy. The fact that they are still marginal, however, raises questions about the conditions for their emergence, growth and survival. By bringing the trajectories of housing cooperatives in Switzerland and Uruguay in dialogue, we capture different paths towards housing policies conducive for cooperatives. In both countries, housing cooperatives are meaningful policy instruments to make urbanization governable. To understand their development, their mutual relations with governments are crucial. We argue that the organizational form of a cooperative resembles a shell, which can be repurposed from the inside and the outside. In their ambiguous position between self-organization and being entangled with state practices, the situated stories of housing cooperatives in Switzerland and Uruguay help to re-describe struggles to live and dwell in urbanizing spaces around the globe.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 955-974
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1966392
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Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers
Title: Towards a relational and comparative rather than a contrastive global housing studies
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Poststructuralist and postcolonial critiques have led to a necessary corrective in the social sciences, but arguments about difference and incommensurability are also mobilised to put the idea of internationally comparative housing studies into question. This paper argues for a relational and comparative global housing studies that goes beyond global north/south and east/west binaries and dichotomies. I mobilise the concept of ‘common trajectories’ (as opposed to both convergence and divergence) to illustrate how difference is constructed at multiple dimensions rather than primarily along a north/south or east/west axis. The aim is not to argue against postcolonial theory but rather to show how the misuse of these ideas has stifled theoretically-embedded empirical research in general and internationally comparative research more specifically. Finally, I explore the idea of a relational global housing studies that would focus on transnational actors, regulation and markets, as one route out of the dead-end of contrastive housing studies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1054-1072
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2033176
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Author-Name: Glyn Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Glyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Author-Name: Sarah Charlton
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Charlton
Author-Name: Karen Coelho
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Coelho
Author-Name: Darshini Mahadevia
Author-X-Name-First: Darshini
Author-X-Name-Last: Mahadevia
Author-Name: Paula Meth
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Meth
Title: (Im)mobility at the margins: low-income households’ experiences of peripheral resettlement in India and South Africa
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Expanded state-subsidised housing programmes in middle-income countries raise questions about the displacement and socio-spatial marginalisation of poor households. Examining these questions through people’s experiences of resettlement indicates the importance of mobility to their lives. Drawing on a mixed-method comparative study of Ahmedabad, Chennai and Johannesburg, we ask: How does the relocation of low-income households to urban peripheries reshape the links between their physical and socio-economic mobility, and how does this impact on their ability to build secure urban futures? Experiences of families moving to five peripheral settlements indicate two linked challenges to the social and economic mobility of the peripheralised urban poor: first, their immediate and individual ability to be mobile within the city and second, the longer-term social mobility of their households. While trajectories towards secure urban citizenship for all remain a policy aspiration, housing policies and practices are placing this on hold or even reversing this, with mobility constraints locking many low-income groups into marginality.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 910-931
Issue: 6
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1946018
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Author-Name: Aysegul Can
Author-X-Name-First: Aysegul
Author-X-Name-Last: Can
Title: Shaking up the city: ignorance, inequality, and the urban question
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1298-1299
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2100066
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Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Lynda Cheshire
Author-X-Name-First: Lynda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheshire
Author-Name: Zoe Walter
Author-X-Name-First: Zoe
Author-X-Name-Last: Walter
Author-Name: Andrew Clarke
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke
Title: Social housing after neo-liberalism: new forms of state-driven welfare intervention toward social renters
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Allocation policies to provide social housing to people with the highest needs means that a significant portion of tenants have complex, and often unmet, physical and mental healthcare requirements. Consequently, some tenants require health and psychosocial services integrated with housing. Drawing on a mixed-method design including administrative data from an Australian public health and social housing authority, and tenant qualitative interviews, this article demonstrates how integration assists tenants to improve their psychological health, reduce their use of emergency health services, and receive fewer tenancy problems. In addition to the health and psychosocial resources provided, tenants with high needs benefited from integration through housing providers having greater knowledge of the problems and solutions salient to their tenancies. The article’s theoretical contribution is to demonstrate how neoliberalism drives residualization, which in turn creates the need for a well-resourced integrated model. The integrated model constitutes a form of social housing provision after neoliberalism with a discernible but incomplete rupture with neoliberal logics.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1124-1146
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1563673
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Author-Name: Deborah Levy
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah
Author-X-Name-Last: Levy
Author-Name: Harvey C. Perkins
Author-X-Name-First: Harvey C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Perkins
Author-Name: Danli Ge
Author-X-Name-First: Danli
Author-X-Name-Last: Ge
Title: Improving the management of common property in multi-owned residential buildings: lessons from Auckland, New Zealand
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This article emerges from debates about the effects of urban consolidation and the need to meet the challenges faced by building owners’ associations in their bid to manage common property in multi-owned residential buildings. It reports an Auckland, New Zealand case study of body corporate management companies, the intermediaries whose role it is to give administrative support to these building owners’ associations. We draw from four international research literatures to structure our interpretation of these companies and current calls for their reform. These include writing on: building owners’ associations and urban consolidation; financial and service intermediation; customer relationships, service quality and customer satisfaction; and the social geography of house and home; including allied recent work on housing financialisation. We conclude by pointing to the usefulness of adopting a widened theoretical perspective on the conduct and regulation of body corporate management companies in New Zealand and their equivalents in other jurisdictions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1225-1249
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1563672
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Author-Name: Brian Y. An
Author-X-Name-First: Brian Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: An
Author-Name: Raphael W. Bostic
Author-X-Name-First: Raphael W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bostic
Author-Name: Andrew Jakabovics
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Jakabovics
Author-Name: Anthony W. Orlando
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Orlando
Author-Name: Seva Rodnyansky
Author-X-Name-First: Seva
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodnyansky
Title: Small and medium multifamily housing: affordability and availability
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Housing units in small and medium multifamily (SMMF) properties, defined as buildings with 2 to 49 units, comprise over 20% of the U.S. housing stock. Using the American Community Survey and American Housing Survey, this study fills an important gap in the literature by examining the affordability and availability of these housing units. This analysis reveals that SMMF units contain the largest percentage of the lowest-income households and the majority of rental units across the country. It employs models of filtering and quality-adjusted rents to decompose the factors that make these units accessible to such households. Even after controlling for these factors, their affordability persists, and their market share is declining. These findings raise concerns about the future availability of these affordable units. Policy-relevant conclusions are drawn about their role in the future of local, regional, and national economies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1274-1297
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1842339
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Author-Name: Sónia Alves
Author-X-Name-First: Sónia
Author-X-Name-Last: Alves
Title: Nuancing the international debate on social mix: evidence from Copenhagen
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Whilst the political rhetoric of social mix has been similar across countries, asymmetries in their housing and planning systems and institutions owing to dissimilar underlying values, norms, and cultures has defined national and municipal practices of implementation. The purpose of this article, based on a literature review and semi-structured interviews with government, local officials, and academics, is twofold. First, to investigate why and how city planners in the municipality of Copenhagen have used strategies of social mix in the fields of housing and land-use planning, and how these policies have evolved to deal with recurrent shortages of affordable housing. Second, to highlight the contingent nature of social mix and argue the need for more context and more sensitive analysis of social mix policies and practices. Whilst many have claimed that social mixing is a euphemism for gentrification, this article argues that the concept can contribute to a more progressive housing and urban planning agenda.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1174-1197
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1556785
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Author-Name: Joshua C. Gordon
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gordon
Title: Solving puzzles in the Canadian housing market: foreign ownership and de-coupling in Toronto and Vancouver
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Using new data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP), this paper provides a basis for an integrated account of the Canadian housing market in the last two decades. It shows how the housing markets in Vancouver and, to a lesser extent, Toronto have become de-coupled from local incomes due to significant flows of foreign capital. Once this dynamic is appreciated, certain puzzling elements of the Canadian market become intelligible. The analysis points to possible policy solutions to intense housing affordability challenges. It also provides evidence of widespread tax avoidance in certain urban areas. Furthermore, it documents a methodology that researchers in other national contexts, who may lack government generated data on non-resident or foreign ownership, may adopt to infer the presence of de-coupling through foreign ownership.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1250-1273
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1842340
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Author-Name: Quentin Ramond
Author-X-Name-First: Quentin
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramond
Author-Name: Marco Oberti
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Oberti
Title: Housing tenure and educational opportunity in the Paris metropolitan area
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This paper examines the relationship between housing tenure and educational opportunities in the Paris metropolitan area. Using census microdata, we show that the middle classes face uneasy trade-offs between housing tenure and access to attractive educational resources. Living in high-quality school contexts is associated with renting, whereas access to homeownership mostly unfolds in poor-performing school areas. This tension is not observed for other social strata. Based on fieldwork conducted in Paris suburbs, we highlight the interweaving of middle-class housing and school choices. Some families may use the rental sector to live close to attractive schools. In mixed neighbourhoods, homeowners either choose the local school or opt for circumvention strategies. Because of the dramatic increase of housing prices, the interplay between housing tenure and the unequal geography of education is crucial to understand social stratification and social mobility patterns in large cities, particularly among the middle classes, as well as to improve public policies aimed at reducing housing and school inequalities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1079-1099
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1845304
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Author-Name: Vera Messing
Author-X-Name-First: Vera
Author-X-Name-Last: Messing
Title: Global migration beyond limits: ecology, economics and political economy
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1299-1301
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2100068
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Author-Name: Rachael Dobson
Author-X-Name-First: Rachael
Author-X-Name-Last: Dobson
Title: Complex needs in homelessness practice: a review of ‘new markets of vulnerability’
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This article reviews institutional responses to adult homeless people, to argue that there is a contemporary flourishing of debates about complex needs across homelessness research and practice fields. These understand housing need as a mental and physical health issue and a care and support need, with foundations in biographical and societal events, including trauma. Responses to complex needs are conceptualized as enterprising; fresh, proactive, preventative and positive. There are a range of legislative, policy and funding drivers for these responses, from across English homelessness, housing support and adult social care fields. At the same time, debates about what complex needs are, and how best to respond to them, are evident in international debates about homelessness models of support in the Global Western North. ‘Complex needs’ is defined as a travelling concept, which provides foundation for interventions in different locations. The article conceptualizes institutional machinations around the governance of complex needs as ‘new markets of vulnerability’. This term theorizes new markets and new marketizing strategies in the context of a larger reconfiguring of the mixed economies of welfare around market mimicking devices and practices. Intensification of activities around complex needs give insight into processes of neoliberalisation in contemporary modernized welfare ‘mixes’.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1147-1173
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1556784
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Author-Name: Sadie Parr
Author-X-Name-First: Sadie
Author-X-Name-Last: Parr
Title: The changing shape of provision for rough sleepers: from conditionality to care
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This article is situated within wider debates about the changing shape of policy and practice within the field of homelessness. It reports on a small scale case study of an intensive key worker support service operating in England designed to move multiply disadvantaged rough sleepers off the streets. The discussion of the empirical data draws attention to different modes of control inherent within the project's working practices that are designed to incite rough sleepers to make positive changes. The article suggests that the project is a useful example of a ‘nascent trend’ within homeless support services of tolerant and less conditional approaches for those who are the most disadvantaged. The article suggests that this move towards tolerance offers positive benefits for rough sleepers with complex needs that mark a shift away from more punitive and coercive practices.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1100-1123
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1543796
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Author-Name: Guillaume Xhignesse
Author-X-Name-First: Guillaume
Author-X-Name-Last: Xhignesse
Author-Name: Gerlinde Verbist
Author-X-Name-First: Gerlinde
Author-X-Name-Last: Verbist
Title: An assessment of the spatial efficiency of tax benefits for home mortgages in Belgium
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In this paper, we focus on the tax deductibility of mortgage loans, which is a key measure of housing policies in many countries. Several studies have shown that the distribution of the benefits of this measure runs counter to the vertical equity principle. We contribute to the existing literature by addressing the distribution of the tax deductibility of mortgage loans considering the spatial outcomes of this policy. We use Belgian data to measure the impact of this policy on households' income and inequality and poverty in different types of areas. We show that this measure favours suburban households and subsidizes urban sprawl. Exogenous factors such as past housing policies and homeownership determinants play a key role in this phenomenon. We also simulate the distributional impact of three stylized reforms of the deductibility of mortgage loans in Belgium. These simulations show that the distributional outcomes could be improved on both social and spatial sides.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1198-1224
Issue: 7
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1562057
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Author-Name: Karin Torpan
Author-X-Name-First: Karin
Author-X-Name-Last: Torpan
Author-Name: Anastasia Sinitsyna
Author-X-Name-First: Anastasia
Author-X-Name-Last: Sinitsyna
Author-Name: Anneli Kährik
Author-X-Name-First: Anneli
Author-X-Name-Last: Kährik
Author-Name: Timo M. Kauppinen
Author-X-Name-First: Timo M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kauppinen
Author-Name: Tiit Tammaru
Author-X-Name-First: Tiit
Author-X-Name-Last: Tammaru
Title: Overlap of migrants' housing and neighbourhood mobility
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Although much valuable research has been carried out on the patterns and determinants of immigrant distribution in residential space, nuanced longitudinal studies that focus on the interdependencies between housing and neighbourhood mobility are rare. In the current study, we examine the residential integration of immigrants in the Helsinki metropolitan area by studying the overlap between housing mobility (entering homeownership) and neighbourhood mobility (moving to above-average income neighbourhoods) in the context of complex anti-segregation and mixing policies. The results reveal that the overlap between housing and neighbourhood mobility in such a policy context is weak; while moving to a wealthier neighbourhood is relatively easy, it is much more challenging to enter homeownership. It follows that successful policies of residential integration of migrants should emphasize both housing mobility and neighbourhood mobility, including how the two are related to each other.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1396-1421
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1849574
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Author-Name: Adéla Souralová
Author-X-Name-First: Adéla
Author-X-Name-Last: Souralová
Author-Name: Michaela Žáková
Author-X-Name-First: Michaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Žáková
Title: My home, my castle: meanings of home ownership in multigenerational housing
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Multigenerational housing is an arena of negotiation of familial, intergenerational, and interpersonal relationships. This article analyses these relations while focusing on the issue of home ownership. Drawing upon interviews with three generations living under the same roof, the article aims to understand the meanings of ownership and the ways ownership shapes the relationships between cohabiting family members. We show that ownership plays an ambivalent role: on the one hand it may act to legitimise and (re)produce uneven power relations between family members, while on the other it mirrors or even supports mutual dependency and altruistic intergenerational and caring relations. To illuminate these issues, we structure our debate around three key topics: 1. ownership and the legitimisation of a dominant position, 2. ownership as a burden and a source of (in)security and interdependence, and 3. ownership as a commitment to care for the former owners. We interpret these aspects in the context of particular family genealogies and their housing histories.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1446-1464
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853074
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Author-Name: Chris O’Leary
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Leary
Author-Name: Tom Simcock
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Simcock
Title: Policy failure or f***up: homelessness and welfare reform in England
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Since 2009, homelessness has been on the rise, with growing evidence that welfare reforms are a key driver of this increase. However, does this mean that welfare reform has failed? In this paper, we use policy failure as a lens through which to critically examine welfare reform and homelessness in England. Drawing on McConnell’s definition of failure, which seeks to bridge the gap between objective definitions of policy failure (where failure is understood as the gap between policy objectives and actual outcomes) and subjective definitions (where failure is understood as actors’ perceptions), we examine welfare reform and homelessness to understand whether, how and by whom policy in this area might be considered to have failed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1379-1395
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1849573
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Author-Name: Carla J. Huisman
Author-X-Name-First: Carla J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Huisman
Author-Name: Clara H. Mulder
Author-X-Name-First: Clara H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mulder
Title: Insecure tenure in Amsterdam: who rents with a temporary lease, and why? A baseline from 2015
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Given that insecure leases impact negatively on ontological security and subjective well-being, and given increasing pressure on European housing markets, more insight into insecure leases is timely. In this article, we assess the occurrence of temporary leases in the city of Amsterdam in 2015, and explore the characteristics of the tenants. We employ hitherto underused local survey data (N = 17,803). Although permanent contracts are still dominant, the majority of young adults aged 18–23 are renters with a temporary lease. Students, those with a Western migration background, those who moved because their previous rental contract was terminated or because the previous dwelling was too expensive, and those who moved from abroad were particularly likely to have a temporary lease. Families were unlikely to have a temporary lease. Given recent developments – in 2016 temporary leases were legally established as a regular tenure in the Netherlands – the number of temporary leases may increase sharply from the reported baseline of 2015.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1422-1445
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1850649
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Author-Name: Adele N. Norris
Author-X-Name-First: Adele N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Norris
Author-Name: Gauri Nandedkar
Author-X-Name-First: Gauri
Author-X-Name-Last: Nandedkar
Title: Ethnicity, racism and housing: discourse analysis of New Zealand housing research
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Within the last decade, the notion of a housing crisis emerged as a key issue on national political agendas across nation-states. The overall decline in homeownership is even sharper along racial lines. The way race/ethnicity is captured in housing research has important implications for how racial disparities are explained and addressed. This paper uses a critical discourse analysis to examine how ethnicity and race are represented in New Zealand housing research published between 2013 and 2019. The analysis reveals a lack of attention devoted to explaining racial disparities in housing research. Only one article from a sample of 103 referenced the concepts ‘racism’ and ‘institutional racism’ to explain institutional barriers that adversely affect Indigenous people engaging with home-lending institutions. This paper argues that housing scholarship is an important space for understanding how policies institutionalize racism to exclude marginalized bodies, especially through predatory lending practices, loan denial, and segregation. This paper concludes with a discussion of the social implications of race-neutral explanations of housing-related issues.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1331-1349
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1844159
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Author-Name: Nir Yona Mualam
Author-X-Name-First: Nir Yona
Author-X-Name-Last: Mualam
Author-Name: David Max
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Max
Title: Do social protests affect housing and land-use policies? The case of the Israeli social protests of 2011 and their impact on statutory reforms
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This paper examines the effect of social protests on planning and housing policies by looking at the case of Israel’s 2011 J14 social protests and subsequent governmental policy reforms. We investigate whether there is a link between the demands of the protesters and reforms put in place in between 2011 and 2017. We also examine whether the policy reforms met the demands of protesters, and to what degree the protests influenced policy changes. We establish a strong connection between the protesters’ demands and the measures the government adopted following the protests. The policies put in place did reflect the government’s willingness to adopt the protesters’ demands, even going so far as to absorb financial losses. However, the government only entertained these demands up to a certain degree. It was not prepared to radically alter its neoliberal, pro-free market outlook in the long term, nor revert to its former role as a social welfare provider.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1465-1496
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853073
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Author-Name: Jae-Yong Chung
Author-X-Name-First: Jae-Yong
Author-X-Name-Last: Chung
Author-Name: Kevin Carpenter
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Carpenter
Title: Safe havens: overseas housing speculation and opportunity zones
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Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, financialization and housing speculation have expanded in geography, generalized in the political economy, and ingrained into the regulatory system. This article adds to the growing understanding of global capital flows and transnational housing investment. The main contribution of this paper is an articulation of ‘safe havens’ — districts designed as a harbor for global capital; a place of refuge during market uncertainty; and a place offering favorable conditions for capital growth. In New York, London, and Melbourne, luxury districts functioned primarily as investment vehicles to facilitate the circulation and expansion of capital after the financial crisis. Case studies draw upon census data, non-governmental and industry reports, academic studies, and local news sources and find that (1) capital funnelled into local housing through government incentivization; (2) vacancy increased in areas with rapid price rises; and (3) new investment zones were constructed to accommodate overflows of safe-haven demand and fuel recovery from the financial crisis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1350-1378
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1844156
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Author-Name: Xing Gao
Author-X-Name-First: Xing
Author-X-Name-Last: Gao
Author-Name: Zijia Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Zijia
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Mengqiu Cao
Author-X-Name-First: Mengqiu
Author-X-Name-Last: Cao
Author-Name: Yuqi Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Yuqi
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Yuerong Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Yuerong
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Author-Name: Meiling Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Meiling
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Author-Name: Yue Qiu
Author-X-Name-First: Yue
Author-X-Name-Last: Qiu
Title: Neighbourhood satisfaction in rural resettlement residential communities: the case of Suqian, China
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Against the background of large-scale urbanisation and rural land expropriation, rural resettlement residential housing has been built to accommodate local rural residents in the peripheral areas of China. To explore the context-specific policy implications for improving neighbourhood satisfaction (NS) of residents in rural resettlement residential communities (RRRCs), this paper examines the determinants of NS, and their spatial effects, in rural resettlement residential neighbourhoods using Suqian, in Jiangsu Province, as a case study. This study contributes to the current literature in two ways: it constitutes the first attempt to examine NS among RRRCs; second, our spatial model helps to gain further understanding of horizontal and vertical spatial dependence effects. Our results indicate that income, gender, age, family structure, number of years living in a community, transport and architectural age all have significant effects on NS in RRRCs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1497-1518
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853068
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Author-Name: Hee-Jung Jun
Author-X-Name-First: Hee-Jung
Author-X-Name-Last: Jun
Title: Spillover effects in neighborhood housing value change: a spatial analysis
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Despite numerous studies on neighborhood change, the importance of spatial dependence has largely been overlooked. This study aims to examine spillover effects among neighborhood change factors, which means that demographic, housing, and socio-economic characteristics in nearby neighborhoods affect housing value change in a given neighborhood. In analyzing spillover effects, this study used the Neighborhood Change Data Base that includes decennial census data in the U.S. and employed a spatial Durbin model that can analyze both direct and indirect (spillover) effects of neighborhood change factors. The major findings are as follows: 1) neighborhood change factors have spillover effects; 2) the spillover effects are greater than the direct effects for demographic characteristics; 3) the spillover effects of housing and socio-economic characteristics are less dominant compared to those of demographic characteristics. Based on these findings, this study suggests that efforts to promote neighborhood revitalization and to prevent neighborhood decline should take into account spillover effects coming from surrounding neighborhoods.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1303-1330
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1842338
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: Affordable housing preservation in Washington DC: a framework for local funding, collaborative governance and community organizing for change
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1520-1522
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2109642
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Author-Name: Amanda Huron
Author-X-Name-First: Amanda
Author-X-Name-Last: Huron
Title: The commons in an age of uncertainty: Decolonizing nature, economy, and society
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1519-1520
Issue: 8
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2109637
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Author-Name: Omid Ranjbar
Author-X-Name-First: Omid
Author-X-Name-Last: Ranjbar
Author-Name: Hassan F. Gholipour
Author-X-Name-First: Hassan F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gholipour
Author-Name: Behnaz Saboori
Author-X-Name-First: Behnaz
Author-X-Name-Last: Saboori
Author-Name: Tsangyao Chang
Author-X-Name-First: Tsangyao
Author-X-Name-Last: Chang
Title: Tehran’s house price ripple effects in Iran: application of bootstrap asymmetric panel granger non-causality in the frequency domain
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The purpose of this study is to examine the ripple effects from Tehran, the capital city of Iran, to other major Iranian cities by applying a new methodological approach: a bootstrap asymmetric panel Granger non-causality in the frequency domain and a univariate stationary test with an unknown number and shape of break dates. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first in the literature to combine two existing methods for testing ripple effect (Granger non-causality and price convergence hypothesis). Using semi-annual data from 1993 to 2017, our findings suggest that Tehran’s house price ripples out to the house prices of other cities, but it does not result in house price convergence toward Tehran. We also find that some cities are affected by only positive shocks of Tehran’s house price while some cities are affected by only negative shocks of Tehran’s house price; other cities are affected by both positive and negative shocks of Tehran’s house price.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1566-1597
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853072
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Author-Name: Si-Ming Li
Author-X-Name-First: Si-Ming
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Huimin Du
Author-X-Name-First: Huimin
Author-X-Name-Last: Du
Title: Inter-generational differences, immigration, and housing tenure: Hong Kong 1996–2016
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The present work purports to draw the links between two strands of literature: the vast literature on homeownership access across ethnic/migratory groups, and the emerging literature on inter-generational differences in ownership and their implications for wealth inequalities. It examines the case of Hong Kong, where homes are unbelievably expensive irrespective of the large public housing sector, and where recent immigrants from mainland China constitute a quasi-ethnic group even though the great majority of the local populations are Chinese nationals. The study draws upon the micro-data files of the 1996, 2001, 2006, 2010 and 2016 population censuses, and situates the analysis on the changing housing market dynamics and immigration scenes since the eve of the 1997 handover. The findings reveal a significant drop in homeownership among younger generations in recent years, and the drop is more pronounced for recent migrants from the mainland. The latter also suffer from increasing inaccessibility to public housing, rented or owned.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1523-1545
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853071
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Author-Name: Xuyang Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Xuyang
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Ian Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Author-Name: Jacqueline Rivier
Author-X-Name-First: Jacqueline
Author-X-Name-Last: Rivier
Title: Homelessness prevention and determinants of housing among first-time and recurrent emergency shelter users in Canada
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Primary and secondary prevention initiatives stop people from becoming homeless and help them exit quickly when they do. This study uses administrative data from emergency shelters in Canada from 2010–2016 to compare homelessness pathways and housing outcomes between first-time and recurrent shelter users. It uses a multinomial logit model to identify factors that influence the likelihood of exiting into housing following a shelter stay. The findings demonstrate that first-time users are over two times more likely to exit into newly acquired housing than recurrent users, and that the pathways into and out of homelessness vary significantly between the two groups. The findings suggest that the composition of existing prevention strategies do not sufficiently meet the needs of first-time users experiencing financial and substance use challenges. For recurrent users, federal policies that promote Housing First initiatives increase exits into housing. However, duration of previous homelessness negatively influences housing outcomes, reinforcing the need for early intervention prevention initiatives.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1669-1685
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1865520
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Author-Name: Timo M. Kauppinen
Author-X-Name-First: Timo M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kauppinen
Author-Name: Maarten van Ham
Author-X-Name-First: Maarten
Author-X-Name-Last: van Ham
Author-Name: Venla Bernelius
Author-X-Name-First: Venla
Author-X-Name-Last: Bernelius
Title: Understanding the effects of school catchment areas and households with children in ethnic residential segregation
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Households with children have been suggested to play a key role in ethnic residential segregation. One possible mechanism is that school district boundaries affect their segregation patterns, but direct evidence on this is scarce. This study investigates the role of school catchment areas for ethnic residential segregation among different types of households in the city of Helsinki, Finland, using individual-level register-based data covering the complete population of the city between 2005 and 2014. The analyses consist of three steps: a description of ethnic segregation among different types of households with segregation indices, an analysis of mobility flows between school catchment areas, and a boundary discontinuity analysis of the causal effects of the boundaries of catchment areas on the mobility of different types of Finnish-origin households. The analyses show that ethnic segregation is stronger among households with children than among childless households and the residential mobility of higher-income Finnish-origin households with children is particularly affected by the school catchment area boundaries.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1625-1649
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1857707
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Author-Name: Ha Minh Hai Thai
Author-X-Name-First: Ha Minh Hai
Author-X-Name-Last: Thai
Title: Informality through sustainability: urban informality now
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1736-1738
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2114576
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Author-Name: Chengdong Yi
Author-X-Name-First: Chengdong
Author-X-Name-Last: Yi
Author-Name: Jianyu Ren
Author-X-Name-First: Jianyu
Author-X-Name-Last: Ren
Author-Name: Youqin Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Youqin
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Shuping Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Shuping
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Title: Multiple home ownership during market transition in China: longitudinal analysis of institutional factors
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Housing reform in China has changed its housing market as the rate of multiple home ownership has increased, causing concerns about housing inequality. Existing studies analysed the influence of institutional and market factors on multiple home ownership, but few examined the changes in institutional factors. The present study aimed to address this research gap and found that households with local hukou, better occupational status or working in units of the party, government or state institutions are more likely to own multiple homes. Furthermore, the study investigated the impacts of institutional factors on multiple home ownership. Changing influences of institutional factors due to progressive reform were noted. Market reform reduced the influence of household registration and work units, whereas the effect of occupational status persists owing to incomplete reform. Progressive reform can lead to asymmetric changes in the role of institutional factors, supporting the coexistence of competing market transition theory and power persistence theory. Policy recommendations and implications are provided finally.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1711-1733
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1867079
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Author-Name: Paul Watt
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Watt
Title: Displacement and estate demolition: multi-scalar place attachment among relocated social housing residents in London
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The forced relocation—displacement—of social housing residents resulting from estate regeneration involving demolition has been the subject of considerable academic and policy debate. While some scholars and policy makers regard such displacement as having harmful outcomes in relation to loss of homes and community relations, others argue that residents benefit from relocation as they move to ‘better places’. This paper contributes to this debate, and to the wider 'post-displacement' research agenda, by providing an experiential perspective on residential relocation with reference to in-depth interviews with social housing residents in London who returned to new-build flats at the redeveloped mixed-tenure estates. The paper employs a multi-scalar approach to place attachment which is illustrated and analysed at three spatial scales: domestic (home/dwelling), intermediate (block of flats) and neighbourhood (estate). The home scale is the most positive albeit not unequivocal aspect of residents’ post-displacement experiences, whereas place attachments at the block and neighbourhood scales are characterized by extensive and intensive disruptions and losses.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1686-1710
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1867081
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Author-Name: Junru Cui
Author-X-Name-First: Junru
Author-X-Name-Last: Cui
Author-Name: Can Cui
Author-X-Name-First: Can
Author-X-Name-Last: Cui
Author-Name: Xueying Mu
Author-X-Name-First: Xueying
Author-X-Name-Last: Mu
Author-Name: Pu Hao
Author-X-Name-First: Pu
Author-X-Name-Last: Hao
Title: Home in the big city: does place of origin affect homeownership among the post-80s generation in Shanghai
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Existing literature has uncovered housing divergence between migrants and locals in urban China, but has neglected the increasing diversity of migrants’ places of origin and its association with their housing opportunities. Based on a survey on the post-80s generation in Shanghai, this paper investigates the impact of residents’ place of origin on their housing outcomes. The results suggest that access to homeownership is a function of the position of an individual’s place of origin in the urban hierarchy. Shanghai locals are the most advantaged, followed by migrants from other centrally administered municipalities, provincial capitals and other cities at a higher position in the urban hierarchy. Migrants from market towns and rural areas, especially in underdeveloped regions, have inferior housing tenures and are shunned from homeownership. It implies that regional inequality is not fixed geographically but accompanies people’s mobility. Similar to the concept of social origin, this paper elaborates on geographical origin and its role in the reproduction of social inequality.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1546-1565
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853070
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Author-Name: Kit Colliver
Author-X-Name-First: Kit
Author-X-Name-Last: Colliver
Title: Post-war homelessness policy in the UK: making and implementation
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1734-1735
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2114574
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Author-Name: Lucas Pohl
Author-X-Name-First: Lucas
Author-X-Name-Last: Pohl
Author-Name: Carolin Genz
Author-X-Name-First: Carolin
Author-X-Name-Last: Genz
Author-Name: Ilse Helbrecht
Author-X-Name-First: Ilse
Author-X-Name-Last: Helbrecht
Author-Name: Janina Dobrusskin
Author-X-Name-First: Janina
Author-X-Name-Last: Dobrusskin
Title: Need for shelter, demand for housing, desire for home: a psychoanalytic reading of home-making in Vancouver
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Home is often dually conceptualized as a physical space of living and a psycho-social place of belonging. To engage with this dual nature of home, housing scholars refer to the concept of ontological security to understand how different forms of housing affect subjective well-being. This paper extends the scope of this research. Developing a framework inspired by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, we aim to understand what kind of psycho-spatial arrangements of home-making are involved in establishing ontological security. Based on empirical research in Vancouver, BC, Canada, we suggest three modalities involved in home-making: the need for shelter as the most basic psychic relation to survival, the demand for housing as a psycho-social arrangement with the Other, and the desire for home as a psycho-spatial constitution in the fantasy. Through this, the paper calls for a deeper understanding of how the subject is inscribed actively and dynamically into their social and built environment.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1650-1668
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1857708
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Author-Name: Clemence Due
Author-X-Name-First: Clemence
Author-X-Name-Last: Due
Author-Name: Anna Ziersch
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Ziersch
Author-Name: Moira Walsh
Author-X-Name-First: Moira
Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh
Author-Name: Emily Duivesteyn
Author-X-Name-First: Emily
Author-X-Name-Last: Duivesteyn
Title: Housing and health for people with refugee- and asylum-seeking backgrounds: a photovoice study in Australia
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Housing is a social determinant of health, and previous research has linked housing with health for the general population. Less research has explored this relationship for people with refugee or asylum seeker backgrounds in resettlement countries. This article reports on findings from the photovoice component of a larger study exploring housing and health for refugees and asylum seekers in South Australia. Participants were 11 refugees and asylum seekers who participated in a photovoice exercise, taking photographs of their housing and neighbourhood and then discussing these in an interview, with verbal data analyzed thematically. Participants identified several elements of housing that affected health, specifically the following: gardens, physical condition, space, layout and privacy and, in relation to neighbourhood, safety, green spaces and proximity to services. Cutting across these themes were affordability, security of tenure and agency which in turn affected ontological security. The article concludes that consideration of ways to promote ontological security in housing should be a critical component of resettlement policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1598-1624
Issue: 9
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1857347
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Author-Name: Rebecca Bentley
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley
Author-Name: Emma Baker
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Baker
Author-Name: Richard Ronald
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald
Author-Name: Aaron Reeves
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeves
Author-Name: Susan J. Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Susan J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Koen Simons
Author-X-Name-First: Koen
Author-X-Name-Last: Simons
Author-Name: Kate Mason
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Mason
Title: Housing affordability and mental health: an analysis of generational change
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Unaffordable housing has many dimensions, not least its far-reaching implications for mental health. Although the psycho-social effects of housing affordability stress are well documented there is a lack of research on their variation within or between cohorts who have shared experiences of housing (social generations). This article fills that gap by following 14,000 Australians in the national Household, Income and Labour Dynamics survey for 16-years as they enter and exit unaffordable housing. We model when cohorts seem most vulnerable to mental health effects of unaffordable housing. We find contemporaneously that while people born in the 1980s have a high likelihood of falling below the affordability threshold, older people have a lower likelihood of recovering. These trends create a ‘pinch point’ for this older generation with negative mental health consequences. We position housing affordability stress as an indicator of precarity whose mental health effects may vary both within cohorts and between generations as a product of their shared experiences of housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1842-1857
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2108380
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: The poor side of town and why we need it
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1916-1918
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2122277
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Author-Name: Ifigeneia Dimitrakou
Author-X-Name-First: Ifigeneia
Author-X-Name-Last: Dimitrakou
Title: Loving orphaned space: the art and science of belonging to earth
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1918-1920
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2122276
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Author-Name: Sara Lia Brysch
Author-X-Name-First: Sara Lia
Author-X-Name-Last: Brysch
Author-Name: Darinka Czischke
Author-X-Name-First: Darinka
Author-X-Name-Last: Czischke
Title: Affordability through design: the role of building costs in collaborative housing
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Against the background of the current housing affordability crisis, a new wave of ‘collaborative housing’ (CH) is developing in many European cities. In this paper, CH refers to housing projects where residents choose to share certain spaces and are involved in the design phase. While many authors point to the alleged economic benefits of living in CH, the (collaborative) design dimension is rarely mentioned in relation to affordability. This paper seeks to fill this knowledge gap by identifying design criteria used in CH to reduce building costs, increasing this way its affordability. We carry out a comparative case study research, where we assess the design phase of 16 CH projects in different European cities. Findings suggest that collaborative design processes increase the chances of improving housing affordability, mainly due to the often-applied needs-based approach and the redefinition of minimum housing standards.Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.2009778 .
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1800-1820
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2009778
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Author-Name: Yeonhwa Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Yeonhwa
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Peter A. Kemp
Author-X-Name-First: Peter A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp
Author-Name: Vincent J. Reina
Author-X-Name-First: Vincent J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Reina
Title: Drivers of housing (un)affordability in the advanced economies: a review and new evidence
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1739-1752
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2123623
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Author-Name: Hazel Blunden
Author-X-Name-First: Hazel
Author-X-Name-Last: Blunden
Author-Name: Kathleen Flanagan
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Flanagan
Title: Housing options for women leaving domestic violence: the limitations of rental subsidy models
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Domestic and family violence is the leading cause of female homelessness, yet social housing provision has declined in Anglophone countries like Australia and housing policy responses favour demand-side subsidies to assist with rental payments. We examine the consequences of ‘choice-based’ approaches in competitive housing markets, applying a theoretical discussion of how the neoliberal subject is supposed to respond to external shocks in an adaptive and resilient manner, and problematise assumptions that subsidies provide ‘choice’. The paper is based on findings from an [Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute-funded research project]. Analysis suggests that private market rental subsidies work well in some areas and not so well in others, depending on local housing market conditions. In some cases, women have returned to violent situations because they perceive no alternative. These findings suggest that the positing of ‘choice’ for women is rhetorical rather than real because it is conditioned by the ability to compete in high-cost private rental markets.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1896-1915
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1867711
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Author-Name: Juan G. Yunda
Author-X-Name-First: Juan G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Yunda
Author-Name: Olga Ceballos-Ramos
Author-X-Name-First: Olga
Author-X-Name-Last: Ceballos-Ramos
Author-Name: Milena Rincón-Castellanos
Author-X-Name-First: Milena
Author-X-Name-Last: Rincón-Castellanos
Title: The challenge of low-income housing quality in Latin American cities: lessons from two decades of housing policies in Bogotá
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In the 1990s the public entities promoting low-cost housing projects in Colombia disappeared. Instead, the state went on to subsidize the acquisition of new homes built by the private sector with a price cap. In Bogotá, more than 20 years later, after an initial boom in low-cost housing construction by the private sector, production and quality of units has been declining while the number of informal units increase. This paper tries to find the reasons for these limited effects of the change in housing policies. For this, we reviewed quantitative data from different reports of the city and independent organizations over the last 20 years. We found that different governments had contradictory objectives for the sector, such as encouraging the production of formal and informal housing at the same time. In addition, they have set unattainable goals and are now more focused on projects that improve public space in informal settlements than on improving the housing supply.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1877-1895
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1867080
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Author-Name: Antoine Paccoud
Author-X-Name-First: Antoine
Author-X-Name-Last: Paccoud
Author-Name: Markus Hesse
Author-X-Name-First: Markus
Author-X-Name-Last: Hesse
Author-Name: Tom Becker
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Becker
Author-Name: Magdalena Górczyńska
Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena
Author-X-Name-Last: Górczyńska
Title: Land and the housing affordability crisis: landowner and developer strategies in Luxembourg’s facilitative planning context
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The issue of land and its ownership remains under-explored in relation to the housing affordability crisis. We argue that the concentrated ownership of residential land affects housing production in Luxembourg through the interplay of landowner and developer wealth accumulation strategies. Drawing on expert interviews, we first show that the country’s growth-centred ecology has produced a negotiated planning regime that does little to manage the pace of residential development. Through an investigation of the development of 71 large-scale residential projects since 2007, we then identify the private land-based wealth accumulation strategies this facilitative planning regime enables. This analysis of land registry data identifies land hoarding, land banking and the strategic use of the planning system. The Luxembourg case – with its extremes of land concentration, low taxes and public disengagement from land – provides a glimpse at the influence of landowner and property developer strategies on housing affordability free of the usual mediating impact of the planning system.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1782-1799
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1950647
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Author-Name: Sigrun Kabisch
Author-X-Name-First: Sigrun
Author-X-Name-Last: Kabisch
Author-Name: Janine Poessneck
Author-X-Name-First: Janine
Author-X-Name-Last: Poessneck
Author-Name: Max Soeding
Author-X-Name-First: Max
Author-X-Name-Last: Soeding
Author-Name: Uwe Schlink
Author-X-Name-First: Uwe
Author-X-Name-Last: Schlink
Title: Measuring residential satisfaction over time: results from a unique long-term study of a large housing estate
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Although much knowledge and debates about residential satisfaction exist, there is little evidence regarding its fluid nature and its influencing factors. Therefore, we suggest an analytical framework to investigate the dynamics of residential satisfaction by using data from a unique long-term study. Many previous studies have generally examined residential satisfaction using cross-sectional data at one point in time. But long-term observations are indispensable for discovering changes and/or continuity over time. For our analysis we utilized data from a study that was carried out over four decades and involved ten questionnaires. The study looks at a large housing estate (LHE) in East Germany. Our results concerning satisfaction with the estate and the apartments show the continuously high impact of residential comfort and sound insulation, and the declining impact of apartment size. Beyond that, the results reflect the development of this estate and also exemplify the political turbulence that this housing segment faced in East Germany.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1858-1876
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1867083
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Author-Name: Yonah Freemark
Author-X-Name-First: Yonah
Author-X-Name-Last: Freemark
Author-Name: Justin Steil
Author-X-Name-First: Justin
Author-X-Name-Last: Steil
Title: Local power and the location of subsidized renters in comparative perspective: public support for low- and moderate-income households in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom
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In the context of worsening housing affordability for low- and moderate-income households, we assemble data from metropolitan areas in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom to analyze regional differences in the level and distribution of nationally supported affordable-housing units and renters with tenant-based housing benefits. We examine the location of subsidized renters comparatively, exploring how varying power arrangements between national and local governments over land-use and housing policy shape options for low-income renters. We find that US metropolitan areas are unique in the extent to which many municipalities exclude subsidized renters altogether; subsidized housing is disproportionately situated in areas with historically limited access to resources. The number of municipalities within metropolitan areas does not appear to impact the location of subsidized units, but the ability of localities to exclude is associated with their distribution.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1753-1781
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1910628
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Author-Name: Chris Hess
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Hess
Author-Name: Gregg Colburn
Author-X-Name-First: Gregg
Author-X-Name-Last: Colburn
Author-Name: Kyle Crowder
Author-X-Name-First: Kyle
Author-X-Name-Last: Crowder
Author-Name: Ryan Allen
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Allen
Title: Racial disparity in exposure to housing cost burden in the United States: 1980–2017
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This article uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyse Black–White differences in housing cost burden exposure among renter households in the USA from 1980 to 2017, expanding understanding of this phenomenon in two respects. Specifically, we document how much this racial disparity changed among renters over almost four decades and identify how much factors associated with income or housing costs explain Black–White inequality in exposure to housing cost burden. For White households, the net contribution of household, neighbourhood and metropolitan covariates accounts for much of the change in the probability of housing cost burden over time. For Black households, however, the probability of experiencing housing cost burden continued to rise throughout the period of this study, even after controlling for household, neighbourhood and metropolitan covariates. This suggests that unobserved variables like racial discrimination, social networks or employment quality might explain the increasing disparity in cost burden among for Black and White households in the USA.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1821-1841
Issue: 10
Volume: 37
Year: 2022
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1807473
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Author-Name: Yunpeng Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Yunpeng
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: Rentier capitalism and its discontents: power, morality and resistance in Central Asia
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 176-177
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2145667
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Author-Name: Justyna Kajta
Author-X-Name-First: Justyna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kajta
Author-Name: Paula Pustulka
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Pustulka
Author-Name: Jowita Radzińska
Author-X-Name-First: Jowita
Author-X-Name-Last: Radzińska
Title: Young people and housing transitions during COVID-19: navigating co-residence with parents and housing autonomy
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Research on housing transitions consistently points out the significance of housing autonomy and stability in young adults’ lives. While the pandemic has arguably exacerbated the already unfavorable conditions in the housing market (in terms of unaffordability and inaccessibility of quality dwellings), it is important to see how young people navigate the challenges of co-residing with parents, leaving home, and establishing housing autonomy, especially with regard to how housing transitions are embedded into broader processes of transitions-to-adulthood. Based on a qualitative study (n = 35) of young adults (ages 18–35) in Poland, the article covers the two dimensions of housing transitions in the COVID-19 era. Specifically, it accounts for the pre-pandemic housing situation (living with parents vs. housing autonomy) and the subjective housing situation during the pandemic (comfort vs. discomfort). The analysis reveals four types of (A) Appreciated nesting, (B) Burdensome nesting, (C) Consolidated autonomy, and (D) Disrupted autonomy, thus offering a new ‘ABCD’ typology for investigating housing transitions and housing paths during the crisis.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 44-64
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2135171
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Author-Name: Ella Kuskoff
Author-X-Name-First: Ella
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuskoff
Author-Name: Chris Buchanan
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Buchanan
Author-Name: Christine Ablaza
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Ablaza
Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Francisco Perales
Author-X-Name-First: Francisco
Author-X-Name-Last: Perales
Title: Media representations of social housing before and during COVID-19: the changing face of the socially excluded
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Existing research demonstrates that the mainstream media produces and reproduces highly stigmatising representations of social housing. Such representations are largely underpinned by a moral underclass discourse, which blames individuals’ social exclusion on their own moral deficiencies. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, social, economic, and political contexts have changed significantly, and problems that were once perceived to be the result of individuals’ deficits are increasingly viewed as being beyond their control. It is therefore timely to revisit representations of social housing in the mainstream media, to examine whether such representations have also changed in line with shifting social and economic contexts. To this end, this article examines mainstream media representations of social housing in the Australian state of Queensland before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings highlight important changes in the discourses invoked in the media articles, underpinned by a shift in who is perceived as being socially excluded and why.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 22-43
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2135173
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Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Hal Pawson
Author-X-Name-First: Hal
Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson
Title: COVID-19 and the meaning of home: how the pandemic triggered new thinking on housing
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-7
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2148337
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Author-Name: Misa Izuhara
Author-X-Name-First: Misa
Author-X-Name-Last: Izuhara
Author-Name: Karen West
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: West
Author-Name: Jim Hudson
Author-X-Name-First: Jim
Author-X-Name-Last: Hudson
Author-Name: Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Fernández
Author-X-Name-Last: Arrigoitia
Author-Name: Kath Scanlon
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Scanlon
Title: Collaborative housing communities through the COVID-19 pandemic: rethinking governance and mutuality
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The national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the prevalence and importance of informal mutual support in neighbourhoods and social networks. Mutual support structures and functions are strong in collaborative housing, in which people often intentionally form resident communities to enhance support practices. Using qualitative methods, this article examines how lockdown restrictions have impacted on practices of mutual support in collaborative housing, when the infrastructures of shared facilities and proximate neighbourliness were challenged. There were ambiguous definitions of ‘households’ associated with collaborative housing communities when interpreting the lockdown rules to provide mutual aid and support. Shared values, commitments and length of time of establishment mattered when operationalising such support. Moreover, the lockdown helped some communities re-evaluate their governance structures, decision-making and the limits of mutual support as they experienced what changing care needs of individual members meant to their communities. It resulted in a more realistic appraisal of their local social capital.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 65-83
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2077919
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Author-Name: Stijn Dreesen
Author-X-Name-First: Stijn
Author-X-Name-Last: Dreesen
Author-Name: Kristof Heylen
Author-X-Name-First: Kristof
Author-X-Name-Last: Heylen
Title: Widening the gap: the differential impact of COVID-19 on tenants and homeowners
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In this article, we study how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the housing inequalities between Flemish tenants and homeowners in terms of housing affordability, security and adequacy. Analyzing online survey data, we find that the pandemic increased the existing affordability gap in Flanders between homeowners and tenants. These differences between tenants and homeowners are explained by heterogeneous unemployment and income shocks. We find similar results for the differential impact on housing insecurity. Furthermore, relatively more tenants experience problems with the size of their dwelling due to the pandemic compared to homeowners. We find that these differences are best explained by the dwelling type as well as the household size, unemployment and work-from-home. The analysis shows that the COVID-19 crisis had a significant effect on the housing conditions of Flemish tenants and homeowners and exacerbated existing inequalities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 152-175
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2150149
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Author-Name: Richard Waldron
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Waldron
Title: Experiencing housing precarity in the private rental sector during the covid-19 pandemic: the case of Ireland
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The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the fundamental importance of secure, affordable and quality housing. However, it has also revealed the precariousness of housing for many and how pre-existing inequalities have been amplified by a global health emergency. The private rental sector has long been considered a precarious tenure, owing to weaker regulation, the temporary leases and a power imbalance between the rights of tenants and the interests of landlords. This article mobilises the concept of precarity to explore the lived experiences of tenants navigating Ireland’s rental sector, the challenges they face regarding housing affordability, security, quality and accessibility, and the ways the pandemic has intensified their experience of housing precarity. The research is operationalised through 28 interviews with renters from Dublin’s inner-city, suburbs and commuter belt. The concept of precarity captures the economic importance of housing for financial well-being and security, as well as the non-economic functions of home as an emotional conduit for belonging, ontological security and mental health.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 84-106
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2032613
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Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Andrew Clarke
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke
Author-Name: Ella Kuskoff
Author-X-Name-First: Ella
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuskoff
Title: Understanding responses to homelessness during COVID-19: an examination of Australia
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Following the outbreak of COVID-19, governments have spent unprecedented sums of money to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, often in underutilized hotels. This intervention contrasts with the policy stasis and “poverty of ambition” that characterized responses to rising homelessness over the past decade in countries such as Australia, the UK, the US, and much of Europe. This is a situation that has prevailed despite rigorous evidence on both the harms of homelessness and the ability of policy to address it. Using Australia as a case study, this policy review examines this sudden change in approach. After detailing various initiatives to respond to COVID-19, we show how these interventions are rationalized by the threat posed to people who are homeless, and the threat posed by homeless populations—who are at high risk of contracting and transmitting the disease—to the health of the non-homeless population. We discuss how these findings contribute to debates about how the framing of homelessness as a problem shapes policy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 8-21
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1829564
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Author-Name: David P. Varady
Author-X-Name-First: David P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Varady
Title: The paradox of urban revitalization: progress and poverty in America’s post-industrial era
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 178-180
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2145668
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Author-Name: Huiyun Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Huiyun
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Author-Name: Nicole M. Schmidt
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmidt
Author-Name: Theresa L. Osypuk
Author-X-Name-First: Theresa L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Osypuk
Author-Name: Naomi Thyden
Author-X-Name-First: Naomi
Author-X-Name-Last: Thyden
Author-Name: David Rehkopf
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Rehkopf
Title: Effects of housing vouchers on the long-term exposure to neighbourhood opportunity among low-income families: the moving to opportunity experiment
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Tenant-based rental assistance has received much attention as a tool to ameliorate American poverty and income segregation. We examined whether a tenant-based voucher program improves long-term exposure to neighbourhood opportunity overall and across multiple domains—social/economic, educational, and health/environmental—among low-income families with children. We used data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment (1994–2010) with a 10- to 15-year follow-up period and used an innovative and multidimensional measure of neighbourhood opportunities for children. Compared with controls in public housing, MTO voucher recipients experienced improvement in neighbourhood opportunity overall and across domains during the entire study period, with a larger treatment effect for families in the MTO voucher group who received supplementary housing counselling, than the Section 8 voucher group. Our results also suggests that effects of housing vouchers on neighbourhood opportunity may not be uniform across subgroups. Results from model-based recursive partitioning for neighbourhood opportunity identified several potential effect modifiers for housing vouchers, including study sites, health and developmental problems of household members, and having vehicle access.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 128-151
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2112154
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Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Author-Name: Alex Marsh
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Marsh
Author-Name: Kenneth Gibb
Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibb
Title: Policy movement in housing research: a critical interpretative synthesis
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The movement of housing policy across space/time has attracted considerable policy and scholarly interest. But once we accept that policy moves, interesting questions arise. Particularly: what is it that moves? Why do some policies move but others do not? Academic conversations have involved concepts like “policy diffusion”, “policy transfer”, “lesson-drawing”, “fast policy”, “policy mobility” and “policy translation” - but a clear picture of how these concepts have been used to interpret housing policy developments is absent. Through systematic bibliographical searches, we identified 55 ‘housing’ publications to review. Our concern is the theoretical assumptions underlying these studies and their implications for the questions stated above. Through a grounded analysis, we identified ‘dominant knowledge’ as the key element shaping housing policy movement; highlighted five strategic conditions for mobility (summarized as ontological, ideological, institutional, legitimizing devices, and contingency); presented the sporadic engagement with questions of immobility; and synthesized authors’ policy recommendations, particularly their calls for deeper engagement with the people affected by policies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 107-127
Issue: 1
Volume: 38
Year: 2022
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1879999
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Author-Name: Melanie Lombard
Author-X-Name-First: Melanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Lombard
Title: The experience of precarity: low-paid economic migrants’ housing in Manchester
Abstract:
Concerns about increasingly precarious working and living conditions have highlighted the particularly vulnerable nature of low-income economic migrants, who often experience high levels of housing precarity, alongside precarious employment. Economic migrants to the UK often lack housing support, and access housing in the private rented sector (PRS), where they struggle to secure safe, decent and affordable accommodation. This article presents a qualitative exploration of low-income economic migrants’ lived experiences of housing precarity, based on research in Manchester. Housing represents a critical element of migrants’ experiences, which can have a determining effect on other outcomes. Yet despite the acknowledged higher levels of precarity in the PRS, there have been few in-depth studies of how tenants experience this, particularly at the lower end of the sector. The conceptual lens of precarity offers a deeper understanding of the affective dimension, multidimensionality and structure-agency dynamics of low-income migrants’ housing experiences. In this way, the paper contributes to debates on insecurity, perception, and agency in housing studies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 307-326
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1882663
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Author-Name: Liam Grealy
Author-X-Name-First: Liam
Author-X-Name-Last: Grealy
Title: Governing disassembly in Indigenous housing
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Without proper attention, houses disassemble. In public housing, property management regimes are charged with performing the repairs and maintenance necessary to combat this entropic tendency. This article argues that such governance regimes can accelerate housing’s disassembly, through rules that restrict housing interventions, bureaucratic technologies that misrecognize housing failure, and processes that defer and delay necessary fixwork. It analyzes Indigenous housing in the Northern Territory of Australia, in terms of three specific legal-bureaucratic instruments and the temporalizations they constitute: the lease and promise; the tender and repetition; the condition report and waiting. The article considers the effects of these pairings in Alice Springs town camps and the challenge of thinking beyond bureaucratic housing regimes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 327-346
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1882662
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Author-Name: Richard Waldron
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Waldron
Title: Generation Rent and housing precarity in ‘post crisis’ Ireland
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Recent years have witnessed the rapid decline in homeownership across a number of developed societies and the growth of an increasingly unaffordable and insecure private rental sector. While a growing literature examines the conditions shaping this transformation, less attention has focused on the extent and nature of the precarities experienced by ‘Generation Rent.’ To address this gap, this paper connects debates within the generation rent literature with more recent work on housing precarity, or the uncertainty arising from the experience of insecure, unaffordable and poor-quality housing. The article develops and applies a Housing Precarity Index (HPI) to data on private renters in Ireland to provide a nuanced account of the extent and severity of precarities in the Irish rental sector among differing sub-groups during a housing market crash and dubious ‘recovery’ period (2008 − 2016). The article identifies the key drivers of housing precarity and assesses their contribution to further declining living standards among renters into the future.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 181-205
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1879998
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Author-Name: Yini Shi
Author-X-Name-First: Yini
Author-X-Name-Last: Shi
Title: War of family defence? Moral economies of property investors in urban China
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Property investment is not an uncontroversial economic activity in urban China where investors are vulnerable to accusations of ill-gotten gain. How do housing investors struggle with questions of ‘legitimacy’ and negotiate social responsibilities under the prevailing immoral view? Using the moral economy framework, this study examines the interviews conducted with investors and messages posted by well-known real estate influencers. It shows how property investors positioned themselves as responsible family members and self-disciplined citizens, drawing on moral economic sensibilities of ‘familism’ and new moralities of individual responsibility from neo-liberalism. This study also presents how investors refuse to be blamed for not ‘looking out for’ community and others by treating housing as a commodity and emphasizing themselves as sufferers. The paper argues that moral–economic principles are applied not only to disadvantaged people but also to the advantaged ones. Ultimately, implications for the housing system and policy in China are discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 233-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1879997
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Author-Name: Mustapha Bangura
Author-X-Name-First: Mustapha
Author-X-Name-Last: Bangura
Author-Name: Chyi Lin Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Chyi Lin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: The determinants of homeownership affordability in Greater Sydney: evidence from a submarket analysis
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Recognising the existence of socio-economic and demographic disparities across metropolitan cities such as Greater Sydney, this study gauges the determinants of homeownership affordability in the different regions of Greater Sydney using local government area (LGA) data over 1991–2016 with a system generalised method of moments (GMM) and a panel error correction model (ECM). The results of the study showed that the determinants of homeownership affordability vary across the regions of Greater Sydney. Although house price and median personal income are the key drivers of homeownership affordability across all regions, the difference in the magnitude of these determinants between regions have also been documented. Specifically, Western Sydney is more sensitive to income and house price change than the other regions. In addition, Western Sydney is also sensitive to other determinants (i.e. housing supply, residential population, median rent, and housing investors), while no comparable evidence is found for the other regions. This clearly highlights the differences across regions and the importance of submarket considerations in the analysis of homeownership affordability. The implications of the study have also been discussed.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 206-232
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Timothy Blackwell
Author-X-Name-First: Timothy
Author-X-Name-Last: Blackwell
Author-Name: Bo Bengtsson
Author-X-Name-First: Bo
Author-X-Name-Last: Bengtsson
Title: The resilience of social rental housing in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. How institutions matter
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This paper evaluates the resilience of social rental housing in the UK, Sweden and Denmark. Throughout the OECD, processes of retrenchment and privatization, alongside the growth of the owner-occupied and private rental sectors, have led to nigh universal declines in the size and scope of social rental housing. These processes have not transpired evenly, however. Embracing a historical institutionalist approach, alongside novel data and methodology, this paper assesses the variegated patterns of sectoral decline and resilience in these three northern European countries. We find the Danish, association-based model - with its polycentric governance and multi-level system of financing - to have been the most robustly resilient hitherto. In the UK and Sweden, we observe patterns of decline and evidence that the non-profit and needs-based principles which traditionally underpinned these systems have reached precarious thresholds. Nevertheless, despite manifold retrograde threats and vulnerabilities over the past decades, the social rental sectors in Sweden and the UK have proved surprisingly resilient.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 269-289
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1879996
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Author-Name: Hannah Browne Gott
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah
Author-X-Name-Last: Browne Gott
Author-Name: Peter K. Mackie
Author-X-Name-First: Peter K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackie
Author-Name: Edith England
Author-X-Name-First: Edith
Author-X-Name-Last: England
Title: Housing rights, homelessness prevention and a paradox of bureaucracy?
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In most nations homelessness remains a major injustice. A key response in Wales has been the introduction of a pioneering justiciable right to homelessness prevention and relief assistance. This paper explores the complexities of the new welfare bureaucracy this has created. We explore whether these housing rights invoke a paradox, whereby the positive impacts for citizens are accompanied by distancing and exclusion. The study reveals both a faceless bureaucracy characterised by processes of silencing and subordination propped up by tools of exclusion, particularly impenetrable paperwork, but also a system that can work to grant housing rights to those in need of support. There is no evidence for an utterly ‘faceless tyrant’ of a bureaucratic system, due to the often-inclusive ways that frontline staff operate, frequently at the margins of the law (Arendt 1970). Thus, this paper draws attention to the complexities inherent in a rights-based homelessness system and the paradoxical nature of attempting to grant housing rights.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 250-268
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1880000
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Author-Name: Simone Tulumello
Author-X-Name-First: Simone
Author-X-Name-Last: Tulumello
Title: Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 347-348
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2162841
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Author-Name: Ilan Wiesel
Author-X-Name-First: Ilan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wiesel
Author-Name: Liss Ralston
Author-X-Name-First: Liss
Author-X-Name-Last: Ralston
Author-Name: Wendy Stone
Author-X-Name-First: Wendy
Author-X-Name-Last: Stone
Title: Understanding after-housing disposable income effects on rising inequality
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Wealth and income inequalities are rising globally since the 1970s, with detrimental social, economic and environmental effects. The contribution of housing costs to rising inequality is not well understood. In this paper we examine the intersection of tenure, income, generation and geographical factors compounding after-housing income inequality to understand how housing costs impacted on rising economic inequality in Australia since 1993. Analysing data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Household Expenditure Surveys conducted in 1993–4 and 2017–8, the paper shows that rising housing costs disproportionally curtailed real gains from income growth for lower-income households, exacerbating inequality. Between 1993–4 and 2017–8, the incomes of the top 10% of earners rose at a rate twice as high as the bottom 10% of earners in before-housing income, or three times as high after deducting housing costs. The paper examines how this overarching trend was shaped by the intersection of socioeconomic, generational, tenure and geographical factors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 290-306
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1882661
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Author-Name: Ryan Powell
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Title: The fringes of citizenship: Romani minorities in Europe and civic marginalisation
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 349-350
Issue: 2
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2168592
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Author-Name: Francesca Guarino
Author-X-Name-First: Francesca
Author-X-Name-Last: Guarino
Title: The migrant’s paradox: street livelihoods and marginal citizenship in Britain
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 523-525
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2182744
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Author-Name: Zhilin Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Zhilin
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Luyao Ma
Author-X-Name-First: Luyao
Author-X-Name-Last: Ma
Author-Name: Edward G. Goetz
Author-X-Name-First: Edward G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Goetz
Title: Local compliance under campaign-style enforcement: a city-level panel analysis of affordable housing mandate in China
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Housing scholars have debated over the effectiveness of top-down political mandates to improve local affordable housing production. Whereas existing studies focussed on local fiscal and political constraints, how local compliance is shaped by vertical and horizontal dynamics of inter-governmental relationships is less known. This study investigates city government compliance with a top-down mandate of affordable housing construction during 2011–2015 in the context of the multi-tiered governmental hierarchy of China. Using a unique city-level panel dataset of the committed target of affordable housing construction, the analysis reveals substantially uneven compliance across cities and regions. Findings indicate that such variation in local goal setting can be attributed to both a divergence in local capacity of resource mobilization as well as political bargaining and competition within provinces. This research expands the scholarly knowledge of local strategic compliance with a top-down housing mandate, as well as local government behaviour in affordable housing policy from the lens of policy implementation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 444-462
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1888890
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Author-Name: Yi Jin
Author-X-Name-First: Yi
Author-X-Name-Last: Jin
Title: Informalising formality: the construction of penghuqu in an urban redevelopment project in China
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When applying informality in China, researchers always focus on urbanised villages with informal property ownership. Albeit important, property ownership is merely one parameter of informality. Inspired by the postcolonial urban theory, recent debates conceptualise informality in a relational way. This article adopts this dynamic informal-formal framework to explore the redevelopment of penghuqu in China. Penghuqu can be conceived as informality due to its physical conditions, but it is also an ambiguous category that leaves the local state with the space of discretion. By looking at the largest penghuqu redevelopment project in Sichuan, this article demonstrates that under the shield of penghuqu, the local government can deconstruct formal neighbourhood and informalise it as penghuqu, to meet with different political demands. By doing so, this article attempts to empirically add more variants to informal settlements, and theoretically further extend the ongoing debate that conceptualises informality in a relational way.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 463-483
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1888888
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Author-Name: Heather Shearer
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Shearer
Author-Name: Paul Burton
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Burton
Title: Tiny houses: movement or moment?
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Contemporary tiny houses are relatively recent phenomenon, claimed by some as a panacea for housing unaffordability and unsustainable development. It is difficult to assess these claims with any rigor because a definition of what constitutes a tiny house remains elusive. It is unclear whether they represent a small, specialized housing niche or a significant ‘movement’. Drawing on data from questionnaire surveys and interviews conducted in Australia and social media, we argue the need to develop more precise definitions of the extent of tiny house living and the wider socio-cultural aspects underpinning claims of a new movement. We explore five major themes: four that motivate tiny house living—economic, secure tenure, sustainable community and freedom; and one deterrent—regulatory barriers. Our findings suggest the Australian tiny house movement is as much a manifestation of counter-cultural values as a preference for a specific dwelling type. This helps position tiny houses in the broader contemporary Australian housing market, enable preliminary international comparisons and allow some speculation about future trajectories.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 360-382
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1884203
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Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan
Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne
Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan
Author-Name: Christine Whitehead
Author-X-Name-First: Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Whitehead
Title: Celebrating Judy Yates
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 351-359
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2174063
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Author-Name: Haoxuan Sa
Author-X-Name-First: Haoxuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Sa
Author-Name: Anne Haila
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Haila
Title: Urban villagers as real estate developers: embracing property mind through ‘planting’ housing in North-east China
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Urban village collectives, as one of the stakeholders of land requisition and development in urbanized China, have gradually been driven into real estate development. This transformation has raised an important question regarding how villagers develop their ‘property mind’. From 2015 to 2017, guided by an abductive institutional economics approach, which holds both original and new institutional economics in dialogue, we addressed this question by conducting fieldwork in Xiaojia village, Northeast China. In Northeast China, unlike in the southern cities, there was no foreign investment and the population was in decline. Nevertheless, the villagers developed housing, first for their own use and then for the market. The resulting evidence indicates the following: 1) property rights are social relations and constructed socially and institutionally; 2) markets are not independent, they are conditioned by the institutional context.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 423-443
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1888889
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Author-Name: Martin Grander
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Grander
Title: The inbetweeners of the housing markets – young adults facing housing inequality in Malmö, Sweden
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Throughout Europe, reports of problematic housing situations for young adults have increasingly emerged during the last decades. This paper explores housing experiences among young adults living in a disadvantaged area of Malmö, Sweden, taking the concept of housing inequality as its point of departure. The results suggest how young adults become stuck in between a number of parallel housing markets, leaving them no choice other than the illegal rental market – characterized by steep rents, insecure conditions and precarious quality. The paper advances a multidimensional understanding of housing inequality, as the limited access and poor quality of housing that young adults experience reproduces inequality in a broader sense: It influences potential wealth accumulation, the possibility to lead independent lives, the access to work and education, and thereby, the young adults’ health and well-being.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 505-522
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1893278
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Author-Name: Yue Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Yue
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Zidan Mao
Author-X-Name-First: Zidan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mao
Author-Name: Donggen Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Donggen
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: Housing affordability and mental health in urban China: a cross-sectional study
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The mental health implications of housing affordability have recently received research attentions in different countries. This study examines this issue in the context of urban China, where housing affordability has become one of the most pressing social issues and its health implications have aroused academic interests. We aim to enrich the literature by specifying the mental health implications of housing affordability for different population groups and geographical regions. We focus on homeowners living in urban China. Data from the 2016 Wave of the China Family Panel Studies are used for the study. Models are developed for the whole sample and for subsamples of different socioeconomic backgrounds or from different Chinese regions. We find that the mental health impacts of housing affordability are significantly different for different population groups. For examples, though males are in general mentally healthier than females, they are more likely to mentally suffer from housing unaffordability than females; unaffordable housing owners with non-agricultural Hukou are more likely to sacrifice mental health than those with agricultural Hukou, despite that the former are mentally healthier than the latter; housing unaffordability costs mental health for people living in the Western region, but not for those living in other regions of China. We argue that these group differences in the Chinese context may be attributed to a number of factors distinguishing China from other countries including the Hukou system and the large regional differences in social and economic development.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 484-504
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1888891
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Author-Name: Joko Adianto
Author-X-Name-First: Joko
Author-X-Name-Last: Adianto
Author-Name: Rossa Turpuk Gabe
Author-X-Name-First: Rossa Turpuk
Author-X-Name-Last: Gabe
Author-Name: Nadya Octavia
Author-X-Name-First: Nadya
Author-X-Name-Last: Octavia
Title: Quasi-bridgeheaders: an alternative intra-migration stage for renters in Kampung Muka, Jakarta
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This study establishes an alternative intra-migration stage for urban renters. Existing intra-migration literature focuses on increasing monthly incomes as the major determinant of housing mobility. Housing adjustment theory suggests that housing mobility results from experiencing normative housing deficit due to a discrepancy between housing priorities and housing conditions. A major factor in changing housing priorities is increasing monthly income. However, many renters continue to live in the same long-lease rental accommodation. A case study in a high-density Jakarta slum investigates increasing monthly incomes, changing housing priorities and the implications for housing mobility. Regression and descriptive analyses demonstrate that increasing monthly incomes and changing housing priorities do not lead to housing mobility because of strong social ties among slum inhabitants. Instead, renters mutate conventional intra-migration patterns with distinctive characteristics and housing priorities. This study complements existing literature, arguing that social relationships are essential and that public policy should seek physical improvements to neighbourhoods to ensure better living conditions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 383-402
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1887457
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Author-Name: David Oswald
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Oswald
Author-Name: Trivess Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Trivess
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Author-Name: Simon Lockrey
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Lockrey
Title: Flammable cladding and the effects on homeowner well-being
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Housing quality impacts on occupant well-being. Flammable cladding is a housing quality defect that has been identified on thousands of buildings in Australia. Little is known about the impact of flammable cladding upon homeowners and the implications for policy. The well-being of homeowners in residential apartment buildings with flammable cladding (from low to extreme risk) was explored through sixteen one-hour semi-structured interviews. Those residing in higher-risk apartments felt unsafe and all had financial concerns. Some homeowners displayed long-term negative emotions and others spent significant time dealing with the cladding issues without accomplishment. Their liveability suffered with changes including: making cost-saving decisions on entertainment and holidays, delaying retirement and emerging social tensions with other residents. These lived experience insights highlight the need for improved government support and housing quality policy which considers occupant health and well-being both in dealing with the current flammable cladding crisis but also in preparation for future housing quality issues which may emerge in the future.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 403-422
Issue: 3
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1887458
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Author-Name: Konstantin A. Kholodilin
Author-X-Name-First: Konstantin A.
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Author-Name: Sebastian Kohl
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Kohl
Title: Social policy or crowding-out? Tenant protection in comparative long-run perspective
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Private rental markets have become increasingly important since the Global Financial Crisis 2008–2009 and rent controls are back on the political agenda. Yet, they have received less attention from housing scholars than homeownership and public housing. This paper presents new data on the development of private tenancy legislation based on a content-coding of rent control, protection of tenants from eviction, and rental housing rationing laws across more than 15 countries and 100 years. This long-run perspective allows for inquiring about the dynamic effects of rent control on the rise of homeownership as the dominant tenure during the twentieth century. We find that both rent regulation and rationing measures were followed by increases of homeownership and decreases of private rentals. We suggest that homeownership was not just produced by generous subsidies or the homeownership dream, but also through the push-effect of regulation crowding out rental units.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 707-743
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Jed Meers
Author-X-Name-First: Jed
Author-X-Name-Last: Meers
Title: ‘Home’ as an essentially contested concept and why this matters
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This paper makes two interlinked arguments. First, that the ‘concept of home’ – the focus of a burgeoning literature within housing studies – meets Gallie’s conditions for an ‘essentially contested concept’. The influential theory, drawn on throughout the social sciences, seeks to explain concepts for which disputes are intractable; they cannot be settled by empirical evidence or argument. Second, that this ‘essential contestability’ is not just a theoretical label, it tells us something useful about how scholars can best employ the concept of home in their own work. The argument is put in three sections. The first provides a summary of Gallie’s theory. The second argues that the concept of home meets Gallie’s conditions for essential contestability. Finally, the third outlines the implications of the arguments put in the first two sections for scholars engaging with the concept of home.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 597-614
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1893281
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Author-Name: Richmond Juvenile Ehwi
Author-X-Name-First: Richmond Juvenile
Author-X-Name-Last: Ehwi
Title: “Walls within walls: examining the variegated purposes for walling in Ghanaian gated communities”
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This paper examines the functions walls perform in gated communities from the standpoints of both gated community developers and their residents. It posits three types of walls and scrutinises the purpose for each. Drawing empirical data from face-to-face interviews with 11 developers and 20 residents drawn from two gated communities in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana, the paper finds that, contrary to received wisdom, internal cluster walls in gated communities are used to segregate residents into different economic and social classes, often under the pretext of offering them different housing choices. It further casts doubts on the widely touted view that gated communities offer a better sense of security as residents express anxieties over suspected criminals living among them. The paper concludes by calling for a re-examination of several features of gated communities, including the meaning of the concept itself and the typologies that exist to bring out more of such nuances.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 527-551
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1900795
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Author-Name: Maryann Roebuck
Author-X-Name-First: Maryann
Author-X-Name-Last: Roebuck
Author-Name: Tim Aubry
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Aubry
Author-Name: Ayda Agha
Author-X-Name-First: Ayda
Author-X-Name-Last: Agha
Author-Name: Stéphanie Manoni-Millar
Author-X-Name-First: Stéphanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Manoni-Millar
Author-Name: Lisa Medd
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Medd
Author-Name: John Sylvestre
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Sylvestre
Title: A study of the creation of affordable housing for Housing First tenants through the purchase of condominiums
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Successful implementation of Housing First requires a good supply of affordable housing. Since 2002, the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ottawa Branch, has purchased 40 condominium units in regular buildings scattered across Ottawa, Canada, to rent to their clients with severe mental illnesses who have a history of homelessness. Seeking to share their experience of this approach that creates affordable housing for Housing First tenants, researchers conducted a case study of the program, documenting its implementation and client outcomes. Thirteen tenants and 24 key informants (staff, management, board members, property managers, and funders) participated. Tenants reported housing stability, improved mental and physical health, decreased substance use, and community integration. Key informants echoed these positive outcomes. Participants also identified program challenges, including aging clients, loneliness, experiences of exclusion, and a vulnerability to home takeovers. At the program-level, challenges included unanticipated program costs, heavy case manager workloads, managing repairs, some eviction cases, and the high prices of condos in central, accessible areas.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 661-681
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1900549
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Author-Name: Kristof Heylen
Author-X-Name-First: Kristof
Author-X-Name-Last: Heylen
Title: Measuring housing affordability. A case study of Flanders on the link between objective and subjective indicators
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In affordability analyses by researchers and governments, various methods and indicators are applied. The conceptual advantages and weaknesses of the different affordability indicators have been extensively discussed in literature. The purpose of this article is to contribute to this debate by a case study of Flanders on the link between objective and subjective indicators of housing affordability. More specifically, the study tries to identify objective norms that maximize this relationship. The data is taken from the EU-SILC 2016 and the Flemish Housing Survey 2013. The analysis suggests that in Flanders a ratio with variable norms (by income groups) more closely reflects the subjective perception of affordability problems than the ratio indicators with fixed norms. As regards the residual income (RI) method, the RI with increased budget norms scores slightly better than the RI with basic budget norms on the association measures.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 552-568
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1893280
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Author-Name: Anna Pagani
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Pagani
Author-Name: Claudia R. Binder
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Binder
Title: A systems perspective for residential preferences and dwellings: housing functions and their role in Swiss residential mobility
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Worldwide, there is an urgent imperative to provide a housing supply that is environmentally sustainable as well as acceptable and desirable for its users. A holistic and integrative understanding of the relationship between households’ residential preferences and dwellings is needed to achieve this goal. This paper addresses this gap by conceptualizing and operationalizing housing as a system whose human and material behaviours are determined by its function. Following a qualitative literature review to identify what housing functions are and investigate their effects on the housing system, we explore the applicability of such functions in Swiss tenants’ residential mobility. Results show that multiple functions co-exist in the housing realm, each of which determines various human (i.e. residential preferences) and material (i.e. dwelling forms) behaviours that vary according to given societal and environmental structural elements (e.g. geography, culture). We also observe that housing functions potentially provide the missing link between the determinants of tenants’ residential mobility.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 682-706
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1900793
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Author-Name: Heather Burgess
Author-X-Name-First: Heather
Author-X-Name-Last: Burgess
Author-Name: Anna Vorobyova
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Vorobyova
Author-Name: Megan Marziali
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Marziali
Author-Name: Katrina Koehn
Author-X-Name-First: Katrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Koehn
Author-Name: Kate Jongbloed
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Jongbloed
Author-Name: Otto Von Bischoffshausen
Author-X-Name-First: Otto
Author-X-Name-Last: Von Bischoffshausen
Author-Name: Kate A. Salters
Author-X-Name-First: Kate A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salters
Author-Name: Robert S. Hogg
Author-X-Name-First: Robert S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hogg
Author-Name: Surita Parashar
Author-X-Name-First: Surita
Author-X-Name-Last: Parashar
Title: Supportive housing building policies and resident psychological needs: a qualitative analysis using self-determination theory
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Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) increases housing stability and improves health outcomes among people living with HIV (PLHIV) at risk of homelessness. We conducted 24 semi-structured qualitative interviews with PLHIV at risk of homelessness living in a PSH building in Vancouver, Canada, with the aim of understanding how PSH building policies impact residents’ health. Interviews were analyzed using self-determination theory and Housing First principles. The housing provider prioritized residents’ physical safety, while participants often prioritized other needs, such as autonomy and relatedness. While building policies improved some participants’ perceived safety or autonomy, these policies simultaneously interfered with other participants’ efforts to meet alternative needs. In contrast, supportive strategies, such as the autonomy-supportive models of Housing First initiatives, appear more effective at meeting needs, with fewer unintended consequences. A shift towards autonomy-supportive housing environments for persons with complex psychosocial needs at risk of homelessness is needed, as is the deliberate alignment of resident population, tenant intake, building structure, and program model.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 642-660
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1900548
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Author-Name: Nitin Bathla
Author-X-Name-First: Nitin
Author-X-Name-Last: Bathla
Title: The architecture of social reform: housing, tradition, and German modernism
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 744-746
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2200225
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Author-Name: Sarah R. Brauner-Otto
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Brauner-Otto
Title: Housing and fertility: a macro-level, multi-country investigation, 1993-2017
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Postponement of first birth has implications for the health and well-being of women and is often associated with lower fertility levels, a demographic reality affecting most high-income countries. Country-level institutional differences are one factor behind the variation in fertility in these countries. This paper examines the relationship between housing and mean age at first birth across 39 low-fertility countries. Using newly compiled indicators of multiple dimensions of the housing context we explore housing from the perspective of renters and homebuyers and examine differences for former-communist and non-former-communist countries. We use six indicators of the housing context and combine them into three different indexes: renter support index, homebuyer support index, and a combined index of both dimensions. Analyses show that access to housing is associated with age at first birth, but that this relationship has changed over time and is different for former-communist and non-former-communist countries. Findings support theories that expectations regarding the importance of homeownership for family formation are changing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 569-596
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1893279
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Author-Name: Thomas Byrne
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne
Author-Name: Minda Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Minda
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Author-Name: Richard E. Nelson
Author-X-Name-First: Richard E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelson
Author-Name: Jack Tsai
Author-X-Name-First: Jack
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsai
Title: Rapid rehousing for persons experiencing homelessness: a systematic review of the evidence
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Rapid rehousing (RRH), a programmatic approach that seeks to help households currently experiencing homelessness quickly regain stable housing, has garnered increasing attention over the past decade in the United States and internationally. However, there has been no attempt to assess evidence of the effectiveness of RRH. We address this gap by conducting a systematic review to assess the overall quality of evidence on the impact of RRH; summarize evidence of the effectiveness of RRH on housing, health, social, economic and other outcomes; and summarize evidence regarding whether the effectiveness of RRH varies as a function of the characteristics of persons receiving RRH. We rate the overall methodological rigour of evidence on the impact of RRH as moderate. We find mixed evidence about the impact of RRH as compared to usual care and other housing interventions, and no evidence of a differential impact of RRH depending on recipient characteristics. We discuss how future research might help guide the provision of RRH.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 615-641
Issue: 4
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1900547
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Author-Name: Julia Woodhall-Melnik
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Woodhall-Melnik
Author-Name: Eric P. Weissman
Author-X-Name-First: Eric P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Weissman
Title: Living with disaster: exploring complex decisions to stay in or leave flood prone areas
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As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, policy makers question the safety and sustainability of housing in flood zones. Areas along the St. John River in New Brunswick are prone to spring floods. In the past 11 years, three significant floods have damaged and destroyed housing. The tradition of staying in place despite property damage is becoming harder to practice. This paper investigates housing decisions after the 2018 St. John River flood. Data are analyzed from focus groups with residents who experienced residential damage and/or displacement during the flood and from semi-structured interviews with key informants. The analysis indicates that residents’ decisions to stay and move reflect attachment to home, integration within the community, practical considerations such as finances, and a range of emotional responses. These findings reinforce several theoretical perspectives on place and place attachment and indicate that policy makers need to consider the emotional and social implications of relocating communities and individuals in disaster prone areas.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 747-769
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1900794
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Author-Name: Mateus Lira
Author-X-Name-First: Mateus
Author-X-Name-Last: Lira
Author-Name: Hug March
Author-X-Name-First: Hug
Author-X-Name-Last: March
Title: Learning through housing activism in Barcelona: knowledge production and sharing in neighbourhood-based housing groups
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Housing social movements, in the course of their everyday activities, continually share and produce knowledge, a process defined as learning. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on housing activism, looking at learning as a crucial domain of housing movements’ politics and practice. By looking at housing activism through the lens of theories on learning in social movements, we provide a nuanced understanding of Barcelona’s neighbourhood-based housing groups. Previously centralized in one movement (the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca), housing activism in the city is now spread into a heterogeneous network, including small and localized collectives. The paper examines one neighbourhood housing group, the Grup d’Habitatge de Sants, and its relations with other groups, scrutinizing how processes and potentials of learning unfold in four critical moments: assemblies, workshops, direct action and debates/congresses. We reveal learning as a complex and multilayered phenomenon, arguing that it is fundamental for housing activism and an essential path towards achieving housing justice.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 902-921
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1921121
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Author-Name: Stefan Angel
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Angel
Title: Housing regimes and residualization of the subsidized rental sector in Europe 2005-2016
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Residualization refers to the process whereby publicly subsidized rental housing moves towards a position in which it provides only a safety net for low-income households. In this paper we quantify residualization based on the income profile of households in the below market rates (BMR) rental sector. Various residualization indicators for 12 European countries from EU-SILC data are calculated. First, we explore the effect of the size of the BMR sector and the cost of alternative tenure types on residualization. Second, we investigate if there are similar trends of residualization from 2005 to 2016. We find that decreases in the share of the BMR sector are associated with significant increases in residualization. Increases in rent differences between the BMR and market rate rental sector are related to larger degrees of residualization. We further observe a rising level of residualization for most countries. However, countries with allocation systems that aim at broader income groups still display the lowest degree of residualization.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 881-901
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1921122
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Author-Name: Becky Tunstall
Author-X-Name-First: Becky
Author-X-Name-Last: Tunstall
Title: The deresidualisation of social housing in England: change in the relative income, employment status and social class of social housing tenants since the 1990s
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The process of the ‘residualisation’ of social housing, in terms of residents’ income, employment status and class relative to the rest of the population, is one of the best known trends of the housing system in the UK and in many other nations over the past half century. The idea of residualisation and the presumption of its inevitability have become widely accepted, and formed a negative frame for social housing policy. However Pearce and Vine (2014) have shown that in terms of income, the residualisation of social housing in England stopped in 1991. This paper confirms and extends that work using multiple published data sources. These show consistent evidence of convergence over the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s between social tenants and the English national averages in terms of not only income but also employment status and class. Potential explanations, including the restructuring of housing markets, demographic change, and changing labour markets, are briefly explored. Most recently, there some signs that deresidualisation itself may have stopped.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 792-813
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1902952
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Author-Name: Minki Sung
Author-X-Name-First: Minki
Author-X-Name-Last: Sung
Author-Name: Junghoon Ki
Author-X-Name-First: Junghoon
Author-X-Name-Last: Ki
Title: Influence of educational and cultural facilities on apartment prices by size in Seoul: do residents’ preferred facilities influence the housing market?
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This study uses spatial regression to assess the value of educational and cultural facilities as reflected in apartment prices in Seoul, at district and subdistrict levels. In the district-level analysis, regardless of the spatial unit and apartment size, private academies, museums, or art museums positively influence price, while historical sites and park areas negatively influence it. At the subdistrict level, effects differ by apartment size. The study finds that merely providing housing is insufficient for the success of housing policies. Instead, fulfilling residents’ needs and preferences regarding public facilities, especially according to their life stage and thereby contributing to housing policies, will help develop desirable living environments for all.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 814-840
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1908962
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Author-Name: Abe Oudshoorn
Author-X-Name-First: Abe
Author-X-Name-Last: Oudshoorn
Author-Name: Tracy Smith-Carrier
Author-X-Name-First: Tracy
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith-Carrier
Author-Name: Jodi Hall
Author-X-Name-First: Jodi
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall
Author-Name: Cheryl Forchuk
Author-X-Name-First: Cheryl
Author-X-Name-Last: Forchuk
Author-Name: Deanna Befus
Author-X-Name-First: Deanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Befus
Author-Name: Susana Caxaj
Author-X-Name-First: Susana
Author-X-Name-Last: Caxaj
Author-Name: Jean Pierre Ndayisenga
Author-X-Name-First: Jean Pierre
Author-X-Name-Last: Ndayisenga
Author-Name: Colleen Parsons
Author-X-Name-First: Colleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsons
Title: Understanding the principle of consumer choice in delivering housing first
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Based on an analysis of a Housing First program this study explores the principle of ‘consumer choice’. Housing First is a model aimed at rapidly ending experiences of housing loss. Based on interviews with 4 program staff and 7 Housing First recipients, this analysis brought to light complexities in ‘consumer choice’ . The provision of consumer choice can be constrained when housing markets are tight, or when consumers seek congregate living when scattered-site is the focus. Choice can also be a challenge if consumers request housing readiness prior to re-housing. While the principle of choice has allowed services to move away from a staircase model, also considered as a “one size fits all” approach, we need to critically assess whether our current system supports self-determination around unique needs and preferences. This paper provides a thorough discussion on the challenges associated with enacting the principles of Housing First, and how policy environments can either impede or support consumer choice.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 841-859
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1912713
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Author-Name: Phoebe Stirling
Author-X-Name-First: Phoebe
Author-X-Name-Last: Stirling
Author-Name: Nick Gallent
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Gallent
Title: Returning to the intermediary turn: rethinking the significance of estate agents for housing markets
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An intermediary turn in housing studies has argued that professionals like estate agents are causally significant to housing market outcomes. This theory leans on the concept of ‘professionalism’ in two ways. Firstly, agents’ professional identities build in them both the capacity and the motivation to affect the price setting mechanism. Secondly, agents’ professional identities are conceptualised as a political inheritance, and therefore something that can indicate how housing markets have been configured and constructed by the wider political context. This paper interrogates this theory, using it to study the significance of high-street estate agents to house price inflation in London. While the intermediary turn proposes a causal effect between agents’ work and price inflation, evidencing this causal effect was an empirical problem. Nevertheless the concept of professionalism was used to reveal a professional identity bound up in housing investment. We argue that this professionalism could be highly significant, offering an insight into the contextual political economy of housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 922-944
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928005
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Author-Name: Chee Wei Cheah
Author-X-Name-First: Chee Wei
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheah
Title: Relationship building in housing network: a meso-level collective sensemaking perspective
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Drawing on ‘market-as-network’ and collective sensemaking theoretical lenses, this study examines the determinants of organizational sensemaking in the regulated housing market and how organizational sensemaking impact the overall housing market over time. This study adopts a qualitative case study method by inviting twenty interviewees from the Malaysian housing market. The interview data is supported by documents and observations. This study suggests that housing market actors’ sensemaking are influenced by (1) their network roles, shareholders’ background that determines their priority in the decision, (2) their cultural and ethnic background, and (3) network externalities that arise from upcoming situational events. The housing market actors’ ongoing sensemaking also leads to constant network renewal and regeneration. This study suggests that sensemaking is a useful “theories-in-use” tool. It potentially assists the property developers and policymakers in strategizing in a regulated network. It also offers policy insights and potential solutions to the low-to-middle-income homebuyers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 770-791
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Stefan Angel
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Angel
Author-Name: James Gregory
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregory
Title: Does housing tenure matter? Owner-occupation and wellbeing in Britain and Austria
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This article presents the case for the significance of two neglected domains of sociological enquiry: housing tenure and subjective wellbeing. Our empirical focus is on the relationship between housing tenure and subjective wellbeing in two case-study countries, Austria and the UK, using multivariate modelling of European SILC data to investigate potential associations between tenure and individual wellbeing survey items. Our case-studies are chosen for their distinctive welfare regime characteristics and contrasting housing tenure structures. This framework allows normative as well as empirical analysis. Our results show statistically significant relations between housing tenure and overall satisfaction with life (evaluative wellbeing) but are less significant for our hedonic wellbeing items. Compared to private renters, we find higher levels of life satisfaction amongst owner-occupiers in both Austria and the UK.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 860-880
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1912714
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Author-Name: Aysegul Can
Author-X-Name-First: Aysegul
Author-X-Name-Last: Can
Title: Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 945-946
Issue: 5
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2203988
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Author-Name: Yung-Han Chang
Author-X-Name-First: Yung-Han
Author-X-Name-Last: Chang
Title: Housing transitions of Taiwanese young adults: intersections of the parental home and housing pathways
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In the global context, studies have found that young adults are facing increasing difficulties in accessing homeownership and delaying home-leaving. While the Western literature on housing circumstances among younger generations indicates the importance of family support, in an East Asian context, the family is particularly intertwined with housing arrangements given the cultural heritage of filial piety. To elucidate the dynamics of housing transitions, this paper adopted a holistic approach and used sequence analysis to establish distinct housing pathways in a less studied social context, Taiwan. Drawing on data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics, apart from providing empirical evidence on the emergence of the private rented path and a decline in homeownership associated with housing inequality, this paper explored the diverse housing pathways associated with the principal platform of family support, i.e. the parental home, and found that it may function as both a familisation instrument for young adults seeking independence and negotiating leverage sustaining the filial reciprocity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1027-1049
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1929862
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Author-Name: Anne O’Brien
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Brien
Title: ‘Archaic laws’ and the making of the homelessness sector
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The relationship between law and welfare in the governing of homelessness has been studied from a range of perspectives but their interconnections have had little scrutiny at that key moment in the later 20th century when vagrancy was repealed and homelessness became a ‘sector’ in most western countries. Focussing on Australia, this paper provides a critical historical analysis of how and why these interconnections limited reform. Despite the early 1970s being the highpoint of social democratic idealism, the new homelessness sector redeployed the methods of residual charity, largely because it was seen as a replacement for jail. The legal reforms were partial and, since their focus was limited to homeless white men, they had unintended consequences, tragically so for Indigenous peoples. While these shifts represented a turning point in the long governance of homelessness, they were ones in which old ways prevailed and, as neoliberalism gained ground, they became embedded in the policy landscape.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 947-962
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928007
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Author-Name: Ruoniu Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Ruoniu
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Sowmya Balachandran
Author-X-Name-First: Sowmya
Author-X-Name-Last: Balachandran
Title: Inclusionary housing in the United States: dynamics of local policy and outcomes in diverse markets
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Inclusionary housing (IH) ties the creation of affordable, below market-rate units with new development, and it is known to help address the affordable housing crisis and build inclusive communities. Yet, the absence of a national IH database limits our understanding of the prevalence, practice, and production of inclusionary housing in the U.S., and it creates barriers for further investigation and development of this affordable housing strategy. This study draws a national census of IH programs in the U.S. Through a comprehensive data collection between 2018 and 2019, a total of 1,019 local IH programs are documented in 734 local jurisdictions of 31 states and the District of Columbia. This study summarizes program design nationwide and features distinct patterns in California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, where state laws largely impact program adoption and production. A subset of 258 programs reported producing about 110,000 inclusionary units, and 123 programs have collected close to $1.8 billion in fees for affordable housing development.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1068-1087
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Farhad Farnood
Author-X-Name-First: Farhad
Author-X-Name-Last: Farnood
Author-Name: Colin Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Colin
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones
Title: Has the revival in the Scottish private rented sector since the millennium achieved maturity?
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The paper presents a framework for assessing maturity of the private rented sector (PRS) that is tested by reference to a study of Edinburgh set within a Scottish context. The mature market framework is developed by reference to investment theory and comparison with established PRSs in Europe. The PRS is accepted to a degree by users, the government, the wider community and investors. However, the PRS still lacks complete acceptance among tenants and fiscal changes have reduced its financial attractiveness to landlords. Recent Scottish legislation has brought greater regulation that has favoured tenants. There is also little evidence of acceptance by institutional investors. The study therefore finds the case for maturity is unproven, although some subsectors are more mature than others. From a housing system perspective PRS maturity is a function of how the state frames the interaction between private markets and public provision, particularly in countries like the UK which retain a significant sized social sector.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 963-984
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928006
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Author-Name: Maria B. Yanotti
Author-X-Name-First: Maria B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Yanotti
Author-Name: Danika Wright
Author-X-Name-First: Danika
Author-X-Name-Last: Wright
Title: Residential property in Australia: mismatched investment and rental demand
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Housing prices in Australia have demonstrated strong growth in recent decades, and many argue housing supply is not keeping up with the demand. The Australian government purports to increase the private construction of new houses and availability of rental housing primarily through taxation offsets. However, inflated house prices are also at least partially explained by housing supply shortage. This work studies Australian residential property investors to understand their characteristics and role in contributing to the supply of rental housing. Using rich proprietary loan-level data on over 1.1 million mortgage applications during a period of stable policy and house price appreciation, we study the determining factors for accessing finance for the purpose of residential investment as opposed to owner-occupation. Our findings use historical data to present new evidence of the increasingly non-metropolitan location choice for real estate investment properties. This is a potential explanation for the shortage of suitable housing in metropolitan regions but may contribute to regional development.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1110-1131
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1929858
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Author-Name: Dowell Myers
Author-X-Name-First: Dowell
Author-X-Name-Last: Myers
Author-Name: JungHo Park
Author-X-Name-First: JungHo
Author-X-Name-Last: Park
Author-Name: Seongmoon Cho
Author-X-Name-First: Seongmoon
Author-X-Name-Last: Cho
Title: Housing shortages and the new downturn of residential mobility in the US
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Housing shortages following the global financial crisis have been accompanied by a new, sharp downturn in rates of residential mobility, largely among renters. The Great Recession precipitated major, lingering housing disruptions, with local mobility declining by one-third in the US from 2010 to 2019. Slow construction despite employment recovery and burgeoning numbers of young Millennials led to intensified competition for vacancies. That ‘friction of competition’ is posited to delay moves and reduce overall mobility rates. Questions investigated are how urban area declines in renter mobility are related to slower housing construction than job growth, fewer rental vacancy chains released by home buyers, concentrations of young adults, and affordability. Analysis is with the American Community Survey for the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the US Mobility constriction is a new indicator of declining housing opportunity. Similar outcomes bear investigation in other cities and nations impacted by housing shortages and the shift to renting.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1088-1109
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1929860
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Author-Name: Andreas Scheba
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Scheba
Author-Name: Ivan Turok
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan
Author-X-Name-Last: Turok
Title: The role of institutions in social housing provision: salutary lessons from the South
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This paper examines third sector social housing in early post-apartheid South Africa, hence offering important new insights into how institutions in emerging economies shape the implementation and impacts of this approach. Based on qualitative research methods, the paper finds that under conditions of weak formal governance, nascent industry capacity and disaffected communities, third sector social housing resulted in serious project failures and squandered public resources. The study employs an institutional lens to understand how formal and informal institutions shaped the implementation of projects and how key stakeholders acted upon conflicting incentives. It discusses five major factors – inadequate formal policy and regulatory framework, limited government capability and support, limited sector capacity, private finance reluctance and adverse informal arrangements – that caused serious difficulties both at the program and project level. The paper argues that developing robust third sector social housing comes with substantial financial, administrative and political responsibilities for governments, and its success depends on the alignment between the formal policy framework and informal institutions.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1132-1153
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935765
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Author-Name: Adele Irving
Author-X-Name-First: Adele
Author-X-Name-Last: Irving
Title: Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents
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While housing can facilitate many of the freedoms associated with a ‘well-lived’ life, the Capabilities Approach (CA) is yet to have transformed housing research and evaluation. This paper explores the relationship between housing conditions and well-being, using Nussbaum’s version of the CA as the basis for analysis. It draws on data from a UK-based qualitative study of the experiences of individuals residing in privately-run hostels in the North of England. The analysis reveals much diversity in terms of the ways in which the residents perceived their housing conditions and the impacts of these on their exercise of key functions, despite all living in similar environmental conditions. This highlights the highly subjective and complex nature of the relationship between housing conditions and well-being. It is argued that a more robust understanding of the key factors that mediate the relationship being investigated is needed if the potential of the CA to advance housing research and evaluation is to be further realized.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 985-1005
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928004
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Author-Name: Özlem Çelik
Author-X-Name-First: Özlem
Author-X-Name-Last: Çelik
Title: The roles of the state in the financialisation of housing in Turkey
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What is the relationship between the state and housing financialisation? Much of the literature describes the state playing a role to promote the regulatory, legislative, and financial conditions needed to allow global financial capital to penetrate land and property markets. I build on these arguments to develop in what ways the state is playing an active role in housing financialisation in Turkey. I suggest that the Turkish national state has deliberately, actively, and forcefully pursued housing financialisation by (i) introducing new legislation; (ii) creating financial frameworks to encourage speculation by domestic and international capital on land and housing as assets (iii) enclosing public land and exploiting informal types of tenure; (iv) assetising land and housing by developing revenue-sharing urban regeneration projects; and (v) using coercive legal and penal force to criminalise informal development, and to quell resistance to state-led regeneration. My conclusions add weight to Christophers’ contention that the role of the state needs to be reconceptualised to capture its direct involvement in housing financialisation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1006-1026
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1928003
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Author-Name: Paweł Łuczak
Author-X-Name-First: Paweł
Author-X-Name-Last: Łuczak
Author-Name: Maciej Ławrynowicz
Author-X-Name-First: Maciej
Author-X-Name-Last: Ławrynowicz
Title: How did the great transformation shape housing pathways? The case of older women living alone
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After the demise of state-socialism in Poland, the ‘great transformation’ brought about the marketization of housing. From a housing consumption perspective, these changes opened new housing opportunities for some households, while creating new housing constraints for others. Applying Clapham’s housing pathways framework, we explore how the transformation, as well as its legacies, were experienced by fourteen older women living alone in Poznań, a big city in Poland. Through in-depth interviews with a carefully selected and relatively diverse sample, this paper attempts to present a nuanced view of the impact of the transformation on the women’s housing pathways over time. We identify four pathways related to changes in housing consumption: self-made homeowners, accidental homeowners, pushed in precarious private renting, and ‘saved’ by municipal senior housing. By examining these women’s pathways, we aim to make sense of their unique experiences while providing a benchmark for evaluating transformations of housing systems.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1050-1067
Issue: 6
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1929861
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Author-Name: Pauline van den Berg
Author-X-Name-First: Pauline
Author-X-Name-Last: van den Berg
Author-Name: Jules Sanders
Author-X-Name-First: Jules
Author-X-Name-Last: Sanders
Author-Name: Stephan Maussen
Author-X-Name-First: Stephan
Author-X-Name-Last: Maussen
Author-Name: Astrid Kemperman
Author-X-Name-First: Astrid
Author-X-Name-Last: Kemperman
Title: Collective self-build for senior friendly communities. Studying the effects on social cohesion, social satisfaction and loneliness
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Neighbourhood social cohesion is important for the health and well-being of the ageing population. It is therefore crucial to study how we can create neighbourhoods with high levels of neighbourhood social cohesion where senior citizens can age in place. We test the hypotheses that collective self-build is positively related to social cohesion and (directly and indirectly) to social satisfaction and lower levels of loneliness. The study is based on survey data from 326 respondents of 50 years and over living in 25 collective self-build development projects and 19 conventionally developed housing projects in the Netherlands. The results of a structural equation model (SEM) reveal that collective self-build is directly related to neighbourhood social cohesion and lower feelings of social loneliness. We find an indirect effect on social satisfaction. These positive relationships hold while controlling for personal and household characteristics. This quantitative study adds scientific knowledge on the collective self-build development method and its relation to social cohesion, loneliness and satisfaction.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1323-1341
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1941793
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Author-Name: Sarah Mawhorter
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Mawhorter
Author-Name: Eileen M. Crimmins
Author-X-Name-First: Eileen M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Crimmins
Author-Name: Jennifer A. Ailshire
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ailshire
Title: Housing and cardiometabolic risk among older renters and homeowners
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Scholars consistently find that renters have poorer health outcomes when compared with homeowners. Health disparities between renters and homeowners likely widen over the life course, yet few studies have examined this link among older adults, and the connection is not fully understood. Homeowners’ relative socio-economic advantage may explain their better health; renters also more commonly experience adverse housing conditions and financial challenges, both of which can harm health. In this paper, we analyse the extent to which socio-economic advantage, housing conditions, and financial strain explain the relationship between homeownership and health among adults over age 50, using Health and Retirement Study 2010/2012 data to assess cardiometabolic risk (CMR) levels using biomarkers for inflammation, cardiovascular health, and metabolic function. We find that people living with poor housing conditions and financial strain have higher CMR levels, even taking socio-economic advantage into account. This analysis sheds light on the housing-related health challenges of older adults, especially older renters.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1342-1364
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1941792
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Author-Name: Emanuele Belotti
Author-X-Name-First: Emanuele
Author-X-Name-Last: Belotti
Title: The invisible hand of the shareholding state: the financialization of Italian real-estate investment funds for social housing
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This article contributes to the emerging literature on the post-global-financial-crisis wave of financialization of housing 2.0 by furthering the understanding of how the national governments enable financialization and participate in financial intermediation to pursue statecraft objectives. The analysis stems from a mix-method research study combining longitudinal trans-scalar policy analysis with semi-structured interviews conducted in Lombardy since 2016. It focuses on the case of the Italian real-estate investment mutual funds dedicated to social housing as a key angle from which to observe the state-finance relation underlying the financialization of rental housing and the contextual rise of the shareholding state. While shedding light on the national government’s persistent role in favouring financial power concentrations, this research study framed financial infrastructures that connect local real estate to capital markets as contradictory condensations of power relations emerging from institutionally bounded conflicts and alliances. It thus exposed the hybrid assemblage of state and market forces behind financial market formation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1260-1283
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935762
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Author-Name: Xiao Ma
Author-X-Name-First: Xiao
Author-X-Name-Last: Ma
Author-Name: Dallas Rogers
Author-X-Name-First: Dallas
Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers
Author-Name: Laurence Troy
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Troy
Title: Chinese property developers after the decline in foreign real estate investment in Sydney, Australia
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This study investigates how Chinese developers responded to the changing patterns of investment in residential real estate in Sydney since 2010. The analysis also outlines the key lessons for cities around the world with high levels of Chinese foreign buyers and developers, which may experience a similar foreign real estate investment decline as a result of changing dynamics in domestic real estate markets, changes in China, and/or wider changes in the global economy or other key global events. Unlike Chinese individual foreign real estate investors who largely exited the real estate market after 2017, Chinese property developers remained committed to the domestic market in Australia. As such, this analysis is framed by a period of individual foreign capital withdrawal and is focused on foreign developers rather than individual foreign real estate investors. The paper argues that focusing on the actions of foreign developers in a domestic real estate market is important because the organisational structure and business practices of foreign developers can be vastly different to those of domestic developers. The analysis shows that since 2017 Chinese developers responded in two ways to the changing residential real estate market in Sydney: (1) they revised their sales strategies to target different customer groups; and/or (2) they changed their building practices.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1284-1303
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935764
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Author-Name: Carina Listerborn
Author-X-Name-First: Carina
Author-X-Name-Last: Listerborn
Title: The new housing precariat: experiences of precarious housing in Malmö, Sweden
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Precarious housing research has become increasingly relevant to previous welfare housing contexts, such as Sweden. In the 1990s, Swedish housing became gradually market-oriented, which induced a shortage of affordable rental housing and increased housing costs in all major cities. This article presents the results from interviews with individuals about their experiences of the unequal housing market in the city of Malmö, Sweden. The article furthers knowledge of the lived experience of housing precariousness in the Global North. The narratives from the housing precariat are analysed through the lens of housing inequalities, and the analysis theoretically adds to ‘research on critical geography of precarity. The article aims to illustrate the consequences of the shift from a general welfare approach of housing to an individualized and neoliberal housing market. In particular, this article adds insights on the gendered and racialized aspects that affect housing precariousness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1304-1322
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935775
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Author-Name: Albert Adu-Gyamfi
Author-X-Name-First: Albert
Author-X-Name-Last: Adu-Gyamfi
Author-Name: Michael Poku-Boansi
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Poku-Boansi
Author-Name: Leonard Darpoh
Author-X-Name-First: Leonard
Author-X-Name-Last: Darpoh
Author-Name: Michael Osei Asibey
Author-X-Name-First: Michael Osei
Author-X-Name-Last: Asibey
Author-Name: Justice Kufour Owusu-Ansah
Author-X-Name-First: Justice Kufour
Author-X-Name-Last: Owusu-Ansah
Title: Rainfall challenges and strategies to improve housing construction in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana
Abstract:
Even though elsewhere in the Western world and the gulf regions, many studies explore the effect of extreme weather conditions on the construction of houses, little is known in sub-Saharan Africa. This study therefore engages homeowners and various construction workers in a qualitative study to analyze how rainfall affects the building of houses. A total of 75 participants, comprising 20 homeowners and 55 construction workers were purposively selected to share their experiences about the impact of rainfall on the construction of houses using in-depth interviews. The narratives of the participants made several revelations to deepen knowledge on the effect of climatic conditions such as rainfall on housing construction. The study revealed that rainfall causes financial losses to homeowners and creates hazardous work environments for construction workers. Financial losses are encountered through the destruction of building materials, increases in the cost of building materials in the wet season and extra labour costs incurred in carrying out reworks. This challenge posed by extreme rainfall has implications of hindering many prospective homeowners in achieving their aspiration of becoming homeowners.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1155-1190
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2014412
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Author-Name: Alberto Lozano Alcántara
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Lozano Alcántara
Author-Name: Claudia Vogel
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: Vogel
Title: Rising housing costs and income poverty among the elderly in Germany
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Housing costs have been increasing rapidly in Germany in recent years. Given the importance of housing for the elderly, one may expect many to be forced to dedicate ever-larger shares of their income to housing costs. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we examine how changes in housing costs between 1996 and 2017 have affected income poverty among Germany’s over-65s. Our results reveal that higher costs have indeed contributed to increased income poverty in old age in that period. Our pooled probit regression models as applied to Germany’s elderly show that increased housing costs mean tenants, homeowners with outstanding mortgages, single-person households and people with migration background all suffer a higher risk of poverty, while the risk remains lower for outright homeowners. Since the relative income position of the elderly is expected to further deteriorate in future, our study suggests a need for policy action to avoid a worsening in figures for old-age income poverty in Germany.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1220-1238
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935759
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Author-Name: Ryan Powell
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Powell
Title: Book Review
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1365-1366
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2238366
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Author-Name: Leonie Boland
Author-X-Name-First: Leonie
Author-X-Name-Last: Boland
Author-Name: Richard Yarwood
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Yarwood
Author-Name: Katrina Bannigan
Author-X-Name-First: Katrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Bannigan
Title: ‘Making a home’: an occupational perspective on sustaining tenancies following homelessness
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Tenancy sustainment is fundamental to a sustainable exit from homelessness. Although growing attention has been placed on housing outcomes, there is limited research on the maintenance of a settled home following homelessness. The aim of this study was to understand the process for individuals as they transitioned from services to sustained tenancies from an occupational science perspective. A constructivist grounded theory study was conducted with people who had experienced multiple exclusion homelessness. Interviews using reflexive photography were carried out with individuals (N = 29) from three cities in the UK and Ireland. ‘Making a home’ was the core process identified in tenancy sustainment. It highlighted the significance of everyday activities and routines in enabling participants to personalise the tenancy, develop their identity as tenants, and maintain daily routines and roles to support it. An occupational perspective can enhance understanding of tenancy sustainment following homelessness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1239-1259
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935757
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Author-Name: Helen X. H. Bao
Author-X-Name-First: Helen X. H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bao
Author-Name: Rufus Saunders
Author-X-Name-First: Rufus
Author-X-Name-Last: Saunders
Title: Reference dependence in the UK housing market
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The study of reference dependence in housing markets is of practical importance due to the unusual characteristics of property transactions, such as high information asymmetry caused by many individuals’ lack of experience in housing markets. The overall low transaction frequency and general illiquidity of housing markets can exacerbate and reinforce behavioural anomalies such as reference dependence. The knowledge gained through an empirical investigation in the UK housing market can assist in the understanding of these behavioural biases. By conducting an online experiment at a UK online panel data platform, we identify the presence of reference dependence in the UK housing market, and the extent to which they are caused by both historical and recent prices. The influence of expectations and social norms is also investigated in this novel context. The findings of this study pave the way for reliable economic modelling of such anomalies and a better understanding of behaviours in the housing market.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1191-1219
Issue: 7
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1935767
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Author-Name: Jakub Zasina
Author-X-Name-First: Jakub
Author-X-Name-Last: Zasina
Author-Name: Elżbieta Antczak
Author-X-Name-First: Elżbieta
Author-X-Name-Last: Antczak
Title: The ‘gown’ unconcerned with the town? Residential satisfaction of university students living in off-campus private accommodation
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This paper aims to extend the understanding of residential satisfaction determinants of students living in off-campus private accommodation and thus contribute to the studentification debate. Our study is based on an original dataset derived from a survey conducted among students in Lodz, Poland and Turin, Italy. Using the ordered logit model, we tested the impact of neighbourhood and accommodation attributes, as well as personal and household characteristics, on students’ residential satisfaction. Our findings show that owning the property has the most significant effect on students’ residential satisfaction. Moreover, this satisfaction increases when student accommodation is affordable, located in a building of pleasant appearance, and in a neighbourhood well connected by public transportation and with a student atmosphere. In light of these findings, we claim that students’ residential satisfaction is not determined by most neighbourhood attributes; therefore, a wide range of neighbourhoods are potentially ‘studentifiable’.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1536-1559
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1961692
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Author-Name: Magda Maaoui
Author-X-Name-First: Magda
Author-X-Name-Last: Maaoui
Title: The SRU Law, twenty years later: evaluating the legacy of France’s most important social housing program
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Twenty years ago, in December 2000, the SRU Law (Loi Solidarité et Renouvellement Urbain) was passed in France, requiring selected municipalities to devote 25% of their local stock to social housing, in order to curb growing trends of segregation. Almost twenty years later, the balance is striking: still 1,222 municipalities targeted by the program do not comply with the set quota of 25% social housing units per municipality. Out of these non-complying municipalities, 269 had to pay an increased fee in 2017, based on the Article 55 clause included in the SRU Law. The total fee that these ‘outlaw municipalities’ had to pay for not providing enough social housing represented a total of € 77 million in 2017, and helped finance the national rental social housing fund for housing. In this paper, I ask what impact the Article 55 fee clause designed to enforce SRU Law objectives has had on the rebalancing of social housing stocks for municipalities not complying with set quotas. To answer such a question, I conduct a Difference-in-Differences study that measures changes in social housing stocks before and after the passage of the law. The treatment group comprises municipalities not complying with quota requirements and subject to the Article 55 fee, while the control group consists of municipalities not complying with quota requirements, but exempt from the fee. Findings underscore how after the passage of the Article 55 fee, municipalities that were subject to the fee have built less social housing than municipalities that are exempt, relative to before the enactment of the law. They corroborate my conceptual framework, which states that beyond the adoption of a national fee for noncompliant municipalities, social housing production trends are impacted by the types of land use ideologies in place in municipalities, be they pro-social housing or exclusionary. Twenty years later, these findings bring a new perspective to current debates taking place in policy circles around the effectiveness of one of France’s most important social housing policy programs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1392-1416
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1941790
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Author-Name: Maike Van Damme
Author-X-Name-First: Maike Van
Author-X-Name-Last: Damme
Author-Name: Sandra Krapf
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Krapf
Author-Name: Michael Wagner
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner
Title: Housing density and its consequences for couples in Germany: staying, moving, or breaking up?
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High housing density has been considered a stressor that is detrimental to couples’ relationships. However, empirical research on this topic has been mixed, which might be due to the fact that not all couples respond to density in the same way. We contribute to the literature by not only considering separation as a potential reaction to density but also moving to a new place. Moreover, we combine insights from different theoretical models to explain how couples react differently to an overcrowded home, depending upon their resources. For our analyses, we use the German Family Panel PAIRFAM (10 waves, 2008/09 to 2017/18) with a sample of N = 4180 couples, of which 484 experience a move and 488 a separation. Applying competing risk models, we find that vulnerable groups such as the poor and the low-educated are significantly more likely than others to separate when in a dense home rather than to stay in the same dwelling.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1560-1588
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1961694
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Author-Name: Emiliano Esposito
Author-X-Name-First: Emiliano
Author-X-Name-Last: Esposito
Author-Name: Francesco Chiodelli
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiodelli
Title: Beyond proper political squatting: exploring individualistic need-based occupations in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples
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The public and academic debate about urban squatting in Western cities has been dominated by research on collectively organized, politically-motivated occupations. By contrast, occupations promoted to fulfil urgent housing needs by uncoordinated urban poor without any connection with activists (i.e. need-based squatting) have been far less explored. The present paper contributes to filling this research gap concerning squatting as a sheltering strategy by marginalized individuals. To this end, this article focuses on the overlooked phenomenon of the illegal occupation of public buildings for residential purposes in Italy that occurs outside any explicit political framework. In particular, it provides an ethnographic investigation of a case of squatting in an abandoned school located in a public housing neighbourhood in Naples. This investigation is the basis for the conceptualization of a specific type of need-based squatting, that is to say ‘individualistic squatting’, whose specific features (including its distinct political character) are highlighted, together with its peculiarity vis-à-vis other types of need-based squatting.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1436-1458
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1946017
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Author-Name: Kirk McClure
Author-X-Name-First: Kirk
Author-X-Name-Last: McClure
Author-Name: Alex F. Schwartz
Author-X-Name-First: Alex F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwartz
Title: Neighbourhood opportunity, racial segregation, and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program in the United States
Abstract:
Housing policy for low-income renters seeks to deconcentrate poverty by moving the poor to neighborhoods offering opportunities for safety, good education, and gainful employment. Federal law compels communities to take affirmative steps to promote racial and ethnic integration. We argue that it is not possible for a community to effectively deconcentrate poverty unless it actively engages in racial and ethnic integration. This research evaluates the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) in terms of both poverty deconcentration and racial integration. It asks if the LIHTC program is helping move low-income families to neighbourhoods offering high levels of opportunity categorized by the dominant racial and ethnic group. Given the lack of high-opportunity tracts among minority concentrated tracts, there is effectively no mechanism through which the LIHTC program can locate developments in minority dominated high-opportunity tracts and achieve movement to opportunity. If the LIHTC program is to further poverty deconcentration through movement to high-opportunity areas, it must also affirmatively further fair housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1459-1481
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1950646
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Author-Name: Colleen Chiu-Shee
Author-X-Name-First: Colleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu-Shee
Author-Name: Brent D. Ryan
Author-X-Name-First: Brent D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan
Author-Name: Lawrence J. Vale
Author-X-Name-First: Lawrence J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vale
Title: Ending gated communities: the rationales for resistance in China
Abstract:
Although gated communities (GCs) have spread globally, their prevalence in China is often attributed to China’s unique tradition of gated living. In 2016, China announced policy recommendations intending to end GCs, which faced societal resistance. To elucidate the nature of this resistance, we interviewed experienced Chinese officials, practitioners, and scholars—who, inevitably, were themselves GC residents. They challenge the policy in two ways: policy-rejectors justify gating as common sense and stress risks of ungating, whereas policy-sympathizers understand the policy shift but doubt its feasibility. Their rationales reveal ingrained cognitive dissonance and entrenched state-society tension. Such sentiments that resist ungating collectively create practical and ideological barriers to mitigating housing segregation. China’s GCs showcase how private production of civic goods prioritizes market rules and promotes individual values. China’s failure in ungating suggests that the prevalence of privately produced communities can justify exclusion, normalize “gated mindsets,” and reinforce socioeconomic and spatial inequalities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1482-1511
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1950645
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Author-Name: Beibei Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Beibei
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: Re-conceptualizing housing tenure beyond the owning-renting dichotomy: insights from housing and financialization
Abstract:
Housing tenure has often been taken-for-granted as consisting of dichotomous tenure types of owning and renting. This article critiques the owning-renting dichotomy through the lens of housing finance. It critically engages with three housing research programs wherein the owning-renting dichotomy is deep-seated: (a) the bundle of rights thesis, (b) comparative housing and welfare research, and (c) the ideology of housing. For each of them, the article first provides a brief recapitulation of the literature. It then explicates how they are constrained by the owning-renting dichotomy and why abandoning this dichotomy is necessary to transcend their limitations. Based on this, the article reveals a dialectical relation between owning and renting - the binary-oppositional attributes of owning and renting can be resolved with the changing relation of the occupant to financial markets. The article further proposes to re-conceptualize housing tenure as a relation of the occupant to financial markets and discusses the implications for reframing housing studies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1512-1535
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1961693
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: (i)-(iii)
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1968194
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Author-Name: Jane Bullen*
Author-X-Name-First: Jane
Author-X-Name-Last: Bullen*
Title: Chronic homelessness - what women’s experiences can tell us
Abstract:
This article reassesses the policy concept of chronic homelessness in the light of women’s experiences of long-term homelessness. Chronic homelessness, associated with long-term homelessness and high levels of emergency and homelessness service use among men, has received increased focus in research, policy and services in recent years, and despite women’s comparative housing disadvantages, the overwhelming majority of people identified as experiencing chronic homelessness are male. This article draws on Carole Bacchi’s work on how policy problems are represented, and on the results of a small qualitative study with women experiencing long-term or chronic homelessness, to show how current representations of chronic homelessness obscure rather than reflect women’s experiences of long-term homelessness, marginalising their claims to housing and other assistance. The article concludes by suggesting opportunities to change this representation of the problem through research, evaluation, policy and program development that are informed by women’s experiences.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1417-1435
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1941791
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Author-Name: Hung-Ying Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Hung-Ying
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: Non-performing loans, non-performing people: life and struggle with mortgage debt in Spain
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1611-1613
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2246784
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Author-Name: Alan Morris
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Author-X-Name-Last: Morris
Author-Name: Shaun Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Shaun
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Author-Name: Emma Mitchell
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell
Author-Name: Gaby Ramia
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Author-Name: Catherine Hastings
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Title: International students struggling in the private rental sector in Australia prior to and during the pandemic
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International students have emerged as a major cohort within Australia’s post-secondary education sector. Despite contributing substantially to the economy and community, they are expected to make their own way in Australia’s expensive private rental market. Drawing on two surveys—one conducted prior to Covid-19 and one fielded during the pandemic—as well as forty semi-structured in-depth interviews, the article examines strategies adopted by students to cope with high rents in Sydney and Melbourne. Drawing on the concept of risk, we argue that international students studying in these two cities must constantly manage the pressures of expensive and unstable rental housing. Access to decent accommodation often depends on finding and maintaining paid employment. Second, students adopt risky strategies to meet housing costs such as sharing bedrooms. These strategies reduce rents but invoke further challenges. Third, we find that due to the loss of paid employment, the Covid-19 pandemic has substantially increased the risks for international students dependent on the private rental sector.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1589-1610
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Samson B. A. Aziabah
Author-X-Name-First: Samson B. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Aziabah
Author-Name: Samuel Biitir
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Biitir
Author-Name: Elvis Attakora-Amaniampong
Author-X-Name-First: Elvis
Author-X-Name-Last: Attakora-Amaniampong
Title: Organizational challenges of public housing management in the Global South. A systems assessment of Ghana
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Public housing has contributed tremendously to addressing housing deficits in many countries. Notwithstanding the shift towards neo-liberalism, public housing is still relevant in the Global South. Ghana’s response to the neo-liberal call was to sell-off most of the public housing stock and transfer some of the remainder to local authorities. Despite its contribution to labour mobility and productivity, Ghana’s public housing conditions are poor largely due to ineffective management and maintenance. The paper aims to use systems theory to identify the organizational challenges for management that has resulted in poorly maintained public housing. The study interviewed housing experts, local authority staff and tenants; and finds that the organizational structure is poorly defined; irregular financial resource flows impede maintenance, and there is low tenant involvement in housing management. It recommends that housing management activities should be concentrated at the municipal level with defined roles. Mechanisms for tenant participation in management should be introduced to ensure that outcomes meet tenants’ expectations.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1367-1391
Issue: 8
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Valesca Lima
Author-X-Name-First: Valesca
Author-X-Name-Last: Lima
Author-Name: Rory Hearne
Author-X-Name-First: Rory
Author-X-Name-Last: Hearne
Author-Name: Mary P. Murphy
Author-X-Name-First: Mary P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy
Title: Housing financialisation and the creation of homelessness in Ireland
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There is growing interest in the impacts of financialisation on housing affordability and insecurity in the private rental sector, particularly financialisation 2.0 and the increased role of global real estate funds. This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of these impacts on housing systems and housing marginalisation by conceptually and empirically exploring the relationship between the financialisation of rental housing and homelessness in the post-crash era. We identify the processes and pathways by which this has unfolded in Ireland. Our findings point to the financialisation of the Private Rental Sector (PRS) in Ireland, and particularly the emergence of institutional landlords, playing an important direct and indirect contributory role in the structural housing factors that create homelessness, including reduced affordability, rising housing insecurity, displacement and evictions. We argue there is a need for greater attention to be paid to the evolving real estate-state-finance relationship, particularly the central role of the state, conceptualised here through pathways and processes of action and inaction, in developing and facilitating financialisation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1695-1718
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2042493
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Author-Name: Sophie L. Stadler
Author-X-Name-First: Sophie L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stadler
Author-Name: Damian Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Damian
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Title: Assessing Housing First programs from a right to housing perspective
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The notion that Housing First (HF) is a human-rights based approach to housing some of society’s most vulnerable citizens is often alluded to in the literature, but seldom interrogated. In this paper, we examine whether HF in Alberta, Canada is practiced in a way that realizes the right to housing for chronically homeless people. We do so using four human rights principles identified by Fukuda-Parr: non-discrimination, participation, adequate progress and remedy. Based on interviews with staff of 14 HF programs in three cities, we identify constraints to a human rights-based approach, including time-limited support, which necessitates a strong emphasis on housing sustainability. We also identify positive practices, such as client participation in decision-making and tenant rights education. The paper also provides a model for systematically assessing whether HF programs respect, protect and fulfil the right to housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1719-1739
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Jamileh Manoochehri
Author-X-Name-First: Jamileh
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Title: Reconstruction fiction: housing and realist literature in Postwar Britain, by Paula Derdiger, The Ohio State University Press, 2020, 230 pp., $59.95 (hbk), $34.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-8142-5770-8
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1778-1780
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2251760
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Author-Name: Seungbeom Kang
Author-X-Name-First: Seungbeom
Author-X-Name-Last: Kang
Title: Severe and persistent housing instability: examining low-income households’ residential mobility trajectories in the United States
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Given the growing threat of housing instability in the United States, this study explores the variability in housing instability experiences in terms of severity and persistence by tracking low-income households in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data from 2003 to 2017. First, this study examines the associations between one housing instability incident at a particular time and subsequent mobility trajectories. Second, by incorporating sequence analysis, this study explores the conditions under which low-income households are likely to suffer from more chronic forms of housing instability. The results reveal that the more severe one housing instability incident is, the more prolonged the entire housing instability experience is likely to be over time. The ability to maintain homeownership, repeated transitions in partnerships, job insecurity, and repetitively moving across distressed neighborhoods are the conditions for housing instability that occurs more frequently. Moreover, younger households and households with a member with health problems are likely to suffer from more chronic forms of housing instability.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1615-1641
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Hendri Irawan
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Author-X-Name-Last: Irawan
Title: International Migration and Citizenship Today (2 nd edition), by Niklaus Steiner, London, Routledge, 2023, 208 pp., £32.99 (Paperback), ISBN 9781032114101
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1777-1778
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Tom Simcock
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Simcock
Title: Home or hotel? A contemporary challenge in the use of housing stock
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Since the Global Financial Crash, there have been significant changes to the private rented sectors across the UK. The PRS has become increasingly important to providing housing to millions of homes and has gained increasing political and regulatory focus. At the same time, there has been a substantial increase in the number of short-term holiday lets enabled by online platforms such as Airbnb. There are concerns that this housing stock is being lost from residential housing and exacerbates issues of housing equality. This paper undertakes a case study of Airbnb growth in London to examine changes in listings and provides insight into Airbnb hosts. The extant literature and analysis in this paper support the argument of the loss of privately rented properties, with housing stock being reallocated as tourist accommodation, potentially displacing local communities. Finally, the paper analyses the struggles this poses for policymakers, communities and housing providers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1760-1776
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1988063
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Author-Name: Petr Vašát
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Vašát
Title: From squat to cottage: materiality, informal ownership, and the politics of unspotted homes
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‘Homeless’ people are usually considered as citizens without property. The absence of ownership, especially in terms of housing, co-creates the very idea of homelessness in current societies. Despite this fact, ‘homeless’ citizens negotiate and experience their property, things, or the shelter in which they dwell. This paper sheds light on how this property is negotiated and experienced and how it influences home-making. It does so by drawing on long-term ethnographic research in the city of Pilsen, a second-order city in Czechia. Based on the intra-urban comparison of informal dwelling in two abandoned buildings – a former railway station tower and an allotment cottage – the paper conceptualize the unspotted home and argues that it arises from the assemblage of socio-materiality, meanings, and various dimensions of politics, where the politics of home-ownership has an important position. While informal ownership here is related to power asymmetry within home-making, paradoxically, it also brings about more complex informal citizenship and the potential for political action.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1642-1661
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
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Author-Name: Joshua Evans
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua
Author-X-Name-Last: Evans
Author-Name: Madeleine Stout
Author-X-Name-First: Madeleine
Author-X-Name-Last: Stout
Author-Name: Damian Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Damian
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Author-Name: Kenna McDowell
Author-X-Name-First: Kenna
Author-X-Name-Last: McDowell
Title: The reticent state? Interpreting emergency responses to homelessness in Alberta, Canada
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Historically, governmental responses to homelessness in Canada have defaulted to the most basic of services such as food and shelter. Even under exceptional circumstances, such as the current coronavirus pandemic, governments still demonstrate reluctance to guarantee permanent, adequate and affordable housing to all. In this policy review we argue that this pattern suggests that reticence is an apt term for describing homelessness responses in Canada and that this condition is rooted in the continued dominance of liberalism in Canadian society.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1681-1694
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1977783
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Author-Name: Tyler Haupert
Author-X-Name-First: Tyler
Author-X-Name-Last: Haupert
Title: Do housing and neighborhood characteristics impact an individual’s risk of homelessness? Evidence from New York City
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Most existing homelessness research either connects aggregate levels of homelessness to housing market and economic characteristics, or analyzes the personal traits of chronically homeless individuals and those receiving formal institutional support. Little is known about the characteristics of individuals in the general population who become homeless, especially their housing and neighborhood contexts. This article assesses the relationship between an individual’s odds of experiencing homelessness and their housing, personal, and neighborhood characteristics using data from The New York City Longitudinal Survey of Well-Being, a representative panel of New York City adults. These data are leveraged to specify a series of multilevel logistic panel regression models. Findings suggest an individual’s housing conditions, particularly whether they are doubled-up or in a rent-controlled unit, and traditional risk factors such as mental health issues and drug use, help predict future homelessness. Results suggest that well-known individual characteristics common among unhoused individuals are accompanied by housing and economic factors that drive a path to experiencing homelessness.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1740-1759
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1982874
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Author-Name: David Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Author-Name: Ian Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: Specialist housing for older people in an era of neoliberal transformation: exploring provision in England
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Specialist housing for older people is an important welfare service and integral part of the housing offer in many countries. An extensive evidence base details the relative merits of different modes of provision, but little light has been cast on the forces shaping provision and the interests served. Drawing on a new model of demand and supply of specialist provision in England at the local authority level, this study addresses this lacuna. Two key contributions are made to knowledge and understanding. First, the uneven landscape of specialist housing provision is charted and the extent to which this maps onto need is revealed. Second, this condition is explained by situating specialist housing within wider debates about the reimagining of housing systems driven by the neoliberal transformation of housing politics, and recognising that these processes can have uneven effects embedded in the nature of places.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1662-1680
Issue: 9
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1966394
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Author-Name: Zicheng Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Zicheng
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Manqi Zhong
Author-X-Name-First: Manqi
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhong
Author-Name: Jiachun Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Jiachun
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Title: Homeownership gap between ethnic minority and Han majority rural migrants in China: integration or stratification?
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Housing attainment among rural migrants has received wide attention. However, studies on the homeownership gap between ethnic minority and Han majority rural migrants in China remain unexplored. Using data from National Migrants Population Dynamic Monitoring Survey (NMPDMS), present study applies the logit regression and Blinder–Oaxaca–Fairlie decomposition method to address this. The results suggest that ethnic minority rural migrants are less likely to become homeowners than the Han majority, and that this homeownership gap may differ across various ethnic groups. Compared with the Han majority, the Manchu have a higher probability of owning a home, whereas other ethnic groups are often associated with a lower homeownership rate. Observable socio-economic characteristics play a minor role in this ethnic homeownership gap, whereas most of them are attributable to unobserved factors, such as discrimination.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1936-1954
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Barbara Audycka
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara
Author-X-Name-Last: Audycka
Title: “The right to stay put” or “the right to decide”? The question of displacement in the revitalization of Łódź (Poland)
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The aim of this policy review is to present the revitalization policy of the city of Łódź in the context of displacement research. Although historical specificity discouraged aggressive gentrification, and legal regulations provided local governments with tools that helped ensure continuity of tenancy, revitalization results reveal a surprisingly high level of actual and planned displacement, as tenants decide to permanently leave their neighbourhoods. The study examines the issue of displacement in the context of housing conditions, characterized by a large share but low quality of public housing, and progressive regulatory environment. It describes the practical organization of resettlements in Łódź, their strengths and shortcomings, as well as tenants’ responses. It contributes to research on displacement by showing that revitalization-induced resettlement is positively valued in certain circumstances. It also suggests that the "right to stay put" should be redefined as "the right to decide", but inextricably linked to the task of maintaining a diverse social structure in revitalization areas.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1845-1859
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1992358
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Author-Name: Thomas Maloutas
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Maloutas
Author-Name: Hugo Botton
Author-X-Name-First: Hugo
Author-X-Name-Last: Botton
Title: Vertical micro-segregation: is living in disadvantageous lower floors in Athens’ apartment blocks producing negative social effects?
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This article estimates the effect of vertical segregation – across floors of apartment buildings – on educational attainment in the metropolitan area of Athens. This context offers an opportunity to evaluate and discuss the complementarity between horizontal segregation (across neighbourhoods) and vertical segregation. Using census microdata, we observe that the share of individuals dropping out of school early is much higher for young residents of disadvantageous lower-floor apartments than for those living in upper floors. This gap remains significant after controlling for all relevant personal, household, and neighbourhood characteristics. This result suggests an effect of vertical segregation on educational outcomes in addition to neighbourhood effects and individuals’ socio-economic status. Moreover, the findings of this article corroborate the claim that the target for public policies to increase social mix is not enough to address inequalities at the local level.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1955-1972
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2014414
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Author-Name: Rohan Best
Author-X-Name-First: Rohan
Author-X-Name-Last: Best
Author-Name: Ryan Esplin
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Esplin
Author-Name: Mara Hammerle
Author-X-Name-First: Mara
Author-X-Name-Last: Hammerle
Author-Name: Rabindra Nepal
Author-X-Name-First: Rabindra
Author-X-Name-Last: Nepal
Author-Name: Zac Reynolds
Author-X-Name-First: Zac
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds
Title: Do solar panels increase housing rents in Australia?
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Greater uptake of solar panels on rental housing would have implications for housing affordability and would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The influence of energy investments on housing values has been widely studied, with past research often finding a positive relationship. However, there is missing knowledge for the specific relationship between solar panels and housing rents. This study finds that Australian renters with solar panels pay approximately A$19 more in weekly housing rents than non-solar renters. The results suggest that landlords have been able to benefit from investments in solar panels through higher rent, with a payback period of around 5 years. The study provides context for policymakers across the world considering subsidies for solar panels on rental housing. The findings are robust across multiple methods including entropy balancing and are based on two large Australian household surveys.Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.2004094 .
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1918-1935
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Yushu Zhu
Author-X-Name-First: Yushu
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu
Author-Name: Yue Yuan
Author-X-Name-First: Yue
Author-X-Name-Last: Yuan
Author-Name: Jiaxin Gu
Author-X-Name-First: Jiaxin
Author-X-Name-Last: Gu
Author-Name: Qiang Fu
Author-X-Name-First: Qiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Fu
Title: Neoliberalization and inequality: disparities in access to affordable housing in urban Canada 1981–2016
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The neoliberalization of housing policy and housing financialization have brought unequal impacts on housing outcomes. Drawing on eight waves of census data, this study uncovers the changing mechanism of housing stratification in selected Canadian census metropolitan areas from 1981 to 2016, a period when Canada transitioned from a welfare housing regime to a neoliberal regime. This study reveals entrenched housing inequality and strengthened income effect in determining access to affordable housing in the neoliberal era. Housing financialization has significantly contributed to intensified inequality in accessing affordable housing. Access to affordable housing in Canada is also stratified along the lines of gender and immigration status. Homeownership affordability for low-to-moderate-income households has significantly deteriorated over time, representing a new form of housing vulnerability in the neoliberal era.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1860-1887
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Jenny Preece
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Preece
Author-Name: Kim McKee
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: McKee
Author-Name: John Flint
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Flint
Author-Name: David Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Title: Living in a small home: expectations, impression management, and compensatory practices
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Housing choices are commonly perceived as active and exercised at a fixed point. But individuals continually negotiate these trade-offs through the unfolding of their everyday life, particularly when choices result in forms of living outside normative housing expectations. This article considers trade-offs around house size made by residents of smaller homes in three UK cities—London, Sheffield, and Edinburgh—drawing on in-depth interviews with 27 individuals. The article focuses on the space of expectation adjustment in a period of extended crisis in housing systems, fostering the ‘cruel optimism’ (Berlant, Cruel optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), 2011) of persistent and collectively maintained attachments to outcomes which are increasingly unrealisable. First, individuals downgraded their own expectations of living space. Second, in negotiating wider societal expectations, individuals engaged in impression management to prevent stigmatisation. The research thus advances longstanding debates on housing and stigma. Finally, individuals constructed alternative narratives of small home living which centred on forms of adjustment through compensatory practices of minimalism and creativity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1824-1844
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Elmond Bandauko
Author-X-Name-First: Elmond
Author-X-Name-Last: Bandauko
Author-Name: Senanu Kwasi Kutor
Author-X-Name-First: Senanu Kwasi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kutor
Author-Name: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
Author-X-Name-First: Hanson
Author-X-Name-Last: Nyantakyi-Frimpong
Author-Name: Philip Baiden
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Baiden
Author-Name: Godwin Arku
Author-X-Name-First: Godwin
Author-X-Name-Last: Arku
Title: Influence of socio-demographic factors and housing characteristics on satisfaction with privacy in gated communities in Accra (Ghana)
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Gated Communities (GCs) are rapidly popularizing and becoming a dominant form of housing in Global South Cities. Using binary logistic regression analysis, this article examines how socio-demographic and housing characteristics predict residents’ satisfaction with privacy in Devtraco and Manet (GCs) in Accra, Ghana. Ceteris paribus, residents of Devtraco had lower odds of being satisfied with privacy compared to those in Manet (OR = 0.23; p < 0.05). Level of education, age, home renovations were positively associated with satisfaction with privacy. Respondents with post-secondary education had higher odds of being satisfied with privacy compared to those with secondary education or less (OR= 10.56; p < 0.01). Respondents who changed their interior doors reported higher satisfaction with privacy in their homes compared to those that did not change their interior doors (OR = 4.94; p < 0.05). Complaints against housing features and security service charges decrease residents’ satisfaction with privacy. Thus, the findings might inform decision making for different housing actors.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1781-1802
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2077920
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Author-Name: Josh Ryan-Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Josh
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan-Collins
Author-Name: Cameron Murray
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Murray
Title: When homes earn more than jobs: the rentierization of the Australian housing market
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This article develops the concept of housing market ‘rentierization’ to describe the shift in the treatment of housing away from its use as a consumption good to an asset from which economic rent can be extracted. Rentierization encompasses, but goes beyond, the ‘financialisation of housing’ that has been the focus of attention in the recent political economy of housing literature as it involves changes across land and housing market policy, fiscal-policy as well as financial policy spheres. We examine Australia as a canonical example of rentierization, conducting a historical case study that examines the returns to land and housing over the 20th century and trace its roots to developments that preceded the financial liberalization of the 1980s, including the privatization of public housing in the 1960s and 70s.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1888-1917
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2004091
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Author-Name: Christoph Zangger
Author-X-Name-First: Christoph
Author-X-Name-Last: Zangger
Title: The contexts of residential preferences. An experimental examination of contextual influences in housing decisions
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Residential preferences are often treated as exogenous and fixed. Challenging this assumption, this article elaborates how residential preferences are shaped by experienced neighbourhood conditions. In doing so, we acknowledge the mutual dependence of the neighbourhood context, residential preferences, and segregation patterns. Applying multilevel generalized linear latent and mixed logit models to unique, geocoded data from a choice experiment, it is demonstrated how heterogenous evaluations of the social and ethnic composition of available housing alternatives’ residential surroundings systematically vary with bespoke but not administrative neighbourhoods. These heterogeneous evaluations are mostly independent of respondents’ own social and ethnic background. Controlling for unobserved neighbourhood selection, however, removes the association with bespoke neighbourhoods’ composition. Nevertheless, even after accounting for unobserved selection processes, the evaluation of the social and ethnic composition of housing alternatives in the choice experiment systematically varies across bespoke neighbourhoods, pointing to unobserved neighbourhood influences that shape people’s residential preferences.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1973-1997
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2014413
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Author-Name: Joko Adianto
Author-X-Name-First: Joko
Author-X-Name-Last: Adianto
Author-Name: Rossa Turpuk Gabe
Author-X-Name-First: Rossa Turpuk
Author-X-Name-Last: Gabe
Title: The relationship between the sequential sharing of rental homes and the unpredictable housing pathways of kampung residents in Jakarta
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Buying a home is becoming more difficult in urban areas across the globe, including in Indonesian cities. However, some rental housing remains relatively affordable. Although affordable rental apartments for low-income individuals are being built on many parts of the Indonesian archipelago, the housing supply cannot satisfy escalating demand. Many municipal governments limit tenancy duration to enable more low-income individuals to find housing. However, this policy encourages renters to share rooms. Qualitative content analysis shows that the tenancy durations of low-income renters are longer than the limit established by municipal governments, which indicates that volatile life-course events do not necessarily drive housing pathways. The heads of households conduct a Community Economy Collective in the form of rental home sharing with relatives in a series of rental tenancies in high-density kampung settlements. These findings help identify additional determinants of low-income residents’ unpredictable housing pathways, which implicate the duration of tenancy for their sequential home sharing in the city.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1803-1823
Issue: 10
Volume: 38
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2014417
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Author-Name: R. Tucker
Author-X-Name-First: R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tucker
Author-Name: U. de Jong
Author-X-Name-First: U.
Author-X-Name-Last: de Jong
Author-Name: L. C. Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: L. C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Author-Name: N. Johnston
Author-X-Name-First: N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnston
Author-Name: A. Lee
Author-X-Name-First: A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: F. Michaux
Author-X-Name-First: F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Michaux
Author-Name: E. Warner
Author-X-Name-First: E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Warner
Author-Name: F. J. Andrews
Author-X-Name-First: F. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrews
Title: Microvillage: assessing the viability of increasing supply of affordable, sustainable and socially integrated small homes
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This paper describes a project exploring the viability in Australia of increasing the supply of small, affordable housing to those with limited income and wealth and a desire to live in homes that integrate with the community in meaningful ways and minimise consumption of building materials, land and energy. The research context is the increasing marketing and media coverage of tiny homes, which has prompted questions about whether such houses can offer an alternative affordable housing model. The project focused on four key issues: community integration, building and design, regulatory planning barriers, and financing and affordability. A combination of interviews, focus groups, and system thinking workshops was used to collect the views of stakeholders across the housing sector, including potential residents. Results indicate that a radical shift is needed from the planning authorities, housing supply and finance sector to enable the provision of affordable and sustainable compact homes that are adaptable to all stages of life.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 52-74
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2014418
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Author-Name: Martin Söderhäll
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Söderhäll
Author-Name: Andreas Alm Fjellborg
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Alm Fjellborg
Title: Housing production, tenure mix and social mix
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Social mix through tenure mix is a policy tool to combat segregation in Sweden and elsewhere. We study if new construction of housing in Swedish cities, 1995–2017, has affected tenure mix in neighborhoods, and if this in turn affected social mix. Findings show that housing construction contributes to tenure mix, but effects on social mix are less clear. We show a negative association between new housing production and increased social mix; however, those living in new housing in higher income neighborhoods tend to have lower incomes than those living in older housing and vice versa in lower income neighborhoods. This shows that new housing production is a tool for creating social mix, but other processes may dwarf the effects. We conclude that while housing tenure mix is a blunt tool for creating social mix, there are positive effects of such efforts.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 272-296
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2045004
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Author-Name: Moses Batanda Mubiru
Author-X-Name-First: Moses Batanda
Author-X-Name-Last: Mubiru
Author-Name: Said Nuhu
Author-X-Name-First: Said
Author-X-Name-Last: Nuhu
Author-Name: Wilbard Kombe
Author-X-Name-First: Wilbard
Author-X-Name-Last: Kombe
Author-Name: Tatu Mtwangi Limbumba
Author-X-Name-First: Tatu
Author-X-Name-Last: Mtwangi Limbumba
Title: Housing pathways of female-headed households in the informal settlements of Kampala: a qualitative study
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The number of female-headed households migrating into cities is increasing. Female-headed households compete for limited housing options with other households with varying socio-economic capacities. As a result, women have to choose from several housing pathways, utilising available social capital that occasionally covers inadequate financial resources. This may sometimes lead to social conflict and exploitation by landlords and brokers. This article seeks to understand the influence of women’s social capital and networks on pathways that female-headed households pursue in Kampala city. Using a snowball sampling strategy, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and document analysis, the article explores female-headed households’ pathways for housing options. Participants (n = 40) in this study were identified from the Katwe informal settlement of Kampala city. Findings indicate that the strength of social ties generated through; family attachments, friends, and socio-economic involvement influences female-headed household pathways. To a lesser extent, the use of informal brokers also may influence housing pathways. The article calls for specific legislation and guidelines to regulate the informal brokerage practice and professionalise the client-broker relationship. For adequate urban housing planning to ensue, responsible authorities could incorporate into government policy the unique preferences of residential pathways and networks that bond female-headed households together.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1-28
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2077918
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Author-Name: Gabriela Debrunner
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriela
Author-X-Name-Last: Debrunner
Author-Name: Arend Jonkman
Author-X-Name-First: Arend
Author-X-Name-Last: Jonkman
Author-Name: Jean-David Gerber
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-David
Author-X-Name-Last: Gerber
Title: Planning for social sustainability: mechanisms of social exclusion in densification through large-scale redevelopment projects in Swiss cities
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In many cities, there has been renewed interest over the last 30 years in densification as part of wider efforts to combat urban sprawl. In daily practice, however, densification is a contested process because of its redistributive effects. Next to potential environmental advantages, it produces both benefits and losses for different individuals and households. The redistributive effects are an expression of conflicts between environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability. We show that the latter is heavily impacted: if densification projects are not designed to the needs of people who are actually supposed to benefit from it—the residents—low-income groups are at risk of social displacement. This scenario is highly unsustainable. By using a neo-institutional approach and comparative case study methodology conducted in Switzerland, we analyze the institutional rules and the involved actors’ strategies when dealing with densification projects. We explain the mechanisms leading to the loss of social qualities when competing with economic interests of investors and authorities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 146-167
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2033174
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Author-Name: Seyithan Ozer
Author-X-Name-First: Seyithan
Author-X-Name-Last: Ozer
Author-Name: Sam Jacoby
Author-X-Name-First: Sam
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacoby
Title: The design of subsidized housing: towards an interdisciplinary and cross-national research agenda
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Comparative housing studies traditionally focus on housing systems and social or economic policy, only rarely considering design issues. Through an examination of subsidized housing and its design in 20 countries, this paper explores how design research can benefit cross-national housing studies. Subsidized housing is essential to delivering decent and affordable homes, underpinning the right to housing. To relate design dimensions to housing systems, the analytical focus is on regulatory instruments, technical standards, and socio-spatial practices as well as housing providers, tenures, and target groups. Design research benefits the contextualization of housing systems and design outcomes in several ways. It reveals the contextual and contingent nature of regulatory cultures and instruments, socio-technical norms and standards, and socio-cultural expectations and practices that shape housing solutions. The paper concludes by considering productive ways architectural design research might contribute to an interdisciplinary housing research agenda by offering new means of theorization and analysis beyond traditional housing system typologies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 297-322
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2045005
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Author-Name: Philip Brown
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown
Author-Name: Santokh Gill
Author-X-Name-First: Santokh
Author-X-Name-Last: Gill
Author-Name: Jamie P. Halsall
Author-X-Name-First: Jamie P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Halsall
Title: The impact of housing on refugees: an evidence synthesis
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Housing has always had a close association with refugees but despite this, the knowledge base about housing and its impact in the lives of refugees lacks cohesion. The accommodation of refugees tends to be connected with broader neo-liberal trends, alongside a general animosity towards refugees, culminating in an overt, or implied, ‘hostile environment’. This paper synthesises the available evidence to understand several key issues in the settlement of refugees, including: the role and impact of housing systems and policies, the impact of housing quality, tenure, housing support workers and how the diversity of the refugee population is reflected in the evidence. We also point towards gaps in the knowledge base and call for housing studies scholars to focus on the plight faced by refugees in order to help challenge the wider structural inequalities which constrain their lives. In this discussion, our focus is the United Kingdom (UK), although the paper draws on literature from a wider international perspective.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 227-271
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2045007
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Author-Name: George C. Galster
Author-X-Name-First: George C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Galster
Author-Name: Lena Magnusson Turner
Author-X-Name-First: Lena Magnusson
Author-X-Name-Last: Turner
Author-Name: Anna Maria Santiago
Author-X-Name-First: Anna Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Santiago
Title: Neighbourhood selection by natives and immigrants: Homophily or limited spatial search?
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Substantial recent influxes of immigrants have transformed metropolitan housing markets across Europe, North America, and Australia. Where and under what physical and sociodemographic conditions these new residents and their children live influence their life chances and societal inequalities and cohesion. Using population register data, we estimate conditional logit models of neighbourhood selections jointly stratified by immigrant and income status for nine types of Oslo region families making ‘child-salient,’ inter- neighbourhood moves. Although homophily is an important driver of residential selection for both native and non-Western immigrant families, its significance pales in comparison to neighbourhood proximity and sectoral constraints in the spatial patterning of housing search. Study findings enhance our understanding of segregation processes and offer new perspectives on social mix housing policies. Social mix should attempt to enhance diversity at the larger spatial scales primarily by improving information about and enhancing access to potentially desirable residential options and countering anti-immigrant perceptions or discriminatory actions by real estate agents or mortgage brokers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 75-101
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Garrett L. Grainger
Author-X-Name-First: Garrett L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Grainger
Title: Homelessness and housing advocacy: the role of red-tape warriors
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 323-325
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2278857
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Author-Name: Jed Meers
Author-X-Name-First: Jed
Author-X-Name-Last: Meers
Title: “Professionals only please”: discrimination against housing benefit recipients on online rental platforms
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Based on an analysis of 31,909 listings on SpareRoom.co.uk – the self-proclaimed “#1 Flatshare site in the UK” – this paper makes two arguments. First, that housing benefit recipients are systemically excluded from listings on online flat-sharing websites through the construction of the “professional” prospective tenant. The UK’s much derided “No DSS” has evolved into a “professionals only” proxy. This is not confined solely to landlords and agents posting on the platform – it is also reflected by sitting tenants advertising spare rooms. Second, that the design of the SpareRoom.co.uk platform exacerbates this exclusion by facilitating the use of this “professional” construction. Through the design of inputs and built-in classifications within the platform, users posting listings are prompted to select from a finite list of housemate preferences, which in turn increases the number of listings adopting exclusionary practices. These findings have implications for research on low-income renters, “generation rent” and the role of online renting platforms.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 29-51
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2014416
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Author-Name: Barry Goodchild
Author-X-Name-First: Barry
Author-X-Name-Last: Goodchild
Author-Name: Ed Ferrari
Author-X-Name-First: Ed
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrari
Title: Intermediaries and mediators: an actor-network understanding of online property platforms
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Online platforms have become central to the operation of the housing market in the UK and elsewhere. This paper extends recent scholarship on the impacts of ‘the digital’ on housing outcomes by assessing the ‘performative’ ability of property platforms to maintain and construct market practices. Using actor-network theory, a distinction is made between platforms as intermediaries that advertise properties and link different parties to a transaction and as mediators, capable of changing how the world is interpreted. Recognising platforms as intermediaries enables a classification of matchmaking types. Recognising platforms as mediators enables an assessment of the extent of their impact on tenure preferences and mobility and raises questions about the applicability of sharing economy concepts to housing. Actor-network theory allows a qualified and differentiated assessment of the varied impact of platforms, enabling a consideration of the factors that lead to continuity as well as those that promote change.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 102-123
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2015297
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Author-Name: Richard Waldron
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Waldron
Title: Responding to housing precarity: the coping strategies of generation rent
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Across advanced economies, a new generation of renters are confronting a suite of social and economic precarities with respect to housing, employment and welfare. Unaffordable rents, insecure tenancies and poor-quality accommodation are emblematic of these contemporary insecurities. However, the experiences of such renters and their responses to housing hardships remain under-explored in the Generation Rent literature. Drawing on a qualitative study (n = 28) of renters from Dublin (Ireland), this paper examines the ways people develop coping strategies to respond to their housing difficulties, or at least minimise their adverse effects. The analysis shows that young renters are far from passive victims. Even though they faced significant pressures regarding housing affordability, security, quality and access, they worked hard to maintain their homes. The findings illustrate how people respond to difficult housing circumstances by adopting a range of expenditure, employment and housing-related responses. It also shows how such experiences impact upon social identity, family relations and psycho-social health.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 124-145
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2022606
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Author-Name: Emmy Tiderington
Author-X-Name-First: Emmy
Author-X-Name-Last: Tiderington
Author-Name: Jordan Goodwin
Author-X-Name-First: Jordan
Author-X-Name-Last: Goodwin
Author-Name: Elizabeth Noonan
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Noonan
Title: Leaving permanent supportive housing: a scoping review of Moving On Initiative participant outcomes
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Homeless services systems are now employing Moving On Initiatives (MOIs) to assist formerly homeless residents of permanent supportive housing programs with the transition from these highly supportive programs to affordable housing without the embedded supports. There remains a dearth of evidence on the effectiveness of these initiatives in regard to post-move housing retention and other participant outcomes, and no review of MOI evaluation outcomes has been conducted to date. To address this gap, a scoping review was used to map and summarize the existing literature on MOI participant outcomes and discuss outstanding gaps in this body of literature. Overall, the early evidence on this emerging approach is promising as this review finds high rates of post-move housing retention and other positive participant outcomes in the few sources located that describe MOI outcomes. However, large-scale studies of MOIs with longer follow-up periods are needed to assess the long-term effectiveness and outcomes of these initiatives.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 203-226
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2045006
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Author-Name: Eddie Chi-man Hui
Author-X-Name-First: Eddie Chi-man
Author-X-Name-Last: Hui
Author-Name: Ka-hung Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Ka-hung
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Title: The interactions between Hong Kong’s housing market and global markets upon unprecedented monetary policy changes
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This paper explores whether the introduction of unconventional monetary policy measures re-shapes the interactions between Hong Kong’s housing market and global stock market and economic factors. It is found that, the interactions between Hong Kong’s housing prices and global stock markets attenuated during the conventional monetary policy period (CMPP), especially after the Asian Financial Crisis. The level of interactions with global factors reached the lowest during the transitional period between CMPP and the unconventional monetary policy period (UMPP). By contrast, the co-movements with global stock market factors had played a bigger role in explaining Hong Kong’s housing price variations during UMPP, especially at the time when the US, UK, EU, and Japan deployed QEs and/or negative interest rate policy. Nevertheless, such high level of integrations did not sustain as QE3 ended in the US. The findings yield important implications in view of recent central bank actions responding to the dim economic prospects due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 168-202
Issue: 1
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2042492
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Author-Name: Steve Rolfe
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Rolfe
Author-Name: Isobel Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Isobel
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Title: Meeting the housing needs of military veterans: exploring collaboration and governance
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Veterans in the UK seek help from numerous, diverse organisations to navigate the housing system, in contrast to countries such as the US and Australia, which operate dedicated Veterans Administrations. Collaboration between organisations to support veterans is non-mandatory, yet influential on housing outcomes. This study utilised network governance theory to examine how local partnerships affect veterans’ housing pathways. The research approach involved five in-depth, area-based case studies across different housing contexts. The research contributes new findings on the positive impact of local partnerships and develops a conceptual model of veterans’ housing pathways, focused on collaboration. The study revealed a step change in partnership-working since the introduction of the UK Armed Forces Covenant in 2011, with the absence of mandatory collaboration requirements having nurtured trust-based network governance. The findings suggest this has been effective for veterans in housing need, but there are potential risks in terms of sustainability of voluntary partnerships and the temptation for central government of more hierarchical approaches.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 438-458
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2056153
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Author-Name: Boram Kimhur
Author-X-Name-First: Boram
Author-X-Name-Last: Kimhur
Title: Approach to housing justice from a capability perspective: bridging the gap between ideals and policy practices
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When correcting policies to tackle rising housing inequality, certain principles of housing justice are necessary. Recently, the capability approach to justice has attracted the attention of housing scholars, as promising guidance to compensate for problems in conventional policy approaches. However, the practicality of its policy application remains uncertain. This article suggests how to manage the issues creating gaps between the philosophy of the capability approach and housing policy practices, along the chain of essential questions of justice theories (which ideal institutions, metrics of justice, and distributive pattern rules?). Building on this reasoning, the article proposes that housing policy be guided by the changes in unjust housing situations in terms of people’s capability for housing, instead of by absolute principles of distribution, or characteristics of welfare state/housing regimes. For evaluating housing capability, this article proposes to assess housing opportunities, housing securities and housing abilities. The article concludes with implications for the roles of comparative housing research in implementing the proposed approach.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 481-501
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2056148
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Author-Name: Matthew D. Marr
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Marr
Author-Name: Natália Marques da Silva
Author-X-Name-First: Natália Marques da
Author-X-Name-Last: Silva
Title: Religion’s roles in community integration after homelessness: supportive housing residents’ uses of spiritual practices amid trauma, discrimination, and stigma
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Background: Integration into a community after homelessness, while often difficult, can foster positive outcomes such as housing retention and improved health. However, research has understudied the roles of spiritual practices in community integration after homelessness. Methods: We conducted a grounded analysis of these processes using qualitative interviews with 27 supportive housing residents in Miami. Results: Even after moving into supportive housing, many of our interviewees grappled with long-term impacts of trauma, discrimination, and stigma, which oftentimes prevented them from joining conventional congregations. While some turned to solitary prayer, others used strategies such as joining alternative congregations, creating new locations of practice, and using technology to sustain social ties and a sense of belonging. Conclusion: We argue that researchers, supportive housing providers, congregation leaders, and administrators should pay more attention to barriers and strategies that impact residents’ ability to practice spirituality in ways that meet existential, emotional, and social needs.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 376-397
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2056154
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Author-Name: Andrew Clarke
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke
Author-Name: Lynda Cheshire
Author-X-Name-First: Lynda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheshire
Author-Name: Cameron Parsell
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell
Author-Name: Alan Morris
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Morris
Title: Reified scarcity & the problem space of ‘need’: unpacking Australian social housing policy
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Social housing is today a highly residualised sector due to a combination of declining public investment and intensified targeting of stock to the neediest households. We argue that residualisation has opened up a distinct ‘problem space’ wherein policy making and debate are organised around a distinct set of questions and imperatives. Drawing on research into the management of social housing waitlists in Australia, we show how this problem space is characterised by a preoccupation with finding ever more fine-grained ways of targeting social housing to the neediest households in the context of growing scarcity of housing stock. Defining and operationalising ‘neediness’ becomes the focal point for policy making and struggles thereover, overshadowing questions of supply and broader debates about the role of social housing in addressing the housing crisis. The problem space of neediness is thus characterised by a tendency to reify social housing scarcity, transforming it into a natural and inevitable constraint that policy makers must simply manage.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 565-583
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2057933
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Author-Name: Martín Alvarez
Author-X-Name-First: Martín
Author-X-Name-Last: Alvarez
Author-Name: Javier Ruiz-Tagle
Author-X-Name-First: Javier
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruiz-Tagle
Title: The symbolic (re)production of marginality: Social construction, internalization, and concrete consequences of territorial stigmatization in a poor neighborhood of Santiago de Chile
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Territorial stigmatization is a socially-constructed, symbolic representation of a place created and manipulated by external agents, which, once established, becomes decisive for the future of that place and its residents. This discredit is wide and perdurable and operates ‘from above,’ in the media, public officials, and part of academia, and ‘from below,’ in everyday interactions. Through a qualitative case-study in Santiago de Chile, mainly based on interviews and participant observations, this article shows the entire process of stigmatization: how these symbolic representations are socially constructed by different actors; how they are assumed in the discourses of residents, with a variety of reactions that include submissive internalization, naturalization, and a politicized challenge; and how these representations trigger the abandonment from several actors, which is conceptualized by residents as living in ‘Red Zones’ of chronic institutional abandonment. We finish suggesting that stigmatization operates as an institutional mechanism that intervenes in the relationship between poverty concentration and the emergence of social problems.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 352-375
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2100325
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Author-Name: Gareth Bryant
Author-X-Name-First: Gareth
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryant
Author-Name: Ben Spies-Butcher
Author-X-Name-First: Ben
Author-X-Name-Last: Spies-Butcher
Author-Name: Adam Stebbing
Author-X-Name-First: Adam
Author-X-Name-Last: Stebbing
Title: Comparing asset-based welfare capitalism: wealth inequality, housing finance and household risk
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The financialization of households complicates how we compare housing systems and welfare states. This article explores the shifting relationships between wealth inequality, welfare states and household risk, focussing on the roles of housing and mortgage markets. We show national regimes of capitalism continue to shape experiences of risk, but increasingly through asset-based welfare mechanisms, centred on housing ownership, that are inadequately captured in existing comparative literature. Using OECD data, our argument is developed in two steps. First, we demonstrate that national patterns of wealth inequality do not follow classical welfare state categories, but mean wealth levels do, suggesting a distinct structural relationship. Second, we connect wealth inequality to the risks of housing ownership and household debt, focussing on house price falls in the United States, Italy and Denmark following the 2007–2008 financial crisis. We find mortgage default rates reflect welfare state categories rather than measures of financial risk, revealing an emerging ‘hybrid’ role of social insurance in supporting household liquidity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 459-480
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2056150
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Author-Name: Jenny Preece
Author-X-Name-First: Jenny
Author-X-Name-Last: Preece
Title: Class, emotions and the affective politics of social inequality
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 584-586
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2295904
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Author-Name: Julie Lawson
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawson
Author-Name: Laurence Troy
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Troy
Author-Name: Ryan van den Nouwelant
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: van den Nouwelant
Title: Social housing as infrastructure and the role of mission driven financing
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Australia, like many other housing systems in Western Europe and the US, increasingly relies on private financing arrangements for social housing. It is spending more than ever before on demand side assistance, yet both the production of dedicated social housing and housing affordability are declining. From the perspective of needs-based social infrastructure, this paper presents the outcomes of research into the development of a more productive investment pathway. Multi-criteria evaluation and financial modelling compares and assesses the cost to government of five investment scenarios involving a range of debt, efficient financing and capital investment strategies. This research finds that, while current governments tend to favour private financing and facility lease arrangements, paying down private financing during operations is the least cost effective means for governments to subsidise social housing. Capital grant funding and land valuation policies are more cost effective in the medium and long term but require more active government involvement in needs based planning, strategic investment and regulation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 398-418
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2056152
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Author-Name: Sarah Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Title: Becoming landlords: the changing interests of non-profit and co-operative housing providers in Manitoba, Canada
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Social housing is intended to focus on the provision of shelter, rather than accumulation and speculation, in order to meet the housing needs of households that cannot access housing through the market (Davis, 1994). However, as policies and funding structures change, housing providers must also change not only their operations, but also their attitudes towards low-cost housing provision. Through interviews with non-profit and co-operative housing providers in Manitoba, Canada, this paper examines how non-profit and co-operative housing providers’ approach to housing provision has shifted away from a focus on the provision of shelter to the stability of the housing organization itself as a result of expiring operating agreements. This suggests that the core goal of social housing—the provision of shelter—may be undermined if housing providers no longer have the resources and flexibility required to support low-income and hard-to-house households.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 529-546
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2057931
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Author-Name: Ji Hei Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Ji Hei
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Housing quality determinants of depression and suicide ideation by age and gender
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The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequently increased time spent at home signified the importance of understanding on the link between housing and mental health. This paper examines how housing qualities affect depression and suicide ideation for each age group (i.e. young adults, middle-aged and older adults) and gender. With South Korea population-based panel data, fixed-effect models and a partial least squares structural equation model were used. A functional problem was a major risk factor for depression in women, whereas a structural problem was a key risk factor for men’s depression. For older adults, living in basement and vulnerability to natural disaster were detrimental to mental health. Functional problems increased the likelihood of suicide ideation in the middle-aged. The mechanisms of the housing qualities-mental health nexus were varied by age and gender. This paper proposed policy suggestions including a tailored housing policy and provision, a housing rating system for health and a support system for noise control.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 502-528
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2056151
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Author-Name: Ksenia Golovina
Author-X-Name-First: Ksenia
Author-X-Name-Last: Golovina
Title: Moving house in migrant narratives: the morphology of housing pathways from an anthropological perspective
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Focusing on migrants’ experiences of moving house in the country of settlement, the study explores the housing pathways of Russian-speaking migrants in Japan over their life courses. This paper emphasizes the need for the anthropology of migration to consider not only the housing events but also the housing pathways experienced by cross-border migrants in receiving countries. It is argued that the act of moving from one accommodation to another plays a crucial role in how migrants develop their biographies and perceptions of self. In addition to investigating house relocation, the study borrows from the Russian formalist school of narratology to examine how migrants narrativize their experiences in stories that intertwine housing pathways and movers’ identities. The study reveals how the instances of moving—and not necessarily the physical qualities of housing—emerge as dynamic forces that initiate migrants into their desired statuses.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 547-564
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2057932
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Author-Name: Quentin Ramond
Author-X-Name-First: Quentin
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramond
Title: The politics of social mix in the Paris metropolitan area
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Social mix is a key dimension of housing policy to reduce segregation in different urban contexts, but it is frequently associated with a strategy of gentrification linked to the neoliberal restructuring of housing systems. Prior studies, however, tend to overlook the political and institutional mechanisms that influence the practices and outcomes of social mix. Building on fieldwork in a former working-class municipality in Paris suburbs, I draw on the theory of gradual institutional change to examine the politics of social mix. I show that evolving power relations among housing policy actors, fostered by political alignment and multiple office-holding processes, pave the way for gradual institutional changes based on conversion. These modifications to the local institutional arrangement shape new directions in housing policy that lead to the restructuring of the built environment and neighbourhood socioeconomic ascent. Overall, I contend that contextualized institutional and political processes are key to explaining the practices of social mix and their link with neoliberalisation and gentrification.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 419-437
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2056149
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Author-Name: Camila Murillo
Author-X-Name-First: Camila
Author-X-Name-Last: Murillo
Author-Name: Constanza Bianchi
Author-X-Name-First: Constanza
Author-X-Name-Last: Bianchi
Title: The experience and well-being outcomes of tiny house owners in Latin America
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The ‘tiny house’ (TH) movement has gained increasing popularity around the world, and recent research has investigated the main motivators and challenges of living in THs. However, most research has been conducted in the Global North, such as the US and European countries. This research has identified that increased financial security and mobility, having a simplified and sustainable lifestyle, and developing significant relationships are the main motivators for TH owners. However, less is known about the experiences of TH owners in the Global South, such as Latin American countries. These regions are characterized by a lower purchasing power and less access to credit of citizens, with a high degree of concentration in large metropolitan areas, which may affect the motivators and experiences of TH owners. Drawing on theories of the commons, the aim of this study is to explore the experiences and well-being outcomes of TH owners living in two Latin American countries. We draw on data from 19 interviews conducted in Chile and Argentina with TH owners. The data analysis identified six dimensions of psychological and hedonic well-being that were improved for TH owners in these countries: autonomy, mastery, purpose in life, personal growth, relatedness, and happiness. The findings contribute to the TH literature and are useful for TH businesses, governments, and housing public policymakers in Latin America.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 327-351
Issue: 2
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2091116
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Author-Name: Chuyi Xiong
Author-X-Name-First: Chuyi
Author-X-Name-Last: Xiong
Author-Name: Ka Shing Cheung
Author-X-Name-First: Ka Shing
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheung
Author-Name: Deborah Susan Levy
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Levy
Author-Name: Michael Allen
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Allen
Title: The effect of virtual reality on the marketing of residential property
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Property technology has ushered in new possibilities for the real estate industry, including the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies by real estate agents when marketing properties. Previous studies have identified factors in determining purchase intents within a virtual setting, but little is known about how such technologies affect homebuyers’ purchase decisions. In this study, a family-home purchase decision-making model is used to conceptualise how VR can affect buyers’ involvement in the property purchasing process. Using transaction data from Wuhan City, China, the study found that a 1% increase in the number of followers visiting an online property portal resulted in a 21% increase in physical home visits. The study also indicates that VR tours shorten the marketing time of property by 6.4% and narrow the bid-ask spread by 2%, ceteris paribus. These findings suggest that emerging property technologies such as VR can enhance the purchase decision-making process and reshape the role of the real estate agent.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 671-694
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2074971
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Author-Name: Kristian Ruming
Author-X-Name-First: Kristian
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruming
Author-Name: Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita
Author-X-Name-First: Maria de Lourdes
Author-X-Name-Last: Melo Zurita
Title: Care, urban regeneration and forced tenant relocation: the case of Ivanhoe social housing estate, Sydney
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Urban regeneration has emerged as a policy response to disadvantage which characterises social housing estates across Australian cities. This paper explores the regeneration of the Ivanhoe social housing estate, focusing on forced tenant relocations. We argue that the State Housing Authority (SHA) utilised existing care networks to facilitate relocation. We investigate how The Salvation Army (TSA), a local service provider on the estate since 2001, were used to enable relocation. Adopting a conceptual framework centred on the idea of ‘care’, we reveal three interconnected themes. First, we argue that presence of TSA on the estate is a form of local service provision based on a foundation of long-term ‘caring with’ tenants to build community and address disadvantage. Second, these long-term ‘caring with’ relationships transitioned into a form of ‘caring for’ within the context estate regeneration and forced tenant relocation. Third, the efforts by TSA to care for tenants were mobilised by the SHA to expediate relocation, enabling regeneration.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 812-830
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Andreas Hartung
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Hartung
Title: Does housing market segmentation ensure families a rental price benefit? The example of Frankfurt, Germany
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Housing market segments are commonly differentiated based on the structural and spatial attributes of their dwellings. A sociological perspective highlights the fact that housing market segments can also arise along socio-economic characteristics of demanders. This can explain why and how particular groups of tenants are disadvantaged or favoured in terms of the rental prices they pay for comparable rental properties. This article illustrates this idea using the example of families with minor children. Exceptionally rich data collected in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, provides detailed measurements for housing conditions. The findings indicate that families in Frankfurt are beneficiaries of segmentation, with respect to the rental prices they pay. However, the extent of the benefit varies between local and specific structural submarkets.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 631-650
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2074969
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Author-Name: Elizabeth A. Bowen
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowen
Author-Name: Nicole Capozziello
Author-X-Name-First: Nicole
Author-X-Name-Last: Capozziello
Title: Faceless, nameless, invisible: a visual content analysis of photographs in U.S. media coverage about homelessness
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Media coverage plays an important role in shaping public opinion and approaching solutions to homelessness in the United States and beyond. Scant prior research has shown that stories often highlight individual rather than structural causes and solutions to the issue, while also perpetuating anti-homelessness stigma and stereotypes. However, few studies have looked specifically at the role of photography in media stories about homelessness. In this study, we used content analysis methodology to assess features of 226 photographs accompanying stories about homelessness from U.S. news media outlets in 2019. Our analysis found that presumably homeless people were frequently photographed without eye contact and were not identified by name in captions, and that photographs often featured homelessness paraphernalia (e.g. tents, shopping carts) but rarely depicted affordable housing. These findings affirmed the dehumanizing nature of news photographs about homelessness, and underscore the importance of partnering with the media to raise awareness of stigma and ultimately bring about policy change.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 746-765
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2084044
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Author-Name: Camille Regnier
Author-X-Name-First: Camille
Author-X-Name-Last: Regnier
Author-Name: Gengyang Tu
Author-X-Name-First: Gengyang
Author-X-Name-Last: Tu
Author-Name: Sophie Legras
Author-X-Name-First: Sophie
Author-X-Name-Last: Legras
Author-Name: Mohamed Hilal
Author-X-Name-First: Mohamed
Author-X-Name-Last: Hilal
Author-Name: Cécile Détang-Dessendre
Author-X-Name-First: Cécile
Author-X-Name-Last: Détang-Dessendre
Title: Are households’ residential preferences consistent with biodiversity conservation in different urban contexts?
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This article combines stated preference methods and graph-based landscape approaches to assess the possible synergy existing between households’ residential preferences and biodiversity conservation in urban areas. We start by estimating household’s residential preferences regarding different landscape attributes (i.e. green spaces and compactness of the neighbourhood) of chosen urban contexts applying the choice experiment method. Then, by integrating ecological indicators obtained by using a graph-based approach in our valuation model, we study the impact of the residential choice on biodiversity conservation. Our results suggest that the preferred neighbourhood also have landscape structure that are in favour of biodiversity conservation. The preference heterogeneity for green spaces and compactness will induce landscape-based sorting. Household’s residential location choices affect biodiversity conservation differently which depend on their socio-demographic characteristics.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 720-745
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2077916
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Author-Name: Minfede Koe Raoul
Author-X-Name-First: Minfede Koe
Author-X-Name-Last: Raoul
Title: Informal land transactions and demolition of houses in Cameroon
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The objective of the study is to assess the impact of informal land transactions on the risk of house demolitions. A combination of theoretical and empirical tools as well as data obtained from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS, Enquêtes Démographiques et de Santé. Cameroun, 2011), have made it possible to arrive at two significant conclusions: (i) the completion of an informal land transaction increases by 9.4% the risk of the demolition of housing and (ii) the risks of house demolitions are higher in urban areas within poor households with a low level of education, with the tendency towards informal land transactions on average increase by 49%. These results suggest the implementation of inclusive public policies in terms of land supply and housing. They also suggest placing the problem of informal land transactions in a more global perspective including income, enlightenment on land matters and employment policies to reduce the vulnerability of the disadvantaged strata.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 587-607
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2114591
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Author-Name: Dominic Aitken
Author-X-Name-First: Dominic
Author-X-Name-Last: Aitken
Author-Name: Ken Willis
Author-X-Name-First: Ken
Author-X-Name-Last: Willis
Author-Name: Rose Gilroy
Author-X-Name-First: Rose
Author-X-Name-Last: Gilroy
Title: Do older homebuyers prefer dwellings with accessibility and adaptability features? Findings from an exploratory study
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Demographic changes have prompted the development of ‘age-friendly’ housing design standards in several countries, but there has been limited exploration of whether older prospective homebuyers would prefer to purchase homes with accessible and adaptable features. This exploratory study used a stated choice experiment to explore whether prospective homebuyers in England aged 50 and over would prefer homes with accessibility and adaptability attributes. Respondents were significantly more likely to select dwellings with step-free access and adaptable bathrooms than properties without these features and were willing to pay significantly more to purchase them.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 608-630
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2060944
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Author-Name: Liam Grealy
Author-X-Name-First: Liam
Author-X-Name-Last: Grealy
Author-Name: Tess Lea
Author-X-Name-First: Tess
Author-X-Name-Last: Lea
Author-Name: Megan Moskos
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Moskos
Author-Name: Richard Benedict
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Benedict
Author-Name: Daphne Habibis
Author-X-Name-First: Daphne
Author-X-Name-Last: Habibis
Author-Name: Stephanie King
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie
Author-X-Name-Last: King
Title: Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
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Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is entirely interruptible. It does so by examining an alternative and exceptional approach taken on the remote Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia, where housing benefits from a planned maintenance program combined with an environmental health program. Through detailed empirical analysis of program datasets, interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, this article describes the expert, systematic, and attentive work required to sustain functional housing in the wider context of undersupply, crowding, and challenging environmental conditions. We argue for the necessity of planned maintenance approaches as an essential component of sustainable housing, both to extend the life of housing assets and to ensure householder health and wellbeing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 789-811
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2084045
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Author-Name: Christian King
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: King
Author-Name: Xi Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Xi
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Title: Neighbourhood violence and housing instability: an exploratory study of low-income women
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Housing instability remains a persistent problem in the United States. While physical and gun violence negatively affect communities, little is known about whether and how they are associated with the risk of housing instability. This study uses structural equation modelling to explore these relationships and examine how they may be mediated by other neighbourhood social and physical factors. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a sample of mostly low-income urban women, we find that witnessing violence is positively associated with the risk of experiencing housing instability. Also, having a deadly gun shooting in proximity of the home was only indirectly associated with housing instability. These findings underlie links between neighbourhood violence and housing instability that were previously understudied. This exploratory study provides some potential new avenues of investigation regarding neighbourhood safety, urban housing policy, and social inequity reduction.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 651-670
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2074970
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Author-Name: Elizaveta Polukhina
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Title: Material culture, housing and identities in Russian post-industrial neighbourhoods
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Because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent deindustrialization, Russian post-industrial neighbourhoods have experienced dramatic changes. During Soviet times, housing was given and owned by the state and the post-Soviet period was the time of ‘neighborhood reassembling’ when this Soviet housing stock was privatized and habituated by different social groups. Вased on Raymond Williams’ (1997) distinction between residual and emergent cultures the gentrification in two post-industrial neighborhoods was shown. The post-Soviet transitions included the emerging culture of the global middle classes replacing or co-existing with the authentic residual culture of the Soviet industrial working class. The analysis of the Soviet housing stock (i.e. structure level) and the meanings of its habituation (i.e. agent level) discovers class differences: workers habituated it as part of their everyday life, while the creative group views it as part of their Soviet heritage. The Soviet housing stock, as a cultural ‘residue’, constituted the dynamics of class relations while the identities within groups are blurred. This article highlights the theoretical debate that identities and housing are not about structures or agents but are intertwined. Housing as a symbol of a class is produced by policy makers, while housing habituated by residents is re-signified.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 831-853
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2091114
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Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker
Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker
Title: Stacked decks: building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 854-856
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2314332
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Author-Name: Edith England
Author-X-Name-First: Edith
Author-X-Name-Last: England
Author-Name: Ian Thomas
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas
Author-Name: Peter Mackie
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackie
Author-Name: Hannah Browne-Gott
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah
Author-X-Name-Last: Browne-Gott
Title: A typology of multiple exclusion homelessness
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Quantitative exploration of sub-groups of people experiencing homelessness facing similar challenges, or multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH), is limited in Great Britain—as is discussion of what these groupings mean for policy and practice. Through secondary analysis of survey data from a study of single people experiencing homelessness in England, Scotland, and Wales, this paper aims to advance understanding of MEH. Using Latent Class Analysis, we explore several possible typologies of MEH before outlining a preferred typology composed of four groups: those facing high exclusion; those faced with low levels of exclusion; and two intermediate groups, one marked by trauma and mental ill-health, the other by offending and substance dependencies. When compared to international studies on MEH, findings point toward possible common combinations of exclusion amongst people experiencing homelessness drawn from different populations. The emergent policy and practice implications of this analysis demonstrate the value of scrutinising homelessness policy and practice internationally through a lens of MEH.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 695-719
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2077917
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Author-Name: Konstantinos Spyropoulos
Author-X-Name-First: Konstantinos
Author-X-Name-Last: Spyropoulos
Author-Name: Christopher J. Gidlow
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gidlow
Author-Name: Naomi J. Ellis
Author-X-Name-First: Naomi J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ellis
Title: Proposing a typology to examine the health impact of Housing First: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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This is an inclusive systematic review and meta-analysis to understand the health impact of Housing First. Sixty articles relating to HF programmes in America, Australia and Canada were included. Evidence was reviewed using a novel biopsychosocial typology. Collectively, findings suggest that Housing First could play a wider role in customer’s health by moving people toward restoring normality in their social roles and the development of positive subjective experiences. The proposed typology could serve as a theoretical framework to improve understanding of HF’s impact on health, and allow generalisation of HF outcomes in other countries, where HF’s principles are less revolutionary.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 766-788
Issue: 3
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2084047
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Author-Name: Rik Damhuis
Author-X-Name-First: Rik
Author-X-Name-Last: Damhuis
Author-Name: Wouter van Gent
Author-X-Name-First: Wouter
Author-X-Name-Last: van Gent
Title: The period effects of crisis and recovery on life course and residential mobility of owner-occupants
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This study examines how the relationship between life course and mobility of owner-occupants is affected by periods of economic and housing market downturn and recovery. The impact of ‘period effects’ are largely unknown. Using Dutch register data, we compare the probabilities of moving in view of partnership, children and employment status for 2012–2014 and 2014–2016. We find that the downturn period is associated with lower mobility, yet the association is different for various household situations. Mobility to ownership in the crisis was particularly constrained for stable couples, employed owners and households with children. Moves to the rental sector were less period sensitive. Only owners who became unemployed were more likely to move into rental during crisis. ‘Delayed mobility’ has been found for moving in together, separation, households who had children, and job change. So, periods of crisis and recovery structure how home-owners adapt to life-course changes. Our findings imply that period effects should be accounted for in residential mobility studies.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1066-1086
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2101626
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Author-Name: Eric Seymour
Author-X-Name-First: Eric
Author-X-Name-Last: Seymour
Title: The impact of current and former REOs across owner types: the case of Detroit
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This article examines home price spillovers associated with the number of nearby current and former real estate owned (REO) properties. The effect of active REOs is decomposed into the contributions of properties owned by the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and private entities to assess impacts associated with differences in managing REO inventories. The impact of former REOs is decomposed into spillovers associated with investor and owner-occupied properties. This study draws on home sale price data in the Detroit tri-county area 2008–2013. Results indicate REOs owned by HUD and private entities are associated with substantial discounts, with the largest effects appearing after remaining in REO inventory for more than one year. Investor-owned properties are associated with sustained and growing negative price effects through more than three years of ownership. Policies ensuring adequate oversight of REOs and sales to owner-occupants and non-speculative investors are encouraged.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1003-1026
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2101621
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Author-Name: Tomáš Hoření Samec
Author-X-Name-First: Tomáš
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoření Samec
Author-Name: Petr Kubala
Author-X-Name-First: Petr
Author-X-Name-Last: Kubala
Title: Dual responsibilization for housing in a housing crisis: young adults in the Czech Republic
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Young adults in various countries are experiencing deteriorating access to homeownership and affordable rental housing. Whereas many studies have focused on the shift of responsibility for housing from the state to individuals related to a meritocratic ideology, only recently have certain studies identified the ambiguity and incoherence as a significant principle in housing discourses. Responding to these, we analysed 31 narrative interviews and survey data on Czech young adults (aged 18–35), providing unique evidence from a country where access to the housing market is significantly, albeit gradually, worsening. Our focus is on who they ascribe responsibility for housing provision, demonstrating how their strong calls for state intervention intermingle with a belief that individual solutions to the housing crisis are still possible. We illustrate how this ambivalent dual responsibilization is overcome through a complex interplay between moralities, rationalities and, importantly, through reference to emotions and the practices of intergenerational transfers which normalize the attachment to existing housing practices, ideologies and responsibilities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 857-876
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2091115
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Author-Name: Rowland Atkinson
Author-X-Name-First: Rowland
Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson
Author-Name: Deborah Warr
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah
Author-X-Name-Last: Warr
Title: Political economy perspectives and their relevance for contemporary housing studies
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In recent years, there has been a resurgence of political economy scholarship stressing the class antagonisms that undergird housing systems. Despite differences, these contributions focus on housing as a component of a nation’s economy and the role of political institutions as managers of that system. Our goal is to help assess the value of emerging discussions that focus on the centrality of housing assets to ideas of class and the structuring of social opportunity. We identify four key elements of such approaches: first, a concern with changes within capitalism since the GFC; second, an interest in the continued role of the State; third, the ideological position of housing and tenure; and, finally, a concern with the class-tenure antagonisms that feature in many urban settings. We argue that while an emerging body of work now examines the role of housing assets in shaping class-based fissures there remains a need to consider the policy histories affecting the shifting position of particular tenures.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 962-979
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2100327
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Author-Name: Rory Coulter
Author-X-Name-First: Rory
Author-X-Name-Last: Coulter
Author-Name: Joanna Kuleszo
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kuleszo
Title: Comparing regional patterns of homeownership entry across four British birth cohorts
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Difficulties accessing homeownership and reduced rates of owner-occupation among recent birth cohorts are a major concern for Global North policymakers. However, surprisingly little is known about how patterns of entry into homeownership have varied spatially across the early lives of recent birth cohorts. Using life course perspectives and survey data, this study examines how regional disparities in homeownership trajectories and transitions have varied across the life courses of four birth cohorts who entered the British housing system after 1990. The results show a nonlinear pattern of postponed homeownership across cohorts which has not varied greatly across regions. London is the most distinctive area and delayed homeownership transitions have long been a feature of the capital’s housing market. Taken together, the findings illustrate the value of more thoroughly examining how place intersects with biographical and historical time in nuanced ways to shape housing careers.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 980-1002
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2100326
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Author-Name: Russell David Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Russell David
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: Living together or apart? Gated condominium communities and social segregation in Bangkok
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Gated residential communities are commonly portrayed as a negative phenomenon, leading to social segregation. However, given gated condominiums are commonly located in older residential areas of cities, it has been argued they have greater potential for social-tenurial mix. Bangkok is now seeing a proliferation of condominium building by transit in such areas. The aim of this research is to establish the extent to which this development results in social segregation. Qualitative interviews were undertaken with gated and non-gated residents in a case study area and the theories of Schutz and the lifeworld were drawn upon to understand the data collected. Findings reveal limited social interactions between the populations and significant physical, social, and symbolic divisions, accentuated by the transient character of the condominiums. Thus, condominiums built in residential areas do not appear to encourage social-tenurial mix. Exploring the subjects’ lifeworlds has also revealed how subjective meanings are constructed and embedded within a particular culture, which is critical to understanding social segregation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 925-945
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2092598
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Author-Name: Bart Stellinga
Author-X-Name-First: Bart
Author-X-Name-Last: Stellinga
Title: Housing financialization as a self-sustaining process. Political obstacles to the de-financialization of the Dutch housing market
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The 2007–2009 financial crisis exposed the risks of housing financialization. Yet the political dynamics shaping post-crisis efforts to de-financialize housing have received surprisingly little analysis. The financialization literature posits that de-financialization policies have been hampered by a policy consensus on the desirability of the pre-crisis status quo. I examine this claim through a detailed analysis of Dutch macroprudential policy reforms, which aimed to mitigate housing-related systemic risks. It finds a fragmented rather than coherent policy community, with the central bank and financial conduct authority pushing for ambitious policies. While they influenced reforms during the housing bust (2008–2013), the government ensured that these financial supervisors would remain peripheral to the future determination of these policies. As the subsequent housing market recovery reduced the urgency to reform, supervisors were unable to impose further de-financialization policies. Housing financialization thus appears self-sustaining, by making mortgage-related policies politically too important for the government to consider a significant empowerment of the actors that might challenge it.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 877-900
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2091117
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Author-Name: Dorien Manting
Author-X-Name-First: Dorien
Author-X-Name-Last: Manting
Author-Name: Tom Kleinepier
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinepier
Author-Name: Christian Lennartz
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz
Title: Housing trajectories of EU migrants: between quick emigration and shared housing as temporary and long-term solutions
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Over the past two decades, many European countries have witnessed new immigration patterns related to the gradual expansion of the European Union (EU). While migration motives and labour market positions of EU migrants are well-understood, relatively little is known about their housing positions in the hosting countries. Using sequence analyses and logistic regression on longitudinal register data from Statistics Netherlands, this article examines housing trajectories of EU migrants from seven countries in the Netherlands, over an eight-year period (2012–2019). Our results show that, while housing trajectories vary substantially in terms of length of stay in the Netherlands and access to social housing, private renting and homeownership, sharing is at the centre for all migrant groups, both as a temporary and long-term solution. Moreover, we show that varying housing trajectories can partially be explained through contrasting demographic and socio-economic profiles. Yet, even after controlling for such factors as income, age, and household composition, some differences between country of origin persist.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1027-1048
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2101629
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Author-Name: Richard Harris
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Harris
Title: A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1105-1107
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2326155
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Author-Name: Flavio Martella
Author-X-Name-First: Flavio
Author-X-Name-Last: Martella
Author-Name: Atxu Amann y Alcocer
Author-X-Name-First: Atxu
Author-X-Name-Last: Amann y Alcocer
Title: The productive home. Towards a new domestic environment with immaterial work
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The dwelling always held work activities. However, with the emergence of capital, work spread more and more in the city, abandoning the dwelling due to new dynamics of mass production and accumulation that were no longer suited to the small scale of the house. It resulted in a gradual rethinking of domestic spaces, leading to the definition of the established duality of home/work. Instead, the digital revolution and the advent of capital’s ‘immaterial work’ in western countries placed the domestic space as the potential epicentre of capitalist production. Immaterial work is not bound by spatial constraints and can therefore be carried out anywhere, even and especially at home. The insertion of production dynamics within the domestic sphere is generating numerous spatial-temporal conflicts of traditional places and functions, leading to new everyday life and new spatial needs. The paper therefore analyses the changing dynamics of the home and its spatial possibilities emerging from the potential merge of immaterial productivity with domesticity.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 946-961
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2100328
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Author-Name: Zhaoyingzi Dong
Author-X-Name-First: Zhaoyingzi
Author-X-Name-Last: Dong
Author-Name: Eddie C. M. Hui
Author-X-Name-First: Eddie C. M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hui
Author-Name: Daichun Yi
Author-X-Name-First: Daichun
Author-X-Name-Last: Yi
Author-Name: Weiwen Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Weiwen
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: How is housing purchase intention related to consumption? The role of market sentiment
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Recent literature has widely discussed how housing price is linked to consumption and tenure choices, while tended to ignore that consumption and tenure choices are inter-correlated. This study employs the simultaneous equation model to explore how the housing purchase intention affects the non-housing consumption, considering the role of housing market sentiment. The result shows, on average, the housing purchase intention is associated with higher non-housing consumption, and a higher sentiment magnifies this positive relationship. Housing price level and growth decrease the household’s enthusiasm of purchasing a new house, while sentiment is positively related to the housing purchase intention. Renters’ behavior is less likely be affected by sentiment. In addition, the heterogeneous analysis indicates that households face a trade-off between housing and certain kinds of commodities. This study has some significant, practical implications on optimizing households’ wealth allocation, implementing housing policy and improving the social welfare.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1087-1104
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2101628
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Author-Name: Zhuolin Pan
Author-X-Name-First: Zhuolin
Author-X-Name-Last: Pan
Author-Name: Ye Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Ye
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Yuqi Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Yuqi
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Title: Uncovering the pathways between house prices and depressive symptoms in Chinese cities: a nationally representative study
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Using data from the 2016 China Labour-force Dynamic Survey (CLDS) and ordinary least square (OLS) analysis with the instrumental variable (IV) method, this study examined causal relationships between house prices (both the level and growth rate) and depressive symptoms, particularly investigating their pathways and the moderating effects of housing tenure, house price trend, and house value appreciation. Results showed that both the level and growth rate of house prices lowered homeowners’ levels of depressive symptoms and the effects were strengthened by upward trends of house prices, but the rise in house price growth rate was associated with a higher level of depressive symptoms in renters. There was no evidence to support the idea that the effect of house prices varied in relation to unrealized house value appreciation or depreciation. Results reveal the mediating role of physical activity and house value in the relationship between house prices and depressive symptoms in homeowners, supporting the wealth effect theory. However, the rise in both the level and the growth rate of house prices was related to a lower level of perceived social status, which in turn was correlated with a higher level of depressive symptoms. Contrary to the socioeconomic effect theory, the level of house prices is positively related to the expenditure on urban construction and maintenance, which is correlated with a higher level of depressive symptoms in homeowners. These findings provide important implications for policies to improve mental health and wellbeing in the Chinese context.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 901-924
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2092599
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Author-Name: Mike Matheis
Author-X-Name-First: Mike
Author-X-Name-Last: Matheis
Author-Name: Jason Sorens
Author-X-Name-First: Jason
Author-X-Name-Last: Sorens
Title: Framing affordable housing: an experimental test of changing attitudes
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Is it possible to persuade voters to support more housing in their communities and affordable housing policies at the state and local levels? Generally, residents living close to proposed developments are more likely to oppose them, giving rise to the ‘NIMBY’ (‘Not in My Back Yard’) label. Previous research suggests institutional context rather than attitudes explains most of the geographic variation in regulatory barriers to new housing. This study investigates the possibility of changing voter attitudes towards housing and housing policies with a pair of preregistered survey experiments conducted on adult residents of New Hampshire, one of the most tightly regulated states for new housing. We discover two forms of messaging that move public opinion on state and local housing policy and find typical, anti-development attitudes among homeowners, but not renters, when it comes to proposed developments in respondents’ own neighbourhoods.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1049-1065
Issue: 4
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2101630
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Author-Name: Regina Serpa
Author-X-Name-First: Regina
Author-X-Name-Last: Serpa
Title: Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1383-1384
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2336123
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Author-Name: Corinna Hölzl
Author-X-Name-First: Corinna
Author-X-Name-Last: Hölzl
Author-Name: Dominik Hölzl
Author-X-Name-First: Dominik
Author-X-Name-Last: Hölzl
Title: Establishing new housing commons in Vienna in the context of translocal networks
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We are currently observing an international trend towards the establishment of nonprofit-oriented, collaborative and self-managed housing models. In this respect, ideas have been circulating globally and initiatives mutually interacting. The SchloR and Bikes and Rails syndicate projects in Vienna, the focus of this paper, bear witness to this development. They belong to the Austrian umbrella association habiTAT, founded in 2014 along the lines of the German Mietshäuser Syndikat. Against this background, the present paper explores the ways in which mobilized housing commons are implemented in new locations and the role that translocal networks play in this context. The results of our analysis, which is based on 30, partly network-graph assisted, problem-centered interviews, reveal that the housing projects have made explicit use of translocal networks at national and international scale and that vertical linking is a key condition for those projects today. Moreover, way beyond their own needs, they contribute to set up a translocal European knowledge and expert network.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1152-1175
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2104820
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Author-Name: Alistair Sisson
Author-X-Name-First: Alistair
Author-X-Name-Last: Sisson
Title: Public housing and territorial stigma: towards a symbolic and political economy
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This article illustrates how the stigmatization of public housing in Australia has been co-constituted by material and symbolic forces over several decades. Drawing on discourse analysis in conjunction with historical-institutional analysis of housing policy trajectories and the place of housing within political-economic change, it shows how territorial stigmatization can be understood as the product of media, policy and social scientific discourses which problematize public housing as well as histories of policy reform and political-economic restructuring which shape its social, material and institutional conditions. The discursive problematization of public housing estates in particular works to obscure the role of restructuring and reform and thus present demolition and redevelopment as a ‘common sense’ response, even as a form of destigmatization. The understanding of stigmatisation that this article advances—as a recursively symbolic and political-economic process—is therefore conceptually significant and important for critically evaluating government interventions in the context of stigma, including claims of destigmatization.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1199-1218
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2108383
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Author-Name: Mingzhi Hu
Author-X-Name-First: Mingzhi
Author-X-Name-Last: Hu
Author-Name: Yinxin Su
Author-X-Name-First: Yinxin
Author-X-Name-Last: Su
Author-Name: Xiaofen Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Xiaofen
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Title: Homeownership and fertility intentions among migrant population in urban China
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This study examines how homeownership is associated with fertility intentions among migrant population in urban China. Using data from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, after controlling for a wide range of household demographical and socioeconomic characteristics and city fixed effects, we find that homeowners are on average 1.12 percentage points more likely to desire future children than renters. The estimated homeownership effect has on average a 7.8% increase in the desire for future children. This result is robust to a series of different model specifications. Moreover, we find that the homeownership effect on fertility intentions mainly occurs in households without children. Homeowners having full property ownership have a higher desire for future children than renters. On the contrary, those having joint ownership of property do not differ much from renters in terms of the desire for future children.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1176-1198
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2108382
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Author-Name: Ling Zhu
Author-X-Name-First: Ling
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu
Author-Name: Di Xin
Author-X-Name-First: Di
Author-X-Name-Last: Xin
Author-Name: Silu Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Silu
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: Power persistence through an intergenerational perspective: inequality in private housing assets in post-reform China
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Housing inequality in (post-)socialist societies has attracted much academic attention. Prior studies have shown that reform policies mostly favored previous redistributive elites, suggesting that political elites’ housing advantage in the pre-reform system would persist in the post-reform regime. However, recent studies have also documented that political elites’ housing advantage declined with deepening marketization. While most studies have examined the power persistence theory using intra-generational analyses, we propose to evaluate it through an inter-generational perspective. Empirically, we examine the impacts of parents’ political and human capital on children’s housing assets in post-reform urban China. We find both types of capital make significant contributions. However, while the effect of parents’ human capital can be fully mediated by children’s own socio-economic status, their political capital exerts a more direct influence. Political elites’ housing advantage is not limited to their own generation, but has an enduring impact on their offsprings’ housing status and reproduces in (post-)socialist regimes.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1286-1316
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2119210
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Author-Name: Alex Ramiller
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramiller
Author-Name: Arthur Acolin
Author-X-Name-First: Arthur
Author-X-Name-Last: Acolin
Author-Name: Rebecca J. Walter
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Walter
Author-Name: Ruoniu Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Ruoniu
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: Moving to shared equity: locational outcomes for households in shared equity homeownership programs
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The impact of U.S. housing policy on household locational outcomes has primarily been studied in the context of rental housing assistance programs, but the impact of alternative homeownership models is less fully explored. In this study, we assess residential trajectories for households that have participated in shared-equity homeownership (SEH) programs such as Community Land Trusts and Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives. We examine changes in neighborhood characteristics that occur when households enter and exit SEH units, and compare those outcomes with similar households that entered traditional homeownership or continued to rent. We find that while entering SEH is associated with decreases in neighborhood opportunity measures, exiting SEH is associated with improvements in key measures including lower concentrations of poverty. We conclude that while entering SEH may entail moving to lower-opportunity neighborhoods, participation in SEH programs increases the long-term economic and socio-spatial mobility of participating households by enabling them to access a broader array of neighborhood contexts in their subsequent move.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1239-1263
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2115467
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Author-Name: Luce Beeckmans
Author-X-Name-First: Luce
Author-X-Name-Last: Beeckmans
Author-Name: Dirk Geldof
Author-X-Name-First: Dirk
Author-X-Name-Last: Geldof
Title: Reconsidering the interrupted housing pathways of refugees in Flanders (Belgium) from a home-making perspective: a policy critique
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This article addresses housing and accommodation challenges for refugees in Flanders, a region in Belgium by merging the author’s distinct disciplinary perspectives—architectural and sociological. It builds upon two core concepts in housing literature: ‘housing pathways’ and ‘home-making’. Integrating results of several research projects, the article explores the entire housing pathways of refugees from their arrival up to their settlement in private housing in Flemish cities. We analyse how the Belgian system, in which asylum applicants are mainly housed in large, socially isolated and anonymous accommodation centres, obstructs refugees’ ability to find integrated, affordable and decent housing once their application has been approved. Combining our research insights, the article formulates a policy critique. We contend that home-making processes of refugees in Flanders are problematic because their housing pathways are severely interrupted due to policy gaps related to Belgium’s complex, multi-level government structure.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1129-1151
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2102155
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Author-Name: Mateusz Tomal
Author-X-Name-First: Mateusz
Author-X-Name-Last: Tomal
Title: The applicability of self-reported home values in housing wealth inequality assessment: evidence from an emerging country
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One of the measures of housing wealth inequality is the property’s market value. In existing analyses, this figure is often a subjective value determined by homeowners. Little is known about the validity of using this type of data as a substitute for market value in inequality studies. Therefore, this paper aims to examine whether self-reported home values can be applied to evaluate housing wealth inequality. In order to achieve this goal, first, a theoretical framework on the irrelevance of valuation bias for the assessment of housing wealth inequality was developed, followed by an empirical analysis. The latter included gathering information on subjective flat values and their characteristics in Warsaw. Next, a geographically weighted regression was calibrated to calculate the market value of these dwellings. Then, using the Gini coefficient, housing wealth inequality levels were estimated separately for subjective and objective home values. The results revealed that the former could serve as a very good proxy for the latter in housing wealth inequality analysis. The findings hold across almost all identified subgroups based on respondents’ gender, age, income, wealth, education and employment status. Finally, recommendations were formulated for public institutions and housing research.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1364-1382
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2123902
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Author-Name: Divine Mawuli Asafo
Author-X-Name-First: Divine Mawuli
Author-X-Name-Last: Asafo
Title: Fragile and compromised housing: Implications of land conflicts on housing development in peri-urban Accra, Ghana
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Existing housing literature in the Global south suggests housing development processes are linear and do not appear to incorporate unexpected events such as land conflicts, which cause destructions, stoppages, and setbacks to housing development. This paper argues that the nexus between land conflicts and housing development can best be conceptualised as fragile and compromised housing. This concept draws attention to the highly violent politics of land and its impact on the housing process, the housing product, and the well-being of the housebuilder. Using evidence from peri-urban Accra and drawing on interviews, the study unpacks the lived experiences of individual housebuilders in navigating through land conflicts to build. The study found that the impact of land conflicts on housing development manifests in complex ways including multiple financial commitments, capital lockdown, cyclical building, compromised housing, and compromised wellbeing. Arguably, these findings highlight the contemporary perspectives to understanding incremental and piecemeal housing in peri-urban Accra and by extension, the Global South.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1340-1363
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2119209
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Author-Name: Eliisa Kylkilahti
Author-X-Name-First: Eliisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Kylkilahti
Author-Name: Minna Autio
Author-X-Name-First: Minna
Author-X-Name-Last: Autio
Author-Name: Viktor Harvio
Author-X-Name-First: Viktor
Author-X-Name-Last: Harvio
Author-Name: Ulrika Holmberg
Author-X-Name-First: Ulrika
Author-X-Name-Last: Holmberg
Author-Name: Anne Toppinen
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Toppinen
Title: Co-developing sustainability – a consumer-inclusive approach to wooden housing business in Finland
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The housing construction industry can address sustainability issues by developing its business practices. This requires a shift from a firm-driven business logic to a consumer-inclusive approach where consumers and businesses together enhance sustainable development. By analyzing data from focus group discussions with both industry experts in the wooden multi-storey construction business and consumers residing in novel wooden buildings, this study examines how businesses can engage consumers in the development of sustainable housing. The results are presented as an iterative dialogue process that acknowledges consumers as important actors to whom innovative housing solutions should be appropriately introduced and whose lived experiences need to be understood. The findings indicate that consumer experiences can feed the creation and uptake of innovations that enhance sustainability in the construction sector. The study fosters the material aspect of sustainable housing and, by highlighting consumer participation and communication, proposes tools for its consumer-inclusive co-development.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1219-1238
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2114592
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Author-Name: Sharon Parkinson
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon
Author-X-Name-Last: Parkinson
Author-Name: Kath Hulse
Author-X-Name-First: Kath
Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse
Author-Name: Steven Rowley
Author-X-Name-First: Steven
Author-X-Name-Last: Rowley
Author-Name: Amity James
Author-X-Name-First: Amity
Author-X-Name-Last: James
Author-Name: Wendy Stone
Author-X-Name-First: Wendy
Author-X-Name-Last: Stone
Title: Diffuse informality: uncovering renting within family households as a form of private rental
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This paper sheds new light on informal-formal renting through the integration of paying rent to families within a ‘modes’ of renting typology framework. While private rental housing has long comprised a mix of informal and formal practices dualistic conceptions of informality and formality are being challenged as housing research explores emergent family and sharing economies alongside financialized and rentier economies. Well-used concepts of property rights and tenure or de jure occupancy are expanded to incorporate more nuanced measures of de facto occupancy, particularly relating to the family economy in which we argue represents a form of diffuse informality not well captured in national data collections based on tenure alone. Applying this conceptualisation within an Australian survey of more than 2,870 individual renters within the informal-formal market, we find that informal renting within families is pervasive. Our findings are suggestive of structural changes where a sizable cohort of discouraged and tactical renters are locked out of or bypassing mainstream rental markets.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1109-1128
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2101623
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Author-Name: Laura James
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: James
Author-Name: Lyrian Daniel
Author-X-Name-First: Lyrian
Author-X-Name-Last: Daniel
Author-Name: Rebecca Bentley
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley
Author-Name: Emma Baker
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Baker
Title: Housing inequality: a systematic scoping review
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Housing inequality is far more than a housing matter. To discover how housing inequality has been used across disciplines, and how this may inform future housing research, we performed a systematic scoping review. We found that housing inequality provides multiple understandings as well as a variety of uses, for example, as a measurement tool, a conceptual device, or as subject matter. To draw together useful lessons from this conceptually diverse body of work, we identify four principle uses of ‘housing inequality’ in the literature – an outcome, an experience, a product, and a construct. These four framings offer a level of conceptual clarity for thinking about, and researching, the different expressions of housing inequality. It contributes to housing research by providing an approach for taking into account the multiple and complex roles of housing, and its distribution and impacts across society.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1264-1285
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2119211
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Author-Name: Mathilde Flas
Author-X-Name-First: Mathilde
Author-X-Name-Last: Flas
Author-Name: Jean-Marie Halleux
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Halleux
Author-Name: Mario Cools
Author-X-Name-First: Mario
Author-X-Name-Last: Cools
Author-Name: Jacques Teller
Author-X-Name-First: Jacques
Author-X-Name-Last: Teller
Title: Identifying housing vacancy using data on registered addresses and domestic consumption
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Housing vacancy is a significant issue in developed countries’ decaying and densely populated cities. Comparisons are made between the number of ‘vacant housing’ and ‘homeless people’ stressing the existence of inequalities in access to housing. The reasons for addressing vacancy are manifold, ranging from mitigating urban blight to mobilising latent resources in tight markets. Little attention is paid to vacancy in municipal housing strategies. Still, mapping vacant units appears to be complex and resource-demanding, likely discouraging municipalities from planning further operations against vacancy. Given the lack of methodological support in the literature, this paper discusses how to identify housing vacancy units. Through a case study in Wallonia (Belgium), this paper highlights the benefits of combining visual surveys and processing data provided by utilities and registered addresses. Our results suggest that housing vacancy is underestimated through official statistics and that data mining would help mitigate the administrative burden related to identification and help to prioritise operations designed to reduce housing vacancy.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1317-1339
Issue: 5
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2119212
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: I-I
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Miguel A. Martínez
Author-X-Name-First: Miguel A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Martínez
Author-Name: Javier Gil
Author-X-Name-First: Javier
Author-X-Name-Last: Gil
Title: Grassroots struggles challenging housing financialization in Spain
Abstract:
Spain was one of the most severely hit countries by the 2008 global financial crisis. More than ten years after, the belated economic recovery has hardly changed the roots of that crisis, especially the financialization of the real estate sector. Remarkably, from 2009 to the present, several grassroots struggles have questioned those roots and demanded solutions to the affordability housing crisis. In this study, we examine two salient cases: the campaign against the Bankia bank and opposition to the international investment fund Blackstone. Both firms forced thousands of home evictions upon financially broken homeowners and tenants, respectively, the latter doing so via sharp rent increases. Here we investigate the claims, protest repertoires and achievements of these housing struggles. Our analysis shows that every type of grassroots’ response was shaped by a distinct process of capital accumulation through the financialization of housing. The first was driven mainly by austerity policies and the second by state-led actions to reignite housing speculation.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1516-1536
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2036328
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Author-Name: Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn
Author-X-Name-First: Maedhbh
Author-X-Name-Last: Nic Lochlainn
Title: Digital/material housing financialisation and activism in post-crash Dublin
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This paper’s main argument is that housing financialisation can be understood as a set of intertwined digital/material processes, and that resisting housing financialisation requires activism that recognises and capitalises on this dynamic. Drawing from Desiree Fields’ (2017a) work on urban struggles with financialisation, this conceptual argument is unpacked through a case study of post-crash Dublin, an urban space reshaped by housing financialisation and struggles resisting it. Housing has been a key subject of contention in post-crash Dublin and activists’ digital/material struggles illustrate how digital technologies and platforms can be and are appropriated to resist housing financialisation. The paper traces the intertwining of housing financialisation, resistance, and the digital in post-crash Dublin and argues that future research on platform real estate, urbanism, and automated landlord practices must take seriously the ambivalent opportunities, agency, and counter narratives that housing activists create through their digital/material practices.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1537-1554
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2004092
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Author-Name: Jennie Gustafsson
Author-X-Name-First: Jennie
Author-X-Name-Last: Gustafsson
Title: Renovations as an investment strategy: circumscribing the right to housing in Sweden
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There is an emergent field of writings on financialized landlords’ undertaking of apartment renovations as an investment strategy and its effect on housing inequalities. Seldom do these studies contextualize these tendencies within countries’ specific housing policy traditions. Therefore, through a qualitative case study in a neighbourhood in Sweden, this paper aims to uncover how private landlords undertake renovations as an investment strategy and its effect on tenants and, in turn, on the hybrid character of a universal housing system. It finds that renovations enable landlords to extract value from the built environment while tenants experience rising rents, a lack of information, poor property maintenance, and apprehension. Hence, I argue that renovations represent an investment strategy that serves to undermine the traditional social right to housing within a universal housing policy context. The paper thus furthers knowledge on how the situatedness of financialization tendencies entails their translation through and transformation of housing systems.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1555-1576
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1982872
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Author-Name: Keith Jacobs
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs
Title: A theory of housing provision under capitalism
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1577-1580
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2351874
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Author-Name: Kenton Card
Author-X-Name-First: Kenton
Author-X-Name-Last: Card
Title: From the streets to the statehouse: how tenant movements affect housing policy in Los Angeles and Berlin
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How can tenants affect housing policy? This paper compares rental housing politics in Los Angeles (USA) and Berlin (Germany) between 2008-2020 by examining how political processes influenced policy. It serves as a case of the emergence, escalation, and impact of tenant power. Tenant movement organizations employed five mechanisms to affect policymaking: (1) making demands, (2) forming coalitions, (3) promoting referendums, (4) engaging government officials in dialogue, and (5) transferring agents to government. The paper draws on multiple data sources, including interviews and participant observation over ten years. The cities witnessed policy episodes with four parallel characteristics: (1) locally progressive and regionally moderate, (2) shifting from defensive to offensive, (3) shifting from particular to universal, and (4) signs of a breakthrough beyond neoliberal housing policymaking. The findings suggest that the rise of tenant movements and their allies help drive policy change via multiple channels, exhibiting both similarities and differences across cities, especially in terms of money power and people power.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1395-1421
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2124236
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Author-Name: Özlem Çelik
Author-X-Name-First: Özlem
Author-X-Name-Last: Çelik
Title: Cracking the housing crisis: financialization, the state, struggles, and rights
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1385-1394
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2333569
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Author-Name: Alice Reynolds
Author-X-Name-First: Alice
Author-X-Name-Last: Reynolds
Title: Contesting the financialization of student accommodation: campaigns for the right to housing in Dublin, Ireland
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Financialized student accommodation has emerged as an international asset class and is a more visible and politically contentious feature of Irish cities. In this paper, I focus on Dublin which has seen the construction of for-profit Purpose Built Student Accommodation, and rent increases, skyrocket. Contributing to, as well as advancing, debates on rental market financialization, I present changes to student housing provision tied to financialization and explore the consequences for students’ right to housing. I build my argument around qualitative research undertaken between 2019-2021, namely documentary analysis, focus groups, and key informant interviews. I explore how financialization is contested through engagement with the student housing campaign ‘Shanowen Shakedown’. I present the political outcomes of this campaign and demonstrate that whilst it achieved greater housing rights for students, students continue to battle the uneven geographies of financialization. The paper argues student accommodation is implicated in wider transformations of Dublin’s urban housing system and the ongoing financialization of the private rental sector.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1495-1515
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.2023731
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Author-Name: Saila-Maria Saaristo
Author-X-Name-First: Saila-Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Saaristo
Author-Name: Rita Silva
Author-X-Name-First: Rita
Author-X-Name-Last: Silva
Title: Struggles against financialisation of housing in Lisbon – the case of Habita
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Social movements can seek to challenge the variety of housing financialisation processes in different ways. Focussing on the case of the Habita association, we examine strategies to contest housing financialisation, which has unfolded through different spatiotemporal dynamics fostered by the State, as well as outcomes of this social mobilisation in Portugal. We emphasise the importance of mixing ‘invited’ strategies with ‘ínvented’ strategies, highlighting, simultaneously, the significance of the economic and political context as the stage where the struggles and their opportunities develop. Success is always situated within a context. In this sense, the focus on the reputational pressure of some actors of the state is identified as a way of obtaining results under certain conditions. Our analysis shows that despite facing an enormous imbalance of power concerning actors promoting housing financialisation, housing movements can be important mobilisers and question the dominant paths, interfering with state policies and financialisation processes and showcasing the need for and possibility of building alternatives to the financialisation and commodification of housing.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1467-1494
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2190958
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Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita
Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita
Title: Everyday activism: Private tenants demand right to home
Abstract:
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought under the spotlight home’s severe inadequacies, which take a particular intensity in the various unregulated, insecure rental housing markets across the globe. It is now timely to deliberate what it takes for a rented property to be made home, and in that debate tenants’ voices should be heard. Taking the UK as a case-study and drawing on data collected through an online qualitative questionnaire, the paper focuses on a group of tenants theorised as ‘everyday activists’ to address the empirical question of what they demand from the government for the sector to improve. Considering participants’ legitimising narratives and assertions for self-representation in policy construction, the paper then proposes a reading of the demands made through the ‘Right to Home’, a concept carefully grounded in Henri Lefebvre’s Right to the City. The Right to Home calls for home-ing and democratising current de-radicalised understandings of the right to housing in order to craft more transformative futures.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1422-1443
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2036329
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Author-Name: Defne Kadıoğlu
Author-X-Name-First: Defne
Author-X-Name-Last: Kadıoğlu
Title: Producing gentrifiable neighborhoods: race, stigma and struggle in Berlin-Neukölln
Abstract:
Through a case study of an immigrant dense working-class neighborhood in Berlin, this article asks how racial and territorial stigmatization figure into state-enabled financialized gentrification and resistance against it. While there is a discussion on territorial stigmatization in the gentrification literature, this debate remains understated in the emerging financialized gentrification literature and rarely connects to race. Debates on resistance to financialization, in turn, while being attuned to the detrimental effects of stigmatization on struggle, pay little attention to the role of the local state as a producer of stigma. In this article I draw together debates on financialization, state-enabled gentrification and racial and territorial stigma to suggest that the local state, through its oppressive classifications and racialized representations of urban space, contributes to preparing the symbolic and material structures on which finance capital is able to flourish, not only by normalizing displacement, but by hampering resistance and demobilizing local working-class communities.
Journal: Housing Studies
Pages: 1444-1466
Issue: 6
Volume: 39
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2042494
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