Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Malpass Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Malpass Author-Name: Ceri Victory Author-X-Name-First: Ceri Author-X-Name-Last: Victory Title: The Modernisation of Social Housing in England Abstract: This paper outlines a conceptual approach to social housing in market economies that addresses problems with earlier frameworks. Focusing on changes in English social housing in the last 30–40 years, the paper outlines an analytical method of wider applicability. Modernisation is a contested term that has been used in a number of different ways in relation to housing. Accordingly we set out a precise definition for current purposes, based on the specification of two models: a mid 20th century public housing model and a contemporary social housing model, with modernisation defined as the process of moving from one to the other. Each model embraces three elements: the role played by social housing in the wider housing system, and aspects of both provision and consumption. It is shown that there is a consistent pattern and direction of change, which can be seen as a process of migration from the public sector towards the private market. The final part acknowledges some of the difficulties of reconciling the idea of models with an obviously dynamic housing system. In particular it is recognised that the social housing model has not reached (and may never reach) a settled state. Two future scenarios are briefly mentioned: one involving a radical transition to a more fully privatised social housing (which appears to be favoured by government), and another suggesting that there is little sign of enthusiasm for this among either provider organisations or consumers. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 3-18 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565647 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565647 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:3-18 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tuukka Saarimaa Author-X-Name-First: Tuukka Author-X-Name-Last: Saarimaa Title: Tax Incentives and Demand for Mortgage Debt: Evidence from the Finnish 1993 Tax Reform Abstract: The 1993 Finnish tax reform reduced the incentives to use mortgage financing in home acquisition for high-income households. Before the reform, mortgage interest was deductible according to a progressive schedule which meant that the benefit from the deduction was the greater the higher was the taxpayer 's marginal income tax rate. After the reform, the deduction is made according to a flat schedule and the benefit no longer depends on taxpayer 's marginal income tax rate. This setting can be seen as a natural experiment, where one can distinguish multiple treatment groups and a control group. This paper uses household level repeated cross-section data from before and after the reform to study whether Finnish households responded to these changes in incentives to borrow. The results, based on difference-in-differences estimates, show that high income households with high marginal tax rates responded to the reform by clearly reducing their mortgage borrowing compared to the control group which was unaffected by the reform. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 19-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:19-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: W. Van Gent Author-X-Name-First: W. Author-X-Name-Last: Van Gent Title: Housing Context and Social Transformation Strategies in Neighbourhood Regeneration in Western European Cities Abstract: According to the Western European city thesis, European cities have a unique institutional mix which helps to explain how social patterns come about. The most important elements of this mix are the interventionist state and the housing system legacy of non-private housing. While these two are vital, overall generalisations are tricky due to regional variations in economic performance, housing markets and local state capabilities. This paper explores the generalisations that can be made about the institutional context of direct interventions in the built environment and housing, i.e. neighbourhood regeneration, in Western European cities. It examines how national policy frameworks and housing market characteristics impinge upon on the adoption of social transformation strategies. Social transformation strategies, often adopted in neighbourhood regeneration, refer to the use of physical interventions to institute social change in deprived areas. Generally, there are two types of social transformation strategies: large-scale tenure restructuring and upgrading. A comparative analysis of four cases of regeneration shows that in Western European cities the opportunities and constraints of national policy framework and regional housing market characteristics help to explain the social transformation strategies adopted locally. Furthermore, it shows the thesis' value as an explanatory and analytical framework for Western Europe. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 63-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565712 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565712 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:63-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rob Imrie Author-X-Name-First: Rob Author-X-Name-Last: Imrie Title: A Review of “Securing an Urban Renaissance: Crime, Community and British Urban Policy” and “Whose Urban Renaissance: An International Comparison of Urban Regeneration Strategies” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 89-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565720 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565720 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:89-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rhys Evans Author-X-Name-First: Rhys Author-X-Name-Last: Evans Title: A Review of “The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 92-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565761 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565761 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:92-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank Van Oort Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Van Oort Title: A Review of “The New Economy of the Inner City, Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the Twenty-first-century Metropolis” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 94-97 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565787 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565787 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:94-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hyun Shin Author-X-Name-First: Hyun Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Title: A Review of “Shanghai Pudong: Urban Development in an Era of Global–Local Interaction” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 97-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565811 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565811 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:97-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mike Raco Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Raco Title: A Review of “Community Cohesion in Crisis? New Dimensions of Diversity and Difference” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 100-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565829 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565829 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:100-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Hoesli Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Hoesli Title: A Review of “Mass Appraisal Methods: An International Perspective for Property Valuers” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 102-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903565837 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903565837 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:102-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans Author-X-Name-First: Reinout Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Title: ‘Buy Your Home and Feel in Control’ Does Home Ownership Achieve the Empowerment of Former Tenants of Social Housing? Abstract: Encouraging home ownership is an important aim of housing policy in many countries. It is supposed to have positive effects on individual households and on society as a whole. This article focuses on the effect of home ownership on former tenants of social rented housing in the Netherlands. The central issue is whether becoming a home owner increases one 's sense of freedom and security in the home, one 's sense of control over one 's life, and one 's self-esteem. In other words, to what extent is buying a house a way of empowering individuals and households? Many Dutch housing associations are currently devising sale policies with the aim of empowering their tenants and providing more freedom of choice. We present the results of telephone surveys of 535 Dutch former tenants who bought their social rented dwelling and 602 others who decided not to buy their dwelling. The main question is: to what extent do these two groups differ in their scores on empowerment scales based on earlier research. Scales of ‘perceived control over life’, 'self-esteem' and 'housing-related empowerment' were adapted and measured among respondents of both groups. The results show that tenants who became home owners score higher on the control scale than tenants, but this difference can be explained by other background variables. Moreover, home owners score higher on the scale of housing-related empowerment, but lower on the scale of self-esteem, net of other factors. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 41-61 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903573757 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903573757 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:41-61 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Suzanne Fitzpatrick Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne Author-X-Name-Last: Fitzpatrick Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Author-Name: Roland Goetgeluk Author-X-Name-First: Roland Author-X-Name-Last: Goetgeluk Title: Editorial Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616710903573807 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710903573807 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Youqin Huang Author-X-Name-First: Youqin Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Chengdong Yi Author-X-Name-First: Chengdong Author-X-Name-Last: Yi Title: Consumption and Tenure Choice of Multiple Homes in Transitional Urban China Abstract: As China is becoming a country of homeowners, multiple homeownership is emerging. The existing literature on tenure choice focuses on the primary home and the literature on the consumption of multiple homes focuses on second homeownership only. We argue that decisions regarding whether to have multiple homes and what kind of tenures to have for multiple homes are all part of the complex decision-making for the ‘housing portfolio’, thus have to be understood together. With a conceptual framework that features both socio-economic and institutional determinants and 2005 China General Social Survey data, this paper studies the patterns and tenure dynamics of multiple homes in urban China. While life-cycle, affordability and generational transfer contribute to the consumption and tenure decision of multiple homes, the persisting household registration system and continuing allocation of subsidised housing lead to the peculiar tenure combination of renting one home and owning additional homes, and living in public housing and owning additional homes. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 105-131 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:105-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alison Wallace Author-X-Name-First: Alison Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace Author-Name: Janet Ford Author-X-Name-First: Janet Author-X-Name-Last: Ford Title: Limiting Possessions? Managing Mortgage Arrears in a New Era Abstract: Over the last 30 years the UK has seen a structural increase in mortgage default, interacting with cyclical economic trends to provide peaks and troughs of default. The latest upturn in mortgage arrears, from 2004, has been exacerbated by recessionary pressures since 2006. Despite significant exposure to risk and a distinct configuration to the current recession, lenders initial responses in 2006 and 2007 to managing arrears were limited and unchanged from the 1990s. This paper explores the extent to which such practices then changed, why and with what consequences. The paper identifies a shift in lenders’ responses to mortgage arrears and possessions from ‘pay or possess’ to more ‘managed forbearance’. It explores the ways in which commercial considerations, housing market drivers, a more stringent regulatory environment and government intervention have influenced this change resulting in a slower than expected growth in possessions. The paper considers the contingent nature of these changes and the implication for the longer-term sustainability of homeownership. The paper is based upon a qualitative study of lenders’ and government agencies’ responses to the current market downturn. The paper has a UK focus, but, in the context of global recession and significant homeownership markets in many developed countries, the issue of mortgage default and its management may resonate beyond the UK. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 133-154 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:133-154 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rowland Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Rowland Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Author-Name: Keith Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Title: Damned by Place, then by Politics: Spatial Disadvantage and the Housing Policy-research Interface Abstract: In this paper we engage with some fundamental questions about the focus and conduct of academic research and its potential influence on policy in relation to social problems. We use the example of public housing and social-spatial disadvantage as a basis to advance an analysis of the housing researcher's role in informing and framing the policymaking process and its links to research evidence. Although our paper uses the example of Australia, the arguments presented are also applicable to other nation states, such as the UK and US, that have an under-funded public housing stock. The paper proceeds in three stages. First, we detail the role and function of public housing in Australian cities and the politics surrounding public investment in welfare provision. Second, we discuss a series of models developed around the kind of research narratives that have been linked to policy on public housing and neighbourhoods from the academy, arguing that the social composition and management of ‘place’ has been emphasised at the expense of structural imperatives. Third, we examine some of the more abstract concerns raised by the linkages we make, and the potentially delimited role of academic research on social problems such as poverty and locational disadvantage. We conclude the paper by arguing that the weak position of housing research has fuelled an internalised narrative-driven pragmatic realism that has occluded more useful accounts about the nature of social problems. It is therefore incumbent on researchers to challenge, in a more vigorous way, the narratives underpinning this self-restraining form of policy-realism. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 155-171 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480855 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480855 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:155-171 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Howley Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Howley Title: ‘Sustainability versus Liveability’: An Exploration of Central City Housing Satisfaction Abstract: Issues surrounding central city residential housing have increased in prominence in recent times as a result of the onus on the planning systems of most Western countries to develop a more sustainable development pattern. Similarly to many British and US cities, Dublin in recent times has been successful in attracting large numbers of residents back into new residential developments within the central city. This paper raises questions relating to the long-term sustainability of these areas as residents ultimately express a preference to reside in lower-density locations. In examining what lies behind these residential preferences, this paper focuses on one aspect of individuals’ mobility behaviour: namely housing satisfaction. Results from a logistic model of housing satisfaction indicate that both background variables such as age and ethnicity as well as various design elements of the dwelling unit emerge as significant predictors of overall housing satisfaction within these newly regenerated residential areas. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 173-189 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:173-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adauto Cardoso Author-X-Name-First: Adauto Author-X-Name-Last: Cardoso Author-Name: José Leal Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Leal Title: Housing Markets in Brazil: Recent Trends and Governmental Responses to the 2008 Crisis Abstract: In accordance with global trends, the Brazilian formal housing market experienced huge growth from 2005 to October 2008. This growth might be explained by several factors: changes in the law regarding property rights issued by the Federal Government; changes in Central Bank regulation of the use of resources from the special housing finance system; a positive economic climate ensured by economic growth and a gradual decrease in interest rates. Another important issue is the fact that several big property companies have obtained fresh money on the stock market and developed strategies for broadening their market shares, by geographical dispersion and also by diversification of their portfolios, offering products for high-, middle- and low-income groups. As a reflection of the global crisis, some indicators show that the housing market has undergone change since October 2008: home sales as well as the shares of the companies that have opened their capital have been declining. Nevertheless, considering that the special system in Brazil for housing finance has not fully adopted the American model, that is, based on securitisation of mortgage lending, and also, in view of the fact that the Brazilian economy has not been so deeply affected by the global crisis, it seems that the housing market still has the potential to overcome the bad times. Moreover, in order to face the global crisis, the Brazilian government has proposed a new economic plan in an attempt to induce growth by subsidies for social housing that will be produced by private enterprise. This paper aims to present and discuss some specific aspects that could explain why the international crisis appears not to have had the same consequences for the housing market in Brazil as those observed in other countries. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 191-208 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:191-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gerard van Bortel Author-X-Name-First: Gerard Author-X-Name-Last: van Bortel Title: A Review of “Moving Homes: The Housing Corporation 1964–2008” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 209-211 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480861 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480861 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:209-211 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Malpass Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Malpass Title: A Review of “Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 211-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:211-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maren Godzik Author-X-Name-First: Maren Author-X-Name-Last: Godzik Title: A Review of “Housing, Care and Inheritance” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 214-216 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480864 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480864 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:214-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roderick Lawrence Author-X-Name-First: Roderick Author-X-Name-Last: Lawrence Title: A Review of “Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 216-219 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480866 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480866 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:216-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ton van Rietbergen Author-X-Name-First: Ton Author-X-Name-Last: van Rietbergen Title: A Review of “Decline, Renewal and the city in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 219-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.480868 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.480868 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:2:p:219-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Author-Name: Rebecca Chiu Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu Title: Changing Housing Policy Landscapes in Asia Pacific Abstract: The Asia Pacific region, and in particular East Asia, underwent rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in the latter decades of the twentieth century. Central to this transformation was intensive public and private investment in the housing sector. Although housing was largely commodified, public subsidies and state policy directives were particularly intense. In the twenty-first century however, the landscape of housing policy has shifted. While the 1997–98 Asian Financial Crisis marked a watershed in economic conditions, other social, political and demographic changes have also subsequently come to bare. In recent years, housing affordability has become a core issue, and a focus of housing interventions, in most Asia Pacific societies as the efficacy of previous housing policies diminished and economic contexts changed. Housing market volatility has in many countries become the norm and economic growth, turbulent. The housing needs of low-income households have become increasingly exigent influencing considerable realignment in policy agendas among traditionally development focused and, often, authoritarian governments. This introduction to this special issue examines changes in Asia Pacific housing contexts with specific reference to recent economic crises as well as key political and socioeconomic developments. The articles in this issue – mostly country specific, but with one comparative paper – provide varied insights into how diverse urban, political and socioeconomic situations are shaping, and being shaped by, housing systems and housing policy responses. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 223-231 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506736 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506736 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:223-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Shifting East Asian Approaches to Home Ownership and the Housing Welfare Pillar Abstract: Despite diversity in market and policy frameworks, late twentieth century housing systems across industrialised economies in East Asia became increasingly focused on facilitating home ownership. Governments became characteristically interventionist in the housing sector, which was assumed to play broad economic, political and welfare roles. Despite the influence of the public sector, housing provision was largely commodified rather than de-commodified. Home ownership was perceived to enhance economic development, social solidarity and the asset base of family centred welfare provision. This view was bolstered by house price increases during an era of rapid economic growth. Expanding owner-occupied housing sectors ostensibly offset underdeveloped citizenship rights and public spending, and stimulated increases in middle-class home-owning households, who were provided an economic stake in ‘developmentalist’ government objectives. The Asian Economic Crisis of 1997/98 however, strongly impacted on property markets across the region leading to increasing divergence in approaches to home ownership and welfare provision. This paper examines housing systems and policy regimes in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong to illustrate new strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century that reflect diversifying orientations towards housing policies and property-based welfare. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 233-254 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:233-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Seong-Kyu Ha Author-X-Name-First: Seong-Kyu Author-X-Name-Last: Ha Title: Housing Crises and Policy Transformations in South Korea Abstract: South Korea has witnessed remarkable economic development since the 1960s. Its economic growth rate has few parallels. However, behind this facade of growth and progress, a chronic housing shortage in the capital region, declining owner-occupation, rising housing costs, and polarisation in housing conditions between the better-off and the worse-off clearly illustrate the increasing impasse and crisis in housing that Korea has faced. The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s and the more recent global financial crisis shocked the Korean housing market. Immediately after each crisis, the housing market experienced a serious recession and a sharp drop in prices. This paper addresses the seriousness of the impact of the financial crises on Korean housing conditions and how the Korean government reacted to the housing crises. It also discusses the benchmarks over the years and how pressing exigencies in the last decade have led to dramatic transformations in housing policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 255-272 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:255-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jian-Ping Ye Author-X-Name-First: Jian-Ping Author-X-Name-Last: Ye Author-Name: Jia-Ning Song Author-X-Name-First: Jia-Ning Author-X-Name-Last: Song Author-Name: Chen-Guang Tian Author-X-Name-First: Chen-Guang Author-X-Name-Last: Tian Title: An Analysis of Housing Policy during Economic Transition in China Abstract: It has been more than ten years since intensified housing marketisation reform began in China. During this period, reforms have achieved some extraordinary outcomes: speeding up the development of real estate and improving levels of urban housing. At the same time, there have also been some undesirable effects, such as declining housing affordability, and worsening housing conditions for disadvantaged groups. Critically, the housing market is producing negative outcomes in terms of its social security functions. This paper analyses policy effects of the late 1990s housing marketisation reform in China and elaborates on the housing welfare system. The focus is a quantitative analysis of Beijing's social housing policies. Finally, we use the Nash Equilibrium to analyse the social welfare features of housing policy and suggest future policy directions. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 273-300 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506744 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506744 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:273-300 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rebecca Chiu Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Chiu Title: The Transferability of Hong Kong's Public Housing Policy Abstract: In response to the renewed emphasis on rental subsidy policy following the regional and global financial crises and the subsequent economic declines, this paper critically assesses the transferability of Hong Kong's public housing policy. It does so by evaluating the replicability of the policy environment of Hong Kong, and by identifying the structural, institutional and resource constraints on possible policy transfer. The paper argues that Hong Kong's public housing policy is primarily transferable to newer and growing cities, the governments of which have a strong commitment to improving the housing conditions of low income families for facilitating economic and social development. However, the finance factors are not easy to replicate as they are more significantly determined by historical circumstances than by policy design. Equally difficult in terms of transfer is the consultative approach adopted in the Hong Kong housing governance structure as this is embedded in its general political system and governance mode. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 301-323 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506746 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506746 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:301-323 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan Author-Name: Simon Pinnegar Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Pinnegar Title: The Comeback of National Housing Policy in Australia: First Reflections Abstract: Following election of a new national government in November 2007, Australian housing policy is undergoing major reform under the leadership of the first dedicated national Housing Minister since 1996. A new intergovernmental agreement to frame future housing policy and drive major reform of social housing commenced in 2009. The Australian Government has also embarked on a variety of major housing initiatives that include: offering subsidies to private investors in new affordable rental housing; subsidising costs of residential development where savings are passed to homebuyers; and national partnership agreements, which incorporate targets to improve housing in remote Indigenous communities and to significantly reduce homelessness. As well, investments in additional social housing and cash assistance to first homebuyers have featured strongly in economic stimulus packages that are designed to offset domestic impacts of the global financial crisis. An increase of over 220 per cent in national government expenditure on housing over the period 2008/09 to 2011/12 indicates the magnitude of change. This paper documents Australia's new policy settings and examines the reform directions critically in the context of the ongoing debate in the housing literature about the role of national housing policy in increasing the supply of affordable and appropriate housing, economic development, wealth creation and social welfare. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 325-344 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506747 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506747 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:325-344 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of “Housing Markets & Planning Policy” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 345-347 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506752 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506752 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:345-347 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway Author-X-Name-First: Montserrat Author-X-Name-Last: Pareja-Eastaway Title: A Review of “Family and Housing: Recent Trends in France and Southern Europe” Journal: Pages: 347-349 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506755 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506755 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:347-349 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Title: A Review of “Management of Privatised Housing: International Policies & Practice” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 350-352 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506756 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.506756 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:3:p:350-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claire Levy-Vroelant Author-X-Name-First: Claire Author-X-Name-Last: Levy-Vroelant Title: Housing Vulnerable Groups: The Development of a New Public Action Sector Abstract: The emphasis placed on the issue of housing for vulnerable groups in both policy discourses and the analyses carried out by researchers might seem obvious given the worsening imbalance between supply and demand, and segregation concerns in Europe and the United States. Academic research has produced numerous analyses, and there has been an increasing number of policy papers and commissioned reports as a result of the growing level of housing insecurity and, more recently, the financial crisis and the relatively unsuccessful tendency of governments to stimulate and monitor the markets. The recent report ‘Housing policy and vulnerable groups’ (2008) commissioned by the Council of Europe is one emblematic example. This paper, focusing on Europe, attempts to understand what is revealed by the trivialisation of the concept of vulnerable group and how it reorganises the ‘social paradigm’. The designation of vulnerable groups in relation to social risk – with emphasis placed on the targeting of these groups – as well as the attention to the distribution of vulnerable groups in urban space through the concept of social mix, have brought new actors to, and revised principles in the field of public policy. Policies are re-configured by means of a new division of tasks between assistance and assurance. This paper begins by revisiting the concept of vulnerability and the ways in which it is used in the housing policy sector. We then propose a re-examination of the welfare state, and the imprecise frontiers between policies dedicated to rule housing, and policies aimed to ensure social protection. In summarising the social effects of policies targeting vulnerable groups, we identify the significance of a number of developments: the arrival of new civil society actors in the field of housing; the increasingly litigiousness (judiciarisation) of society and the placing of the ‘vulnerable’ in competition with one another; the extension of the realm of housing, through European financing and intra-national redistribution, into both social activities and urban reframing. The intention is to show what appears to be a renewed interest in a policy of assistance aimed at rectifying inequalities generated by liberal governance of the market. Doing so, as we will show, policies contribute to the fragmenting of the ‘object housing’ itself. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 443-456 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.525051 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.525051 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:443-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan Title: A Review of “Housing Policy Reforms in Post-Socialist Europe: Lost in Transition” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 457-459 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.525052 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.525052 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:457-459 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fabrizio Plebani Author-X-Name-First: Fabrizio Author-X-Name-Last: Plebani Title: A Review of “Housing Policy Transformed. The Right to Buy and the Desire to Own” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 459-461 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.525053 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.525053 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:459-461 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Deborah Quilgars Author-X-Name-First: Deborah Author-X-Name-Last: Quilgars Title: A Review of “The Culture of Homelessness” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 462-464 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.525054 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.525054 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:462-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jan Rouwendal Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Rouwendal Title: A Review of “Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 464-466 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.525055 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.525055 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:464-466 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie Rugg Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Rugg Title: Introduction Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 353-356 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.526399 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.526399 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:353-356 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marietta Haffner Author-X-Name-First: Marietta Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner Author-Name: Joris Hoekstra Author-X-Name-First: Joris Author-X-Name-Last: Hoekstra Author-Name: Michael Oxley Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Oxley Author-Name: Harry Heijden Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Heijden Title: Universalistic, Particularistic and Middle Way Approaches to Comparing the Private Rental Sector Abstract: The paper will argue that the meaning and definition of private renting varies from country to country, and this presents a series of challenges for comparative research. It will demonstrate a lack of equivalence between ‘private rented housing sectors’ in western Europe and show that this arises from variations in definitions, property rights, the role of the tenure in relation to other tenures, and differences in the characteristics of both landlords and tenants. It will show that an argument can be made that the private rental sector is a different phenomenon in different countries but that comparisons are still valuable. It will argue that between the extremes of universalism, that emphasise similarities, and particularism that emphasises differences, middle way approaches that consider contexts, apply commensurability and apply theory that is fit for purpose all have strong methodological advantages. The argument will be expanded by reference to the authors’ work on applying the concept of a competitive gap between market and social renting in six European countries. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 357-377 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.526400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.526400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:357-377 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Kemp Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp Author-Name: Stefan Kofner Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Kofner Title: Contrasting Varieties of Private Renting: England and Germany Abstract: After many years of decline, the private rental sector has increased in England, but remains a relatively small part of the housing market. Free market rents and weak security of tenure are widely regarded by private landlords and policymakers in England as essential preconditions for a commercially viable private rental housing market to exist. And yet in Germany – which has a very large private rented sector – ‘soft’ rent regulation has been in place since 1971 and tenants have very strong security of tenure, conditions that in England would be seen as inimical to investment in the sector. The aim of this paper is to address this puzzle. It asks: how is it that free market rents and weak security of tenure are perceived to be vital ingredients for a successful private rental sector (PRS) in England, when neither exists in Germany, which has a very large PRS? Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 379-398 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.526401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.526401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:379-398 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kath Hulse Author-X-Name-First: Kath Author-X-Name-Last: Hulse Author-Name: Hal Pawson Author-X-Name-First: Hal Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson Title: Worlds Apart? Lower-income Households and Private Renting in Australia and the UK Abstract: The private rental sectors (PRS) in Australia and the UK differ substantially in terms of size and composition, institutional settings, and historical role in their respective housing systems. However, governments in both countries envisage the PRS as playing an enhanced role in accommodating lower-income households, in part to offset declining opportunities to access social housing. In examining this development we ask how far contemporary housing policy objectives can be met within current institutional settings for the PRS. We examine the sector's role within the broader rental housing market and the institutional settings for the PRS in the two countries, which affect outcomes for lower-income private tenants. The paper argues that achieving policy objectives to house lower-income households in the PRS, as well as in social housing, will require attention to the institutional settings for the PRS in addition to the acknowledged need to nurture supply. We examine prospects for better coordination between housing and related public policies and regulation of the PRS, and for a move to a more integrated rental market. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 399-419 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.526403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.526403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:399-419 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aideen Hayden Author-X-Name-First: Aideen Author-X-Name-Last: Hayden Author-Name: Paddy Gray Author-X-Name-First: Paddy Author-X-Name-Last: Gray Author-Name: Ursula McAnulty Author-X-Name-First: Ursula Author-X-Name-Last: McAnulty Author-Name: Chris O’Malley Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: O’Malley Author-Name: Bob Jordan Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Jordan Title: The Private Rented Sectors in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: A Case Study in Convergence Analysis Abstract: The theme of this paper centres on the divergence and convergence of housing policy in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, as reflected in the development of the private rented sector (PRS) in both jurisdictions. Using a historical comparative analysis of key indicators, this paper aims not just to present an accurate picture of the state of policy towards the PRS in both jurisdictions, but to situate this analysis within the overall development of the two housing systems. The paper postulates that while Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are both reflective of the Anglo-Saxon tradition in housing, historical factors have led to different housing pathways and clearly identifiable differences in policy outcomes. Housing policy and housing tenure mix in both jurisdictions diverged significantly during the twentieth century, showing examples of path dependency at work, but there is clear evidence of convergence in recent decades. The withdrawal from direct social housing provision and the changing role of the private rented sector are examined and an example of convergence theory at work is analysed. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 421-441 Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.526404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.526404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:421-441 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 10 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.529317 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2010.529317 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:10:y:2010:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michelle Norris Author-X-Name-First: Michelle Author-X-Name-Last: Norris Author-Name: Nessa Winston Author-X-Name-First: Nessa Author-X-Name-Last: Winston Title: Transforming Irish Home Ownership through Credit Deregulation, Boom and Crunch Abstract: Over the last decade the Republic of Ireland experienced an unprecedented economic boom, which contributed to equally dramatic demographic and housing market booms. Using data from the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions and other relevant sources, this article examines the drivers of this housing market boom and its implications for the distribution of housing wealth, debt and stress among home owners by age, income and region. The article suggests that during the Celtic Tiger period Ireland's traditionally distinctive housing policy and distribution of housing assets were both transformed and began converging with the norm in other developed Anglophone countries. Our analysis of this convergence process suggests that it was characterised by four developments: the rolling back of direct and indirect government supports for home buyers and the liberalization of mortgage markets; the globalisation of housing finance markets, of their regulation and of arrangements for the supply of mortgages; the development of distinctive housing markets in wealthy, high growth or ‘escalator’ regions and cities that operate separately from the wider national norm; and the advent of inter-generational, and, to a lesser extent, class and regional inequalities in access to home ownership and housing wealth. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-21 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548584 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548584 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:1-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kathleen Scanlon Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen Author-X-Name-Last: Scanlon Author-Name: Jens Lunde Author-X-Name-First: Jens Author-X-Name-Last: Lunde Author-Name: Christine Whitehead Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Whitehead Title: Responding to the Housing and Financial Crises: Mortgage Lending, Mortgage Products and Government Policies Abstract: The long period of house price growth in markets across the world ended with the US and global financial crisis of 2007/08. The crisis and the consequent recession had profound effects on mortgage market actors – including households, institutions and governments – in most advanced economies, whether or not they participated in this rapid house price growth. Many of the trends observed during the boom, especially the innovations in financial instruments, were reversed. This paper presents evidence on how mortgage markets and stakeholders responded in the initial period after the crash. In particular it reports on a 2009 survey of housing experts from 16 industrialised countries, which concentrated on how each country's mortgage system responded to the crisis and how governments addressed the problems of borrowers. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 23-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548585 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548585 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:23-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Wang Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: The Evolution of Housing Renewal in Shanghai, 1990–2010: A ‘Socially Conscious’ Entrepreneurial City? Abstract: Adopting a dynamic conception of the ‘entrepreneurial city’, this paper analyses the evolving policies and practice of housing renewal in Shanghai between 1990 and 2010. It demonstrates that compared to the 1990s, a more sophisticated and ‘socially conscious’ renewal framework has evolved over the last decade, incorporating heightened attention to heritage conservation, rehabilitation, to affordable housing provision and to ameliorating the social costs of displacement. Arguably, the role of government in housing renewal has become more sophisticated. Alongside its continued role as market facilitator and place-promoter, local government has developed a more extensive role in market regulation and as a mediator of competing social interests in urban renewal. On the one hand, the quest to foster an international city necessitates attention a more comprehensive set of urban agendas. On the other hand, these changes also reflect the emergence of a national agenda calling for more socio-economically ‘balanced development’, as rising inequality and citizen discontent demanded more nuanced urban policies. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 51-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548586 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548586 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:51-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Abiy Agiro Author-X-Name-First: Abiy Author-X-Name-Last: Agiro Author-Name: Jonathan Matusitz Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Matusitz Title: Housing Vouchers, Benefits and Allowances (VBAs): Comparing Rental Tools in the US, England and the Netherlands Abstract: This paper compares rental housing tools in the US, Britain and the Netherlands in order to determine the best strategy for enhancing rental housing accessibility. In doing so, the authors employ a ‘tools approach’ of governance paradigm, based on the work of Salamon's The Tools of Governance (2002). Rental housing tools are called housing vouchers in the US, housing benefits in Britain and housing allowances in the Netherlands. Overall, it was found that Britain and the Netherlands can learn from the US on means and ways of designing more efficient and fiscally responsible housing vouchers, benefits, and allowances (VBAs). The US, in turn, can learn from Britain and the Netherlands on means and needs of achieving higher equity and effectiveness. This analysis contributes in a meaningful way by addressing the missing middle link between policies and programs – namely, the tools perspective. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 71-88 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548587 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548587 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:71-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hugo Priemus Author-X-Name-First: Hugo Author-X-Name-Last: Priemus Author-Name: Vincent Gruis Author-X-Name-First: Vincent Author-X-Name-Last: Gruis Title: Social Housing and Illegal State Aid: The Agreement between European Commission and Dutch Government Abstract: The size of the Dutch social housing sector, with a 32 per cent share of the housing stock, has prompted concerns over the ‘level playing field’ of competition between social and commercial housing providers. In 2007, this concern culminated in a complaint from the Dutch Association of Institutional Investors (IVBN) to the European Commission, with particular reference to the distorting effects of state aid to housing associations. In December 2009 the European Commission published its decision about the conditions for state aid to Dutch housing associations. The Commission agrees with the proposal of the Dutch government that housing associations allocate at least 90 per cent of their social rental dwellings to households with an income of less than EUR 33,000, if they want to remain eligible for state aid for these activities. Furthermore, housing associations may invest in real estate for public purposes. With its decision, the Commission ends a long period of uncertainty and contributes to creating a level playing field on the Dutch housing market. Nevertheless, the Commission's decision also hampers policies to increase tenure diversification and social mix in Dutch neighbourhoods. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 89-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548588 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548588 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:89-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karen Croucher Author-X-Name-First: Karen Author-X-Name-Last: Croucher Title: A Review of “Community and Ageing: Maintaining Quality of Life in Housing with Care Settings” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 105-107 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548589 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548589 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:105-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Gilmour Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Gilmour Title: A Review of “The Housing Policy Revolution, Networks and Neighbourhoods” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 107-110 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548590 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548590 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:107-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Franck Chignier-Riboulon Author-X-Name-First: Franck Author-X-Name-Last: Chignier-Riboulon Title: A Review of “Fictions of the City: Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 110-112 Issue: 1 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548591 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.548591 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:1:p:110-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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 Title: Policy Transfer of Choice-based Lettings to Britain and Australia: How Extensive? How Faithful? How Appropriate? Abstract: This paper seeks to inject a new dimension into comparative housing research by exploring policy transfer in the case of choice-based lettings (CBL). Conceived in the Netherlands around 1990, CBL has attracted widespread interest in other developed countries as a ‘consumerist’ quasi-market technique replacing a traditionally bureaucratic process of regulating access to social housing. We examine the implications of importing the concept to two different social housing contexts—the UK and Australia. First, we identify the aspects of the CBL model found attractive in these jurisdictions and the extent to which it has been implemented in practice. Second, we explore how far it can be effectively operated within policy and institutional contexts substantially different from the country of origin. In ensuring compatibility with established institutional frameworks, has importation of CBL to the UK been rendered an empty gesture and to what extent have such frameworks acted as a barrier to the implementation of CBL in Australia? And, third, we consider the broader implications of the CBL case in relation to the international transfer of social policies as discussed in the literature. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 113-132 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:113-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eziyi Ibem Author-X-Name-First: Eziyi Author-X-Name-Last: Ibem Title: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Housing Provision in Lagos Megacity Region, Nigeria Abstract: The adoption of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in housing provision in Nigeria is intended to increase urban housing stock and address housing affordability and accessibility challenges. However, to date, very little is known about how PPP housing schemes have addressed these challenges. This paper therefore explores the extent to which PPP in housing provision has so far contributed to solving the housing challenges in the Lagos Megacity Region of Nigeria. The paper presents the result of a cross-sectional survey of operators of PPP schemes and housing consumers in the study area. The results show that the PPP approach is basically a formal joint venture partnership involving government providing land at subsidised cost and the provision of serviced plots or construction of housing units by private sector partners. Although the approach has provided affordable serviced plots and housing units for a few high income elites, it has contributed very little to the volume of housing units available to low-income people in Lagos. The paper suggests the adoption of a uniform policy on PPP in housing provision and the establishment of a co-ordinating agency. In addition, government involvement in the provision of infrastructure in PPP housing schemes could increase the affordable housing stock accessible to low-income people in the city. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 133-154 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:133-154 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans Author-X-Name-First: Reinout Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans Author-Name: David Varady Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Varady Title: Moving Out and Going Down? A Review of Recent Evidence on Negative Spillover Effects of Housing Restructuring Programmes in the United States and the Netherlands Abstract: Comparing USA and Dutch experiences, this paper seeks to determine whether the demolition of public or social housing results in negative spillover effects, i.e. the shift of crime and other social problems to nearby neighbourhoods, as a result of residential relocation patterns. Notwithstanding fundamental contextual differences, existing research shows that many relocatees do recluster in low-income areas not much better than the public or social housing sites they moved from. Furthermore, USA and Dutch research highlights concern among public officials, politicians and community activists that this clustering is resulting in higher crime, increased neighbourhood dissatisfaction (among existing residents), more conflicts between residents, lower school test scores, etc. Few researchers have, however, been able to go beyond correlations and establish cause–effect relations between the in-movement of public/social housing relocatees and increased social problems. Attempts to identify a statistical threshold for clustering, beyond which negative effects occur, have not been successful. Nevertheless, existing evidence regarding negative spillover effects is compelling enough to warrant expanded and improved monitoring of both relocation and neighbourhood change patterns and to initiate programmes to address the concerns of residents in destination areas. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 155-174 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573205 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573205 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:155-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Author-Name: Stewart Williams Author-X-Name-First: Stewart Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: What to do now? Tensions and Dilemmas in Responding to Natural Disasters: A Study of Three Australian State Housing Authorities Abstract: The floods that spread across Queensland, Australia in 2011 provided a salutary reminder of the appalling consequences of disasters. In Australia, all tiers of government have put in place protocols to minimise adverse consequences and response strategies for when disasters occur. While there is a considerable body of literature on disaster management, there has not been any single study that examines the role of housing authorities and the way that key actors involved engage and negotiate the complex array of tasks required. In many ways, this omission is surprising since housing authorities play a significant role in many recovery operations that require temporary accommodation for residents, repairs to damaged property and welfare support for householders affected. To address this lacuna, this paper reports on research that explored how Australian state housing authorities respond to disasters. It draws upon interviews with individuals who had practical experience of disasters and public housing tenants who were affected in the Canberra bushfires 2003, Cyclone Larry in far north Queensland in 2006 and the coastal storms and floods affecting NSW in 2007. Among the findings are the tensions that arise when agencies seek to enable locally based decision-making arrangements while also attempting to maintain control from the centre. Even when meticulous planning has been put in train, there is often a sense of confusion accentuated by the complexity of the competing tasks required of response teams. Bureaucratic control systems, although well intentioned, can actually impede agencies’ ability to manage the aftermath of a disaster. There are implications for researchers as well as practitioners in disaster management. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 175-193 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573206 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573206 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:175-193 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Author-Name: James Carr Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Carr Title: Analysing Determinants of Foreclosure among High-income African-American and Hispanic Borrowers in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Abstract: Foreclosures have disproportionately affected minority borrowers and communities. Many academic studies have focused either on the nation as a whole or on specific metropolitan areas, but few have concentrated on the nation's capital. Using a merged dataset consisting of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), US Census, and Lender Processing Services (LPS) data and utilizing a logistic regression model, we analyse the likelihood of foreclosure in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. We find that high-income African-American borrowers are 36 per cent and Hispanic borrowers 79 per cent more likely to go into foreclosure, controlling for key financial variables. Moreover, we find that exotic mortgage products, such as adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs), high-cost mortgages, balloon mortgages and interest-only mortgages, have a higher likelihood of foreclosure than standard 30-year fixed rate mortgages. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 195-220 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573208 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573208 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:195-220 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Malcolm Harrison Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm Author-X-Name-Last: Harrison Title: A Review of “Housing Boom and Bust: Owner Occupation, Government Regulation and the Credit Crunch” and “The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 221-227 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573209 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573209 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:221-227 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of “Qualitative Housing Analysis: An International Perspective: Studies in Qualitative Methodology, Volume 10” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 228-230 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573210 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573210 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:228-230 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Somerville Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Somerville Title: A Review of “Where the Other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World” Journal: Pages: 230-232 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573211 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573211 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:230-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marietta Haffner Author-X-Name-First: Marietta Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner Title: A Review of “Affordable Housing Finance” Journal: Pages: 232-234 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573212 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573212 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:232-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philip Lawton Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Lawton Title: A Review of “Experience and Conflict: The Production of Urban Space” Journal: Pages: 234-236 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.573213 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.573213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:2:p:234-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ya Wang Author-X-Name-First: Ya Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Alan Murie Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Murie Title: The New Affordable and Social Housing Provision System in China: Implications for Comparative Housing Studies Abstract: The dramatic changes in urban housing provision in China after 1980 have been widely described and assessed. This paper updates earlier accounts of policy change in China and reflects upon the significance of these changes for theoretical and conceptual frameworks used in comparative housing studies. Housing privatisation and commercialisation transformed the Chinese socialist housing system into a dynamic housing market but new housing problems characteristic of market economies have emerged. Government at the national level has responded by developing new policies to support affordable and social housing; and at local level various new housing provision schemes have been tested, but their scale and impact have been limited because of the priority given by the local state to economic growth and securing local land related revenues. This paper suggests that the new phase of policy involves a distinctive hybrid approach rather than convergence on familiar market based, residual or corporatist approaches. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 237-254 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599130 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599130 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:237-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Greg Suttor Author-X-Name-First: Greg Author-X-Name-Last: Suttor Title: Offset Mirrors: Institutional Paths in Canadian and Australian Social Housing Abstract: Paired comparisons of liberal-welfare regimes are underrepresented in housing policy literature. This paper adopts historical institutionalist theory in comparing two such cases: Canada and Australia. Despite these countries’ many similarities, social housing policy differences have been shaped by institutional differences in federal systems, welfare states and social housing itself. Australia's earlier welfare state supported much larger postwar production, but Canada caught up once it departed from the residual US model in the 1960s. Although the 1970s economic shocks challenged Australia's welfare state more than Canada's, the latter's centrifugal federalism became a bigger threat to social housing. In 1985–1995 Australia expanded its social programmes, including demand-side assistance, while Canada devolved and retrenched social programmes, including social housing. Although supply-side social housing is an orphaned legacy in each case, Australia has higher assistance to low-income tenants, more active policy discourse and stronger recent signs of post-neoliberal re-engagement than Canada. These two cases illustrate the importance of institutional differences, including ‘‘institutional design’’, in creating different forces of change at key junctures, leading to divergences in policy paths. These findings suggest value in reinterpreting the existing secondary literature from the perspectives of welfare regime theory and historical institutionalism. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 255-283 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599131 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599131 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:255-283 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gina Netto Author-X-Name-First: Gina Author-X-Name-Last: Netto Title: Strangers in the City: Addressing Challenges to the Protection, Housing and Settlement of Refugees Abstract: An increasing proportion of refugees worldwide now live in urban spaces, where their rights to adequate shelter, education and employment opportunities must be considered. In the European Union, a number of countries have tightened their immigration policies and adopted dispersal schemes which disperse refugees to urban environments. However, little is known about the circumstances of refugees once they have moved into permanent accommodation in these cities, how they cope and whether they stay or move on. This paper explores the impact of dispersing refugees to urban areas by drawing on a case study of refugees living in Glasgow, a major dispersal site for refugees in the UK. It reveals the diversity and complexity of the unique challenges that refugees face, including within the home and the neighbourhood. Four strands of policy implications flow from this: the need to facilitate refugee identification in urban areas; the importance of ensuring protection from racial harassment; the need for diversified approaches towards tenancy sustainment and the difficulty of predicting the impact of ‘no-choice’ dispersal policies. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 285-303 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599132 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599132 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:285-303 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yi-Ling Chen Author-X-Name-First: Yi-Ling Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: New Prospects for Social Rental Housing in Taiwan: The Role of Housing Affordability Crises and the Housing Movement Abstract: Housing speculation has been a major housing problem and hence a major concern of social movements in Taiwan since the mid-1980s. Although the government has implemented various schemes to slow down housing prices, past policies have not sought to change the fundamental structure of the housing system or its speculative tendencies. Since the late-1980s, a civil movement has been building up behind the issue of affordable rented housing, resisting the tendency towards intensified housing commodification that has served the interests of developers at the expense of the socially vulnerable. In late 2010, the Taiwanese social rented housing movement successfully pressed the passage of a policy supporting five social housing projects, as well as a luxury tax policy on housing. It has not, however, managed to change the more significant land tax system and the strong coalition between the state and private developers. There remain many struggles ahead in terms of reversing the trend toward privatisation and in advancing the cause of socialising housing. This paper assesses the struggle and recent successes of the Taiwanese housing movements in context of the speculative market booms that have characterised the housing sector for nearly three decades. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 305-318 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599133 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599133 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:305-318 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Oxley Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Oxley Title: A Review of “Inclusionary Housing in International Perspective: Affordable Housing, Social Inclusion, and Land Value Recapture” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 319-321 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599135 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599135 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:319-321 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Flint Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Flint Title: A Review of “The Knowledge Business: The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 321-324 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599136 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599136 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:321-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter King Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: King Title: A Review of “After Council Housing: Britain's New Social Landlords” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 324-326 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599137 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599137 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:324-326 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sasha Tsenkova Author-X-Name-First: Sasha Author-X-Name-Last: Tsenkova Title: A Review of “Multi-Owned Housing. Law, Power and Practice” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 327-329 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599138 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599138 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:327-329 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gwen van Eijk Author-X-Name-First: Gwen Author-X-Name-Last: van Eijk Title: A Review of “Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 329-331 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.599139 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.599139 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:329-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Stephens Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens Author-Name: Michelle Norris Author-X-Name-First: Michelle Author-X-Name-Last: Norris Title: Introduction to Special Issue: Comparative Housing Research Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 333-336 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626596 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626596 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:333-336 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Stephens Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens Title: Comparative Housing Research: A ‘System-Embedded’ Approach Abstract: This paper seeks to rebuild and strengthen the case for policy-related comparative housing research as an academic activity. Critiques that have discouraged the practice of international research have undermined its legitimacy whilst eroding the evidence base, and have devalued its function through the use of value-laden language and unevidenced assertions. While ‘glocalisation’ presents a challenge to cross-national research we argue that nation states are still policy resource rich, and that the existence of distinctive national institutions through which common international pressures are mediated strengthens the case for it. Building on an examination of the distinctive qualities of housing compared to the main ‘pillars’ of the welfare state, we make the case for what we call ‘system-embedded research’. This marks a development from existing ‘middle ways’, being founded on the principle that policy is conceived within wider housing systems and housing systems themselves operate within wider social and economic structures. Through contrasting case studies we show that if founded on the principle of being system-embedded, policy-related comparative housing research can reap high rewards; but if it does not it carries grave risks. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 337-355 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:337-355 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Title: A Qualitative Comparative Approach to the Role of Housing Equity in the Life Cycle Abstract: The economic life-cycle model assumes that households spread their income as well as possible over the life cycle (Deaton, 1992). They accumulate wealth throughout the life cycle and decumulate in old age. To date, however, results have shown that households tend to treat housing wealth different from other types of wealth. How can this be explained? Are people poorly informed, do they face practical restrictions or might they have other rationalities? This contribution demonstrates that choice that may seem irrational in the perspective of the life-cycle theory, appear rather rational when you take into account the formal and informal institutions in a country. To unravel the role of formal and informal institutions in people's choices, comparative qualitative research is of great value. The basic life-cycle model is a typical example of a universalistic model, which assumes that the rational foresighted consumer will distribute income and expenditures smoothly over the life cycle, regardless of institutional context. This approach facilitates the comparison of countries, as it is the rational agent that matters and rational agents are the same in all countries. In this contribution the life-cycle model (LCM) theory is taken as a case study to explain how qualitative comparative research can contribute to explaining why people do not act as this theory expects and why they behave as they do. We assume that contexts matter for households. Fiscal policies, housing policies and welfare-state arrangements (formal institutions) influence consumer behaviour, as do values, norms (informal institutions), in other words rationality is bounded by institutions (Hantrais, 2009; Kato, 1996). This contribution focuses on the role of institutions in this debate, drawing upon an example of a comparative housing study. The results demonstrate that comparative qualitative housing research helps to explain why households do not act according to the life cycle in the case of housing equity. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 357-374 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626599 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626599 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:357-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nick Horsewood Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Horsewood Title: Demystifying Quantitative Methods in Comparative Housing Research: Dispelling the Myth of Black Magic Abstract: With the quantitative–qualitative debate as a basis, this paper considers the relative merits and limitations of applying quantitative methods to comparative housing research. Although the initial discussion takes place in general terms, the example of the impact of an increase in real house prices on real consumers’ expenditure is employed to illustrate the issues that a housing researcher faces when applying statistical techniques to cross-country data. After reviewing the criticisms of the methodology, the paper concludes that quantitative methods should still be the workhorse for comparative housing research, but only if various conditions are satisfied and that the procedures are correctly followed. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 375-393 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626601 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626601 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:375-393 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bo Bengtsson Author-X-Name-First: Bo Author-X-Name-Last: Bengtsson Author-Name: Hannu Ruonavaara Author-X-Name-First: Hannu Author-X-Name-Last: Ruonavaara Title: Comparative Process Tracing in Housing Studies Abstract: Comparative social and political research often contains a historical dimension. Lately it has become fashionable to refer to this dimension with the term ‘path dependence’. In this article we propose an approach to comparative housing research that takes the path dependence of social and political processes seriously. In contrast to the traditional understanding of historical research, this approach, which can be called ‘comparative process tracing’, is quite strongly theoretically informed. We see comparative process tracing as an analysis in two steps. In the first step the goal is to reconstruct as closely as possible a chain of ideal-type social mechanisms made portable to other contexts by the assumption of thin rationality. In the second step, these processes are compared making use of ideal type periodisation. We have, together with others, applied comparative process tracing to an analysis of the Nordic housing policies. The article discusses the basic ideas behind the approach in that research and reflects on how to develop it further. It also presents some analytical tools that were used in the Nordic project to facilitate comparison between processes, e.g. an analytical distinction between critical junctures and focal points, a periodisation based on an ideal-type evolution model of housing provision, and a ladder of institutionalisation based on Lukes’ ‘three faces of power’. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 395-414 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626603 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626603 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:395-414 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Title: Ethnography and Comparative Housing Research Abstract: Housing systems across advanced societies are typically compared in terms of quantitative measures of aggregate variables, with little regard for local complexity, diversity and cultural contingency. This paper seeks, through the exploration of ethnographic techniques, to reflect on both the meaningfulness of quantitative comparative studies that neglect local differences as well as qualitative research designs that fail to embed informant discourses with material, cultural and historic contexts. Ethnographic investigations have been rare among housing studies, despite their capacity to connect structural and subjective dimensions of social reality. The first part of the paper explores how ethnography has been applied in urban and housing research. The second considers a particular ethnographic study of Japanese housing consumption as a means to illustrate its comparative application. A specific concern is the disposition of the ethnographer as an outsider and both the cultural and analytical reflexivity realised through the process of acquiring insider perspectives. The paper concludes by considering the ways ethnography may contribute further to the development of comparative understanding in housing research. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 415-437 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626605 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626605 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:415-437 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Fahey Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Fahey Author-Name: Michelle Norris Author-X-Name-First: Michelle Author-X-Name-Last: Norris Title: Housing in the Welfare State: Rethinking the Conceptual Foundations of Comparative Housing Policy Analysis Abstract: Many scholars interpret the contraction in social housing and the expansion of home ownership as reflections of a reduced role for the state and an increase in the marketisation of housing. This paper challenges this interpretation by pointing to two weaknesses in its conceptual underpinnings. One is its failure to distinguish between housing as capital (traded in the purchase market for dwellings) and housing as a service (traded in the rental market for accommodation), leading to an underestimate of the extent and diversity of continuing state intervention in housing. The other problem is a narrow focus on the balance between market and state which neglects the role of self-provisioning in the household as a form of production. The alternative view proposed here is, first, that forms of state intervention in the markets for housing capital and services are so diverse and complex that a more comprehensive analysis is needed before conclusions on trends in the state's overall role can be reached, and, second, that while home ownership reflects a dominant role for the market in the distribution of housing capital, it reflects a familialisation of housing services – it enables households to self-provision themselves with accommodation and thereby remove this service from the realm of both market exchange and state provision. The paper also suggests that the welfare benefit of home ownership lies not only in its widely recognised social insurance effect but also in the efficiency and cost-reduction effects which self-provisioning of housing provides. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 439-452 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626606 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626606 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:439-452 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anita Blessing Author-X-Name-First: Anita Author-X-Name-Last: Blessing Author-Name: Tony Gilmour Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Gilmour Title: The Invisible Hand? Using Tax Credits to Encourage Institutional Investment in Social Housing Abstract: Over recent decades many developed countries have commercialised the provision of state-subsidised housing, and introduced a stronger role for market forces. Government financial support now often aims to leverage debt or equity investment. Spearheading this policy change is a quest for the ‘Holy Grail’ of contemporary social housing policy: private equity investment, sourced from large institutional investors such as banks and pension funds. For comparative housing research, this opens up exciting new territory. Recent Australian developments using tax credits to incentivise investment – based on a successful US scheme – provide a valuable opportunity for comparison. This exploratory paper contrasts the two countries’ housing tax credit schemes, highlighting outcomes for investors, tenants and the wider housing system. Foregone corporate taxes provide governments with a powerful ‘invisible hand’ to incentivise flows of private equity, replacing direct public grants. Yet despite free market rhetoric, tax credit schemes still rely on additional government intervention - especially during financial market turbulence. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 453-468 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626609 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626609 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:453-468 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie Rugg Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Rugg Title: A Review of “Transforming Private Landlords: Housing, Markets and Public Policy” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 469-470 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626610 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626610 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:469-470 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Kintrea Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Kintrea Title: A Review of “Renewing Neighbourhoods: Work Enterprise and Governance” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 471-473 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626613 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626613 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:471-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marnix Koopman Author-X-Name-First: Marnix Author-X-Name-Last: Koopman Title: A Review of “Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United States” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 473-475 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626614 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626614 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:473-475 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michelle Norris Author-X-Name-First: Michelle Author-X-Name-Last: Norris Title: A Review of “Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 475-477 Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.626615 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.626615 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:475-477 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 11 Year: 2011 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.649213 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2011.649213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Author-Name: Deborah Quilgars Author-X-Name-First: Deborah Author-X-Name-Last: Quilgars Author-Name: John Doling Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Doling Title: Where Housing and Pensions Meet Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-12 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:1-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Doling Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Doling Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Title: Housing as Income in Old Age Abstract: This review concerns housing equity and the way it is used as a pension, across the member states of the European Union. Its starting point is a correlation between trends over time in home ownership rates and ageing populations. It is not primarily about the role of governments or of financial institutions, but rather identifies existing evidence about how European households, in aggregate and as individuals, have used home ownership as a contribution to meeting income needs in old age. The review mainly draws on studies written in English and based empirically on more than one country. As the current literature, it is geographically skewed so that conclusions about Europe in its entirety are limited. Nevertheless, an overall conclusion is that housing equity has had a significant influence on the income of older Europeans. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 13-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651298 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651298 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:13-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anwen Jones Author-X-Name-First: Anwen Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Author-Name: Tim Geilenkeuser Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Geilenkeuser Author-Name: Ilse Helbrecht Author-X-Name-First: Ilse Author-X-Name-Last: Helbrecht Author-Name: Deborah Quilgars Author-X-Name-First: Deborah Author-X-Name-Last: Quilgars Title: Demographic Change and Retirement Planning: Comparing Households’ Views on the Role of Housing Equity in Germany and the UK Abstract: As states across Europe come under pressure to meet the needs of ageing populations, there has been increasing interest in the potential role of housing equity in funding welfare provision. This paper draws on the findings of a European study, Demographic Change and Housing Wealth (DEMHOW), which set out to explore whether housing plays a role in retirement planning. This paper compares the views of homeowners in Germany and the UK. The former is a country where homeownership is the minority tenure and the preserve of affluent households, and where house prices have been stagnant for years. The latter is a country of homeownership where half the poor are home owners, and where real house price increases over many decades have served to establish the belief that homeownership is one of the best investments accessible to ordinary people. In addition, ‘equity release’ is more common, and related products better developed, in the UK than in Germany. Given these differences, it might be assumed UK homeowners would be more willing to consider utilising housing equity to supplement their income in retirement than their German counterparts. This paper sets out to explore whether this is the case. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 27-45 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651299 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651299 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:27-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Päivi Naumanen Author-X-Name-First: Päivi Author-X-Name-Last: Naumanen Author-Name: Pedro Perista Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Perista Author-Name: Hannu Ruonavaara Author-X-Name-First: Hannu Author-X-Name-Last: Ruonavaara Title: Homes as Old Age Security? Households’ Perceptions of Housing and Elderly Care in Finland and Portugal Abstract: This paper investigates homeowners’ views on housing and elderly care in two urban localities in Finland and Portugal. A special emphasis is put on the perception of old-age care arrangements and the role of housing equity in providing security. Our qualitative interview data focuses on the shared frameworks of understanding through which interviewees make sense of these issues. Given the socio-cultural differences between the two countries, it can be expected that these frameworks would be rather different. The Finnish welfare state endorses the ideals of the Nordic welfare model, such as universal benefits, high coverage and public provision. Portugal represents the Mediterranean model where the family and the third sector are central in providing welfare and the state's role is more limited. Therefore, one could hypothesise that Portuguese interviewees regard old-age care mostly outside the scope of the state, with stronger inputs from the family than Finnish interviewees. Additionally, within the perspective of home as the locus of family solidarity and intergenerational transfers, equity withdrawal would be understood more negatively whereas Finnish households would see it more positively emphasising the benefits it gives to the individual. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 47-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651322 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651322 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:47-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Janneke Toussaint Author-X-Name-First: Janneke Author-X-Name-Last: Toussaint Author-Name: Hanna Szemzo Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Szemzo Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Author-Name: Jozsef Hegedüs Author-X-Name-First: Jozsef Author-X-Name-Last: Hegedüs Author-Name: Nora Teller Author-X-Name-First: Nora Author-X-Name-Last: Teller Title: Owner-occupation, Mortgages and Intergenerational Transfers: The Extreme Cases of Hungary and the Netherlands Abstract: Societies are trying to cope with ageing and the consequences of the global financial crisis. In most societies collective welfare arrangements for the elderly are under pressure, and drawing on housing equity can be considered as a potential source of augmenting one's pension and financing one's care in old age. This article explores the way in which housing equity is perceived as a financial back-up for old age in Hungary and the Netherlands: two completely different contexts. Hungary and the Netherlands are at opposite poles in many respects when it comes to old age and the role of owner-occupation. In Hungary the large majority of the population is owner-occupier, in the Netherlands the proportion is much smaller. In Hungary most home owners are outright owners; in the Netherlands they invariably have a mortgage. These differences appear to impact on household strategies. In Hungary housing equity plays a key role in the financial strategies of families, whereas it plays only a minor role in the Netherlands. Moving to the rental sector to release housing equity appears an obvious strategy in the Netherlands, whereas this strategy is non-existent in Hungary. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 69-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651327 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651327 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:69-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jean-Claude Driant Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Claude Author-X-Name-Last: Driant Author-Name: Mingye Li Author-X-Name-First: Mingye Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: The Ongoing Transformation of Social Housing Finance in France: Towards a Self-financing System? Abstract: This paper reviews social housing policy transformations in France since 2000. These changes have come to represent a new context characterised by conflict between government budget constraints and intensive demand for social housing due to growing job insecurity and soaring housing prices. The paper begins by outlining the mayor debates on the role of public interventions in the provision of social housing in France. It then focuses on the consequences for the sustainability of new social rental housing which has proved to be more and more oriented toward a self-financing system. Our review argues that although the current annual provision of social housing has not yet declined, self-financing is probably a feature of a transition stage between sustainable growth and the stagnation of the social housing stock. This change poses anew the key question for the French social housing model: whether or not to reproduce the ‘residual’ position being taken by most European countries. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 91-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651337 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651337 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:91-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karin Wagner Author-X-Name-First: Karin Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner Title: A Review of: “Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis: The Uneven Impact on Households” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 105-107 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651338 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651338 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:105-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of: “From Despair to Hope: HOPE VI and the New Promise of Public Housing in America's Cities” Journal: Pages: 107-109 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651340 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651340 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:107-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Bontje Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Bontje Title: A Review of: “The Aging Population and the Competitiveness of Cities. Benefits to the Urban Economy” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 110-112 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:110-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank Wassenberg Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Wassenberg Title: A Review of: “Mass Housing in Europe: Multiple Faces of Development, Change and Response” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 112-114 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.651342 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.651342 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:1:p:112-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Schwartz Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Schwartz Title: US Housing Policy in the Age of Obama: From Crisis to Stasis Abstract: This policy review assesses the condition of the housing sector in the United States nearly five years after the nation's housing bubble collapsed in 2007, triggering the nation's worst financial crisis and economic recession since the 1930s. The paper reviews key trends in housing construction, sales, prices, and mortgage arrears and foreclosure, and it examines trends in housing affordability. The paper then assesses the most important housing policies of the Obama administration, focusing first on those that address the mortgage foreclosure crisis, then on those relating to other policy priorities. The paper highlights some of the shortcomings in the design of the administration's programmes, and the inability of the administration to take additional measures to address the nation's housing problems after the Republicans gained control of Congress in the elections of 2010. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 227-240 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681549 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681549 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:227-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Mullins Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Mullins Title: A Review of “Governing Independence and Expertise: The Business of Housing Associations” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 241-245 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681553 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681553 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:241-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Dalton Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Dalton Title: A Review of “Housing, Markets and Policy” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 245-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681554 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681554 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:245-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Williams Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: A Review of “Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 248-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681557 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681557 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:248-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wouter van Gent Author-X-Name-First: Wouter Author-X-Name-Last: van Gent Title: A Review of “Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 250-252 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681559 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681559 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:250-252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Patrick Rérat Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Rérat Title: Housing, the Compact City and Sustainable Development: Some Insights From Recent Urban Trends in Switzerland Abstract: One of the debates on the sustainability of housing revolves around the spatial dimension of human settlements and the influence of location and urban morphology on resource and energy consumption. Urban sprawl has often been criticised and this has led to the promotion of the model of the compact city as an alternative in many countries. Based on empirical data on urban trends in Switzerland, this paper discusses three critiques that are usually made of the model of the compact city. These critiques relate to its feasibility, its social consequences and its environmental implications. The paper concludes that the model of the compact city seems workable in the context of a growing population group whose residential aspirations are oriented towards centrality and proximity. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 115-136 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681570 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681570 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:115-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Lux Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Lux Author-Name: Anneli Kährik Author-X-Name-First: Anneli Author-X-Name-Last: Kährik Author-Name: Petr Sunega Author-X-Name-First: Petr Author-X-Name-Last: Sunega Title: Housing Restitution and Privatisation: Both Catalysts and Obstacles to the Formation of Private Rental Housing in the Czech Republic and Estonia Abstract: The return of property expropriated during the communist period to previous owners or to their descendants (property restitution) led to the quick emergence of a private rental sector in those post-communist countries that applied a physical form of property restitution soon after 1990. The Czech Republic and Estonia are examples of such countries. Within just a few years, as a result of property restitution, a private rental sector grew out of almost non-existence to become a significant part of the countries’ total housing stock. However, the character of this sector remained different from the private rental sector found in countries with advanced economies – especially owing to specific rent regulation, tenant protection and, albeit indirectly, public housing privatisation. This article analyses and compares the genesis of private rental tenure in the Czech Republic and Estonia. Its main goal is to demonstrate how state regulations and interventions have influenced tenure choice, the formation of social norms, and thus the permanent perception of private renting. In both transition countries private renting gradually acquired the character of a transitional and residual form of housing. State interventions early on in the transition were probably the most significant factors behind the fact that private renting did not establish itself as a real tenure alternative to owner-occupied housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 137-158 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681574 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681574 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:137-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie Christian Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Christian Author-Name: David Clapham Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Clapham Author-Name: Shemeica Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Shemeica Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Author-Name: Dominic Abrams Author-X-Name-First: Dominic Author-X-Name-Last: Abrams Title: The Relationship Between Well-Being, Future Planning and Intentions to Utilise Intervention Programmes: What Can Be Learned From Homeless Service Users? Abstract: There has been an increasing interest in the impact of individual well-being on the attitudes and actions of people receiving services designed to offer support. If well-being factors are important in the uptake and success of service programmes it is important that the nature of the relationships involved is understood by service designers and implementers. As a contribution to understanding, this paper examines the impact of well-being on the uptake of intervention programmes for homeless people. From the literature on well-being a number of factors are identified that contribute towards overall well-being, which include personal efficacy and identity, but also more directly well-being can be viewed as personal or group/collective esteem. The impact of these factors on service use is assessed by means of two studies of homelessness service users, comparing the implementation of two research tools: a shortened and a fuller one. The conclusions are that the factors identified are related to service use. The higher the collective esteem – esteem drawn from identification with services and their users and providers – and the less that they feel isolated, the more benefits that homeless people will perceive with service use, and in turn the more likely they are to be motivated to use services. However, the most important factors in explaining service use are a real sense that it is appropriate to accept social support from others, a rejection of the social identity as homeless but a cultivation of being valued as part of a non-homeless community, and a positive perception of the impact of the service. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 159-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681578 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681578 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:159-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Johnsen Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Johnsen Author-Name: Lígia Teixeira Author-X-Name-First: Lígia Author-X-Name-Last: Teixeira Title: ‘Doing it Already?’: Stakeholder Perceptions of Housing First in the UK Abstract: When first developed in the United States, ‘Housing First’ was highly controversial given its departure from mainstream ‘linear’ service models for homeless people with complex support needs. It has nevertheless since been heralded as presenting a key ‘antidote’ to chronic homelessness and is being replicated across North America and Europe with what might be regarded as ‘evangelical’ fervour. Reception to Housing First has been noticeably more reserved in the UK to date. This paper explores the reasons underpinning many UK stakeholders’ scepticism about the model. It argues that this derives, in part, from the fact that Housing First implementation in the UK would not represent the scale of paradigm shift that it has elsewhere, thus the model is considered far less revolutionary. Furthermore, whilst most stakeholders find aspects of the approach very attractive, ideological and pragmatic reservations dictate that robust evidence derived from pilot projects in Britain will be required – especially as regards outcomes for individuals with active substance misuse problems – before any wholesale ‘conversion’ to Housing First is likely in the UK. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 183-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681579 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681579 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:183-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alison Wallace Author-X-Name-First: Alison Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace Title: Shared Ownership: Satisfying Ambitions for Homeownership? Abstract: The extent to which models of subsidised homeownership fulfil the purchasers’ ambitions for homeownership is poorly understood in relation to the UK, where the shared ownership - part rent/part buy – model dominates. Homeownership remains highly aspirational and central to much housing policy, but remains beyond the reach of many households. Consequently subsidised access to the tenure is apparent in many countries with various restraints attached on the use and exchange rights that relate to the property. The purpose of the paper is to suggest that we should think more critically about the components of tenure and how these are configured in hybrid models of ownership and renting, and how, or if, these configurations sufficiently fulfil expectations of ownership. The paper concludes that partial ownership provides purchasers with opportunities to demonstrate they are not Bauman's ‘flawed consumers’, but that these psychosocial benefits may, consciously or otherwise, mask the attributes of the form of occupancy and ownership that are less well aligned with traditional homeownership, such as the control over the management and exchange of the home and assets. The paper contends that the extent to which, and how, shared ownership fulfils expectations of ownership now and over the long term remains an empirical question for the research community to explore further. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 205-226 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.681580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.681580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:205-226 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Pinnegar Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Pinnegar Title: For the City? The Difficult Spaces of Market Restructuring Policy Abstract: Market restructuring policies have proved controversial and been subject to academic critique on a number of fronts. This paper considers the role that the inherent spatial tensions captured within these initiatives have played, both in terms of their troubled implementation but more specifically in how aspects of the conceptual debates surrounding their nature and intent have been framed. In particular, I focus on assertions that such programmes, in their alignment to housing market geographies, and an analytical discourse that relates the ‘parts’ to the ‘whole’ across subregional, metropolitan spaces, were ‘for the city (or, rather, the urban elites that govern cities)’ (Allen, 2010). While such positions have appropriately reasserted the disjuncture between the ‘space of positions’ of households and those of housing markets, they risk ceding consideration of the competing importance of ‘more-than-local’ spaces in terms of shaping and addressing other equity concerns. They have also firmly aligned the role of urban policy, ‘state’ intervention and practice with elite imperatives. In working through these spatial tensions, I draw upon recent critical perspectives – including Right to the City debates – to reflect upon the challenge of keeping open our engagement and commitment to citywide geographies as part of negotiating the continual and ongoing tensions across different spatial scales. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 281-297 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709434 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709434 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:281-297 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Flint Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Flint Title: Housing Policy, the Right to the City and the Construction of Knowledge Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 253-261 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709667 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709667 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:253-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ed Ferrari Author-X-Name-First: Ed Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrari Title: Competing Ideas of Social Justice and Space: Locating Critiques of Housing Renewal in Theory and in Practice Abstract: This article considers the experience of the English government's policy of Housing Market Renewal from the perspective of spatial justice. The paper first proposes an analytical framework that situates competing notions of territorial social justice within a space of complex sociospatial relations. The dialectic of two formulations of social justice is first set up, comparing ‘procedural’ or deontological forms of justice and the distributional justice of outcomes. Soja's formulation of spatial justice is advanced as an appropriate balance between spatial and socio-historic contexts for the justice question. Drawing on the literature on sociospatial relations, concrete critiques and justifications of HMR are then positioned in terms of the intersection of structuring principles and policy fields. The role of demolition in urban restructuring programmes is used to explore the differential spatialities involved in different justicial perspectives. It is concluded that ‘gentrification’ critiques of HMR are only partial in their evaluation of justice and lack normative power. Some practical implications for the design of urban restructuring policies are offered. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 263-280 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709668 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709668 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:263-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans Author-X-Name-First: Reinout Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans Title: A Glass Half Empty or Half Full? On the Perceived Gap between Urban Geography Research and Dutch Urban Restructuring Policy Abstract: The Dutch urban restructuring policy, initiated in 1997, has generated much urban geography research. As with so many other fields, the associated debate has witnessed the perception of a gap between policy and research among both researchers and policymakers. Using four examples, this paper argues that this perception of a gap fails to reflect properly what is happening in the interchange between research and policy. Drawing on a broader typology of the use of research in policy-making (Stevens, 2007), the paper shows that the relationship is more complex and critically highlights the role of researchers herein. Moreover, ignoring or ‘cherry-picking’ of research by policymakers does not necessarily reflect a lack of relevance, which is a fundamental discussion within current geography research. The four discussed examples are: ambivalent outcomes of relocation research, the selection of renewal target areas, potential negative spillover effects on other areas, and the stubbornness of the concept of social cohesion in policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 299-314 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709669 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709669 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:299-314 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Webb Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Webb Title: Conceptualising the Bounded Agency of Housing Researchers: The Case of Housing Market Renewal in England Abstract: Academic research on urban systems has recently come under criticism for its role in the promotion and justification of certain forms of state policy. This critical literature on research impact has identified increased client control of research agendas and processes. However, this paper argues that a rigorous conceptualisation is also needed of the precise ways in which urban researchers are themselves able to mould and establish new policy agendas. To this end, it offers a genealogical inquiry into the discursive resources drawn on by housing researchers in a bid to attain agency and direct government policy on housing market renewal. In contrast with representations of housing research as rational and objective, this account offers a means of reconceptualising applied research as a political practice of working within bounded agency spaces. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 315-330 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709670 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709670 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:315-330 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward Goetz Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Goetz Title: Obsolescence and the Transformation of Public Housing Communities in the US Abstract: The United States is in the midst of transforming its system of public housing. It is argued that the transformation reflects both the political obsolescence of the New Deal social welfare approach to housing as well as the physical obsolescence of the social housing itself. This effort is strongly tied to the neoliberal turn of the 1980s that discredited state-centered approaches to policy making embodied in large social housing estates. The physical obsolescence of social housing is partially the result of the contemporary disdain for modernist architecture and partially the result of mismanagement of the physical assets of social housing over time. Racial dynamics have heavily influenced the social impacts of transformation, leading to a disproportionate impact on African-Americans as well as limiting the deconcentration of subsidized households hoped for by advocates. The place impacts of social housing transformation have been significant, both benefitting from and reinforcing patterns of gentrification and reinvestment in American cities during the 1990s and up to the recession of 2007. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 331-345 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709671 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709671 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:331-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ian Cole Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Cole Title: Housing Market Renewal and Demolition in England in the 2000s: The Governance of ‘Wicked problems’ Abstract: This paper considers some of the issues raised by the governance of housing market renewal, and more specifically demolition, in areas of England suffering from long-standing economic decline and housing market weakness. It examines the experiences of the Housing Market Renewal (HMR) Pathfinder initiative in England, which ran from 2003 to 2011. It reviews some of the strands in the critique of the programme and suggests that they may have tended to overstate the professional and institutional power of the agencies involved to ‘deliver’ their programmes in the face of media or community resistance. On the basis of secondary analysis and stakeholder interviews, the paper suggests that the underlying fragility of the ‘partnership’ governance model on which HMR was founded caused a retreat from demolition as an option in housing market restructuring and wider uncertainty about the focus of the programme – they were ‘wicked problems’ that were difficult to manage. These problems were compounded first by the housing market impacts of global financial crisis from 2008 and the election of a hostile central government in 2010, leading to the premature closure of the HMR programme in March 2011. In conclusion, the paper considers whether it is likely that any future regeneration programme incorporating even modest levels of demolition will be attempted within a ‘partnership’ model of governance in areas of housing market weakness. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 347-366 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:347-366 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Stephens Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens Title: Tackling Housing Market Volatility in the UK. Part I: Long- and Short-term Volatility Abstract: The UK housing market has exhibited persistent price volatility over the past 40 years, which has deleterious social and economic consequences. This is the first of two papers to synthesise the work of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Housing Market Taskforce that was established to identify long-term solutions to tackle, first, the root causes of volatility and, second, to provide better protection for households from its consequences. This paper deals with the first of these issues. It argues that there is a need to improve housing supply to tackle volatility in the long run, but that that counter-cyclical policies are also required to tackle volatility in the short run. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 367-380 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709674 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709674 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:367-380 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Robinson Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Title: A Review of “Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 381-382 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709675 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709675 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:381-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sara González Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: González Title: A Review of “From Recession to Renewal. The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Public services and Local Government” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 382-385 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709677 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709677 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:382-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caroline Dewilde Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Dewilde Title: A Review of “Housing Transitions Through the Life Course. Aspirations, Need and Policy” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 385-387 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:385-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christian Lennartz Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz Title: A Review of “Towards a Sustainable Private Rented Sector. The Lessons from other Countries” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 388-390 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.709680 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.709680 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:3:p:388-390 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Lyndal Bond Author-X-Name-First: Lyndal Author-X-Name-Last: Bond Author-Name: Carol Tannahill Author-X-Name-First: Carol Author-X-Name-Last: Tannahill Title: The Residential Psychosocial Environment and Mental Wellbeing in Deprived Areas Abstract: The importance of psychosocial environments to health outcomes – physical health, mental health and wellbeing, and health behaviours – has been increasingly recognised in recent years, but more so in relation to the workplace than other settings. This paper seeks to extend this field of inquiry both conceptually and empirically. It argues that housing and neighbourhoods can equally be viewed as comprising an important residential psychosocial environment operating via processes of appearance, perceived relative position, control, status and empowerment. The paper goes on to demonstrate this approach by looking at the relationships between housing and neighbourhood psychosocial risk factors and psychosocial benefits and mental wellbeing for residents in relatively deprived areas. A range of psychosocial factors are positively associated with mental wellbeing, with the most important being: the attainment of feelings of residential and personal progress; having a sense of control at home; and the aesthetic qualities of the dwelling and neighbourhood environment. Empowerment in relation to both one's landlord and local area changes were both also important, although slightly less strongly associated with mental wellbeing. The perceived relative position of the dwelling and neighbourhood had the least strong associations with mental wellbeing once aspects of quality were taken into account. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 413-438 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.711985 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.711985 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:413-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julia Griggs Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Griggs Author-Name: Peter Kemp Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp Title: Housing Allowances as Income Support: Comparing European Welfare Regimes Abstract: Most studies of housing allowances focus on their role in housing policy. In contrast, this paper examines housing allowances from an income support perspective. It utilises a modified version of Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology to examine the income support role of means-tested housing allowances in the EU-15. Using secondary analysis of the 2007 EU-SILC dataset, it examines the prevalence, generosity, degree of targeting and impact on disposable incomes of housing allowances. It demonstrates that they vary both within and between welfare regimes. It also shows that housing allowances are not simply a liberal policy instrument, but are employed extensively within social democratic and conservative welfare regimes; and that they are not only focused on the poorest households. Hence, income-related, housing allowances do not fit the stereotype of means-tested benefits portrayed by Esping-Andersen (1990). Finally, the paper shows that housing allowances have a significant impact upon disposable incomes (after housing costs) and as such have an important income support function. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 391-412 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.711987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.711987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:391-412 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gavin Wood Author-X-Name-First: Gavin Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Author-Name: Rachel Ong Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Ong Author-Name: Clinton McMurray Author-X-Name-First: Clinton Author-X-Name-Last: McMurray Title: Housing Tenure, Energy Consumption and the Split-Incentive Issue in Australia Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing global recognition of the need to reduce carbon emissions in response to climate change concerns. It is generally acknowledged that the energy efficiency of existing homes can be improved, but there are significant barriers to its uptake. In particular, improving the energy efficiency of private rental housing presents unique policy challenges due to a split-incentive problem. This has prompted some governments to introduce programmes that encourage landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their properties. While landlords are responsible for the purchase of many energy-consuming household appliances, tenants are responsible for energy bills. Since the landlord does not reap the immediate benefits of investment in energy-efficient equipment, the incentives motivating such investment are weaker than for homeowners. This paper aims to quantify the magnitude of the split-incentive problem in the Australian private rental housing market by invoking a modelling approach where energy expenditure is estimated as a function of housing tenure, dwelling type, location, climate and other socio-demographic variables. We find no evidence in support of the split-incentive hypothesis in Australia. The paper concludes that differences in housing policy arrangements could be critical to the presence and importance of split incentives. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 439-469 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.730218 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.730218 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:439-469 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claire Lévy-Vroelant Author-X-Name-First: Claire Author-X-Name-Last: Lévy-Vroelant Title: A Review of “Housing and Inequality” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 509-512 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.734125 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.734125 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:509-512 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachel Bratt Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Bratt Title: A Review of “Social Housing across Europe” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 501-504 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.734128 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.734128 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:501-504 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christien Klaufus Author-X-Name-First: Christien Author-X-Name-Last: Klaufus Title: A Review of “Homes and Homecomings: Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 504-506 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.734130 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.734130 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:504-506 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of “Fair and Affordable Housing in the US: Trends, Outcomes, Future Directions” Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 506-509 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.734131 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.734131 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:506-509 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Stephens Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens Title: Tackling Housing Market Volatility in the UK. Part II: Protecting Households From the Consequences of Volatility Abstract: The UK housing market has exhibited persistent price volatility over the past 40 years, which has had deleterious social and economic consequences. These are felt most acutely by home-owners with mortgages. A goal of the Housing Market Taskforce was to find ways to create a socially sustainable housing market. Key aspects of this would be a better protection for home-owners and suitable alternatives for people who cannot safely access ownership. This article examines ways in which home-owners could be better protected from the consequences of volatility, through a mixture of prudential lending, responsible borrowing and an improved safety net. It also examines whether the private rented sector is capable of providing a safe alternative to full or partial ownership, and concludes that this is unlikely. Consequently, the role of the social rented sector remains crucial for providing security for those people who cannot access full or shared ownership safely. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 489-499 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.734738 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.734738 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:489-499 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gintautas Bloze Author-X-Name-First: Gintautas Author-X-Name-Last: Bloze Author-Name: Morten Skak Author-X-Name-First: Morten Author-X-Name-Last: Skak Title: Housing Tenure and Psychological Distress Abstract: Housing policies in a number of European countries promote homeownership for low income households. Previous economic research on mental health seems to indicate that homeownership is positively related to better health outcomes, but little research has been undertaken on the relationship between homeownership and psychological distress. The present study attempts to fill some of this gap by deploying a rich set of controls and a range of regression methods using data from three Danish living conditions surveys. A negative connection between homeownership and psychological distress is found, especially for the low income group. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 471-488 Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.737557 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.737557 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:471-488 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 12 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2012.750858 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2012.750858 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:12:y:2012:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Author-Name: Mike Berry Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Berry Author-Name: Tony Dalton Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Dalton Title: ‘A dead and broken system?’: ‘insider’ views of the future role of Australian public housing Abstract: The Australian government has recently made explicit its intent to reduce its funding commitment to public housing and instead resource the community sector to provide new low-cost rental housing. This article explores the causes and future implications that arise from this policy switch based on analysis of interviews with senior policy-makers and professionals working in the sector within the Australian federal system of government. The focus of the article is on their understandings of the problems facing the public housing system and the opportunities and constraints they identify as important in their work aimed at continued provision of public housing and its improved viability. The article provides a diagnosis of the public housing problem, a discussion of the conduct of government and the future options for the sector, including stock transfer and a new regulatory framework. In the conclusion, the example of Australia is discussed in the light of recent international literature on government reforms shaping public housing provision. We argue that recent developments in Australia aiming to diversify the existing housing stock is best understood in the context of wider shifts in governance and welfare reform. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 183-201 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.785716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.785716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:183-201 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Judith Yates Author-X-Name-First: Judith Author-X-Name-Last: Yates Title: Evaluating social and affordable housing reform in Australia: lessons to be learned from history Abstract: Significant changes were introduced to the finance of social and affordable rental housing in Australia from 2007. These aimed to restructure social housing provision and encourage an increase in the supply of affordable housing. This paper evaluates these changes in light of experience with the provision of social housing in Australia over a 50-year period. It suggests that lessons from history explain why, without additional support, current changes are unlikely to be successful in meeting their intended goals. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 111-133 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.785717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.785717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:111-133 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Véronique Flambard Author-X-Name-First: Véronique Author-X-Name-Last: Flambard Title: Housing allowances and forced moves Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of housing allowances on the ability of households to sustain their dwelling. Means-tested benefits may fail to shelter households from hardship when parameters are underindexed for inflation, when adjustments of benefits to changing situations take too long or are insufficient, or when the benefits have inflationary effects on rent levels. Using evidence from the national French Housing Survey (INSEE), based on probit models, the determinants of threats of forced moves are assessed both for housing allowance recipients and for non-recipients. We conclude that even if housing allowances are effective in overcoming unaffordability, they do not entirely shield recipient households from forced moves. A completely effective policy that aims to ensure the ‘right to housing’ would reduce the risk of forced moves for recipient households to the risk level experienced by non-recipient households – a very difficult, if not impossible, objective. However, our results show, encouragingly, that the risk of forced moves for housing allowance recipients is nearly reduced to that of non-recipients. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 159-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.789750 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.789750 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:159-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hanneke Posthumus Author-X-Name-First: Hanneke Author-X-Name-Last: Posthumus Author-Name: Christine Lelévrier Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Lelévrier Title: How local contexts influence the neighbourhood satisfaction of displaced tenants in the Netherlands and France Abstract: A number of studies have examined the effects of social mixing policies on tenants who are forced to relocate to make way for more prosperous residents. They found that forced relocations can have both positive and negative effects on displaced tenants’ neighbourhood satisfaction. The present study looked at a potential explanation for these mixed results, namely differences between social housing contexts. As displaced tenants have low incomes, they are generally restricted to moves within the social rented housing sector. Therefore, the availability and allocation of social housing may strongly influence their opportunities to move to a satisfactory neighbourhood. Previous studies have not been able to distinguish the role of different social housing contexts on displaced tenants’ neighbourhood satisfaction, because they focused either on single cases or on multiple cases in the same relocation context. The present study has filled this gap by conducting 109 qualitative interviews with displaced tenants in both the Netherlands – where the social housing context imposes relatively few constraints on tenants – and France, where tenants face many constraints. It was found that, contrary to expectations, constraints did not always lead to tenants being less satisfied with their new neighbourhood, but did reduce their opportunities to move within or outside the neighbourhood. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 134-158 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.789751 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.789751 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:134-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jane Ball Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Ball Title: A Review of “Home equity and ageing owners: between risk and regulation” By Lorna Fox O’Mahony Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 223-225 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.789752 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.789752 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:223-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Reinout Kleinhans Author-X-Name-First: Reinout Author-X-Name-Last: Kleinhans Title: A Review of “Neighbors & neighborhoods: elements of successful community design” by Sidney Brower Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 215-217 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.789753 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.789753 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:215-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Murie Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Murie Title: A Review of “The politics of social housing in Britain” by Jamileh Manoochehri Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 217-219 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.789754 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.789754 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:217-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Perry Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Perry Title: A Review of “Interculturalism: the new era of cohesion and diversity” by Ted Cantle Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 220-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.789755 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.789755 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:220-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Noémie Houard Author-X-Name-First: Noémie Author-X-Name-Last: Houard Author-Name: Claire Lévy-Vroelant Author-X-Name-First: Claire Author-X-Name-Last: Lévy-Vroelant Title: The (enforceable) right to housing: a paradoxical French passion Abstract: In France, an enforceable ‘right to housing’ (Droit au logement opposable) was enacted in 2007. Since its rapid approval by Parliament, the law has been criticised for its apparent ineffectiveness to improve housing conditions. A superficial analysis might suggest that the law was merely the product of emergency. Nevertheless, a study of the decision-making process, and of the dynamics of the agenda-setting from at least 1990, shows that the enforceable right to housing was adopted as a result of a complex and long policy development path, with many players involved at different levels of the policy system. The rise of the right to housing, the origins of the law and the interplay of actors leading to its adoption are presented in the first section of this review. The second part focuses on the period preceding the adoption of the law and the ‘policy window’ that made it possible (2005–2007). The third part develops the three main challenges that the actors supporting the ‘right to housing’ have to face, and presents an analysis of the political meaning of the law. The final part reflects on the options open to the new socialist government (since 2012). Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 202-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.792464 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.792464 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:202-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paavo Monkkonen Author-X-Name-First: Paavo Author-X-Name-Last: Monkkonen Title: Housing deficits as a frame for housing policy: demographic change, economic crisis and household formation in Indonesia Abstract: The idea of housing deficit is a common, seemingly objective frame for housing policies that promote increased supply. This paper critically examines the concept through a case study of Indonesia, where different sources report a deficit of between 3 and 14 million dwelling units estimated without a transparent methodology. The wide range of estimates demonstrates the multiple interpretations of the term's meaning. In the paper, changes in household formation trends in urban Indonesia from 1990 to 2007 are used to estimate a quantitative housing deficit. I find the decreasing rate of household formation that is being interpreted as a housing deficit. However, this interpretation is complicated by the country's demographic transition and the high urbanization rate. Further, the abrupt change in household formation occurred around the year 2000, suggesting that the economic and political upheavals following the Asian financial crisis played an important role. Comparison of household formation rates across socioeconomic groups and urban areas shows housing markets also matter, illustrating the complexity of the issue. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 247-267 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.793518 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.793518 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:247-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William A. V. Clark Author-X-Name-First: William A. V. Author-X-Name-Last: Clark Title: The aftermath of the general financial crisis for the ownership society: what happened to low-income homeowners in the US? Abstract: The last half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented growth in homeownership in the United States and Europe. In the UK and the USA, policy and government actions were focused on increasing homeownership as part of a new ‘ownership society’. This was especially true in the 1990s and 2000s. Now, in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and the housing market collapse, there is renewed concern with the loss of housing-wealth, affordability and even whether ownership will ever be attainable for low-income and minority populations. This paper examines the rise in home ownership as governments engaged in a policy experiment of greatly expanding ownership. The paper extends the aggregate studies of the housing crisis by examining population cohort behavior during the housing bubble and the individual outcomes as a result of the housing experiment. I use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to evaluate the impacts of the debt burden and negative equity on ownership and conclude that they will have long-term impacts on the ability of low-income and minority households to enter the housing market or even to keep their homes. The policy goal of a broadened ownership society will be difficult to sustain in the light of stagnant incomes and high prices even after the recent decline in house values. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 227-246 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.796811 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.796811 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:227-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zara Bergsten Author-X-Name-First: Zara Author-X-Name-Last: Bergsten Author-Name: Emma Holmqvist Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Holmqvist Title: Possibilities of building a mixed city – evidence from Swedish cities Abstract: During the late twentieth century, the notion of residential mix became an important public policy in Sweden as well as in many other European countries, Australia and North America. The aim of these policies has primarily been to counteract residential segregation through regeneration of neighbourhoods. The Swedish policy provides an interesting case, as it differs in important respects from policies in other countries. The aim of the Swedish policy has been not only to change the social and physical structure of disadvantaged neighbourhoods, but also to create cities that are socially mixed in their entirety. However, the question is whether this universal aim of achieving mixed cities has been translated into urban planning and the actual construction of mixed neighbourhoods. Is the Swedish social mix policy a policy for the entire city or only a rhetorical goal? The present article shows that there is in fact a trend towards residential mix, as the number of tenure-mixed neighbourhoods has increased. However, contrary to the policy aim, new construction and tenure conversions have not always contributed to a greater mix, as there are also counteracting processes at work. The article furthermore shows that there are significant geographical variations in the implementation of the social mix policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 288-311 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.809211 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.809211 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:288-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yu Zhou Author-X-Name-First: Yu Author-X-Name-Last: Zhou Title: The decision to purchase a manufactured home: a nested logit model of determinants Abstract: This paper attempts to identify the drivers behind households’ decision to purchase a manufactured home rather than buy a traditional house or rent. A nested logit model is estimated using recent movers’ data from the national sample of the American Housing Survey 1985–2003. Explanatory factors include both housing choice attributes and movers’ characteristics. The results suggest that lowering the user cost of owning a manufactured home increases the probability of choosing that type of dwelling. Compared to their high-income counterparts, low- and medium-income households are more likely to choose owning manufactured homes as a transitional stage between renting and traditional home ownership. The recent movers who previously lived in manufactured homes are more inclined to own manufactured homes. Recent movers from older age groups, who are married, from a bigger family, or from a white family, are less likely to own manufactured homes. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 268-287 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.818784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.818784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:268-287 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christiane Droste Author-X-Name-First: Christiane Author-X-Name-Last: Droste Title: A Review of “Women and housing: an international analysis” Edited by Patricia Kennett and Kam Wah Chan Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 325-327 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.820890 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.820890 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:325-327 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jürgen Friedrichs Author-X-Name-First: Jürgen Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrichs Title: A Review of “Social mix and the city: challenging the mixed communities consensus in housing and urban planning policies” By Kathy Arthurson Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 332-333 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.820891 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.820891 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:332-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joris Hoekstra Author-X-Name-First: Joris Author-X-Name-Last: Hoekstra Title: A Review of “Housing disadvantaged people? Insiders and outsiders in French social housing” By Jane Ball Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 327-329 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.820892 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.820892 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:327-329 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie Lawson Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Lawson Title: A Review of “Australia's unintended cities: the impact of housing on urban development” Edited by Richard Tomlinson Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 329-331 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.820893 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.820893 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:329-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elena Shomina Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Shomina Author-Name: Frances Heywood Author-X-Name-First: Frances Author-X-Name-Last: Heywood Title: Transformation in Russian housing: the new key roles of local authorities Abstract: Democratically elected municipal government had no housing role in the Soviet era in Russia, as all housing belonged to the central state and was administered by its local agents. After 1990, a massive privatization of housing was achieved first through the transfer of stock from industrial companies to municipalities and then through no-cost transfer of ownership to the tenants. Despite privatization, a large amount of housing stock has since been unloaded back onto municipalities who now find themselves owners of 11% of all housing in Russia (much more in some regions). The poor quality of stock and the inability of the new owners to meet maintenance costs have led to a growing housing role for local authorities, who have many new responsibilities and expectations from residents, but few resources. Although the situation has parallels in other post-socialist countries, the scale in Russia is greater, and there is no EU aid, nor any tradition either of ownership or collective responsibility. Economic crisis in Europe and a slow down in housing construction in Russia mean that new policies for rental housing are needed. This review considers historic and recent changes in housing policy in the Russian Federation in light of the emerging housing role of municipal governments. In the review, we draw on national data as well a case study of the city of Perm to illustrate the impact of this transformation. Following a national meeting of housing experts in 2011, a new Government Strategy for 2020 has been established and is also discussed. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 312-324 Issue: 3 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.820894 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.820894 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:3:p:312-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wouter Bervoets Author-X-Name-First: Wouter Author-X-Name-Last: Bervoets Author-Name: Hilde Heynen Author-X-Name-First: Hilde Author-X-Name-Last: Heynen Title: The obduracy of the detached single family house in Flanders Abstract: After the Second World War, Belgium, and especially the Flemish region, was confronted with massive suburbanisation. The single family house became the dominant building type located in residential subdivisions, ribbon developments or as piecemeal developments scattered through the landscape. Today, there are growing concerns about the future of the post-war suburban housing stock in the light of the changing demographics, economics and an increasing ecological consciousness. Incremental modification, through the creation of secondary dwelling units in existing underused dwellings, is one of the strategies currently discussed to transform low-density residential neighbourhoods into more sustainable patterns. However, practice shows that the subdivision of detached single family houses still remains a rather marginal phenomenon in Flanders. This article analyses the ‘obduracy’ of the detached single family house in detail. Our analysis shows the obduracy as the result of a complex entanglement of very heterogeneous elements such as the materiality of the house, the meaning of home, the local home culture, real estate values, spatial policies, zoning plans and legislative framework. If the creation of secondary units would be adopted by the government as a transformation strategy for the suburban housing stock, then its implementation will demand a clear spatial vision on the future of residential neighbourhoods, an integral policy with linkages between the different policy sectors and different levels of administration, and a comprehensive set of measures. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 358-380 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.840109 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.840109 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:358-380 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Housing supply and urban planning reform: the recent Australian experience, 2003–2012 Abstract: This paper examines the emergence in Australia of housing supply as a key consideration in urban policy and reform. Australia has experienced declining housing affordability over the past decade, and sluggish housing construction since the GFC. As in many other nations, there has been a growing emphasis on land use planning as the major supply constraint, resonating with theoretical debates about the legitimacy of planning and development control in the context of an ongoing neo-liberal campaign for deregulation across the Australian public sector. Through a detailed analysis of Australian government and industry discourse between 2003 and 2012, this paper finds the arguments for planning as the chief cause of housing market problems weak and contradictory, and heavily reflect the views of industry lobby groups. While not absolving planning as a potential supply side constraint, ongoing change to the planning system itself creates uncertainty and distracts from the range of positive policy levers that might be used to promote housing supply and affordable homes for low- and moderate-income groups. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 381-407 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.840110 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.840110 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:381-407 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hal Pawson Author-X-Name-First: Hal Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan Title: New dawn or chimera? Can institutional financing transform rental housing? Abstract: Mainly stimulated by concerns over inadequate housing supply, both the UK and Australia have recently seen renewed policy-maker interest in channelling ‘institutional investment’ into rental housebuilding. This has coincided with the recognition that – as seen in both countries – ongoing changes in the demographics of expanding private rental sectors reinforce the need for new forms of provision.Drawing on recent ‘informed stakeholder’ perspectives in both countries, we build on existing accounts through our analysis of barriers to institutional financing of rental housing and our investigation of what, if any, fundamental changes in market conditions and investor sentiment have recently occurred, so that such obstacles might potentially be overcome. Further developing this story, we compare and contrast recent ‘policy reform’ recommendations proposed in both countries with the aim of stimulating institutional investment in housebuilding.Although impediments to large-scale institutional funding for rental housing remain substantial, we conclude that, should it take off, such financing could significantly affect the structure and quality of provision – especially via the involvement of not-for-profit landlords. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 335-357 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.840111 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.840111 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:335-357 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ren Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Ren Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Title: Resilience and housing choices among Filipino immigrants in Toronto Abstract: In Canada, where immigration plays a major role in population growth, immigrants’ housing choices and settlement patterns have been extensively researched. Using a case study of Filipino immigrants in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area, this paper demonstrates that choices such as affordable rental housing may contribute to flexibility and mobility in increasingly competitive labour and housing markets. The study, using descriptive statistics from Census data and interviews with Filipino immigrants, found that structural changes in immigration, housing and labour market policy over the past few decades have affected immigrants’ housing choices. These structural changes, combined with Filipinos’ resilience strategies, have resulted in housing patterns that are responsive to constantly changing household and labour market characteristics. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 408-432 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.840112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.840112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:408-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B. Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of “Housing Policy at a Crossroads: The Why, How, and Who of Assistance Programs” By John C. Weicher Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 446-449 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.852292 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.852292 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:446-449 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Bevan Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Bevan Title: A Review of “Rural housing, exurbanization, and amenity-driven development” Edited by Dave Marcouiller, Mark Lapping and Owen Furuseth Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 452-453 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.852293 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.852293 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:452-453 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David W. Marcouiller Author-X-Name-First: David W. Author-X-Name-Last: Marcouiller Title: A Review of “The rural housing question: Communities and planning in Britain's countrysides” By Madhu Satsangi, Nick Galent, and Mark Bevan Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 449-451 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.852294 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.852294 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:449-451 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kees Dol Author-X-Name-First: Kees Author-X-Name-Last: Dol Title: A Review of “Modernist Semis and Terraces in England” By Finn Jensen And “Town and terrace housing: for affordability and sustainability” By Avi Friedman Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 454-456 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.852295 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.852295 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:454-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maren Godzik Author-X-Name-First: Maren Author-X-Name-Last: Godzik Title: Rebuilding housing in Japan's tsunami-hit towns and cities Abstract: The earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011, and the series of tsunamis that followed, caused horrendous damage to thousands of houses and literally erased villages and parts of towns and cities from their sites in the Tohoku region. The process of rebuilding housing in Tohoku has been characterised by the intent to build safer housing with regard to future tsunamis, i.e., not rebuilding houses on the same sites and in the same way. Moreover, residents in the affected areas not only lost their houses and all their belongings, but, often, also their work and other assets that had been the basis for their lives, such as shops, factories and fishing boats – not to mention family members. Agricultural land along the coast has become unusable because of salinisation. The rebuilding process, therefore, depends on how support is provided to the population to rebuild their lives. The nuclear accident in Fukushima has further complicated the situation, as prospects for making the region habitable again are unclear in many areas. Japan's economic stagnation and its demographic development have represented additional challenges to reconstruction. This paper discusses the measures taken to provide housing in north-eastern Japan, drawing on official documents for post-earthquake reconstruction, secondary literature and participant observation in Tohoku. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 433-445 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.852301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.852301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:433-445 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board 2013 Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.862991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.862991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:13:y:2013:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roger Andersson Author-X-Name-First: Roger Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson Author-Name: Lena Magnusson Turner Author-X-Name-First: Lena Magnusson Author-X-Name-Last: Turner Title: Segregation, gentrification, and residualisation: from public housing to market-driven housing allocation in inner city Stockholm Abstract: From the 1930s and into the 1990s, public housing in Sweden was a key element in the Social Democrats’ ambition to construct a housing system that would secure high-quality, affordable housing for all. The Liberal–Conservative national government of the early 1990s initiated important changes to housing policy in Sweden and allowed for local decision-making concerning tenure conversion, the conversion of public rental housing into market-based (cooperative) housing. Stockholm city decided early on to invite public housing residents to buy their dwellings, under the condition that at least half of the residents living in a particular property were in favour of buying. In this paper we ask two questions: in what way did the subsequent and substantial tenure conversions change the population mix of affected neighbourhoods? Second, have tenure conversions in inner city Stockholm contributed to increasing levels of segregation in the city of Stockholm? We hypothesise that inner city Stockholm has further gentrified and that non-converted public housing properties, predominantly found in the suburban parts of the city, experience residualisation (households have become poorer in relative terms). In short, we expect and also document increasing levels of socio-economic segregation as the result of this right-to-buy policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 3-29 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.872949 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.872949 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:3-29 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B. Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of “HUD Scandals: Howling headlines and silent fiascoes” By Irving Welfeld Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 113-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.876575 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.876575 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:113-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B. Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of “The fateful history of Fannie Mae: new deal birth to mortgage crisis fall” By James R. Hagerty Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 110-113 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.876576 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.876576 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:110-113 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter A. Kemp Author-X-Name-First: Peter A. Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp Title: A Review of “Rental housing policy in Europe” By Christian Donner Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 109-110 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.876577 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.876577 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:109-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Oxley Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Oxley Title: A Review of “Young people and housing: transitions, trajectories and generational fractures” Edited by Ray Forrest and Ngai ming Yip Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 107-109 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.876578 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.876578 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:107-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hugo Priemus Author-X-Name-First: Hugo Author-X-Name-Last: Priemus Title: Is the landlord levy a threat to the rented housing sector? The case of the Netherlands Abstract: In 2010 a working party made up of Dutch civil servants suggested a tool known as the ‘National Residential Property Tax’ with the aim of strengthening the public budget. Initially, this was intended as a tenure-neutral tax for both the owner-occupier and the rented sector. However, in the 2012 Coalition Agreement between the conservatives (VVD) and the social democrats (PvdA) it was narrowed down to a levy for landlords of properties with regulated rents – and thus ended up as a specific tax largely targeted at housing associations. On the one hand, the new government was offering housing association opportunities for annual rent increases above the rate of inflation but, on the other hand, it was getting ready to cream off the extra revenue to alleviate its own budgetary problems. By 2017 this new levy will have risen to 1.7 billion euros annually. This paper explains the background to this unique Dutch housing policy instrument and presents an ex ante evaluation of the impact of the landlord levy on housing associations, commercial real estate investors and tenants. It will also offer some conclusions and policy recommendations for housing policy in the Netherlands, which could be relevant for other European countries as well. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 98-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.876579 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.876579 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:98-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christian Lennartz Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz Title: Market structures of rental housing: conceptualising perfect competition in mixed local rental markets Abstract: Governments in many countries have required social housing providers to operate more in terms of market principles and engage in commercial activities. At the same time, public authorities have also tried to strengthen the role of the private rental sector in the provision of housing for low-income households and homeless people. As a result, the once clear demarcation between the activities of social and private landlords appears to be shifting, which has arguably led to increased competitive pressures on both landlord groups. In an attempt to establish a more meaningful analytical approach to the concept of competition between rental tenures, this paper sets out an idea of a perfectly competitive rental market structure. The theoretical part of the paper is guided by questions surrounding how one can translate established economic theories of competitive markets to rental housing and what a competitive market structure is in context of competition between social and market renting. In the second part of the paper, the above theoretical concept is applied to two local housing markets: Coventry in England and Breda in the Netherlands. Here, I will provide evidence on how and why rental housing in Breda seems to be more competitive than in Coventry. The application of the model will highlight the value of the present approach. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 56-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2013.877686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2013.877686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:56-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: The impact of housing tenure in supporting ageing in place: exploring the links between housing systems and housing options for the elderly Abstract: The aim of paper is to reveal the link between the scope of housing aid designed to support ageing in place and the housing system. The main research question is whether the structure of the housing stock according to housing tenure has an impact on diversity and innovations in the supply of public housing subsidies and the housing options available to the elderly. The research is conducted on a sample of eight European countries that substantially differ in terms of their housing and welfare system: Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Italy. These countries were represented in the international project HELPS that primarily focuses on implementation of innovative pilot actions in selected EU states that would increase the autonomy of vulnerable people. After controlling for the effects of several external factors, the results show that the tenure-based structure of housing stock may have a significant impact on the dependent variable, which is the diversity and innovativeness of housing subsidies and options for the elderly. Specifically, in countries with a lower homeownership rate and a higher share of rental housing there is also a greater probability that the supply of housing subsidies and options available to the elderly will be wider and will involve more innovative features. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 30-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.884880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.884880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:30-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: A. Russolillo Author-X-Name-First: A. Author-X-Name-Last: Russolillo Author-Name: M. Patterson Author-X-Name-First: M. Author-X-Name-Last: Patterson Author-Name: L. McCandless Author-X-Name-First: L. Author-X-Name-Last: McCandless Author-Name: A. Moniruzzaman Author-X-Name-First: A. Author-X-Name-Last: Moniruzzaman Author-Name: J. Somers Author-X-Name-First: J. Author-X-Name-Last: Somers Title: Emergency department utilisation among formerly homeless adults with mental disorders after one year of Housing First interventions: a randomised controlled trial Abstract: Homeless individuals represent a disadvantaged and marginalised group who experience increased rates of physical illness as well as mental and substance use disorders. Compared to stably housed individuals, homeless adults with mental disorders use hospital emergency departments and other acute health care services at a higher frequency. Housing First integrates housing and support services in a client-centred model and has been shown to reduce acute health care among homeless populations. The present analysis is based on participants enrolled in the Vancouver At Home Study (n = 297) randomised to one of three intervention arms (Housing First in a ‘congregate setting’, in ‘scattered site’ [SS] apartments in the private rental market, or to ‘treatment as usual’ [TAU] where individuals continue to use existing services available to homeless adults with mental illness), and incorporates linked data from a regional database representing six urban emergency departments. Compared to TAU, significantly lower numbers of emergency visits were observed during the post-randomisation period in the SS group (adjusted rate ratio 0.55 [0.35,0.86]). Our results suggest that Housing First, particularly the SS model, produces significantly lower hospital emergency department visits among homeless adults with a mental disorder. These findings demonstrate the potential effectiveness of Housing First to reduce acute health care use among homeless individuals and have implications for future health and housing policy initiatives. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 79-97 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.884881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.884881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:79-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Title: Plus ça change… Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-2 Issue: 1 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.884882 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.884882 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:1-2 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Quintin Bradley Author-X-Name-First: Quintin Author-X-Name-Last: Bradley Title: Tenants’ campaigns for tenure neutrality and a general needs model of social housing: making universal claims Abstract: The policy of tenure neutrality championed by the International Union of Tenants as essential to a right to adequate housing advances a model of general needs or, in other words, universal social rented housing provision unrestricted by income limits or needs-based rationing. Support for this model has been severely undermined by recent European Commission rulings that have restricted access to social housing to those least capable of coping in a competitive market place. As general needs demand for affordable housing continues to swell, the challenge for adherents of tenure neutrality is to demonstrate that universal social housing can meet both the needs of the most vulnerable and the demands of those excluded from homeownership by price inflation and credit limits. This paper examines the promotion of universal social housing by tenants’ organisations and challenges the extent to which this model is intended ‘for all’. In a case study of the defence of municipal housing by English tenants’ movements, it identifies the exclusionary narratives that render the particular housing needs of advantaged social groups as universal. The paper concludes by reviewing strategies to resolve the tensions between the universal and the particular to reinvigorate support for tenure neutrality in arguments for widening access and supply of social housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 164-180 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.908569 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.908569 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:164-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marietta Haffner Author-X-Name-First: Marietta Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner Author-Name: Harry Boumeester Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Boumeester Title: Is renting unaffordable in the Netherlands? Abstract: Tenants in the Netherlands not only pay relatively more for their housing consumption than owner-occupiers, but also appear to be subject to Schwabe's law on rent. This law states that households with a lower income are confronted with higher rent-to-income ratios than households with a higher income. In the Netherlands most rents are regulated, so these are expected to be at below-market levels. Tenants of these dwellings are eligible for housing allowances if their income is considered insufficient for paying the rent. The hypothesis is that a rental dwelling with a regulated rent and for which the tenant receives a housing allowance should be affordable to the tenant. However, as this paper shows, even a maximum degree of government intervention (rent regulation and housing allowances) plus the impact of affordable rent setting by landlords, leading to a maximum subsidisation of the tenant, cannot prevent a situation whereby tenants are paying an unaffordable rent. And an unaffordable rent suggests that these tenants may indeed feel impacted by housing affordability problems. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 117-140 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.908570 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.908570 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:117-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: József Hegedüs Author-X-Name-First: József Author-X-Name-Last: Hegedüs Author-Name: Vera Horváth Author-X-Name-First: Vera Author-X-Name-Last: Horváth Author-Name: Nóra Tosics Author-X-Name-First: Nóra Author-X-Name-Last: Tosics Title: Economic and legal conflicts between landlords and tenants in the Hungarian private rental sector Abstract: After privatisation in the 1990s, the Hungarian public rental sector decreased sharply in size, from 23% to 3% by 2012. Meanwhile, against expectations, the private rental sector (PRS) did not undergo dynamic growth either, its official share now being 4%. The PRS seems to suffer from a number of defects. The tax and subsidy environment makes it unattractive for both potential landlords and tenants. Moreover, the legal environment – under-regulated tenant–landlord relations and an ineffective legal conflict resolution system – increases the risk inherent in private residential tenancy contracts. The absence of professional landlords is indicative of the lack of incentives to enter the private rental market. Yet, private rental lives on, if only for a lack of other options in many cases. Typically, landlords are accidental second homeowners and typical tenants are households that are excluded from other forms of housing provision. After a brief overview of the current state of the sector and its history, this paper will focus on the economic and legal conflicts between landlords and tenants, and will consider critically the constraints on the development of the PRS after the transition. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 141-163 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.908571 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.908571 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:141-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liviu Chelcea Author-X-Name-First: Liviu Author-X-Name-Last: Chelcea Title: A Review of “Residential change and demographic challenge: the inner city of East Central Europe in the 21st century”, Edited by Annegret Haase, Annett Steinführer, Sigrun Kabisch, Katrin Grossmann and Ray Hall Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 198-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.908572 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.908572 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:198-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kath Scanlon Author-X-Name-First: Kath Author-X-Name-Last: Scanlon Title: A Review of “The affordable housing reader”, Edited by J. Rosie Tighe and Elizabeth J. Mueller Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 196-198 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.908573 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.908573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:196-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sasha Tsenkova Author-X-Name-First: Sasha Author-X-Name-Last: Tsenkova Title: A Review of “Social housing in transition countries”, Edited by József Hegedüs, Martin Lux and Nóra Teller Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 200-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.908575 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.908575 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:200-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gamal M. Hamid Author-X-Name-First: Gamal M. Author-X-Name-Last: Hamid Author-Name: Ahmed A. Mohamed Elhassan Author-X-Name-First: Ahmed A. Author-X-Name-Last: Mohamed Elhassan Title: Incremental housing as an alternative housing policy: evidence from Greater Khartoum, Sudan Abstract: With about 80% of households in Greater Khartoum classified as being of low income, the cost of housing is unaffordable for the vast majority of households. This results in a wide gap between demand and supply manifested in over-crowding and massive growth of informal settlements. The predominant housing supply mechanism adopted in most of urban Sudan is sites-and-services. However, about 56% of the serviced plots allocated in Khartoum State during 1956–2007 have remained undeveloped because of the prohibitive cost of housing. Consequently, the State has opted to replace sites-and-services with core housing as an alternative housing policy because of its perceived economies of scale. This paper assesses the potential and the limitations of different forms of incremental housing as solutions for low-income groups in Khartoum State. The paper analyses the strengths and weaknesses of past examples of agency-built incremental housing and suggests guidelines and recommendations to improve the performance of incremental housing. In addition to a desk review of previous studies on housing in general and on incremental housing in particular, the authors conducted a survey of 222 households in sites-and-services areas, in upgraded squatter settlements and in core housing projects. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 181-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.908576 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.908576 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:181-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yawei Chen Author-X-Name-First: Yawei Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Title: A Review of “In search of paradise: middle-class living in a Chinese metropolis”, By Li Zhang Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 204-206 Issue: 2 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.914672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.914672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:204-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Justin Kadi Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Kadi Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Title: Market-based housing reforms and the ‘right to the city’: the variegated experiences of New York, Amsterdam and Tokyo Abstract: Market-based reforms have played important parts in restructuring urban housing sectors in recent decades and have increasingly marginalised or excluded lower income groups, especially in the so-called ‘global cities’ where market pressures have been strongest. While accounts of housing policy and market transformations in cities are not uncommon, existing studies demonstrate a strong North American bias. Moreover, comparative analyses have so far been rare. In this paper, neoliberal transformations in housing practices and conditions are examined in three highly differentiated and contrasting cities from three different continents: New York, Amsterdam and Tokyo. The analysis demonstrates remarkable variegation in the manifestation of neoliberalisation of housing as well as considerable path dependency in terms of housing policies, practices and market restructuring. What becomes evident is that both symbolic and de facto erosion of the ‘right to the city’ for low-income residents, while a relatively ubiquitous outcome of housing marketisation, is strongly mediated by local housing practices, structural constraints and policy legacies and regimes. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 268-292 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.928098 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.928098 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:268-292 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael R. Glass Author-X-Name-First: Michael R. Author-X-Name-Last: Glass Author-Name: Rachael Woldoff Author-X-Name-First: Rachael Author-X-Name-Last: Woldoff Author-Name: Lisa Morrison Author-X-Name-First: Lisa Author-X-Name-Last: Morrison Title: Does the middle class have rights to the city? Contingent rights and the struggle to inhabit Stuyvesant Town, New York Abstract: From the housing project's inception, New York's Stuyvesant Town has been an unlikely site for struggles over inhabitance and social justice. Robert Moses used a public–private partnership to displace residents of the Gashouse district for the initially whites-only affordable housing project. Assisted by local rent-stabilisation legislation, Stuyvesant Town persisted as an affordable housing option until the early 2000s, when the new owners began converting the properties to market-rate rentals. An unlikely coalition of residents mobilised to block the sale, and by the late 2000s rent controls were re-established. This case links significant themes regarding social justice and housing including rent stabilisation, community activism, and neoliberal marketisation. We evaluate the utility of the right to the city perspective for understanding middle-class struggles in the context of housing financialisation. We argue that Lefebvre's right to the city applies to the Stuyvesant Town context, although the movement to protect affordable housing was led by middle-income residents who are not the traditional working-class agents associated with his concept. While remaining sympathetic to recent critiques over the vulgarisation of Lefebvre's principles, we argue that a focus on spatially contingent rights can transcend both a limited ‘politics of turf’ and empty ‘rights talk’ to create space for broadly empowered and inclusive communities. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 214-235 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.931717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.931717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:214-235 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Noura Alkhalili Author-X-Name-First: Noura Author-X-Name-Last: Alkhalili Author-Name: Muna Dajani Author-X-Name-First: Muna Author-X-Name-Last: Dajani Author-Name: Daniela De Leo Author-X-Name-First: Daniela Author-X-Name-Last: De Leo Title: Shifting realities: dislocating Palestinian Jerusalemites from the capital to the edge Abstract: Lefebvre's ‘right to the city’ was an expression of a new politics of citizenship, residency and above all the right to urban life. We thus build our argument in this paper on the Lefebvre concept and through the case study of Kufr Aqab, the northernmost neighbourhood of the occupied city of Jerusalem. In order to systematically displace Palestinian Jerusalemites and to achieve the Judaisation of Jerusalem, the right to urban life and any sort of ‘right to the city’ have been completely denied. In fact, through the spatial–demographic policies practised by Israeli authorities, Kufr Aqab has been aggressively excluded from the central area of Jerusalem (by the separation wall and the military border crossing) and progressively ethnically segregated. Kufr Aqab is highly populated by displaced Palestinian Jerusalemites since it is the only alternative that allows them to maintain their Jerusalem residency and their few civic rights. Ongoing unregulated urban development and deliberate informality has rendered Kufr Aqab a space of legal and civic exceptions and an insecure environment suspended within a notion of ‘permanent temporariness’. This case study poses important questions to the relevance of Lefebvrian concepts, even if the ‘point of departure of this urban problematic’ is not industrialisation but the Israeli occupation, and the ‘critical point’ is not within a western context. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 257-267 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.933651 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.933651 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:257-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Darcy Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Darcy Author-Name: Dallas Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Dallas Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Title: Inhabitance, place-making and the right to the city: public housing redevelopment in Sydney Abstract: This article brings Lefebvre's Right to the City thesis into conversation with Bauman's notion of the flawed consumer to account for the neoliberal colonisation of public tenant organising in urban redevelopment. Drawing on a case study of public housing redevelopment from Sydney, Australia, we show that neoliberal community building and the emergence of professional community builders obviate the self-organising efforts of tenants. In this case tenants’ rights were attenuated when the housing authority invited private capital to not only rebuild the physical fabric but also remake the social relations around public tenancy within the trope of consumerism. We argue for a revival of tenant self-organising as a collective political project that might counteract the individualisation of tenants’ rights under neoliberal community building regimes. Such a political project needs to be extended beyond the boundaries of the local neighbourhood or ‘housing estate’ to expose the strategies at work in public housing redevelopment projects. Drawing on Right to the City we argue that inhabitance should confer the right to participate in place-making. We conclude that tenant self-organising is one way that tenants imagine, collectively construct and inhabit lived space; it is a process of meaning- and place-making amongst a community with a shared experience of contemporary urban transformation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 236-256 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.934157 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.934157 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:236-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Johnsen Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Johnsen Title: A Review of "Stories from the street: a theology of homelessness", By David Nixon Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 314-316 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.935081 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.935081 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:314-316 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Urmi Sengupta Author-X-Name-First: Urmi Author-X-Name-Last: Sengupta Title: A Review of "Housing East Asia: socioeconomic and demographic challenges", Edited by John Doling and Richard Ronald Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 316-319 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.935082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.935082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:316-319 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Susan J. Smith Author-X-Name-First: Susan J. Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: A Review of "The Sage handbook of housing studies", Edited by David F. Clapham, William A.V. Clark and Kenneth Gibb Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 319-321 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.935083 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.935083 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:319-321 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joris Hoekstra Author-X-Name-First: Joris Author-X-Name-Last: Hoekstra Author-Name: Peter Boelhouwer Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Boelhouwer Title: Falling between two stools? Middle-income groups in the Dutch housing market Abstract: The Dutch social rental sector is known for its large size and its broad target group. It houses not only lower income groups, but also households with a middle or higher income. However, recent regulations have restricted access to the social rental sector for middle-income households (gross annual income above €34,229). This paper explores the housing market effects of this new policy. It shows that many middle-income households have in fact few alternative housing market options, since affordable homeownership and private rental sector dwellings are in short supply. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 301-313 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.935105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.935105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:301-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Raquel Rolnik Author-X-Name-First: Raquel Author-X-Name-Last: Rolnik Title: Place, inhabitance and citizenship: the right to housing and the right to the city in the contemporary urban world Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 293-300 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.936178 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.936178 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:293-300 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B. Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers Author-Name: Kenneth Gibb Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth Author-X-Name-Last: Gibb Title: Housing and the right to the city: introduction to the special issue Abstract: In recent years responses to neoliberal urbanism and social injustice have been framed in terms of ‘the right to the city’, both by academics and social movements. This special issue presents case studies of housing struggles from around the globe that are framed within a right to the city perspective. In this introduction to the special issue we first present a short synopsis of the idea of a right to the city, as put forward by Henri Lefebvre; second, we briefly discuss earlier work that has used a right to the city lens to look at housing; and third, we provide an overview of the papers that make up this special issue. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 207-213 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.936179 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.936179 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:207-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo Title: A Review of "Urban theory beyond the West: a world of cities", Edited by Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 321-324 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.937070 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.937070 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:3:p:321-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lynne C. Manzo Author-X-Name-First: Lynne C. Author-X-Name-Last: Manzo Title: On uncertain ground: being at home in the context of public housing redevelopment Abstract: The recent global financial crisis increased the volatility of housing markets and furthered the ongoing disinvestment in public sector housing. This disinvestment has been manifest in urban restructuring programmes involving both the privatisation and the wholesale demolition of public/social housing. For example, programmes like HOPE VI in the USA have radically altered the landscape of public housing through the demolition of tens of thousands of housing units nationwide. However, what of the people who occupied this housing, and what of the lives they had built there? In such a context, deliberating on the notion of being at home becomes a pressing task, necessitating serious consideration of the lived experience of place and place attachments among those who have been displaced by such programmes. While research has studied outcomes such as the quality of the new neighbourhood and household economic stability, it does not adequately address the lived experience of place and the disruptions that forced relocation can cause. This paper brings the literature on place attachment into the discussion of urban restructuring programmes and discusses the findings of several empirical studies on place attachment to provide a more complete picture of the impacts of such programmes on poor people. It demonstrates how place attachments in the context of public housing are complicated by poverty, power dynamics, ambivalence, and stigma, underscoring how attachments are formed through the interplay of policy and programme rhetoric, and the active processes of meaning making among residents. Policy implications of considering place attachments in public housing redevelopment efforts are also addressed. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 389-410 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.947125 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.947125 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:389-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hal Pawson Author-X-Name-First: Hal Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson Author-Name: Ilan Wiesel Author-X-Name-First: Ilan Author-X-Name-Last: Wiesel Title: Tenant agency in Australia's public housing transfers: a comparative assessment Abstract: Chronically starved of resources, Australia's public housing is trapped in a spiral of decline. State governments have been increasingly looking to large-scale transfers to not-for-profit housing providers as a possible salvation. Focusing on the relatively small-scale largely experimental programmes enacted to date, and using the UK council housing transfer experience as a comparative context, this paper analyses the nature and extent of tenant voice and choice in such initiatives. Mainly based on interviews with social landlord staff and tenants involved in recent transfer programmes, it is found that resident input to decision-making has been generally very limited. At least among social landlord staff, a consensus view has emerged that the ‘individual choice’ model so far utilised would be untenable within the context of larger scale programmes. The paper weighs up the feasibility of a ‘collective choice’ approach akin to that used in the UK and assesses the thinking underpinning the ‘mandated transfer’ model which appears more likely to predominate in the future. It also connects policy-maker thinking on tenant rights to a meaningful say on transfers with the increasingly dominant Australian orthodoxy that social housing should form ‘a pathway and not a destination’ and that, in line with this, tenancies should be granted on a fixed term rather than open-ended basis. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 344-367 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.952957 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.952957 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:344-367 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ann-Kathrin Seemann Author-X-Name-First: Ann-Kathrin Author-X-Name-Last: Seemann Author-Name: Simone Renner Author-X-Name-First: Simone Author-X-Name-Last: Renner Author-Name: Florian Drevs Author-X-Name-First: Florian Author-X-Name-Last: Drevs Author-Name: Martin Dietrich Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Dietrich Title: Ownership status, symbolic traits, and housing association attractiveness: evidence from the German residential market Abstract: This study investigates whether the non-profit and for-profit status of housing associations implies a symbolic meaning and represents an informational cue that potential renters may value. Referring to the stereotype content model, we examine the relationship between renters’ perceptions of the stereotypical dimensions of ‘competence’ and ‘warmth’ of management-related images and, subsequently, rental housing attractiveness. Using a between-subject-experimental design (for-profit vs. non-profit housing associations) in a German rental market context, a sample of 200 respondents was placed in a hypothetical rental offering situation and asked to evaluate the rental provider with respect to stereotypical perceptions. The study results show that the extent to which the management of a housing association is perceived to behave unselfishly and consistently with moral codes (warmth) and is able to bring about one's intent (competence) are positively related to rental housing attractiveness. The results imply that symbolic trait inferences have incremental value beyond the instrumental attributes of a rental offering, such as rental price or housing comfort, in the explanation of rental housing attractiveness. For a citizen-oriented rental housing policy, the study suggests that policy-makers should make reflections on the limitations of privatisation measures and should promote the capacity of public and non-profit rental offers and housing associations. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 411-426 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.952958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.952958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:411-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: César M. Fuentes Author-X-Name-First: César M. Author-X-Name-Last: Fuentes Author-Name: Vladimir Hernandez Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir Author-X-Name-Last: Hernandez Title: Housing finance reform in Mexico: the impact of housing vacancy on property crime Abstract: Since 2000, the numbers of vacant housing units have increased dramatically in many parts of Mexico. Much of this has been tied to the liberalisation of the housing market where private homebuilders play an important role in the production of housing and the role of public sector is limited to the support of housing finance. Public debates concerning the regulation of private sector homebuilders as well as the practices and policies of government lending agencies have hinged on housing overproduction and vacancy rates in recent years, with the latter associated with social problems in many cities. This paper explicitly examines the relationship between vacancy rate and levels of property crime (burglaries) in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Along with data from the Population and Housing Census, the State Public Security Office data for the 2008–2009 period on property crimes (burglary), were geocoded, mapped and aggregated to the census-tract level. The ordinary least square regression results show that there are significant local variations in the relationships between the risk of property crimes and the percentage of vacant housing units, commercial and service land use and residents who are male aged 15–24. The findings strongly link housing overproduction with vacancy rates and crime, and suggest that private sector homebuilders and the mortgage allocation system should be more strongly regulated in Mexico. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 368-388 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.955332 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.955332 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:368-388 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Beverley A. Searle Author-X-Name-First: Beverley A. Author-X-Name-Last: Searle Author-Name: David McCollum Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: McCollum Title: Property-based welfare and the search for generational equality Abstract: In many countries, the demographic shift towards an ageing population is occurring against a backdrop of welfare state restructuring. The paradigm of asset-based welfare may become increasingly central to these developments as individualised welfare is touted as part of the response to the challenge of funding the care of an ageing population. This article focuses on the framing of housing wealth as a form of asset-based welfare in the UK context. We consider the strengths and weaknesses of housing as a form of asset-based welfare, both in terms of equity between generations and equality within them. We argue that housing market gains have presented many homeowners with significant, and arguably unearned, wealth and that policy-makers could reasonably expect that some of these assets be utilised to meet welfare needs in later life. However, the suitability of asset-based welfare as a panacea to the fiscal costs of an ageing population and welfare state retraction is limited by a number of potential practical and ethical concerns. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 325-343 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.955334 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.955334 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:325-343 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kathy Arthurson Author-X-Name-First: Kathy Author-X-Name-Last: Arthurson Title: A Review of “Social housing disadvantage and neighbourhood liveability: ten years of change in social housing neighbourhoods”, Edited by Michelle Norris Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 444-446 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.967910 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.967910 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:444-446 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Pickvance Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Pickvance Title: A Review of “All that is solid: the great housing disaster”, By Danny Dorling Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 446-448 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.967911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.967911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:446-448 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kathleen Scanlon Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen Author-X-Name-Last: Scanlon Title: A Review of “Driving Detroit: the quest for respect in the Motor City”, By George Galster Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 448-450 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.967912 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.967912 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:448-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Connie P.Y. Tang Author-X-Name-First: Connie P.Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Tang Title: A Review of “Affordable and social housing: policy and practice”, Edited by Paul Reeves Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 451-453 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.967913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.967913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:451-453 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cameron Parsell Author-X-Name-First: Cameron Author-X-Name-Last: Parsell Author-Name: Andrew Jones Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: Bold reform or policy overreach? Australia's attack on homelessness: 2008–2013 Abstract: In late 2007, a national Labor government came to office in Australia and identified permanently reducing homelessness as a policy priority. At the time, Australia's new approach to addressing homelessness was celebrated and widely supported as innovative and timely. This policy review asks: what constituted Australia's new approach to homelessness policy; what was the basis for implementing the approach; and what does the evidence say about its effectiveness? Our analysis shows that, based on official intentions, new programmes, and increased levels of funding, recent Australian strategies to respond to homelessness are meaningfully different from the former crisis-based approach. Advocates for Australia's contemporary approach drew upon a range of normative, economic and evidence-based policy arguments. Although there is much to be optimistic about, we show that there is little data available to measure the effectiveness of Australia's efforts to achieve targeted reductions in homelessness; the limited data available indicates that homelessness at the population level is not decreasing as intended. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 427-443 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.967923 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.967923 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:427-443 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 454-454 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.979620 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.979620 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:454-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.980490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.980490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:14:y:2014:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fulong Wu Author-X-Name-First: Fulong Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Commodification and housing market cycles in Chinese cities Abstract: The paper assesses how housing commodification in China has been used to cope with the impact of financial crises and open up new opportunities to boost economic growth. In particular, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the injection of capital has led to a new housing market cycle. We explain the major housing market cycles after 1978 and suggest an underlying linkage with macroeconomic measures aimed at making housing a more ‘liquid’ asset and richer households increasingly using second homes as an investment strategy. Further, the Chinese form of development regime is examined, revealing the role of local government in promoting housing markets, on the one hand, and the concern of central government with property bubbles and financial risks – leading to the adaptation of a more regulated approach to restrict housing sales – on the other. We argue that housing market cycles should be understood by seeing how property development is at the centre of urban development in China. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 6-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.925255 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.925255 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:6-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Beng Huat Chua Author-X-Name-First: Beng Huat Author-X-Name-Last: Chua Title: Financialising public housing as an asset for retirement in Singapore Abstract: In Singapore, more than 85% of the one million households living in public housing own a 99-year lease on their flat. This high rate of ‘ownership’ has been enabled by allowing leaseholders to make pre-retirement withdrawals from their social security savings accounts for monthly mortgage payments, with the expectation that the flat will eventually be monetised to fund the lease-owner's retirement. In order to meet future retirement needs, the market value of public flats, therefore, must necessarily increase, preferably exceeding annual inflation, in order to preserve the capital invested. This paper examines a number of consequences and contradictions resulting from a system built upon an inflationary regime in which economic security in later life depends on sustained house price inflation. Having encouraged the entire nation to invest their retirement savings in owner-occupied public housing, the public housing authority and government together now bear responsibilities for ensuring both steady increases in property values and establishing regulations for monetising them. Lease-owners are in turn pressured to find ways to enhance their capital investments in their flats by working around the rules and regulations of ownership. Over time, however, persistent house price inflation has begun to create affordability problems for new entrants to the public housing market. Subsequently, the positive contribution of the universal public housing programme to the political legitimacy of the incumbent government is being transformed into a ‘burden’. Maintaining balance among the simultaneous and systemic contradictions with the public housing programme has thus become a constant preoccupation of the housing authority and the government. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 27-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.984823 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.984823 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:27-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hugo Priemus Author-X-Name-First: Hugo Author-X-Name-Last: Priemus Title: Squatters in the city: new occupation of vacant offices Abstract: This paper, presenting evidence from the Netherlands, aims to connect two issues that are mostly dealt with in isolation: the development of the squatters’ movement and the increasing vacancy of offices in urban areas. As a result of overproduction of office space, the shrinking number of employed people and the growing popularity of the so-called ‘new working arrangements’, the vacancy of offices in urban areas is increasing quickly. Urban managers are faced with a significant challenge of managing these empty spaces and this paper discusses how squatting, despite an unsupportive legislative environment, has historically proliferated when vacancy rates rise.In order to understand contemporary policy debates surrounding this issue, this paper first sets out a brief history of the squatters’ movement in the Netherlands, Europe and elsewhere. Dutch government has wrestled with the squatting issue since 1976 and has tried to control this movement by legislation. Hence, the paper provides a critical overview of legislative and practical developments affecting squatters in the Netherlands, particularly in their occupation of vacant office space. Finally, the paper considers how vacant office space might be used more effectively to provide affordable housing, with a particular focus on the role of squatting. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 84-92 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.989680 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.989680 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:84-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B. Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers Title: The Great Moderation, the Great Excess and the global housing crisis Abstract: This paper explores the relationships between local or national housing markets and recent historic transformations in global capitalism. It proposes a periodisation of developments in housing markets, policies and practices distinguishing between, first, the pre-modern period; second, the modern or Fordist period; third, the flexible neoliberal or post-Fordist period; and fourth, the late neoliberal or emerging post-crisis period. This periodisation is a heuristic device that helps to make sense of the interdependence of national housing markets and the global financial crisis. The argument is not that the crisis caused the breakdown of the post-Fordist housing model, but rather that the shift to this model introduced certain dynamics to housing markets that a few decades later culminated into a crisis. The start of the Great Moderation was also the start of the financialisation of states and economies in various domains, particularly housing. In making this argument, I unpack the concept of the Great Moderation: what appeared to be a structural moderation of macroeconomic cycles was in fact the build-up of a bubble economy. The 1970s and early 1980s as well as the post-2007 crisis are critical junctures in the development of housing. The Great Moderation was also a Great Excess in terms of rising inequality and excessive credit and debt, suggestive of a finance-led regime of accumulation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 43-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.997431 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.997431 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:43-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Susan J. Smith Author-X-Name-First: Susan J. Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: Owner occupation: at home in a spatial, financial paradox Abstract: The normalisation of home ownership is well-rehearsed, yet ongoing. In a bid to free up the intellectual, political and practical imagination around owner occupation, this paper confronts its absurdity. By way of four ‘thought experiments’, the text interrogates: a spatial paradox enabling housing services to deliver investment returns; a financial paradox enacted to wrest the rabbit of fiscal well-being from the hat of indivisible assets; some uncanny qualities infusing the security of home ownership; and the ill-fated anticipation that leveraged ownership might conjure something out of nothing where welfare needs arise. Having reviewed some limits to tenure-divided, ownership-centred housing systems, the paper concludes with a practical and ethical reflection on the future. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 61-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.997432 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.997432 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:61-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kees Dol Author-X-Name-First: Kees Author-X-Name-Last: Dol Title: A Review of “Housing finance systems: market failures and government failures”, By Sock-Yong Phang Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 93-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.999418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.999418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:93-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gerard van Bortel Author-X-Name-First: Gerard Author-X-Name-Last: van Bortel Title: A Review of “Private rental housing: comparative perspectives”, Edited by Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 95-97 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.999420 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.999420 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:95-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shenjing He Author-X-Name-First: Shenjing Author-X-Name-Last: He Title: A Review of “Housing inequality in Chinese cities”, Edited by Youqin Huang and Si-ming Li Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 97-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.999421 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.999421 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:97-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Smith Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: A Review of “Social housing in Europe”, Edited by Kathleen Scanlon, Christine Whitehead and Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 100-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.999422 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.999422 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:100-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ray Forrest Author-X-Name-First: Ray Author-X-Name-Last: Forrest Title: The ongoing financialisation of home ownership – new times, new contexts Abstract: We used to think of a house as a home; now we think of it as an investment portfolio. This is the underlying theme of the four papers included in this special issue. The papers are all concerned with aspects of financialisation in the housing sphere. Fulong Wu examines the changing relationship between economic growth and housing commodification in post-reform China. Chua Beng-Huat analyses the growing policy tension in Singapore between maintaining property values and enabling affordable access to home ownership. Manuel Aalbers proposes four different periods in his account of the shifting relationship between national housing markets and the global economy. Finally, Susan Smith explores the paradoxical features of home ownership and the possibilities of a virtuous housing system. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.999449 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.999449 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:1:p:1-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Willem K. Korthals Altes Author-X-Name-First: Willem K. Author-X-Name-Last: Korthals Altes Title: The single European market and the demise of Flemish housing policy Abstract: On the basis of a ruling by the European Court of Justice, the Constitutional Court of Belgium nullified parts of Flemish housing policy in November 2013 because they did not conform to the rules of the single European market. Flemish policies which sought to prevent gentrification were at odds with the fundamental freedoms of the single European market. Obligations to promote the provision of social housing restricted the freedom of capital. The incentives and subsidies designed to promote social housing provision are deemed to be state aid. What is more, the promotion of social housing could be deemed as a public work contract and would therefore have to be awarded according to the European procurement procedures. This paper reviews this case and discusses the wider relevance for land policies in relation to housing provision throughout the single European market. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 209-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1026140 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1026140 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:209-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachel Garshick Kleit Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Garshick Author-X-Name-Last: Kleit Title: A Review of “Housing policy in the United States, 3rd edition”, By Alex Schwartz Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 231-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1028173 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1028173 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:231-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kathleen Scanlon Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen Author-X-Name-Last: Scanlon Title: A Review of “New deal ruins: race, economic justice and public housing policy”, By Edward G. Goetz Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 229-231 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1028175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1028175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:229-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Harry Smith Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: A Review of “Affordable housing in the Urban Global South: seeking sustainable solutions”, Edited by Jan Bredenoord, Paul van Lindert and Peer Smets Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 226-228 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1028176 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1028176 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:226-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sebastian Schipper Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Schipper Title: A Review of “The tenants’ movement: resident involvement, community action and the contentious politics of housing”, By Quintin Bradley Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 223-226 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1028182 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1028182 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:223-226 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kimberly Skobba Author-X-Name-First: Kimberly Author-X-Name-Last: Skobba Author-Name: Edward G. Goetz Author-X-Name-First: Edward G. Author-X-Name-Last: Goetz Title: Doubling up and the erosion of social capital among very low income households Abstract: Priced out of the market and unable to access rental assistance, very low income households often rely on their social support networks to secure housing. In this study, we use housing career interviews to explore the pathways of 77 very low income families in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in the United States. Doubling up with family and friends accounted for 30% (206) of the 683 non-institutional housing arrangements documented in the study. While living doubled-up, the participants in our study faced expectations of financial contributions and household labour, a lack of privacy and independence and crowded, often chaotic, living conditions. Doubling up was an emergency response to housing need for many low-income households in our study, but the erodent nature of this form of social capital suggests that it is as likely to exacerbate residential instability as it is to resolve it. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 127-147 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.961753 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.961753 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:127-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Becky Tunstall Author-X-Name-First: Becky Author-X-Name-Last: Tunstall Title: Relative housing space inequality in England and Wales, and its recent rapid resurgence Abstract: Low consumption of housing and housing inequality has generally been measured through absolute rather than relative standards. This paper develops a relative measure of housing space consumption and applies it to England and Wales for 1911–2011. Over this period, the population grew by half, but the number of rooms tripled. The rate of low absolute housing consumption (overcrowding) fell from 49% to 4%. However, using the Gini coefficient, inequality in housing space was almost unchanged. Using inequality definitions more sensitive to the bottom of the distribution, the century splits into two parts. Housing space inequality reduced steadily from the 1920s to the 1980s, but then the trend reversed, and by 2011 inequality had returned to levels not seen for fifty years or more. This rise in housing space inequality warrants attention. Possible explanations include increased income inequality, a reduction in social housing, the rise of one person households, and development of larger homes. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 105-126 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.984826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.984826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:105-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Val Colic-Peisker Author-X-Name-First: Val Author-X-Name-Last: Colic-Peisker Author-Name: Rachel Ong Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Ong Author-Name: Gavin Wood Author-X-Name-First: Gavin Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Title: Asset poverty, precarious housing and ontological security in older age: an Australian case study Abstract: Over two-thirds of Australians are owner-occupiers and a majority of the population holds most of their wealth in housing. Australian taxation privileges homeowners and retirement income policy is built around the assumption that state pensions can be kept low because an overwhelming majority of older Australians are outright homeowners and therefore have a considerable asset base and low housing costs post-retirement, a situation often referred to as ‘wealthfare’. However, ageing of the population and falling housing affordability mean that the number of asset-poor older Australians unable to rely on ‘wealthfare’ – lifetime renters or those who drop out of homeownership – is likely to grow in the future. In this paper we look at housing career pathways into precarious housing in older age, its impact on older Australians’ ontological security and coping strategies as they grapple with the housing circumstances that typically accompany asset poverty. Based on 30 interviews conducted with older Australians, the paper reports qualitative findings from a mixed methods research project conducted in Melbourne in 2009–2010. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 167-186 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.984827 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.984827 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:167-186 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Discoursing deregulation: the case of the Finnish rental housing market Abstract: This paper analyses debates in the Finnish parliament over the deregulation of the private rental market between 1990 and 1995. In the European context, the complete abolition of rent regulation in Finland was quite exceptional. The liberalised rental housing market rapidly became such a normal state of affairs that since this time rent regulation has not been seriously reconsidered. This paper analyses different discursive practices that were used to support and oppose deregulation of rental market in three different stages of the deregulation process. The social and cultural representations of rental housing, the rental market, and tenants and landlords are reflected in political discourses and these reflections mould and remould housing policy. This paper shows what kinds of discourses were used in the debates and how they moulded rental housing policy. Deregulation was supported through discourses emphasising the market economy and freedom of choice. Opponents of deregulation, meanwhile, used discourses that constructed tenants as requiring protection and highlighted state involvement in the rental housing market. Thus, the Finnish rental housing market was constructed as problematic and, at first, deregulation was met with considerable suspicion. However, as the deregulation process proceeded, the notion of a liberalised rental market became more accepted, even among critics. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 187-204 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.990774 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.990774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:187-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kenneth Gibb Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth Author-X-Name-Last: Gibb Title: The multiple policy failures of the UK bedroom tax Abstract: This paper draws on recent literature systematising policy failure and applies it to recent UK experience in terms of one key example of ongoing welfare reform, colloquially known as the ‘bedroom tax’ introduced in April 2013. Espoused as a response to the problem of under-occupation in the housing sector, the UK Coalition Government reduced the housing benefit eligible to working age social tenants deemed to be consuming too much housing (14% for one spare bedroom and 25% for more than one). The policy was but one element of the Government's wave of housing benefit reforms aimed at simplifying the system, incentivising work and substantially cutting costs. While there is undoubtedly wider support for the idea of the general welfare reforms, the bedroom tax has been both unpopular and has not worked in terms of its key propositions. Drawing on evidence more than a year after implementation, this paper stands back and considers possible multiple policy failures associated with the bedroom tax. This allows more detailed consideration of the wider housing-related reforms to the welfare benefits system and its place in the broader welfare reform and housing benefit debate more generally. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 148-166 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.992681 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.992681 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:148-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sven Bergenstråhle Author-X-Name-First: Sven Author-X-Name-Last: Bergenstråhle Title: About tenure neutrality: a critical response to Quintin Bradley Abstract: While the International Union of Tenants (IUT) welcomes Bradley's ongoing and significant contributions to debates on the theme of tenure neutrality, this brief response to his recent article in the International Journal of Housing Policy on tenant campaigns for tenure neutrality seeks to interrogate several key claims he makes about the policy positions of the IUT. In doing so we also reflect on important definitional and conceptual debates surrounding the themes of tenure neutrality and universal social rented housing provision. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 205-208 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.994588 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.994588 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:2:p:205-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Poor because of low pensions or expensive housing? The combined impact of pension and housing systems on poverty among the elderly Abstract: The aim of this paper is to illustrate how pension and housing systems together affect poverty among the elderly. We analyse Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, each with different combinations of pension and housing institutions. Using EU-SILC data for 2009, we distinguish between income-poverty and deprivation, the former to evaluate the performance of pension systems and the latter to judge how the impact of housing systems on income-poverty translates into deprivation. The focus is on risk groups such as the separated, the widowed, the former self-employed and retirees with short or irregular employment histories. The findings are that pensions, since they often exclude particular groups, such as households with less than 25 years of employment, increase the elderly income-poverty risk for those groups. The risk of being income-poor is somewhat alleviated in the case of a generous flat-rate public pension, but even then households with less than 25 years of employment have higher levels of income-poverty. Outright home-ownership provides households the opportunity to live rent-free and thus yields income-in-kind. Housing systems in which home-ownership is dominant often also have high levels of outright home-ownership among the income-poor elderly, compensating for the low income-in-cash that they receive as a pension, thus reducing deprivation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 260-284 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1004880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1004880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:260-284 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Author-Name: Max Travers Author-X-Name-First: Max Author-X-Name-Last: Travers Title: Governmentality as critique: the diversification and regulation of the Australian housing sector Abstract: As the housing affordability crisis in Australia deepens, policy-makers have expended considerable resources in establishing new regulatory practices to enhance the role of the community housing sector. Ostensibly, the rationale for a new tier of regulation is to assure potential institutional investors (e.g. pension funds, investment trusts and banks) that community housing organisations are accountable and safe places to invest. Our paper adopts an alternative reading of diversity and housing regulation, drawing upon the governmentality thesis advanced by Michel Foucault in an empirical study about the early stages of regulation of affordable housing providers. Amongst our claims are: first, that policies to diversify and regulate the housing sector constitute a radical political project to commercialise welfare provision and second, these policies are likely to generate additional bureaucratic burdens and close off possibilities for progressive reform. The paper also considers the value of the governmentality approach for critical investigations in the field of housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 304-322 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1046209 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1046209 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:304-322 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marietta E. A. Haffner Author-X-Name-First: Marietta E. A. Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner 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 Title: Mortgage equity withdrawal and institutional settings: an exploratory analysis of six countries Abstract: In this exploratory paper, we investigate whether there are links between institutional context and the development of markets in home equity conversion that are based on financial instruments facilitating mortgage equity withdrawal (MEW). Using secondary data and literature sources from six countries (Australia, UK, USA, Netherlands, Finland and Germany), the paper addresses two research questions. First, to what extent are there differences in the range and use of MEW financial instruments across these six countries? Second, how might the institutional context governing a nation's housing and capital markets support or hinder MEW in these countries? The paper concludes by drawing some implications for debates sparked by housing's changing welfare role as a means of smoothing consumption over the life cycle. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 235-259 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1048091 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1048091 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:235-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B. Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Author-Name: Laurie A. Schintler Author-X-Name-First: Laurie A. Author-X-Name-Last: Schintler Title: Flip that house: visualising and analysing potential real estate property flipping transactions in a cold local housing market in the United States Abstract: The purpose of this exploratory case study is to use social network analysis techniques to visualise and analyse potential real estate property flipping transactions which may be a type of investment in Mansfield, OH. While real estate property flipping is typically associated with hot real estate markets, Mansfield's real estate market, interestingly, has been a cold one. Social network analysis is a method for analysing the structure of relationships among social entities through networks and graphs. We look at how homebuyers and grantees of mortgages relate to each other, utilising Gephi and UCINET software for visualisation purposes. We find that almost 50% of the mortgage grantees are from Ohio, which runs counter to our expectations based on the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994. We also find that the topological structure is highly fragmented. In some cases, the components represent only a single transaction between one homebuyer and one grantee. In other cases, the clusters are more complex, indicating potential real estate property flipping. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 285-303 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1051401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1051401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:285-303 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudia Murray Author-X-Name-First: Claudia Author-X-Name-Last: Murray Author-Name: David Clapham Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Clapham Title: Housing policies in Latin America: overview of the four largest economies Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the differences and similarities in housing policies in the four Latin American countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia. The paper uses the welfare regime approach, modified by a recognition of path dependence, to identify a number of phases that each country has passed through. However, attention is drawn to the substantial differences in the circumstances in each country and the extent and duration of the different phases. It is concluded that it can be beneficial to use the concept of a Latin American housing regime, but that this general picture has to be used with an understanding of the path dependence caused by the particular context in the individual countries. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 347-364 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1055090 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1055090 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:347-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Magdalena Górczyńska Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena Author-X-Name-Last: Górczyńska Title: A Review of "The housing question, tensions, and continuities in the modern city", Edited by Edward Murphy and Najib B. Hourani Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 368-370 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1064228 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1064228 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:368-370 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Craig Hatcher Author-X-Name-First: Craig Author-X-Name-Last: Hatcher Title: A Review of "The right to housing: law, concepts, possibilities", by Jessie Hohmann Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 371-373 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1064229 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1064229 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:371-373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrzej Zieleniec Author-X-Name-First: Andrzej Author-X-Name-Last: Zieleniec Title: A Review of "The squatters’ movement in Europe: commons and autonomy as alternatives to capitalism", By Squatting Europe Kollective Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 373-375 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1064230 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1064230 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:373-375 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elise de Vuijst Author-X-Name-First: Elise Author-X-Name-Last: de Vuijst Title: A Review of "Meaning and measurement in comparative housing research", Edited by Mark Stephens and Michelle Norris Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 365-368 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1064274 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1064274 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:365-368 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bart Wissink Author-X-Name-First: Bart Author-X-Name-Last: Wissink Title: Rights to the city: class and difference in Mumbai and Hong Kong Abstract: In a setting of globalisation, rapid urbanisation, and neoliberal state restructuring, cities around the world have witnessed a dramatic increase in urban controversies over housing and other urban services. In theory and practice, the ‘right to the city’ is often invoked to support claims of underprivileged groups in these struggles. On the one hand, this draws attention to obstacles for inhabitants to access urban spaces (appropriation); on the other hand, it suggests that inhabitants should have a meaningful contribution to all decisions that determine the development of their cities (participation). Some argue that the right to the city can organise various underprivileged groups with diverse interests behind a common agenda for ‘real’ change. We reflect on that position through a discussion of three controversies in Hong Kong and Mumbai. We conclude that in actual cities, there is often not a clear-cut differentiation between the interests of elites and underprivileged groups as both class and difference inform subject positions. Diverse groups thus assert diverse rights, resulting in conflicts between mixed coalitions of elites and underprivileged groups. Strategies to mobilise agents of change will have to speak to this heterogeneity of identities and interests in concrete settings. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 323-346 Issue: 3 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.993020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2014.993020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:3:p:323-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Magda Bolzoni Author-X-Name-First: Magda Author-X-Name-Last: Bolzoni Author-Name: Enrico Gargiulo Author-X-Name-First: Enrico Author-X-Name-Last: Gargiulo Author-Name: Michele Manocchi Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Manocchi Title: The social consequences of the denied access to housing for refugees in urban settings: the case of Turin, Italy Abstract: The paper focuses on the access to housing of refugees, considering it an essential step on the integration path and a precondition for the full enjoyment of social and civil rights as well as social services. In Western countries, refugees mostly live in urban settings and local authorities' actions and decisions play a relevant role in shaping opportunities and obstacles for social inclusion. Lack of, or deficiencies in housing policies can result in challenging situations, jeopardising this path. The paper investigates the obstacles local authorities create through both informal practices and administrative provisions. The analysis highlights a gap between the national legal framework and its local implementation that creates major disruptions in the integration path. The paper takes the city of Turin (Italy) as a case study. A multi-method study was carried out to investigate these issues in the period between November 2007 and July 2013. In the case of Turin, within a scenario characterised by a huge absence of systematic policies supporting refugees' access to housing, many refugees have opted for squatting. While underlining refugees' agency, these experiences appear unable to properly tackle their housing needs and to achieve the objectives of social recognition and public solidarity. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 400-417 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1053337 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1053337 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:400-417 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ruth Foo Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Foo Title: Barriers to building institutional capacity in the Malaysian housing development sector Abstract: Scholars have identified institutional capacity as key to effective policy-making and local economic success. The Malaysian housing sector has been found, however, to be afflicted with various institutional deficiencies: poor payment practices, a trust deficit between key actors, poor construction quality and housing oversupply, and an ineffective housing planning framework. These long-standing issues indicate a need to examine institutional conditions in the Malaysian housing sector and to consider measures to promote institutional capacity as a potential solution. Various theorists have put forward ‘recipes’ for building institutional capacity and identified social, knowledge and political resources as ‘essential ingredients’. The empirical research examined in this paper, however, identifies key shortages of these three resources. It appears thus imperative that institutional relations are developed in order to overcome communication barriers and power imbalances that will improve performance in the housing sector. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 436-460 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1057428 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1057428 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:436-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Couch Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Couch Author-Name: Alex Lord Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Lord Author-Name: Matthew Cocks Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Cocks Title: Questioning the concept of market failure in housing: the case of Housing Market Renewal in Liverpool Abstract: The case for intervention in housing markets often turns on the concept of market failure. However, diagnosing the characteristics of market failure is problematised by the fact that transactions in housing are so complex. From the specific geographies of neighbourhoods and hedonic characteristics of individual properties to national macro-economic variables and the effects of globalised financial services, the factors affecting local prices are legion. Around the millennium concern about low demand in some urban housing markets in Britain led to a Government policy known as Housing Market Renewal. This sought to stabilise market conditions, particularly through supply-side interventions. Building upon the work of Nevin and others, and through a detailed quantitative study of the housing market in Liverpool (UK) this paper debates the concept of market failure and explores both the effectiveness of attempts to tackle market failure through the decade after 2000 and the impact of the post-2007 economic crisis on these same areas. The paper concludes that, despite substantial state intervention, many of the neighbourhoods that were vulnerable to market failure a decade ago remain equally so today. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 461-490 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1076629 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1076629 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:461-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Carnegie Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Carnegie Author-Name: Michelle Norris Author-X-Name-First: Michelle Author-X-Name-Last: Norris Title: Strengthening communities, building capacity, combating stigma: exploring the potential of culture-led social housing regeneration Abstract: Culture-led regeneration has long been recognised as a mechanism of re-branding declining urban areas by providing cultural infrastructure, such as museums, galleries and theatres. Whilst often lauded for its potential to economically regenerate cities, the model has shown to have a less positive impact on marginalised households and neighbourhoods. This article explores the utilisation of culture-led regeneration in three disadvantaged Irish social housing estates and finds that it did generate benefits, but not the economic ones predicted by the main authors in this field. Rather its benefits were primarily social – it helped to combat stigmatisation, build local capacity and improve community cohesion. Levels of community participation in cultural activities were very strong in two of the case study neighbourhoods, but much weaker in the third less generously resourced neighbourhood, which raises questions about the levels of investment needed to ensure success and the long-term sustainability of these programmes. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 495-508 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1085216 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1085216 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:495-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ray Forrest Author-X-Name-First: Ray Author-X-Name-Last: Forrest Title: Housing and family wealth Abstract: Housing and the housing market are apparently more central than ever to the shaping of life chances and to increasingly differentiated opportunities across the life course, with interest in this area growing substantially in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. Twenty years ago, these issues were brought to light in Forrest and Murie's ‘Housing and Family Wealth’. This article reflects on the arguments set out in the edited collection and offers a viewpoint on the contemporary debates surrounding housing and family wealth. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 491-494 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1087679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1087679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:491-494 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Noah J. Durst Author-X-Name-First: Noah J. Author-X-Name-Last: Durst Author-Name: Peter M. Ward Author-X-Name-First: Peter M. Author-X-Name-Last: Ward Title: Lot vacancy and property abandonment: colonias and informal subdivisions in Texas Abstract: Property abandonment and lot vacancy are issues of growing importance given widespread demographic and economic changes in urban areas in the USA. This paper explores these issues in a different context, that of colonias and Informal Homestead Subdivisions in Texas. Housing and infrastructure conditions in these very low-income settlements are invariably poor. Given that the majority of these subdivisions are unincorporated, they face a variety of barriers to coordinated land and housing development that would combat high rates of lot vacancy and property abandonment. This paper documents changes in lot vacancy in these subdivisions from baseline 2002 to 2012, and analyses county tax assessor records to determine the extent to which property tax delinquency is a corollary of abandonment and long-term lot vacancy. The causes of lot and housing abandonment are discussed. Policy interventions such as Land Banking and Community Land Trusts are proposed as mechanisms to bring vacant lots back onto the market and prevent property abandonment by homeowners in unincorporated informal subdivisions. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 377-399 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1090095 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1090095 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:377-399 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Albert Sabater Author-X-Name-First: Albert Author-X-Name-Last: Sabater Title: A Review of "Residential segregation in comparative perspective: making sense of contextual diversity", Edited by Thomas Maloutas and Kuniko Fujita Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 511-514 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1092791 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1092791 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:511-514 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Janice Blenkinsopp Author-X-Name-First: Janice Author-X-Name-Last: Blenkinsopp Title: A Review of "Renewing Europe's housing", Edited by Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 516-518 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1092792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1092792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:516-518 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bahar Sakizlioglu Author-X-Name-First: Bahar Author-X-Name-Last: Sakizlioglu Title: A Review of "Gentrification: a working class perspective", By Kirsteen Paton Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 514-516 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1092793 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1092793 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:514-516 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Helen Wei Zheng Author-X-Name-First: Helen Wei Author-X-Name-Last: Zheng Title: A Review of "Courtyard housing and cultural sustainability: theory, practice and product", By Donia Zhang Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 509-511 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1092794 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1092794 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:509-511 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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 Author-Name: Anna Ziersch Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Ziersch Title: Social mix, ‘[A] very, very good idea in a vacuum but you have to do it properly!’ Exploring social mix in a right to the city framework Abstract: Implementing mixed tenure projects is an ongoing practice in Australian cities despite questions raised about the soundness of the underlying assumptions. This paper draws on the concept of ‘right to the city’, based on Lefebvre's work as an organising framework to investigate the findings of empirical research on social mix policy through the case study of Carlton Housing Estate Redevelopment Project in Melbourne, Australia. From Lefebvre's work we understand the right to the city as a right to participate in and influence decision-making, and to enjoy and access local urban spaces. Data collection included in-depth interviews with public housing tenants, private residents and service providers, as well as neighbourhood observations and participation in on-site events. The findings reveal that public housing tenants' opportunities to influence and participate in decision-making processes for the redevelopment project have been limited and privatisation of public space has created ongoing symbolic and physical barriers to their fully accessing on-site ‘open’ space. Numerous tensions are revealed in the processes of implementing social mix policies particularly in terms of tenants' opportunities to participate and fully enjoy newly designed open spaces in their community; in effect tenants have been denied a right to the city. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 418-435 Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1093748 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1093748 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:418-435 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 15 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1108483 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1108483 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin Jones Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: The credit crunch: short-term UK housing market correction or long-term tipping point? Abstract: Six years on in 2014, the credit crunch seems more than a short-term housing market cyclical correction to house prices. The boom and bust of the noughties both revealed and exacerbated long-term trends in the housing market in the UK. But is there sufficient evidence to suggest a fundamental change to the housing system? Home ownership has peaked and there has been a dramatic expansion of the private rented sector. Economic prospects have been transformed from persistent growth to long-term stagnation with the prospect of 10 years of fiscal austerity and falling real incomes. At the same time, there is potential regime change in the accessibility of mortgage finance. The tightening of public finances has deflated expectations. The focus of the impact has been the younger generation who face a cluster of disadvantages – in the housing market but also in the labour market and in education debts. Traditional aspirations are being rethought in the face of long-term market constraints. These issues will be discussed within a framework defined by a (macro) demand function for housing and the answer to the question is seen to depend on the nature of ultimate housing policy and supply responses. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 70-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1067971 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1067971 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:70-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Trond-Arne Borgersen Author-X-Name-First: Trond-Arne Author-X-Name-Last: Borgersen Title: Housing appreciations and the (in)stable relation between housing and mortgage markets Abstract: This paper highlights the knife-edge distinction between stable and instable relations between housing and mortgage markets. Housing appreciations and mortgage growth are related to housing market fundamentals and the interrelation between house prices and mortgage supply. These are again linked to debt-servicing ability and collateral, the two main components of a mortgagee's lending policy. The equilibrium relation between housing and mortgage markets is, while stable in scenarios where debt-servicing dominates, instable when collateral dominates the relation. The knife-edge that separates the regimes is a critical rate of appreciation and the accompanying critical leverage gain. Highlighting the knife-edge that separates these two well-known regimes, we provide a non-technical framework where conventional credit-risk assessments provide a rationale for macro-prudential policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 91-110 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1069080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1069080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:91-110 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jörg Blasius Author-X-Name-First: Jörg Author-X-Name-Last: Blasius Author-Name: Jürgen Friedrichs Author-X-Name-First: Jürgen Author-X-Name-Last: Friedrichs Author-Name: Heiko Rühl Author-X-Name-First: Heiko Author-X-Name-Last: Rühl Title: Pioneers and gentrifiers in the process of gentrification Abstract: In the gentrification literature, a common distinction refers to the supply and the demand side. Studies of the supply side focus on theories such as rent gap and value gap or describe actions of urban and national policy-makers, real estate agents and investors. On the demand side authors analyse the actors involved in the process: gentrifiers. This group, however, as our review of the literature reveals, is neither clearly defined nor sufficiently differentiated to adequately investigate the process of gentrification. In order to investigate the process of gentrification, we propose a differentiated classification of demand groups of pioneers, gentrifiers and others, and suggest operationalisations which are compatible both with typologies in the literature and stage models of gentrification. We apply this classification of social groups and test hypotheses derived from stage models. The data base is a large panel study (N = 1009) in two residential areas of Cologne, Germany, that are in different stages of gentrification. The results support our hypotheses and demonstrate the usefulness of the classification. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 50-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1071029 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1071029 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:50-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jennifer E. Hoolachan Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer E. Author-X-Name-Last: Hoolachan Title: Ethnography and homelessness research Abstract: Papers dedicated solely to research methods are rare within housing studies. This is despite the importance of ensuring methodological rigour within studies that may go on to influence further research, practice and policy. Likewise ethnographic housing research is relatively uncommon even though this approach captures data at a greater level of depth than other methods. Building upon the work of prominent housing researchers who advocate the use of ethnography, this paper highlights the benefits of this approach for housing and homelessness studies, as well as discussing some of its challenges. An overview of ethnography is given to outline its origins; theoretical influences; benefits and challenges in relation to homelessness research. A study that focused on the drug and alcohol behaviours of young, homeless people in Scotland is then introduced. Drawing on this study, a reflexive account of researcher bias and self-disclosure is presented along with consideration of the processes involved in building trust and obtaining informed consent in ethnography. The paper argues the case for this method within housing research and, further, considers the value of ethnography as an approach in the context of growing interest in the lived experiences of people in relation to housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 31-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1076625 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1076625 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:31-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael D. Webb Author-X-Name-First: Michael D. Author-X-Name-Last: Webb Author-Name: Kirstin P. Frescoln Author-X-Name-First: Kirstin P. Author-X-Name-Last: Frescoln Author-Name: William M. Rohe Author-X-Name-First: William M. Author-X-Name-Last: Rohe Title: Innovation in US public housing: a critique of the moving to work demonstration Abstract: The US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Moving to Work demonstration programme (MTW) allows 39 public housing authorities (PHAs) to waive certain federal regulations and merge several funding streams into a single, flexible fund. These flexibilities are designed to allow PHAs the ability to meet local housing needs and the programme's three goals: moving families to self-sufficiency, expanding housing options, and achieving cost savings. This review introduces the policy context of the MTW demonstration, situating it within an environment of neoliberal reforms in public housing and social service provision. It goes on to assess certain activities implemented to achieve the demonstration's three statutory goals. The paper concludes with a policy critique that both draws upon findings from evaluations of the programme conducted to date and sets an agenda for ongoing debates about extending MTW agreements past their 2018 expiration and expanding the demonstration to include more agencies. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 111-124 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1085215 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1085215 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:111-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hans Skifter Andersen Author-X-Name-First: Hans Author-X-Name-Last: Skifter Andersen Author-Name: Roger Andersson Author-X-Name-First: Roger Author-X-Name-Last: Andersson Author-Name: Terje Wessel Author-X-Name-First: Terje Author-X-Name-Last: Wessel Author-Name: Katja Vilkama Author-X-Name-First: Katja Author-X-Name-Last: Vilkama Title: The impact of housing policies and housing markets on ethnic spatial segregation: comparing the capital cities of four Nordic welfare states Abstract: This paper examines how ethnic segregation is connected to an ethnic division of the housing market and a spatial separation of different housing tenures in four Nordic cities. Explanations for the differences across the cities are found by comparing housing markets and housing policies. The housing markets are in all four cities ethnically segmented with high concentrations of immigrants in some forms of tenures (especially social/public housing) and low concentrations in others. We further discuss the reasons for the observed pattern. The paper shows that the spatial distribution of immigrants is strongly connected with the tenure composition of neighbourhoods. Ethnic divisions of housing tenures thus contributes to segregation, but the effect is much dependent on how tenures are distributed spatially. It is shown that ethnic segregation in three of the cities is connected to social housing, while cooperative housing is crucial in the fourth. It is also shown that a policy of neighbourhood tenure mix in one of the cities has resulted in a relatively low degree of segregation in spite of high concentrations of immigrants in social/public housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-30 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1110375 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1110375 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:1-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Deirdre Quinn Author-X-Name-First: Deirdre Author-X-Name-Last: Quinn Title: A Review of "Second home tourism in Europe", Edited by Zoran Roca Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 127-130 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1129792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1129792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:127-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jed Meers Author-X-Name-First: Jed Author-X-Name-Last: Meers Title: A Review of "Contemporary housing issues in a globalized world", Edited by Padraic Kenna Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 125-127 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1129793 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1129793 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:125-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David P. Varady Author-X-Name-First: David P. Author-X-Name-Last: Varady Title: A Review of "Public housing myths: perception, reality, and social policy", Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach and Lawrence J. Vale Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 130-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1129794 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1129794 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:130-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth Young Author-X-Name-First: Gareth Author-X-Name-Last: Young Title: A Review of "The new American suburb: poverty, race and the economic crisis", Edited by Katrin B. Anacker Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 132-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1129795 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1129795 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:132-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alessandro Gentile Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Gentile Title: Rental subsidy and the emancipation of young adults in Spain Abstract: The high rates of unemployment, the precarious labour market and the limited affordability of homeownership have increased delayed housing emancipation among European young adults (aged 18–29 years). As a consequence, many of them have become more dependent on their parents and the creation of new households has slowed down. These features are particularly evident in Spain, where young adults start living away from their parental home on average when they are 30, a trend that has been aggravated by the economic crisis. In 2007, the Spanish Government addressed this issue by implementing the Renta Básica de Emancipación (RBE) to support young adults' transitions to adulthood by increasing the rental housing market offer and by making the rental expenditure more affordable for them, despite their employment instability. This review examines how the RBE was implemented between 2007 and 2012 and its impacts on young adults' emancipation and the private rented sector in Spain. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 243-254 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1119359 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1119359 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:243-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Almudena Moreno Mínguez Author-X-Name-First: Almudena Moreno Author-X-Name-Last: Mínguez Title: Economic crisis and the new housing transitions of young people in Spain Abstract: This article explores the factors involved in young people's housing transitions in Spain which are typically characterised by late emancipation. The paper incorporates a comparative analysis of the housing transitions of young people in Spain with those of young people in other European countries and using longitudinal data it considers the particular impacts of the recent economic crisis. Most studies have linked late emancipation of Spanish youths to factors such as their employment status, difficulties accessing housing, the economic situation, social welfare policy, youth policy and a protective family culture. In particular, the main drivers of change highlighted in the literature are economic factors (education, employment status, housing, public policy and resources) and on the other hand, cultural factors such as attitudes towards home ownership and forming new households. However, there is very little research analysing the effects that the economic crisis has had on youth housing transitions in Spain. The objective of this paper is to provide insights on the effects the economic crisis is having on the housing market and on youth housing transitions in Spain. This is a complex issue; hence, the paper draws upon multiple data sources. The main conclusion is that the economic crisis has begun to change youth housing transitions in Spain. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 165-183 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1130604 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1130604 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:165-183 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: B. Castro Campos Author-X-Name-First: B. Author-X-Name-Last: Castro Campos Author-Name: C.Y. Yiu Author-X-Name-First: C.Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Yiu Author-Name: J. Shen Author-X-Name-First: J. Author-X-Name-Last: Shen Author-Name: K.H. Liao Author-X-Name-First: K.H. Author-X-Name-Last: Liao Author-Name: M. Maing Author-X-Name-First: M. Author-X-Name-Last: Maing Title: The anticipated housing pathways to homeownership of young people in Hong Kong Abstract: Using semi-structured interviews with 160 university students, this paper analyses the anticipated housing pathways of young Chinese in Hong Kong and compares between local Hong Kong and non-local mainland students. We identify six different anticipated housing pathways by considering differences in expectations of parental support and perceptions about the affordability of homeownership. We find that expectations of financial support from parents are particularly important for non-local mainland students than for local Hong Kong students. The perception about the affordability of homeownership is not statistically significantly different between the groups. We find that 18% of all university students considered in our sample might be able to buy a high-quality private housing in the future, 12% might be constrained to less lucrative housing options such as renting public housing, and 70% might anticipate diverse housing pathways. Our findings suggest that the government should implement measures to tackle intergenerational poverty and housing segregation in the light of the diverse housing pathways of young Chinese in Hong Kong. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 223-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1130605 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1130605 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:223-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marianna Filandri Author-X-Name-First: Marianna Author-X-Name-Last: Filandri Author-Name: Sonia Bertolini Author-X-Name-First: Sonia Author-X-Name-Last: Bertolini Title: Young people and home ownership in Europe Abstract: The paper investigates home ownership amongst young people in Europe. Studies which compare experiences across European countries on this topic are very scarce. Using European Survey on Income and Living Conditions data, this paper conducts a multilevel analysis in 28 European countries, aiming to provide further insights about young people's home ownership considering both macro and micro factors known to influence levels of home ownership. Based upon an analysis of key literature, the paper focuses on the influence of the housing system, labour market, and welfare state in each country, and on the social class of origin of the individual. The analyses show the relevance of socio-economic family background: young adults from the middle class are more likely to live in homes they own, compared to those from the lower and higher classes. Beyond individual characteristics, social policy has substantial influence on the tenure status of young adults. Most notably, this paper concludes that there is a negative correlation between the welfare generosity of the state and levels of home ownership, supporting the idea of the house as a safe haven and emphasising the importance of the social class of origin, especially in those countries where family is traditionally seen as the social safety net. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 144-164 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1130606 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1130606 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:144-164 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wen Jing Deng Author-X-Name-First: Wen Jing Author-X-Name-Last: Deng Author-Name: Joris S. C. M. Hoekstra Author-X-Name-First: Joris S. C. M. Author-X-Name-Last: Hoekstra Author-Name: Marja G. Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja G. Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Title: The changing determinants of homeownership amongst young people in urban China Abstract: This article examines the determinants of homeownership among young people in China. More specifically, it aims to shed light on the shifting importance of the state (through ‘redistributive power’) and the ability of young people to compete in housing markets (‘market ability’) after more than three decades of market transition. Through an analysis of data from the China General Social Survey, the paper quantifies the impacts of four types of determinant on young people's access to homeownership: political affiliation, organisational affiliation, territorial affiliation, and market ability. Results show that a redistributive power (through territorial, political, and organisational affiliation) still influences access to housing, mainly in the form of territorial affiliation (hukou registration). Higher market ability does not contribute to homeownership but is related to independent living. The paper points to three housing policy priorities to improve young people's housing opportunities: reduce inequalities resulting from unequal access to homeownership, improve options for young migrants, and improve conditions in the rented sector. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 201-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1135857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1135857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:201-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Beth Watts Author-X-Name-First: Beth Author-X-Name-Last: Watts Title: A Review of “Homeless lives in American cities: interrogating myth and locating community”, By Philip Webb Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 262-264 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1154235 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1154235 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:262-264 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ellen van Beckhoven Author-X-Name-First: Ellen Author-X-Name-Last: van Beckhoven Title: A Review of “Large housing estates: Ideas, rise, fall and recovery: The Bijlmermeer and beyond”, By Frank Wassenberg Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 260-261 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1155350 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1155350 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:260-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stuart Hodkinson Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Hodkinson Title: A Review of “Neoliberal urban policy and the transformation of the city: reshaping Dublin”, Edited by Andrew MacLaran and Sinéad Kelly Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 257-259 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1156248 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1156248 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:257-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniel de Mello Sanfelici Author-X-Name-First: Daniel de Mello Author-X-Name-Last: Sanfelici Title: A Review of “Housing policy in Latin American cities: a new generation of strategies and approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III”, By P. M. Ward, E. R. Jiménez and M. Di Virgilio Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 255-257 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1156249 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1156249 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:255-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter K. Mackie Author-X-Name-First: Peter K. Author-X-Name-Last: Mackie Title: Young people and housing: identifying the key issues Abstract: The housing experiences of young people are a contemporary global concern, with the exacerbation of young people's housing problems in many countries reported widely in the media and raising important policy questions. In response, this special issue of the International Journal of Housing Policy presents new empirical research from Europe and East Asia and seeks to identify key areas for improvement in national housing policies. This editorial summarises the main housing issues identified in the special issue articles and identifies the emergence of two cross-cutting policy challenges. The first challenge is to ensure all young people have an equal opportunity to leave the family home and live independently. This will require a much greater awareness of the political, economic and cultural forces restricting young people's transitions. The second key policy challenge is to improve the suitability and availability of housing for young people, with studies in this special issue specifically pointing towards an improved private rented sector and further provision of shared housing. Articles in this special issue indicate that a failure to respond to these significant housing policy challenges will have wide reaching social and economic consequences. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 137-143 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1159273 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1159273 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:137-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Massimo Bricocoli Author-X-Name-First: Massimo Author-X-Name-Last: Bricocoli Author-Name: Stefania Sabatinelli Author-X-Name-First: Stefania Author-X-Name-Last: Sabatinelli Title: House sharing amongst young adults in the context of Mediterranean welfare: the case of Milan Abstract: The housing systems found in the welfare model of Mediterranean countries are particularly unfriendly towards young people. This article analyses the housing experiences of young graduates in a Mediterranean welfare context. We focus on the growing phenomenon of house sharing as a housing solution for these young people, a solution which has been explored in other housing model contexts but not in the Mediterranean. We find young people sharing largely due to economic constraints and yet experiences of sharing vary considerably, with some unhappily confined to living with unknown peers, whilst others live collectively with those they know and benefit greatly from the experience. We recommend that policy makers must learn from young people's experiences of shared living and improve the conditions they face in the private rental sector. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 184-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1160670 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1160670 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:184-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Author-Name: Tuna Tasan-Kok Author-X-Name-First: Tuna Author-X-Name-Last: Tasan-Kok Title: In memory of Ronald van Kempen (1958-2016) Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 265-266 Issue: 2 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1174508 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1174508 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:2:p:265-266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: (For)Bearing the costs of reckless lending: examining the response to the Irish mortgage arrears crisis Abstract: Compared to the extensive assistance afforded to Ireland's banks since 2008, interventions to assist troubled mortgagors have been limited, with Government and the banks strongly resisting debt write-downs in favour of a policy of mortgage forbearance. Forbearance involves restructuring a debt's contractual terms to ease a debtor's repayment schedule. In practice, forbearance has been a strategy of ‘extend and pretend’ where lenders have been slow to offer restructurings or have relied on temporary interventions that impose minimal costs upon them. Forbearance benefited lenders by negating the pressure to enforce possession of devalued property, while ensuring borrowers remain solely responsible for outstanding debts. Despite the emphasis on forbearance, few studies have examined borrowers’ experiences of forbearance, particularly their experience of communicating their difficulties with their lenders. This paper first utilises national data to examine forbearance as a strategic response by the Irish authorities to the mortgage arrears crisis. Second, mortgage-stressed borrowers’ experiences of forbearance are examined using data drawn from a survey (n = 433) of mortgagors which dealt specifically with mortgage payment issues following the crash. The article documents a shift in lenders’ arrears management strategies from 2013, with an increased emphasis on longer term restructurings but also an increasing appetite for repossession. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 267-292 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1111500 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1111500 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:267-292 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James Gregory Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Gregory Title: How not to be an egalitarian: the politics of homeownership and property-owning democracy Abstract: This paper offers a critical evaluation of the narrative of ‘property-owning democracy' (POD) in contemporary housing policy and in the political cultures of the UK and the USA. It describes and contrasts two competing interpretations of POD. The dominant interpretation permeates the politics of housing in Britain and the USA. It is based on the assumption that homeownership creates virtuous and independent citizens, is strongly associated with the conservative ideal of the small state, and is firmly embedded in both policy and the accepted terms of political debate.In contrast to this, there is a less dominant, egalitarian interpretation of POD, which seeks to promote a view of property and citizenship based more on solidarity and interdependence. This interpretation of POD tends to view property more broadly, including smaller savings and even extending to mass ownership in industry. But it also typically neglects the political reality of POD as a homeownership ideology and the anti-welfare dynamic it has created. This paper therefore argues that the egalitarian (re)interpretation of POD is politically and sociologically naïve, and that it is offers an untenable counter-narrative to the politics of welfare retrenchment. A more egalitarian housing policy needs to start from a different place. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 337-356 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1115224 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1115224 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:337-356 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karin Grundström Author-X-Name-First: Karin Author-X-Name-Last: Grundström Author-Name: Irene Molina Author-X-Name-First: Irene Author-X-Name-Last: Molina Title: From Folkhem to lifestyle housing in Sweden: segregation and urban form, 1930s–2010s Abstract: This article analyses the political and ideological transformations underlying the gradual privatisation and deregulation of the mid-twentieth-century Keynesian model of housing provision in Sweden. We identify a series of three political and ideological shifts in housing policy and urban form since the 1930s: regulating Folkhem housing, deregulating Folkhem housing, and back to business in housing. We argue that even though the Folkhem parole of ‘housing for all’ differs extensively from the current situation where the market is ‘housing the privileged’, segregation trends have, from the Folkhem to the post-welfare period, been shaped by both state interventions and market forces. Second, we argue that there is a continuing trend through which newly constructed housing has metamorphosed from a basic human right for the working class into an expression of individual distinction and ‘style’ for the upper middle and middle classes. While privileged classes, more than ever before in modern Swedish housing history, have the possibility to choose new forms of housing, the most impoverished groups live in residual and often stigmatised peripheral housing areas. One main conclusion is that recent forms of housing for privileged groups signal a cultural and ideological shift towards new, more elitist conceptions of housing and privilege. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 316-336 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1122695 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1122695 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:316-336 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ron Johnston Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Johnston Author-Name: Dewi Owen Author-X-Name-First: Dewi Author-X-Name-Last: Owen Author-Name: David Manley Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Manley Author-Name: Richard Harris Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: House price increases and higher density housing occupation: the response of non-white households in London, 2001–2011 Abstract: London's housing prices have increased over recent decades at a much faster rate than incomes creating financial and quality-of-life problems for many of its inhabitants. This increase has occurred during a period of population growth, much of it of immigrant lower income individuals, families and households, and their descendants who are members of London's burgeoning ethnic minority populations. This paper explores whether members of such groups have suffered disproportionately from those problems and have had to respond by changing their patterns of housing consumption. It concludes that densification, whereby housing is occupied at higher densities, has been a common response to the problems, but that it has been experienced more than elsewhere in neighbourhoods where members of the ethnic minority groups are concentrated. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 357-375 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1130607 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1130607 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:357-375 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philipp Deschermeier Author-X-Name-First: Philipp Author-X-Name-Last: Deschermeier Author-Name: Heide Haas Author-X-Name-First: Heide Author-X-Name-Last: Haas Author-Name: Marcel Hude Author-X-Name-First: Marcel Author-X-Name-Last: Hude Author-Name: Michael Voigtländer Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Voigtländer Title: A first analysis of the new German rent regulation Abstract: With effect from 2015, the German Federal Government plans to regulate new lettings more strictly. The proposal is for rents to be kept no higher than 10% above the so-called ‘local reference rent’. How this significant intervention will work still remains unclear. In our study, we have therefore analysed almost 80,000 new tenancies provided by an online market platform in the year 2014 to see which would have been affected if the rent controls had already been in place. We compare rental accommodation advertised in Berlin and Cologne. Using a geographical information system (GIS), and with the help of statistical evaluations, the quality of the location can be established and applied to the analysis. The analyses show that the planned rent controls will not only affect a few rental offerings with asking prices wildly in excess of the rest of the market, but they will impact over a broad area. Overall, the observable effects differ between Berlin and Cologne. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 293-315 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1135858 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1135858 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:293-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: ‘Power to the (young) people’? Children and young people's empowerment in the relocation process associated with urban re-structuring Abstract: This paper is about children and young people's (CYP) empowerment in the process of urban restructuring, based on parental reflections. Its focus is involuntary relocation in the context of transformational urban regeneration in a Scottish city using cross-sectional and longitudinal qualitative data, based on 20 family households (at wave 1) comprising 40 CYP. Specifically, we are interested in how empowerment plays out – directly or indirectly – in the private space of the family and home, and for different age groups. We identified three sets of ‘empowerment’ or decision-making situations where CYP were involved: rationalising the need to move; deciding where to move to; and helping children cope and adjust to change. We found that empowerment differs by age and varies between pre-move discussions, decision-making and post-move dislocation and other outcomes. In the ‘Discussion’ section to this paper, we raise issues about relocation from one deprived neighbourhood to another; parental objectives to avoid social disruption for their children; and, the effects of distance upon empowerment. We can see some degree of empowerment for CYP in terms of securing better outcomes after relocation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 376-403 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1143788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1143788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:376-403 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oana Druta Author-X-Name-First: Oana Author-X-Name-Last: Druta Title: A Review of "A world of homeowners: American power and the politics of housing aid", By Nancy H. Kwak Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 425-427 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1188528 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1188528 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:425-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Jivraj Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Jivraj Title: A Review of ‘Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities: East meets West’, Edited by Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcinczak, Maarten van Ham and Sako Musterd Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 423-425 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1189410 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1189410 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:423-425 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Hollanders Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Hollanders Title: Pension systems do not suffer from ageing or lack of home-ownership but from financialisation Abstract: In this article I argue that (1) a house is a substitute for pension savings at the individual level; (2) housing wealth is not wealth on the aggregate level; (3) ageing is not the main problem for pension systems, instead it is financialisation; and (4) policies that link pensions and housing may serve financial actors. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 404-408 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1192836 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1192836 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:404-408 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie T. Miao Author-X-Name-First: Julie T. Author-X-Name-Last: Miao Title: A Review of “Housing East Asia: socioeconomic and demographic challenges”, Edited by John Doling and Richard Ronald Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 428-430 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1193999 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1193999 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:428-430 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Igor Pessoa Author-X-Name-First: Igor Author-X-Name-Last: Pessoa Title: A Review of “Planning sustainable cities and regions: towards more equitable development”, Edited by Karen Chapple Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 430-433 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1194003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1194003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:430-433 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carla J. Huisman Author-X-Name-First: Carla J. Author-X-Name-Last: Huisman Title: Temporary tenancies in the Netherlands: from pragmatic policy instrument to structural housing market reform Abstract: Between 1997 and 2012 temporary tenancies emerged and evolved as a pragmatic policy instrument within the Dutch housing sector. In this article, based on analyses of policy documents, media content and parliamentary archives, we argue that this was a period of implicit, technocratic erosion of the existing permanent rental norm, creating the political and material foundations for the emergence of a new, more explicit ideological discourse that has been evident since 2013. We then explore these most recent developments, in which temporary tenancies are now championed as a catalyst for structural housing market reform, and comment on the possibility that the recent proposal to introduce time-limited tenancies as a normal form of tenure, will lead to permanent, rather than temporary, contracts becoming marginal in Dutch society. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 409-422 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1195563 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1195563 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:3:p:409-422 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marietta Haffner Author-X-Name-First: Marietta Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner Author-Name: Sien Winters Author-X-Name-First: Sien Author-X-Name-Last: Winters Title: Homeownership taxation in Flanders: moving towards ‘optimal taxation’? Abstract: Belgium devolved administrative and budgetary responsibility for the favourable income tax treatment of owner-occupied dwellings to its administrative regions in July 2014. This change allowed the regions to redesign their housing-related tax instruments. This paper examines a tax policy reorientation of the Flemish Region. It specifically applies the principles of the optimal tax theory based on the proposals of the British Mirrlees Review as a benchmark to determine whether owner-occupied housing is treated favourably via the Belgian tax system. A brief comparison is also carried out with four other countries (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) in order to test for the use of these theoretical principles in other tax systems. Since none of the countries come close to optimal taxation, and as the Mirrlees Review is also not uncontested, practice-based recommendations from relevant international organisations are also taken into consideration. Indeed, it has recently been suggested that the Belgian tax system and more specifically Flemish home ownership taxation, has moved closer to what optimal taxation could be, but that this has not come about by explicitly considering tax system mechanisms. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 473-490 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1085214 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1085214 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:473-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mikael Jonasson Author-X-Name-First: Mikael Author-X-Name-Last: Jonasson Title: Horizontally organised and innovative spaces of dialogue for dealing with ‘wicked problems’ related to housing in rural Sweden Abstract: The aim of this paper is to discuss co-productive and collaborative processes in rural housing construction in Sweden. The ‘wicked problem’ addressed here is why it is so difficult to build new homes in Swedish rural areas. Our analysis shows that horizontally organised competences may be used in order to form innovative and creative spaces for dialogues around the realisation of house building. These spaces for dialogues are transformed into collaborative and co-productive social events for reconfiguring thoughts and actions in relation to ‘wicked problems’. Using Fagered, Sweden, as a case study, our results show that timing, as well as understanding the motivation of local groups and acknowledging the slowness of planning processes, are crucial for making change. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 458-472 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1150011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1150011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:458-472 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kenneth Gibb Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth Author-X-Name-Last: Gibb Author-Name: Des McNulty Author-X-Name-First: Des Author-X-Name-Last: McNulty Author-Name: Tony McLaughlin Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: McLaughlin Title: Risk and resilience in the Scottish social housing sector: ‘We're all risk managers’ Abstract: Social housing providers confront an array of risks strategically and operationally. Recently, models of hybrid organisations have been developed to understand how non-profit landlords are changing in response to market and other external pressures. In this paper, we draw on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework of external and internal risks, multiple stakeholders and resilience strategies, as well as the notion of hybridity, in order to make sense of change in Scotland's social housing sector. The paper draws on elite interviews as well as case studies that seek to capture the range of approaches adopted by providers. Although providers handle and respond to risk in a variety of ways, risk management is a necessary part of the management of social housing businesses. Increasingly, providers are concerned with questions of resilience – the need to make themselves as organisations more resilient and also to promote greater resilience amongst tenants as a way of mitigating risk. Our research suggests that this is leading to some positive outcomes e.g. greater diversity within the sector and increased customer focus but there is concern that government policies remain within silos and are insufficiently flexible to deal with changed circumstances and the evolving needs and aspirations of the sector. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 435-457 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1198085 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1198085 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:435-457 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Duffy Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Duffy Author-Name: Niall McInerney Author-X-Name-First: Niall Author-X-Name-Last: McInerney Author-Name: Kieran McQuinn Author-X-Name-First: Kieran Author-X-Name-Last: McQuinn Title: Macroprudential policy in a recovering property market: too much too soon? Abstract: The aftermath of the 2007/2008 financial crisis has resulted in many central banks and regulatory authorities examining the effectiveness of macroprudential policy in preventing the emergence of future credit bubbles. Specific limits on loan-to-value (LTV) and loan-to-income (LTI) ratios have been introduced in a number of economies as a means of ensuring greater financial stability. The Irish property and credit market were particularly affected in the crisis as the domestic housing market had, since 1995, experienced sustained price and housing supply increases. Much of the activity in the Irish market was fuelled by a credit bubble following the emergence of international wholesale funding post 2003. After a period of pronounced declines, Irish house prices in late 2013 started to increase significantly; in early 2015, in response, the Irish Central Bank imposed new LTV and LTI limits to curb house price inflation. However, the introduction of these measures comes at a time when housing supply and mortgage lending are still at historically low levels. Therefore, in this paper we use a newly developed structural model of the Irish property and credit market to examine the implications of these measures for house prices and key activity variables in the mortgage market. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 491-523 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1210937 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1210937 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:491-523 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Isabel Pato Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Author-X-Name-Last: Pato Author-Name: Margarida Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Margarida Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Title: Austerity and (new) limits of segregation in housing policies: the Portuguese case Abstract: This article discusses segregation regimes in relation to housing policies, analysing their effects on residential occupation patterns and their connections with other urban policies in the Portuguese context. First, we focus on the effect of national housing policies from the past two decades, including social housing policies, on residential occupation patterns. Second, we examine the main instruments of housing policy implemented under the austerity programme, looking ahead to the new needs and segregation mechanisms linked to the crisis as well as the responses to the crisis. We show that during the past four decades, housing policies ended up acting as segregation regimes, unable to oppose centrifugal market forces present in the metropolisation process. In central metropolitan areas, as well as in neighbourhoods with social housing, the economic crisis and the austerity programme are magnifying problems regarding access to housing. The adopted policies have direct consequences on spatial segregation, as they contribute to the increase of housing stress in low-income dwellings. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 524-542 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1215962 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1215962 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:524-542 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Stephenson Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Stephenson Title: A Review of "Eviction: poverty and profit in the American city", By Matthew Desmond Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 564-566 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1222738 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1222738 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:564-566 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yael Arbell Author-X-Name-First: Yael Author-X-Name-Last: Arbell Title: A Review of "The re-emergence of cohousing in Europe", Edited by Lidewij Tummers Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 561-564 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1228247 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1228247 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:561-564 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cecil Sagoe Author-X-Name-First: Cecil Author-X-Name-Last: Sagoe Title: A Review of "Olympic housing: a critical review of London 2012's legacy", By Penny Bernstock Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 556-558 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1228254 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1228254 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:556-558 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mel Nowicki Author-X-Name-First: Mel Author-X-Name-Last: Nowicki Title: A Review of "House, home and society", By Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 559-561 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1228256 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1228256 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:559-561 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Fifty years since Cathy Come Home: critical reflections on the UK homelessness safety net Abstract: It's 50 years since the classic BBC drama on homelessness, Cathy Come Home, was first broadcast. Despite an immediate public outcry, another decade was to elapse before the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 was passed in an attempt to provide permanent solutions for homeless families like those of the eponymous Cathy. Against the odds, this unique statutory safety net has subsequently survived almost 40 years of Conservative, Labour and Coalition governments. This policy review traces the history of the legislation, before considering current debates and future directions for this very British model. The main focus is on England, but attention is given to recent developments in Scotland and, especially, in Wales. We argue that it is high time to address the exclusion of single people from the main entitlements of the legislation in England, and to take account of the realities of the informal ‘preventative’ approaches that now shape local authority practice throughout the UK. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 543-555 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1230962 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1230962 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:543-555 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1238672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1238672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Ley Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Ley Title: Global China and the making of Vancouver's residential property market Abstract: This paper examines the role of international investment in the construction of a local housing market in Vancouver, Canada. The background political economy included the attempt by Canadian governments to reboot a troubled regional economy through an infusion of activity from the growth region of Asia Pacific. An important investment tool was a Business Immigration Programme (BIP), which welcomed capital and invited capitalists to transfer their entrepreneurial skills to Canada. The BIP was very popular in Greater China, attracting wealth migration to Vancouver from Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s, and from Mainland China since 2000. An intricate trans-Pacific real estate market developed, with off-plan sales and offshore marketing of Vancouver property in Asia Pacific, and sales to wealthy BIP migrants at or before their arrival in Canada. House prices have risen rapidly and the detached housing market is now unaffordable to most Vancouver residents. Despite public discontent about the likely role of investors in boosting prices, provincial and local governments, who value the revenues of high property prices and BIP fees, have shown little desire to intervene. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 15-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1119776 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1119776 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:15-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hyung Min Kim Author-X-Name-First: Hyung Min Author-X-Name-Last: Kim Title: Ethnic connections, foreign housing investment and locality: a case study of Seoul Abstract: A new trend in global cities has been the increasing volume of foreign capital flowing into property markets with cross-border housing investment becoming a focus for international migrants. However, how ethnicity plays out in the housing market, particularly for home ownership, along with global migration, has not been well explored in emerging economies despite the increase in human and capital mobility. The aim of this paper is to identify the main housing investors with respect to ethnic connections and to explore intra-urban spatial expressions of foreign housing investment using Seoul as a case study. The result reveals that knowledge of local circumstances, usually via previous residency or shared ethnicity, can be significantly strengthened via ethnic and/or family ties. Koreans living in high-income Western Anglophone countries such as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have been the key source of inbound funds in Korea. Foreign housing investment has appeared in three key areas where different groups of foreign nationals and translational class have been concentrated. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 120-144 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1189683 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1189683 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:120-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexandra Wong Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra Author-X-Name-Last: Wong Title: Transnational real estate in Australia: new Chinese diaspora, media representation and urban transformation in Sydney's Chinatown Abstract: Foreign real estate investment, especially from Asia, is growing rapidly in many global cities. Whilst transnational real estate has recently been highlighted in various media coverage, its actual process is still relatively under researched by housing scholars. This paper fills this research gap by framing transnational real estate in the broader context of intensified globalisation and increased transnational mobility of people, capital and information and by grounding it within the case study of Sydney's Chinatown in Australia which focuses on three dimensions of the process, namely the role of Chinese diaspora in shaping transnational real estate practices, the locality characteristics of Chinatown which contribute to Chinese capital accumulation and urban transformation in the area, and the manner in which transnational real estate investment practices have been reshaped, due to misrepresentation of the issue in public media. Based on in-depth interviews, content analysis of newspapers and analysis of official statistics, this paper demonstrates the global–local nexus of transnational real estate process in Australia which is constituted, and shaped, by various global forces and local factors, including social actors’ motives and practices, geographical settings and cultural politics. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 97-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1210938 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1210938 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:97-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: C.P. Pow Author-X-Name-First: C.P. Author-X-Name-Last: Pow Title: Courting the ‘rich and restless’: globalisation of real estate and the new spatial fixities of the super-rich in Singapore Abstract: How have the globalisation of real estate and the rise of a transnational class of super-rich homebuyers challenged conventional analyses of local residential property markets? What analytical tools and concepts can we deploy to understand the dialectical tensions between the local and global; fixity and motion as well as the deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation of real estate by the super-rich? Drawing on Singapore as a case study, this paper interrogates the new ‘spatial fixities’ of the super-rich housing market at two inter-related scales of analysis. At the national scale, this spatial fixity could be interpreted in terms of the attempts by the Singapore ‘property state’ to attract high net-worth individuals to reside and invest in the country as a ‘quick fix’ way to boost national capital. At the global scale, this new spatial fixity of highly mobile super-rich can be seen in their territorialisation strategies to constantly seek out new safe havens to physically ‘park’ and grow their wealth beyond the traditional confines of national boundaries. Insofar as these two kinds of spatial fixes both complement and feed off one another via conspicuous real estate development, they also risk colliding and generating social contradictions that may potentially threaten their symbiotic relations. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 56-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1215964 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1215964 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:56-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Touchton Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Touchton Title: A Review of “Civil society and participatory governance: municipal councils and social housing programmes in Brazil”, By Maureen Donaghy Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 164-167 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1228262 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1228262 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:164-167 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Lux Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Lux Author-Name: Andreja Cirman Author-X-Name-First: Andreja Author-X-Name-Last: Cirman Author-Name: Petr Sunega Author-X-Name-First: Petr Author-X-Name-Last: Sunega Title: Housing restitution policies among post-socialist countries: explaining divergence Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explain why post-socialist countries adopted different housing restitution strategies after the change of regimes across the region. Restitution refers here to the process of returning property or compensating for property expropriated by the communist regime to its previous owners or their descendants. This paper provides a brief overview, assessment and categorisation of housing property restitution policies using a sample of 14 post-socialist countries, but it primarily aims to contribute to the general understanding of the evolution of post-socialist housing systems. The authors demonstrate that the decision of governments whether or not to adopt a policy of mass give-away privatisation of public housing probably had the biggest impact on which property restitution strategy, if any, was applied. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 145-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1246602 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1246602 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:145-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karita Kan Author-X-Name-First: Karita Author-X-Name-Last: Kan Title: The (geo)politics of land and foreign real estate investment in China: the case of Hong Kong FDI Abstract: Market reforms and the relaxation of rules governing inbound investment have contributed to the growth of foreign investment in Chinese real estate. Although the property sector remains one of the most tightly regulated, property developers from Greater China have enjoyed relative success in the mainland market. Conventional explanations of such investment outcomes have often drawn attention to economic complementaries and cultural proximities. By tracing the development of Hong Kong investment in China's real estate from the late 1970s to the present, this paper demonstrates the importance of considering (geo)politics at both the national and ground levels in analysing bilateral economic relations. The geopolitical prerogatives of national sovereignty structure economic interactions between the Chinese state and the Special Administrative Region, while popular politics from the ground level up interacts with state-level geopolitics to affect and change policy outcomes. The shifting dynamics demonstrate that the cultural meaning and value of foreign capital are not static or fixed but rather open to continuous re-negotiation and contestation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 35-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1248607 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1248607 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:35-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mirjam Büdenbender Author-X-Name-First: Mirjam Author-X-Name-Last: Büdenbender Author-Name: Oleg Golubchikov Author-X-Name-First: Oleg Author-X-Name-Last: Golubchikov Title: The geopolitics of real estate: assembling soft power via property markets Abstract: The article problematises the role of real estate in geopolitical circulations. The internationalisation of real estate increases mutual dependencies and vulnerabilities between nation states and, therefore, calls for a better appreciation of the geopolitical externalities and exteriorities of real estate. The article brings together disjoint bodies of literature on real estate globalisation, assemblage theory, and international relations to show how real estate is a case of the geopolitics of the multiple – geopolitics that is being assembled by diverse and distributed actors, discourses, and materialities representing the contingent and emergent formation of connections and considerations, which affect the ways how foreign relations are negotiated today. The argument is substantiated by considering several dimensions of the real estate/geopolitics nexus: (1) external influences over domestic real estate markets; (2) the implications of outward real estate investment; and (3) state-led mega-projects conveying externally the power of the state. These dimensions are considered empirically in the context of the renewed geopolitical tensions between a resurgent Russia and the West. Overall, the article calls for a better positioning of real estate in the conceptualisations of soft power, state power, and geopolitics. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 75-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1248646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1248646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:75-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kesia Reeve Author-X-Name-First: Kesia Author-X-Name-Last: Reeve Title: A Review of “Women rough sleepers in Europe: homelessness and victims of domestic abuse”, By Kate Moss and Paramjit Singh Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 162-164 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1264187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1264187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:162-164 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicola Dempsey Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Dempsey Title: A Review of “The Routledge handbook of planning for health and well-being: shaping a sustainable and healthy future”, Edited by Hugh Barton, Susan Thompson, Sarah Burgess and Marcus Grant Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 157-159 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1267433 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1267433 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:157-159 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lea Fuenfschilling Author-X-Name-First: Lea Author-X-Name-Last: Fuenfschilling Title: A Review of “Retrofitting cities: priorities, governance and experimentation”, Edited by Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 160-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1267458 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1267458 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:160-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dallas Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Dallas Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Sin Yee Koh Author-X-Name-First: Sin Yee Author-X-Name-Last: Koh Title: The globalisation of real estate: the politics and practice of foreign real estate investment Abstract: Foreign investment in residential real estate – especially by new middle-class and super-rich investors – is re-emerging as a key political issue in academic, policy and public debates. On the one hand, global real estate has become an asset class for foreign individual and institutional investors seeking to diversify their investment portfolios. On the other, a suite of intergenerational migration and education plans may also be motivating foreign investors. Government and public responses to the latest manifestation of global real estate investment have taken different forms. These range from pro-foreign investment, primarily justified on geopolitical economic grounds, to anti-foreign investment for reasons such as mitigating public dissent and protecting the local housing market. Within this changing global context, the six articles in this special issue on the globalisation of real estate present a diverse range of empirical case studies from Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Russia, Australia and Korea. This editorial highlights four methodological challenges that the articles collectively highlight; they are (1) investor cohorts and property types, (2) regulatory settings, (3) geopolitics and (4) spatial differences and temporal trajectories. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1270618 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1270618 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yosuke Hirayama Author-X-Name-First: Yosuke Author-X-Name-Last: Hirayama Title: Individualisation and familisation in Japan's home-owning democracy Abstract: Japan's post-war housing system has been dominated by family-owned housing. However, the centrality of family home ownership has declined since the 1990s. Housing careers and family formation patterns have diverged leading to the re-organisation of boundaries separating owning and renting. Using Japan as a focus, this paper explores the role of individualisation and familisation in transforming homeowner societies. On one hand, the individualisation of younger generations in Japan has encouraged a notable increase in one-person households living in private rented housing. On the other hand, a growing number of young households have purchased houses with assistance from their parents. This has been interpreted as an intergenerational familisation of access to home ownership. There is also an increasing number of unmarried adults living in their parents’ homes, which reflects the individualisation of younger cohorts and simultaneously the familisation of adult children's early housing careers. Moreover, it has recently been pointed out that Japan's system of extended family households and the related practice of transferring family properties across generations, has not declined. This paper argues that individualisation and familisation are combining to reorganise the ‘edges’ of home ownership, by helping determine who can enter owner-occupied housing sectors, and who is excluded. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 296-313 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1089730 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1089730 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:296-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gavin A. Wood Author-X-Name-First: Gavin A. Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Author-Name: Susan J. Smith Author-X-Name-First: Susan J. Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Author-Name: Melek Cigdem Author-X-Name-First: Melek Author-X-Name-Last: Cigdem Author-Name: Rachel Ong Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Ong Title: Life on the edge: a perspective on precarious home ownership in Australia and the UK Abstract: This paper focuses on two countries with debt-funded ownership-centred housing systems, Australia and the UK. Financially, there are similarities between these two societies, which have relatively ‘complete’, reasonably well-regulated mortgage markets, had limited exposure to the extremes of subprime, and have been pre-occupied with (and reasonably successful in) restoring ‘business as usual’ in housing and mortgage markets. Institutionally, however, the countries differ from each other, notably with respect to the size and function of the rented sectors. By modelling matched datasets from panel surveys in Australia and the UK, this paper considers how home-buying households in these financially similar, institutionally distinct, countries coped with the ups and downs of housing and mortgage markets in the first decade of the millennium. To address this, we focus on the edges of ownership: that once-stark boundary between owning and renting whose character is often taken for granted, yet which contains important signals about the functioning of housing systems, their link to the wider economy and the well-being of home occupiers. The analysis considers in hitherto unprecedented empirical detail how, why, when, for whom and in what way the edges of ownership proved precarious in the decade to 2010. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 201-226 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1115225 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2015.1115225 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:201-226 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway Author-X-Name-First: Montserrat Author-X-Name-Last: Pareja-Eastaway Author-Name: María Teresa Sánchez-Martínez Author-X-Name-First: María Teresa Author-X-Name-Last: Sánchez-Martínez Title: Have the edges of homeownership in Spain proved to be resilient after the Global Financial Crisis? Abstract: The direct effect that an exogenous shock like the global financial crisis (GFC) had on the border between one form of tenure and another is particularly interesting in countries were owner-occupancy predominates. Right before the GFC, Spain was experiencing a major housing price bubble, allowing great expectations on housing equity gains together with extremely high numbers of mortgage-indebted households. The GFC represented a major threat for those households at the edges as their financial fragility increased. The aim of this paper is to identify why the edges of ownership in Spain came to be so precarious after the GFC and to assess how resilience is improved (considering both vulnerable households affected by the crisis and those that may be affected later) by securing the future of the edges of homeownership and reducing the volatility observed in an ownership-centred housing market. We will use the MDSR (Mortgage Debt Service Ratio) as an indicator of the higher vulnerability of those on the edges of homeownership. Looking at the consequences at the edges of the GFC in a home-ownership dominated market will provide the arguments for drawing up policies and actions for a new long-term tenure scenario in Spain. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 276-295 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1185275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1185275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:276-295 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephan Köppe Author-X-Name-First: Stephan Author-X-Name-Last: Köppe Title: Britain's new housing precariat: housing wealth pathways out of homeownership Abstract: Most Britons aspire to own their home outright before retirement. This article looks at the rocky road from the edges of ownership, where home buyers are trying to cope with pressing spending needs and mortgage repayments, towards outright ownership. Using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), sequence analysis is applied to describe the housing wealth pathways of mortgagors as they strive to achieve outright ownership. The study pays particular attention to the risks that mortgagors are exposed to, and the tactics they employ as mortgage managers. A minority is trapped on the edges of ownership. Multinomial regression model estimates suggest that this new housing precariat is more likely to be female, younger, experience a relationship breakup, high mortgage–income ratios and have an additional child in the household. For this housing precariat, homeownership is not a safety net; it becomes a liability that exposes mortgagors to new social risks. These emerging social risks warrant policy intervention targeted on vulnerable home owner groups. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 177-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1185286 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1185286 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:177-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: María Mercedes Di Virgilio Author-X-Name-First: María Mercedes Author-X-Name-Last: Di Virgilio Title: Housing policy in Argentina: reflections on a decade of progressive social policy Abstract: In 2003, the federal housing policy was launched in Argentina, marking a new era in housing policy in Latin America's fourth most populous country. The Federal Housing Plan (FHP) sought to improve upon the complex scenario left by the deep socio-economic crisis of 2001--2002 with the most ambitious and progressive housing plan in Argentine history. This paper reviews the design and implementation of the FHP in the city of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires between 2003 and 2014. It focuses on the main characteristics of the Plan, as well as each of its subprogrammes and the paper reflects upon the main challenges encountered during implementation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 314-325 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1266868 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1266868 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:314-325 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melek Cigdem Author-X-Name-First: Melek Author-X-Name-Last: Cigdem Author-Name: Stephen Whelan Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Whelan Title: Intergenerational transfers and housing tenure – Australian evidence Abstract: Australia has a long tradition of home-ownership though there is evidence that rates of home-ownership are declining. Anecdotal evidence suggests that older Australians are facilitating home-ownership for younger cohorts through intergenerational transfers. This paper examines the relationship between housing tenure and transfers in the form of bequests and gifts. We find evidence that intergenerational transfers are associated with a higher probability that recipients subsequently transition into home-ownership. For those at the edges of home-ownership, intergenerational transfers potentially play an important role in facilitating home-ownership. Moreover, given the central role of home-ownership for the savings and wealth accumulation of Australians, such patterns may exacerbate existing inequality and potentially undermine the role that housing may play in a broad-based policy of asset-based welfare. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 227-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1278580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1278580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:227-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marietta E.A. Haffner Author-X-Name-First: Marietta E.A. Author-X-Name-Last: Haffner Author-Name: Rachel Ong Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Ong 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: The edges of home ownership – the borders of sustainability Abstract: In many Western countries the edges of ownership form a neglected zone between the majority tenure, sustainable owner-occupation, and the minority experience, long-term renting. In these tenure-divided societies, it is surprising that so little attention has been paid to the zone of transition between styles of accommodation, not least because the edges of ownership are now so precarious. The six papers included in this special issue advance empirical and conceptual understandings of these neglected zones, showing how, increasingly, they compromise the sustainability of housing solutions. Some approach this by developing an understanding of how the changing fungibility of housing wealth has transformed its welfare role, while at the same time exposing those on the edges of ownership to heightened levels of risk. A second set of papers report from a variety of jurisdictions to show how the structure of the edges of owner-occupation vary across cultures and countries, and change over time. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 169-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1289717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1289717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:169-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrienne Csizmady Author-X-Name-First: Adrienne Author-X-Name-Last: Csizmady Author-Name: József Hegedüs Author-X-Name-First: József Author-X-Name-Last: Hegedüs Author-Name: Gyula Nagy Author-X-Name-First: Gyula Author-X-Name-Last: Nagy Title: The effect of GFC on tenure choice in a post-socialist country – the case of Hungary Abstract: In Hungary's housing system, home ownership has become the dominant tenure, covering 85%–90% of the housing stock after the first decade of intensive privatisation in the 1990s. Mortgage loans were heavily subsidised between 2000 and 2004 as a part of pro-homeownership housing policy. After cutting the subsidies in 2004 (as the cost of the subsidy programme was unsustainable), the tenure preferences of households have not changed: the low interest rate, high risk foreign exchange mortgage became the typical loan product. After 2008 the housing and mortgage market collapsed: new construction decreased by 70%--80%, housing transactions plummeted, house prices decreased and mortgage arrears become a huge social problem. The mortgage crises proved that homeownership could be as risky and unpredictable as renting. It is expected that there will be a shift in tenure choice as a consequence of the mortgage crisis. The paper sets out to assess if stakeholders in the housing sector (households, government, banks, etc.) will learn from these experiences, and start showing a stronger preference and support for renting, which could result in a more balanced tenure structure and more stable housing system. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 249-275 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1293409 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1293409 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:249-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Smith Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: A Review of "Housing economics: a historical approach", By Geoffrey Meen, Kenneth Gibb, Chris Leishman and Christian Nygaard Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 330-333 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1293911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1293911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:330-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Flávio A. M. de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Flávio A. M. Author-X-Name-Last: de Souza Title: A Review of "For a proper home: housing rights in the margins of urban Chile, 1960–2000", By Edward Murphy Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 326-328 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1304510 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1304510 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:326-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elizabeth Rowen Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Rowen Title: A Review of "Homeownership and America's financial underclass: flawed premises, broken promises and new prescriptions", Edited by Mechele Dickerson Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 328-330 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1304511 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1304511 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:2:p:328-330 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Micol Bronzini Author-X-Name-First: Micol Author-X-Name-Last: Bronzini Title: Contested issues surrounding social sustainability and self-building in Italy Abstract: The paper examines the potentiality of collective self-building as a feasible policy option to address the growing demand for affordable housing. It first provides an overview of the Italian scenario, concerning both housing policies and the development of collective self-build. It will examine the evidence of completions in practice and critically discuss one initiative developed in the city of Senigallia, Italy, building on issues raised from the debate on self-building derived in other developed countries. In particular, the main social benefits will be appraised. The success factors as well as other hindrances will be considered. Lastly, we will try to tease out some contested issues drawing on the tension between the dimensions of ‘responsibility’, ‘participation’ and ‘choice’ underpinning the idea of self-organised housing provision. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 353-373 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1223450 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1223450 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:353-373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lindsay Flynn Author-X-Name-First: Lindsay Author-X-Name-Last: Flynn Title: Delayed and depressed: from expensive housing to smaller families Abstract: Individuals face challenges in acquiring suitable housing at multiple stages of their life. Many stages – leaving the parental home, partnering, having children – have historically clustered in the 20s and early 30s. Increasingly, these stages extend into the late 30s and early 40s. This paper proposes a new framework to assess the role of housing in shaping the physical and financial space individuals have to meet their family goals. It identifies two links, one indirect and one direct, between housing and family size. Indirectly, later exits from the parental home correspond to delays in family formation and smaller families. Directly, housing costs compete with spending on children prompting tradeoffs and smaller families. The two links are supported utilising cross-national microdata from 18 countries in Europe and North America during the mid-2000s with an additional analysis of four focus countries: Austria, Germany, France, and Italy. This paper adds to a growing body of literature emphasising the importance of housing, family formation, and family size. It also emphasises a need to reframe the focus of the literature from housing tenure and the second half of the adult life course to housing costs and the first half of the adult life course. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 374-395 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1241936 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1241936 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:374-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Angela Curl Author-X-Name-First: Angela Author-X-Name-Last: Curl Author-Name: Ade Kearns Author-X-Name-First: Ade Author-X-Name-Last: Kearns Title: Housing improvements, fuel payment difficulties and mental health in deprived communities Abstract: This paper examines the effect of warmth interventions on self-reported difficulties affording fuel bills and mental health, using a longitudinal sample in Glasgow, UK. Following a period of rising fuel prices and stagnating wages, fuel poverty is high on the political agenda and is a particular issue for those living in deprived communities who may be most affected by rising fuel bills and reductions in employment, wages and incomes in the recent period of recession and austerity. Since 2006, the reporting of difficulties paying for fuel bills has been rising in the study population. Alongside fuel prices and income, energy efficiency is the third key driver of fuel poverty. As such the research seeks to establish whether warmth interventions, designed to improve the energy efficiency of homes can provide protection against worsening financial difficulties and lead to better mental health outcomes for residents. Results suggest that those who report greater frequency of financial difficulty also report worsening mental health. There is limited impact of energy efficiency improvements on perceived fuel affordability difficulties, and where there is an effect, central heating is related to more frequent financial hardships. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 417-443 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1248526 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1248526 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:417-443 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James Kennedy Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Kennedy Author-Name: Godwin Arku Author-X-Name-First: Godwin Author-X-Name-Last: Arku Author-Name: Evan Cleave Author-X-Name-First: Evan Author-X-Name-Last: Cleave Title: The experiences of front-line service providers of Housing First programme delivery in three communities in Ontario, Canada Abstract: In many OECD countries, the Housing First (HF) approach has emerged as a leading social policy for addressing the needs of populations experiencing chronic homelessness combined with a dual diagnosis of substance abuse issues and mental health illnesses. The HF model is an evidence-based practice for housing the long-term homeless population; as such, much of the current scholarship has focused on evaluating the outcomes for participants. This paper adds to the empirical understanding of the HF model from the perspective of service providers. The paper is based on an analysis of interviews with service providers from HF programmes in three communities in Ontario, Canada. The service providers considered the HF model to be the most effective approach to housing chronically homeless people. However, the analysis underscored challenges with implementation: lack of housing stock, lack of housing options, unwillingness of landlords to participate in the programmes, and the need for rent supplement. The analysis addresses the need to capture the perspectives of practitioners tasked with implementing the HF model. Empirical findings and recommendations may provide useful lessons for local communities and housing organisations in countries implementing the model, as well as those considering implementation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 396-416 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1248528 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1248528 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:396-416 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Grander Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Grander Title: New public housing: a selective model disguised as universal? Implications of the market adaptation of Swedish public housing Abstract: Building upon the universal characteristics of the social democratic welfare regime, public housing in Sweden has traditionally been a central instrument in contributing to socially inclusive cities; however, changes in policy have gradually changed the landscape. This paper presents concerns for public housing's endeavour for social inclusion and suggests that the universal approach, of which Swedish public housing is a standing role model, is diminishing in favour of an ambiguous model of universal discourse and selective output. A ‘New Public Housing’ is emerging with higher thresholds, making it harder for economically disadvantaged groups to gain access to housing; at the same time, this is compensated by the increase of ‘social contracts’, which provides the financially vulnerable with an entrance to the housing market, however on very uncertain conditions. Increasingly catering for the most well off and the most vulnerable in society, this New Public Housing appears to exist in a contradictory state between its claims of universalism and the practice of excluding certain groups. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 335-352 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1265266 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1265266 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:335-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Lux Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Lux Title: A Review of "The policy-making process and social learning in Russia: The case of housing policy", By Marina Khmelnitskaya Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 462-464 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1304516 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1304516 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:462-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rowan Arundel Author-X-Name-First: Rowan Author-X-Name-Last: Arundel Title: A Review of "Planning Canada: a case study approach", Edited by Ren Thomas Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 459-461 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1309117 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1309117 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:459-461 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Moore Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Moore Title: The convergence, divergence and changing geography of regulation in the UK's private rented sector Abstract: The role of the private rented sector (PRS) has grown in many parts of Europe in recent years, both as an increasing component of housing systems and as the effects of the global financial crisis become apparent. In the UK, the role of the sector has deepened and is increasingly relied upon to house growing and diverse proportions of the population for longer periods of time. This has renewed interest in the regulation of the sector in order to improve its suitability and desirability for tenants. There has been increasing convergence in regulatory approaches between some jurisdictions of the UK, such as Scotland and Wales, and divergence between others, such as England where regulation remains a residual policy concern. Using examples of tenure security, landlord regulation and affordability, this policy review seeks to highlight the emerging differences in the way the PRS is regulated within the UK. It argues that the likely consequence of these differences is that there may be increased variation in the effects and experience of renting in the PRS, in relation to eviction protections and landlord management standards. The paper shows how jurisdictions in Scotland, and to a lesser extent Wales and Northern Ireland, are moving towards models of regulation that more closely mirror those used in Western European countries, with England becoming an outlier in the way in which it regulates private renting. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 444-456 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1312795 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1312795 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:444-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rosa Elena Donoso Author-X-Name-First: Rosa Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Donoso Title: A Review of "The invisible houses: Rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries", By Gonzalo Lizarralde Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 457-459 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1316463 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1316463 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:457-459 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nil Uzun Author-X-Name-First: Nil Author-X-Name-Last: Uzun Title: A Review of "In defense of housing: the politics of crisis", Edited by David Madden and Peter Marcuse Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 465-467 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1339451 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1339451 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:465-467 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jerry Anthony Author-X-Name-First: Jerry Author-X-Name-Last: Anthony Title: Housing price effects of growth regulations: a concise taxonomy Abstract: Growth regulations seek to influence urban development in ways that would reduce sprawl, pollution and environmental degradation. Prior to the Great Recession, such regulations were increasing in popularity in the USA. In fact, in a 10-year period before this recession, over 100 cities, counties, and states adopted growth regulations. After a brief hiatus during the Great Recession, interest in growth regulations in the USA is on the rise again. International interest in growth regulations is also increasing. In this paper, I review theoretical and empirical evidence on the effects of growth regulations on housing prices, and use it to develop a taxonomy of these effects. Given the long enduring debate about the housing price and affordability effects of growth policies, and the scarcity of rigorous research to inform it, more work in this area is warranted. Future researchers can learn from the pitfalls of past research. Using this taxonomy as a guide future researchers can construct more accurate accounts of effects, provide better guidance for future policy efforts, and help bridge the distinct discord between opponents and supporters of growth regulations, whose differences right now are grounded as much in philosophical orientations as in methodologically unsound research. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 569-590 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1215963 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1215963 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:569-590 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bruce Tranter Author-X-Name-First: Bruce Author-X-Name-Last: Tranter Author-Name: Jed Donoghue Author-X-Name-First: Jed Author-X-Name-Last: Donoghue Title: Housing tenure, body mass index and health in Australia Abstract: A national survey of Australian adults shows higher levels of obesity among public housing tenants and home owners with a mortgage compared to outright home owners. These results are to an extent due to higher instances of illness and disability among public housing tenants, and are also associated with known health risk factors. Yet differences in body mass index between tenures persist after controlling for a range of risk factors and socio-demographic indicators, suggesting the presence of cultural differences and different consumption patterns. Public tenants are by far the most likely to smoke on a daily basis, with private renters and home owners with a mortgage also more likely to be smokers than are outright home owners. Further investigation is required to establish the nature and extent that patterned health inequalities and associated risk factors are linked to housing tenure. If Australian mortgagees are more likely than outright homeowners to be obese, as our findings indicate, pursuing the ‘Australian dream’ of home-ownership may contain a hidden cost to one's health. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 469-488 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1241937 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1241937 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:469-488 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhou Yu Author-X-Name-First: Zhou Author-X-Name-Last: Yu Title: Macro effects on the household formation of China's young adults – demographics, institutional factors, and regional differences Abstract: Household formation, or the extent to which population is transferred into households, determines housing demand and reflects housing well-being. Young adults, who are new entrants to the housing market and sensitive to changing market conditions, have faced many challenges in China's fledging housing market. This paper examines trends in household formation from 1982 to 2005 using census data. Then, the 2005 One-Percent Population Survey data are used to study macro effects on the household formation patterns of the post-1970 generation (those aged 25–34 in 2005) throughout China. Household formation is measured using both headship and non-family headship rates. In contrast to those in industrialised countries, young adults in China become less likely to form independent households in time of rapid economic growth. When they do, they are more likely to form non-family households than before. Regional variations in household formation can be explained by several macro factors. Marriage rates are positively associated with headship rates, so is gender imbalance. There is a distinct pattern to the formation of non-family households, which reflects increasing mobility, labour migration, delayed marriage, and gender imbalance. Institutional and demographic forces, some of which are unique to China, are important factors in household formation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 512-540 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1265267 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1265267 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:512-540 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nate Willis Author-X-Name-First: Nate Author-X-Name-Last: Willis Author-Name: Martha Phillips Author-X-Name-First: Martha Author-X-Name-Last: Phillips Author-Name: Kevin Ryan Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan Author-Name: Zoran Bursac Author-X-Name-First: Zoran Author-X-Name-Last: Bursac Author-Name: Alesia Ferguson Author-X-Name-First: Alesia Author-X-Name-Last: Ferguson Title: Examining the strength of state habitability laws across the United States of America Abstract: Creation and maintenance of habitable housing conditions can be a challenge, particularly when occupants do not have ownership or control of the housing unit or sufficient resources to address deficiencies. A systematic review of the literature was conducted and a descriptive analysis was performed on habitability laws enacted by the 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine variability in the strength of habitability laws and their potential to affect resident health. The systematic review stratified states according to first dates of adoption and last dates of annotations to habitability laws. The descriptive analysis referred to as the Habitability Element Rating Scale, scored and ranked states according to their basic level of consistency with the Uniform Residential Landlord Tenant Act (URLTA); weights were applied to reflect each element's potential to influence health and party responsibility. The review and analysis found substantial variation in habitability laws across states and indicate that the Western region of the United States typically have landlord and tenant laws that are more consistent with the URLTA. Results also suggest states that adopted URLTA (in whole or in part) soon after its initial development and dissemination in 1972 may prioritise habitability of housing and health policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 541-568 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1270609 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1270609 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:541-568 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sha Liu Author-X-Name-First: Sha Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Nicole Gurran Author-X-Name-First: Nicole Author-X-Name-Last: Gurran Title: Chinese investment in Australian housing: push and pull factors and implications for understanding international housing demand Abstract: The increasing integration of the globalised financial market and real estate has resulted in growing levels of international investment in property markets. Yet research on the factors driving international housing demand remains limited. This paper examines the underlying drivers encouraging the involvement of Chinese developers and individuals in the global property market, focusing on the interface between both ‘push’ factors and ‘pull’ factors driving them ‘overseas’. Ostensibly, domestic policy settings, such as China's anti-speculation measures (introduced between 2004 and 2014) might be expected to displace housing investment to other markets. This paper examines the relative influence of such measures along with other domestic ‘push’ and international ‘pull’ factors through in-depth interviews with real estate agents, developers, and a Chinese local government official. In exploring the intersection between ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors, the focus is specifically on international investment in Sydney, Australia. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 489-511 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1307655 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1307655 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:489-511 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carla J. Huisman Author-X-Name-First: Carla J. Author-X-Name-Last: Huisman Title: A Review of "Squatting in Britain 1945–1955: housing, politics, and direct action", by Don Watson Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 611-613 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1338035 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1338035 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:611-613 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Boelhouwer Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Boelhouwer Title: The role of government and financial institutions during a housing market crisis: a case study of the Netherlands Abstract: The generous mortgage tax relief enjoyed in the Netherlands and the possible existence of a house price bubble cannot explain the sharp decrease of house prices in the Netherlands in the period from 2011–2013. This sharp decline can, however, be explained by the rigorous adjustments to mortgage lending criteria after 2011. Key financial institutions in the Netherlands were more directly responsible for the deep crisis of the home-ownership market during this period. This was largely due to the specific interests of these organisations, mainly based on macro-economic considerations and the desire to enlarge the equity of the banks, which outweighed the problems on the housing market. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 591-602 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1357399 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1357399 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:591-602 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David P. Varady Author-X-Name-First: David P. Author-X-Name-Last: Varady Title: A Review of "Sustainable communities and urban housing: a comparative European perspective", Edited by Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Nessa Winston Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 608-611 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1372958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1372958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:608-611 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sophie Elsmore Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Elsmore Title: A Review of "The radical and socialist tradition in British planning: from Puritan colonies to garden cities", By Duncan Bowie Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 605-608 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1377454 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1377454 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:605-608 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ryan Powell Author-X-Name-First: Ryan Author-X-Name-Last: Powell Title: A Review of "The financialization of housing: a political economy approach", By Manuel B. Aalbers Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 603-605 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1377464 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1377464 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:603-605 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1390121 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1390121 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:17:y:2017:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jardar Sørvoll Author-X-Name-First: Jardar Author-X-Name-Last: Sørvoll Author-Name: Bo Bengtsson Author-X-Name-First: Bo Author-X-Name-Last: Bengtsson Title: The Pyrrhic victory of civil society housing? Co-operative housing in Sweden and Norway Abstract: Co-operative housing in Sweden and Norway are true success stories of civil society housing in terms of market shares. This stands in stark contrast to some other European countries, where attempts to promote co-operative housing have consistently met with difficulties, both politically and in the market. The paper explores the history of co-operative housing in Sweden and Norway since 1945 through the lens of path dependence. Notably, co-operative housing changed gradually in both countries between the 1950s and the 1990s, when co-operative companies went from being civil society organisations espousing the ideals of self-help, democracy, non-profit and solidarity, towards becoming more market oriented and profit seeking. We argue that two drivers, ‘the logic of conflicting member interests’ and ‘the logic of competition and growth’, contributed decisively to this development. These drivers may also be good candidates for general mechanisms of civil society housing based partly on collective or individual ownership – if they are not kept at bay. In our view, there seems to be some trade-off between the pursuit of civil society objectives and market success. This should serve as a marker for advocates of civil society housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 124-142 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1162078 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1162078 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:124-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Udi Engelsman Author-X-Name-First: Udi Author-X-Name-Last: Engelsman Author-Name: Mike Rowe Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Rowe Author-Name: Alan Southern Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Southern Title: Community Land Trusts, affordable housing and community organising in low-income neighbourhoods Abstract: Community Land Trusts (CLTs) offer a community-led response to housing problems and can provide affordable housing for low-income residents. Generally the academic work on CLTs remains underdeveloped, particularly in the UK, although some argue that they can be an efficient way in which to manage scarce resources while others have noted that CLTs can provide a focal point for community resistance. In this article we provide evidence on two active CLTs in inner urban areas in major US cities, New York and Boston. In Cooper Square, Lower East Side Manhattan and Dudley Street, south Boston, we see the adoption of different approaches to development suggesting that we should speak of models of CLTs rather than assuming a single operational approach. The cases we present indicate both radical and reformist responses to the state and market provision of housing and neighbourhood sustainability. They also suggest community activism can prove to be significant in securing land and the development of the CLT. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 103-123 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1198082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1198082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:103-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louise Crabtree Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Crabtree Title: Self-organised housing in Australia: housing diversity in an age of market heat Abstract: While many jurisdictions have seen the recent failure of market and state mechanisms to respond to a crisis of housing provision and to the collapse of markets, Australia's housing prices have experienced primarily ongoing growth, amongst persistent concerns regarding a lack of affordable stock across all tenures, and the concentration of ownership of housing assets in an ageing and shrinking demographic. In this context and building on a tradition of self-organised housing through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there exists a range of self-organised efforts for housing provision. However, the sector is poorly known and relatively under-researched. Consequently, this paper presents a review of various forms of direct self-organised housing provision in Australia, and of affiliated advocacy and lobbying efforts. The paper uses community economies and slow housing frameworks to present a dynamic and diverse arena for future research. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 15-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1198083 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1198083 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:15-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Moore Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Moore Title: Replication through partnership: the evolution of partnerships between community land trusts and housing associations in England Abstract: Community land trusts (CLTs) have emerged as an innovative way of addressing the affordable housing crisis in England, as they seek to control and own housing to ensure lasting affordability and to democratically manage assets through voluntarism and community ownership structures. However, there can be difficulties that impede their progress, including legitimacy as new forms of housing organisation, access to finance, and voluntary capacity. CLTs have increasingly begun to partner with housing associations to overcome these issues, combining community leadership with professional expertise and experience. While partnerships may be critiqued for standardising community initiatives or for marrying contrasting institutional logics, housing association support has led directly to the growth of the CLT sector and created new frameworks in which communities can pursue local goals. This paper reports on empirical research into the constitution and effectiveness of partnerships, and considers their implications for future community-led housing development. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 82-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1198084 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1198084 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:82-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Lang Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Lang Author-Name: Harald Stoeger Author-X-Name-First: Harald Author-X-Name-Last: Stoeger Title: The role of the local institutional context in understanding collaborative housing models: empirical evidence from Austria Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate how the institutional context influences the configuration of collaborative housing models in Austria. Although Austria has a well-established cooperative sector, few empirical studies and no comprehensive overviews have been published on collaborative housing. This paper aims to fill this research gap by extending existing work on organisational models within Austrian non-profit housing. The contribution reports original research based on qualitative expert interviews and case studies completed in 2015. We focus our empirical analysis on two local housing contexts with current collaborative housing activity, Vienna and Salzburg. Our findings highlight the importance of partnerships with large cooperatives and the key role of local authorities for the development of collaborative housing initiatives. The main contributions of the paper can be seen in feeding into on-going international comparative research on collaborative housing sectors and on the changing institutional landscapes of housing systems. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 35-54 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1265265 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1265265 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:35-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Darinka Czischke Author-X-Name-First: Darinka Author-X-Name-Last: Czischke Title: Collaborative housing and housing providers: towards an analytical framework of multi-stakeholder collaboration in housing co-production Abstract: Many European countries are experiencing a recent (re)emergence of collaborative housing, such as co-housing, housing co-operatives and other forms of collective self-organised housing. One of the less studied aspects of these housing forms is the relationship between users (i.e. residents) and institutional actors and, in particular, established housing providers. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that helps expand the knowledge on the nature of these collaboration practices. To this end, different concepts and theories are reviewed, with a focus on collaboration and co-production as useful constructs to understand these phenomena. The proposed framework is applied to two examples of collaboration for housing co-production between residents’ groups and established housing providers in Vienna and Lyon, respectively. We found a high degree of user involvement throughout each project. In both cases, the group of residents that initiated the project partnered-up with established housing providers, who facilitated access to key resources and professional expertise. We hypothesise that housing providers with an ethos akin to initiators' values will more likely become (and stay) involved in collaborative housing, as compared to mainstream providers. We conclude with a reflection on possible improvements to our analytical framework and directions for further research. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 55-81 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1331593 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1331593 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:55-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Mullins Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Mullins Title: Achieving policy recognition for community-based housing solutions: the case of self-help housing in England Abstract: There has been a resurgence of interest in ‘community-based’ and ‘collaborative housing’ in many countries in recent years as this special issue testifies. A key barrier faced by ‘self-help’ groups is often the absence of recognition within government housing policy and funding frameworks. Case studies of policies that have enabled successful engagement with state support are therefore important. This policy review provides an account of the ‘Empty Homes Community Grants Programme’ (EHCGP) in England that enabled over £50 million public funding to be invested by over 100 grassroots organisations between 2012 and 2015 to bring 1299 homes (with 3048 bedrooms) back into use. This programme provides an important example of what can be achieved when procurement systems are re-designed to provide access for grassroots organisations. Drawing on long-term formative evaluations and subsequent legacy impact work, the review considers the context in which the programme developed, the precursors, agenda-setting and policy-influencing processes. This is followed by an account of enactment, delivery and impact of the programme. The next section considers longer term legacy and sustainability. The conclusion draws out the international significance and relevance to other community-based housing fields. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 143-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1384692 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1384692 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:143-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudia Murray Author-X-Name-First: Claudia Author-X-Name-Last: Murray Title: A Review of "Slums: how informal real estate markets work", Edited by Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj and Susan M. Wachter Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 163-165 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1396708 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1396708 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:163-165 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Harry Margalit Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Margalit Title: A Review of "Social housing: definitions and design exemplars", By Paul Karakusevic and Abigail Batchelor Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 159-160 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1406594 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1406594 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:159-160 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth Young Author-X-Name-First: Gareth Author-X-Name-Last: Young Title: A Review of "Radical solutions to the housing supply crisis", By Duncan Bowie Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 161-163 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1412126 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1412126 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:161-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Waldron Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Waldron Title: A Review of "From boom to bubble: how finance built the New Chicago", By Rachel Weber Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 156-158 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1412128 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1412128 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:156-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Mullins Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Mullins Author-Name: Tom Moore Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Moore Title: Self-organised and civil society participation in housing provision Abstract: After 40 years of relative decline, self-organised and civil society participation in housing has ostensibly been resurgent since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Drawing on evidence from ten countries this Special Issue explores the socio-economic and policy drivers of community land trusts, co-operatives, self-help housing and co-housing within different societal contexts using a variety of analytical frameworks. A key finding is that the GFC alone is not a satisfactory explanation for the resurgence. Social origins and contextual drivers are often deeper, more enduring and vary between national contexts. The term ‘collaborative housing’ is now gaining ground as a generic descriptor – shifting the focus from self-organisation to partnerships with varying degrees of community leadership and benefit. This Special Issue provides a platform for future research at the micro-level of organisations, the meso-level of stakeholder co-production, and the macro-level of welfare regimes. It identifies tools to map co-production relationships between the state, market and civil society stakeholders, to track interventions throughout the policy cycle, and to evaluate values and outcomes throughout organisational lifecycles. Knowledge gaps and limitations that future research should address include the limited evidence on the profile of participants and beneficiaries. A more critically-engaged stance is needed to consider consequences of institutionalisation and scaling-up on social outcomes. Finally, we need to learn from the experience of the Global South where self-provided housing is more dominant. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1422320 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1422320 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anuradha Mukherji Author-X-Name-First: Anuradha Author-X-Name-Last: Mukherji Title: Resilience at the margins: informal housing recovery in Bachhau, India, after the 2001 Gujarat quake Abstract: This paper examines informal housing recovery in Bachhau, an urban centre in Kutch district close to the epicentre of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake. Unlike other impacted urban areas, an informal housing recovery programme crafted to meet land tenure and housing needs of squatter households within the town's municipal limits was planned and implemented in Bachhau. The study employs a qualitative case study approach based upon in-depth informant interviews. It examines whether the current urban housing policy paradigm of enabling governance extends to post-disaster housing recovery. The paper argues that a centralised approach to post-disaster governance was put in place after the Gujarat earthquake with State appointed local authorities leading urban reconstruction and inviting select local NGOs to work on housing recovery. In Bachhau, the selected NGO became a de facto informal consultant to the Bachhau Authority, a State appointed local body to implement urban reconstruction in the town, and eventually gatekeepers to the informal housing recovery programme. The paper concludes that although an enabling paradigm might in general dominate housing policy it can be thrown into contestation in the context of an urban disaster. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 266-289 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1219648 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1219648 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:266-289 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ashok Das Author-X-Name-First: Ashok Author-X-Name-Last: Das Title: Is innovative also effective? A critique of pro-poor shelter in South-East Asia Abstract: As developing Asia transforms under neoliberalism and decentralisation, urban inequality and housing deprivation are deepening. Are contemporary shelter innovations for the poor in developing Asia effective? How? Why? These questions lead this paper to qualitatively critique and compare four innovative shelter programmes from Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Here, innovative implies an enlargement of the roles of local governments and/or other stakeholders in shelter delivery. The analysis illuminates how the historical evolution of institutions affects a programme's institutional arrangements; which, with other contextual idiosyncrasies, impact objectives and outcomes. The paper posits scalability, habitability, affordability, accessibility and inclusivity as dimensions of effectiveness. It finds that under neoliberal influences shelter policy's pro-poor focus is shrinking. Albeit context-specific, the outcomes reveal key influential commonalities: (1) multi-stakeholder arrangements with non-state partners are more effective; (2) greater civil society and community participation yield more equity; (3) strong leadership by some institutional partner is imperative; (4) private sector involvement can significantly boost scaling-up. The findings offer lessons for improving pro-poor shelter policies and suggest future research needs and pathways. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 233-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1248606 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1248606 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:233-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rosa E. Donoso Author-X-Name-First: Rosa E. Author-X-Name-Last: Donoso Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Title: Management of low-income condominiums in Bogotá and Quito: the balance between property law and self-organisation Abstract: Governments in urbanising Latin America encourage low-income homeownership. In practice, this means that low-income urban families become owners of units in condominium properties. While the homeownership dream may thus be achieved, difficulties with maintenance can lead to deterioration. This paper considers condominiums as collective action arenas and applies the Institutional Analysis and Development framework of Ostrom (2005) to explore the links between the characteristics of (1) the communities, (2) governance and (3) the physical environment with the perceived level of maintenance (PML). Using data from a survey of 414 households carried out in 2014, we compare the circumstances of low-income condominiums in Bogota (Colombia) and Quito (Ecuador), two cities with similar housing policies but different horizontal property laws. Our central hypothesis is that the more modern law in Colombia enforces self-organisation and therefore better maintenance outcomes. In line with our hypothesis, the results demonstrate that the maintenance level in Bogota is higher than in Quito. Contrary to our hypothesis, participating in self-organisation in Bogota had a negative effect on PML, while in Quito the effect was positive. This indicates that the law matters but the relationship between the formal arrangements required by law, self-organisation and maintenance outcomes is more complicated than expected. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 312-334 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2016.1248608 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616718.2016.1248608 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:312-334 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Olga Peek Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Peek Author-Name: Michaela Hordijk Author-X-Name-First: Michaela Author-X-Name-Last: Hordijk Author-Name: Viviana d'Auria Author-X-Name-First: Viviana Author-X-Name-Last: d'Auria Title: User-based design for inclusive urban transformation: learning from ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ dwelling practices in Guayaquil, Ecuador Abstract: In Latin American cities, modes of housing and settlement production are rapidly shifting with city-making becoming an increasingly unequal process. While the Latin American region was once a cradle for ground-breaking research on incremental urban development, more recent housing policies have radically disengaged from incremental dwelling typologies and socially engaged design practices. Taking a people-centred approach, this article documents the ways in which urban dwellers contribute to the production of the urban environment in Guayaquil, the largest city of Ecuador. Grounded in an intensive case study methodology, the inquiry focuses on the ways in which users resourcefully transform, adapt or contest space at the micro and the meso scales in both consolidated low-income settlements and state-led resettlement housing projects, most commonly present in the consolidating city of Guayaquil today. On this basis, the study examines how and to what extent spontaneously produced dwelling environments may inform new formal housing arrangements in the city and vice versa. It reflects on key principles for a new set of housing policies and design strategies suggesting the cultivation of a ‘variety of choices’ and draws attention to user-based design and housing mechanisms that foster inclusive urban transformation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 204-232 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2016.1265268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2016.1265268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:204-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giorgio Talocci Author-X-Name-First: Giorgio Author-X-Name-Last: Talocci Author-Name: Camillo Boano Author-X-Name-First: Camillo Author-X-Name-Last: Boano Title: The de-politicisation of housing policies: the case of Borei Keila land-sharing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Abstract: This paper examines the design and evolution of a land-sharing process established for the on-site re-housing of an urban poor group in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), in the locality Borei Keila. The study is based on eight months of ethnographical and action research fieldwork. Some regard this land-sharing process as a success, but we find widespread criticism of it for excluding many original residents of the neighbourhood from the land-sharing agreement, leading either to their eviction or to difficult living conditions on site. We argue that these exclusionary results come from the deliberate misrepresentation of the urban poor group as a homogeneous block, and from the use of the housing provision as a pacifying tool against dissent. The case of Borei Keila highlights the risks of de-politicised and consensus-driven housing policies. It also provides the basis for a conclusive reflection on the recently approved National Housing Policy of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 290-311 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1298365 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1298365 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:290-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren Author-X-Name-First: Nora Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Libertun de Duren Title: The social housing burden: comparing households at the periphery and the centre of cities in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico Abstract: This article considers how housing location impacts the housing burden of low-income residents. Specifically, it assesses the impact of distance to city centre on: (1) market price of the housing unit, (2) households’ commuting expenses; and (3) households’ access to social networks. It bases its findings on 150 surveys of households living in subsidised housing units in the cities of Goiania, Brazil; Barranquilla, Colombia; and Puebla, Mexico. Distance to centre has a significant impact on all dimensions considered: the average market price for a peripheral housing unit is about 40% less than for a central one. Workers who live in the periphery spend twice the money and three times the time in commuting than those who live in central locations. Three-quarters of centrally located households visit relatives once a month or more, while only a third of peripherally located households do so. In addition, households residing in the periphery expressed their concern about being concentrated in homogeneously low-income areas. These impacts are a concern inasmuch as these housing units are solely built for improving the material conditions of low-income households, who are a captive market with very limited housing options. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 177-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1298366 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1298366 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:177-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marja Elsinga Author-X-Name-First: Marja Author-X-Name-Last: Elsinga Title: A Review of "Housing wealth and welfare", By Caroline Dewilde and Richard Ronald Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 346-348 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1411646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1411646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:346-348 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paavo Monkkonen Author-X-Name-First: Paavo Author-X-Name-Last: Monkkonen Title: Do we need innovation in housing policy? Mass production, community-based upgrading, and the politics of urban land in the Global South Abstract: The papers in this Special Issue demonstrate three persistent, global challenges to urban housing policy: that it is difficult to mass produce housing well; that community-based upgrading programmes often fail to benefit the worst off; and that ultimately, housing policy is a political problem that often fails to consider the diversity of populations at the expense of the least powerful. Importantly, some of the papers problematise what many consider the two most successful areas of housing policy in these regions: the community-based land sharing programmes for redevelopment in south-east Asia and the finance-driven social housing programmes in Latin America. The collection of scholarship, which spans cases in nine countries and touches on mass housing production programmes, incremental development processes, community-based urban upgrading, the legal structure of condominiums, and land-sharing policies, also highlights challenges to policy learning across contexts. In addition to synthesising the major research findings in the component articles in pairs, this editorial introduction reframes the idea of innovation in housing policy and argues that scholars should expand the topics and focus of housing policy research. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 167-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1417767 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1417767 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:167-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Wargent Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Wargent Title: A Review of "Localism and neighbourhood planning: power to the people?" Edited by Sue Brownill and Quintin Bradley Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 351-353 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1417883 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1417883 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:351-353 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Title: A Review of "The Right to Buy: selling off public and social housing", by Alan Murie Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 348-350 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1434358 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1434358 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:348-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lochner Marais Author-X-Name-First: Lochner Author-X-Name-Last: Marais Title: Housing policy in mining towns: issues of race and risk in South Africa Abstract: Mining has had much to do with the pattern of housing in South Africa today. Under apartheid, the mines housed black mineworkers, classed as migrants, in high-density compounds, while giving white mineworkers company houses. Changes came with the demise of apartheid and the rise of neoliberalism and globalisation. The post-apartheid government emphasised ownership and permanence for mineworkers. This paper critically reviews post-apartheid government policy for mine housing in South Africa. Mining companies privatised mineworkers’ housing, devolving the long-term risks to households. Among the results have been deterioration of houses, lack of a coherent rental-housing strategy, ownership that could lock households into declining mining settlements, an influx of contract workers for whom the mining companies are no longer responsible for providing housing, lack of capacity to manage mining towns and unwanted houses if a mine closes. To date, policy responses to the problems of mine housing have not been appropriate. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 335-345 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1448153 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1448153 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:2:p:335-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexis Mundt Author-X-Name-First: Alexis Author-X-Name-Last: Mundt Title: Housing benefits and minimum income schemes in Austria – an application of the residual income approach to housing affordability of welfare recipients Abstract: Recently, housing costs have increased considerably in and around the main Austrian cities. For low-income households and vulnerable groups on the housing market, the nine Austrian regions have set up housing benefit schemes as income-dependent monetary transfers to cover housing costs, and, for destitute households, minimum income schemes as a subsidiary safety net of last resort. As the schemes are designed and interact very differently across the regions, it is unclear whether low-income households are protected sufficiently by them to meet housing costs. This contribution applies a comprehensive residual income approach to housing affordability in order to identify market segments and household types where affordability is at risk. This is done by calculating overall benefit levels across four different household types and four different income levels in the nine Austrian regions, and comparing these with typical regional housing costs. Desk research is complemented with 26 qualitative interviews with policy practitioners to scrutinise and discuss the results. We find that especially in and around the capital city, Vienna, and some other main Austrian cities, overall benefits do not cover common housing costs, resulting in insufficient funds for necessary non-housing expenses. Policy recommendations are discussed in an international context. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 383-411 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1306992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1306992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:383-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduard Cabré Author-X-Name-First: Eduard Author-X-Name-Last: Cabré Author-Name: Arnau Andrés Author-X-Name-First: Arnau Author-X-Name-Last: Andrés Title: La Borda: a case study on the implementation of cooperative housing in Catalonia Abstract: This article takes a close look at La Borda, a housing cooperative being developed in Barcelona. The article encompasses the economic and social context in which the housing initiative emerged, the organisational features that define the cooperative, and its origins in the process of urban renewal of the former industrial site of Can Batlló. The article also analyses its current development and its potential for scalability. Drawing on Moulaert's definition of social innovation, the authors argue that La Borda goes beyond the mere provision of housing to include public participation as a key component of the model. The Andel Model for cooperative housing is presented as the main source of inspiration for La Borda's model, including its roots in the social and cooperative economy and the role of the cession of use housing tenure. The article concludes there are reasons to believe La Borda will succeed in providing long-term affordable housing while engaging its residents in its daily management. The authors consider the suitability of La Borda's model elsewhere to be dependent on the economic, social and political context in which it is implemented. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 412-432 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1331591 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1331591 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:412-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kees Dol Author-X-Name-First: Kees Author-X-Name-Last: Dol Author-Name: Harry Boumeester Author-X-Name-First: Harry Author-X-Name-Last: Boumeester Title: Home ownership under changing labour and housing market conditions: tenure preferences and outcomes among freelancers and flex workers Abstract: Increasingly, policy-makers regard flexible labour as a condition for a well-functioning economy, while they also tend to regard home ownership as the superior tenure. These two goals appear to be contradictory, as mortgage lenders prefer clients with a permanent, uninterrupted income stream. For the Dutch context, multivariate analysis shows that flexworkers on temporary/zero hour contracts have smaller chances of moving into home ownership than those on permanent contracts. They also tend to express less preference for home ownership. Because flexworkers often experience spells of unemployment, risk aversion appears to play a role. Our findings show, in the Netherlands at least, that self-employed freelancers do not experience too many problems in accessing home ownership, possibly because of more stable and higher incomes. However, the role of flexible labour is on the rise and policy-makers might consider methods to promote access to home ownership, ranging from mortgage guarantee schemes to mortgage payment insurances. Our research findings may not always be valid for other countries because of international variation in institutional arrangements, such as unemployment benefits, mortgage insurance and guarantee schemes, etc., but, nonetheless, sheds considerable light on this policy issue. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 355-382 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1331594 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1331594 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:355-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Are Oust Author-X-Name-First: Are Author-X-Name-Last: Oust Title: The removal of rent control and its impact on search and mismatching costs: evidence from Oslo Abstract: The removal of the Norwegian rent control in 1982 created a natural experiment that enabled us to investigate whether rent control affected the search and matching process in the private residential rental market in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. We collected and analysed data on ‘housing for rent’, ‘housing wanted’ and ‘housing exchange-wanted’ advertisements in Oslo covering a period from 1970 to 2008. We concluded that the use of newspaper listing services by potential tenants and landlords changed after the rent control removal. Our results indicate that it is more costly, in time and money, for a potential tenant to search for and to find a home under rent control. Moreover, our results indicate that rent control increases the probability of and the distance from the ideal dwelling, in size, standard and location, a potential tenant have to settle for. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 433-453 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1336876 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1336876 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:433-453 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Erratum Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: x-x Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1358376 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1358376 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:x-x Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dan Immergluck Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Immergluck Author-Name: Ann Carpenter Author-X-Name-First: Ann Author-X-Name-Last: Carpenter Author-Name: Abram Lueders Author-X-Name-First: Abram Author-X-Name-Last: Lueders Title: Hot city, cool city: explaining neighbourhood-level losses in low-cost rental housing in southern US cities Abstract: We examine losses in affordable rental units in central cities in a key region of the United States, the South. We examine changes in low-cost rented units across eight large central cities, and then identify neighbourhood characteristics associated with such changes. Finally, we estimate a similar model in two of the cities with the greatest amount of loss in low-cost units and that have different overall housing market conditions – one a ‘hot market’ (Nashville, Tennessee) and one a ‘cool market’ (Memphis, Tennessee). We find that, generally, a number of neighbourhood conditions are associated with greater losses of low-cost units, including more young (25–34) adults, fewer public housing units, more initial low-cost units, and a larger percentage of newer units. However, these relationships do not show up consistently in the Memphis and Nashville models. The presence of younger adults (especially those aged 25–34) is a strong predictor of losing low-cost rental units in Nashville but is not a significant predictor in Memphis. Second, the presence of public housing units appears to serve as a buffer against the loss in low-cost units in a neighbourhood, but not in Memphis or Nashville, perhaps because they have fewer public housing units altogether. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 454-478 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1386386 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1386386 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:454-478 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael R. Glass Author-X-Name-First: Michael R. Author-X-Name-Last: Glass Author-Name: Anna E. Salvador Author-X-Name-First: Anna E. Author-X-Name-Last: Salvador Title: Remaking Singapore's heartland: sustaining public housing through home and neighbourhood upgrade programmes Abstract: Singapore's public housing system is regarded as a model of modernisation and efficiency. By 1990, over 80% of the country's citizens lived in towns and estates created by the Housing Development Board (HDB) to overcome problems of land scarcity and poor planning. The HDB faces ongoing challenges to ensure the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of the ageing public housing supply in new towns. This paper describes three programmes designed to sustain public housing in Singapore since 1990. The Main Upgrading Program, Neighborhood Renewal Program (NRP), and Remaking our Heartland programmes intend to ensure the viability of Singapore's public housing and offer a template for other maturing housing systems. After reviewing the programmes, we provide case examples where neighbourhood upgrading has occurred. Whereas Singapore's specific policy environment makes wholesale transfer of these programmes difficult, certain strategic and tactical elements of the urban renewal programmes can provide tools for other housing authorities to adopt. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 479-490 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1448154 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1448154 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:479-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lauren Wagner Author-X-Name-First: Lauren Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner Title: A Review of "Housing and home unbound: intersections in economics, environment and politics in Australia", Edited by Nicole Cook, Aidan Davidson and Louise Crabtree Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 491-493 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1452341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1452341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:491-493 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caroline Blunt Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Blunt Title: A Review of "Migration and the search for home: mapping domestic space in migrants’ everyday lives", By Paolo Boccagni Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 493-497 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1467095 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1467095 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:493-497 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rory Hearne Author-X-Name-First: Rory Author-X-Name-Last: Hearne Title: A Review of "Housing politics in the United Kingdom: power, planning and protest", By Brian Lund Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 497-500 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1467100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1467100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:497-500 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Merle Zwiers Author-X-Name-First: Merle Author-X-Name-Last: Zwiers Title: A Review of "Urban redevelopment: a North American reader", Edited by Barry Hersh Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 500-502 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1485250 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1485250 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:3:p:500-502 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Beyond housing: on the role of commoning in the establishment of a Community Land Trust project Abstract: Urban commons scholars increasingly present Community Land Trusts (CLTs) as a model to manage ‘housing commons’. The collective property framework and institutional design of CLTs offer an innovative yet strenuous approach to facilitate collective access to affordable housing and urban land for underprivileged groups. Although these scholars emphasise the indispensable role of collective action, i.e. ‘commoning’ in the establishment of urban CLTs and their projects, relatively little attention is paid to its implications and consequences for the groups involved. This paper studies the genesis of the first CLT project on the European mainland through the lens of ‘commoning’. It sheds light both on the role of collective action in the institutional design of Community Land Trust Brussels and on the participatory nature of the development of its first project. This reveals not only the empowering potential of commoning practices, but also the challenges related to scaling up such practices. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 503-521 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1331592 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1331592 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:503-521 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Trond-Arne Borgersen Author-X-Name-First: Trond-Arne Author-X-Name-Last: Borgersen Title: Mortgage supply, LTV and risk pricing Abstract: This paper focuses on mortgage supply and its contribution to the loan-to-value (LTV)-ratio. The paper starts by finding the optimal LTV-ratio for a profit-maximising mortgagee that supply mortgages using housing as collateral. As the LTV-ratio represents the mortgagee's risk exposure, the optimal LTV-ratio is one where the mortgagee is paid for its actual risk exposure. Thinking in terms of social welfare, the profit-maximising LTV-ratio is also optimal for society in our supply side framework. When including additional characteristics from the supply side of the mortgage market, the paper shows how the profit-maximising LTV-ratio varies according to moral hazard, risk pricing, funding structures, lending volumes and collateral values. The supply side characteristics create a wedge between the profit-maximising LTV-ratio and the LTV-ratio optimal for society. The model helps understand the role of mortgage supply in the period preceding the financial crisis, where LTV-ratios increased considerably. Consequently, it also allows for straightforward arguments regarding macro-prudential policy. Highlighting risk exposure, the paper continues by analysing the risk pricing response to falling house prices and an LTV-ratio that exceeds the LTV-ratio at origination. The paper finds a kinked-relation between the mortgage rate and the LTV-ratio ex post, separating risk pricing ex ante and ex post. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 522-544 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1336875 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1336875 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:522-544 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Petra Gerlach-Kristen Author-X-Name-First: Petra Author-X-Name-Last: Gerlach-Kristen Author-Name: Seán Lyons Author-X-Name-First: Seán Author-X-Name-Last: Lyons Title: Determinants of mortgage arrears in Europe: evidence from household microdata Abstract: In purely economic terms, mortgage arrears can pose a risk to the stability of banks and limit households’ future access to credit. Moreover, arrears have social ramifications: they reduce aspects of households’ well-being and health, and addressing such negative effects can lead to a requirement for higher social spending by governments. It is therefore important to identify the drivers of arrears and design policies to reduce them. We use a European household data-set to analyse what drives arrears. Controlling for household characteristics such as age and education, we find that affordability problems, such as unemployment, low income and high mortgage payments, matter. Households facing the dual trigger of affordability problems and negative equity are more likely to go into longer- term arrears. We also find that households in Cyprus and Greece are particularly prone to miss mortgage payments, while those in the United Kingdom and Belgium are very unlikely to do so. Generally, arrears tend to be higher in poor countries and where investors’ rights are poorly protected. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 545-567 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1357398 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1357398 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:545-567 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nate Horwitz-Willis Author-X-Name-First: Nate Author-X-Name-Last: Horwitz-Willis Author-Name: Martha Phillips Author-X-Name-First: Martha Author-X-Name-Last: Phillips Author-Name: Kevin Ryan Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan Author-Name: Zoran Bursac Author-X-Name-First: Zoran Author-X-Name-Last: Bursac Author-Name: Alesia Ferguson Author-X-Name-First: Alesia Author-X-Name-Last: Ferguson Title: Examining state health and habitability laws and their relationship to state characteristics in the USA Abstract: A variety of health conditions such as asthma, elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) in children, pesticide poisonings, and falls and trips injuries have been associated with substandard housing conditions, implying that improvement in housing can lead to improved health. This group of researchers previously developed and reported on a Habitability Element Rating Scores (HERS) to compare and rank the strength of habitability laws of US states. HERS considers a State's adoption of elements of Uniform Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA) for upkeep of property (i.e., raw scores), and the potential of elements to influence tenant health (i.e., weighted scores). Here we examine the relationship of HERS raw scores with various state political and demographic features to investigate potential driving forces for the development/existence of comprehensive and equitable housing standards. Statistically significant associations reveal states tend to emphasise low or high HERS raw scores depending on factors such as rurality and the proportion of a state's legislative body, which indicates its political party affiliation. The group of states with moderately strong laws (n = 11) also tended to be Southern states, with concomitantly higher proportions of minorities in the state, female renters heading the household, and renters living in poverty. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 568-594 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1386387 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1386387 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:568-594 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B. Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: A Review of "The suburb reader", Edited by Becky M. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 610-612 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1509533 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1509533 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:610-612 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Carnegie Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Carnegie Title: A Review of "Property, family and the Irish welfare state", By Michelle Norris Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 607-609 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1516334 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1516334 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:607-609 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher Feather Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Feather Title: Between homeownership and rental housing: exploring the potential for hybrid tenure solutions Abstract: Owner-occupation and rental housing have dominated the discourse on housing. While they are the most prevalent tenures across housing markets, the overwhelming focus on these two ways to access housing has limited the discussion and overlooked innovative tenure combinations that are potential solutions to promote greater access to decent housing. This article explores the grawee (گروي) mortgage system in urban Afghanistan. The paper argues that intermediate options between homeownership and rental housing, such as the grawee system, have significant potential to strengthen access to affordable, decent housing beyond the customary homeownership and rental tenures. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 595-606 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1520543 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1520543 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:595-606 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Granath Hansson Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Granath Hansson Title: City strategies for affordable housing: the approaches of Berlin, Hamburg, Stockholm, and Gothenburg Abstract: Affordable housing has emerged as a key concept in housing policy in a wide range of countries. Berlin, Hamburg, Stockholm, and Gothenburg are all experiencing population growth and changing demographics; housing construction has lagged demand, leading to housing shortage and to increased housing costs. This article provides a detailed case study on institutional prerequisites and political strategies to increase affordable housing supply. The four cities focus on traditional housing policy tools: organisation, urban planning, land allocation, and subsidies. Affordable housing is promoted through targeted tools as well as policies aiming at increased housing supply elasticity. The German cities have come further than their Swedish peers in creating an active housing policy as they have clearer goals supported by influential politicians, and use more tools. A tentative explanation of the difference between the German and Swedish cities explored in this paper is that politicians in Berlin and Hamburg have greater incentives to promote housing construction because of the structure of their cities’ housing markets. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 95-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1278581 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1278581 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:95-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kirk McClure Author-X-Name-First: Kirk Author-X-Name-Last: McClure Title: The allocation of rental assistance resources: the paradox of high housing costs and high vacancy rates Abstract: The United States follows a dual strategy to address housing affordability problems among low-income renter households. The dual strategy is premised on a demand-side programme for soft markets and a supply-side programme for tight markets. An examination of housing markets in the US shows that market conditions do not provide much justification for the supply-side approach. Most markets are simultaneously experiencing high rents with high vacancy rates suggesting that the demand-side, voucher approach is better suited to current needs in these markets. High rents drive affordability problems, but the high rent levels appear to be unrelated to market tightness. The implications are that, in most markets, supply-side programmes are not well suited to current market conditions, that expansion of the stock of housing through supply-side programmes will not bring down rents, and that ample units exist to facilitate the implementation of an expanded demand-side programme. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 69-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1362756 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1362756 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:69-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francisca García-Cobián Richter Author-X-Name-First: Francisca García-Cobián Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Author-Name: Brett Barkley Author-X-Name-First: Brett Author-X-Name-Last: Barkley Author-Name: Amy Higgins Author-X-Name-First: Amy Author-X-Name-Last: Higgins Title: Do low-income rental housing programmes complement each other? Evidence from Ohio Abstract: We characterise the rental subsidy use in units developed with construction subsidies and explore whether such concurrent subsidy use responds to needs unmet by a tenant-based programme alone. We develop a typology of households to guide our analysis focusing on voucher use in Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) units. Findings for Ohio in 2011 suggest that the use of additional rental assistance in LIHTC can be complementary in serving certain high-need populations, particularly when targeted housing services are provided. Very poor households with special housing needs constitute over 60% of the population with additional rental assistance in LIHTC, yet the extent to which additional housing services are provided to them is unclear. However, our analysis identifies a significant portion of households in LIHTC units that could seemingly be housed in the private rental market, signalling some degree of inefficiency in the current subsidy mix. While we find that very low income voucher holders are more likely to use their voucher in an LIHTC unit when facing a tighter market or a potential gain in neighbourhood quality, the effects are small. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 17-45 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1362757 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1362757 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:17-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hal Pawson Author-X-Name-First: Hal Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson Author-Name: Vivienne Milligan Author-X-Name-First: Vivienne Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan Author-Name: Chris Martin Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Title: Building Australia's affordable housing industry: capacity challenges and capacity-enhancing strategies Abstract: As in many other nations, Australia's intensifying shortage of affordable housing represents one of the most pressing policy challenges for government. Against a backdrop of ongoing population growth, the 20-year virtual moratorium on public housing construction means that, by 2016, the gross social housing provision deficit had reached 140,000 dwellings. And, while largely frozen in scale, the country's public housing system has also become increasingly residualised and rundown. In tackling these twin problems, some policy-makers and advocates have invested hopes in an emerging non-government affordable housing industry, largely configured around not-for-profit community housing providers. For some government players, however, the sector's nascent status and therefore ‘restricted capacity’ has been judged a crucial limitation on the extent to which it can be reasonably delegated responsibility for easing national housing stress. Applying a system-minded conception of the ‘affordable housing industry’ and adopting a multidimensional ‘capacity’ framework, this research investigated the factors limiting the scope for the industry's further expansion. In highlighting industry capacity restrictions stemming from the hollowing-out of government and its institutions, our findings connect with a wider policy studies literature and will have resonance in many countries beyond Australia – particularly in the Anglophone world. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 46-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1469108 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1469108 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:46-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jane Bullen Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Bullen Author-Name: Eileen Baldry Author-X-Name-First: Eileen Author-X-Name-Last: Baldry Title: ‘I waited 12 months’: how does a lack of access to housing undermine Housing First? Abstract: Housing First is recognised internationally as effective in addressing homelessness, in particular for vulnerable cohorts, yet has been implemented internationally on only a limited basis. One reason is a lack of affordable housing. This policy review investigates how an affordable housing deficit impacts on the implementation of Housing First. The review synthesises existing literature and draws upon a case study of an inner-city Housing First initiative in Sydney, Australia. The review finds that a lack of access to housing has impacted on Australian Housing First programmes, delaying access to housing in contradiction to intended goals, reducing the assistance received and reshaping programme operation. To avoid these counterproductive effects on Housing First projects and facilitate expansion of the model, governments need to take steps to make housing available. This could be achieved by providing rental vouchers, more effectively prioritising access to social housing for the most vulnerable and contracting more affordable housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 120-130 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1521187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1521187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:120-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wouter van Gent Author-X-Name-First: Wouter Author-X-Name-Last: van Gent Title: A Review of ‘Handbook of gentrification studies’, Edited by Loretta Lees with Martin Phillips Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 138-141 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1541955 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1541955 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:138-141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pieter van Wesemael Author-X-Name-First: Pieter Author-X-Name-Last: van Wesemael Title: A Review of ‘Self-build homes, social discourse, experiences and directions’, edited by Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 135-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1543233 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1543233 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:135-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: A Review of ‘Urban planning and the housing market: international perspectives for policy and practice’, By Nicole Gurran and Glen Bramley Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 133-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1545710 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1545710 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:133-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rose Gilroy Author-X-Name-First: Rose Author-X-Name-Last: Gilroy Title: A review of ‘Age friendly cities and communities: a global perspective’, Edited by Tine Buffel, Sophie Handler and Chris Phillipson Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 131-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1555971 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1555971 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:131-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrin B. Anacker Author-X-Name-First: Katrin B. Author-X-Name-Last: Anacker Title: Introduction: housing affordability and affordable housing Abstract: This introduction discusses select aspects of housing affordability in terms of household expenditures and household incomes and select aspects of affordable housing. It provides a contextual base for considering the relationship between housing and affordability issues across diverse examples and the national, state, and local cases discussed in the articles of this special issue. The final part of the introduction briefly introduces the papers that follow, before going on to consider some potential policy solutions. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-16 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1560544 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1560544 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:1:p:1-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gertjan Wijburg Author-X-Name-First: Gertjan Author-X-Name-Last: Wijburg Title: Privatised Keynesianism and the state-enhanced diversification of credit: the case of the French housing market Abstract: In 2008, it became clear that the pre-crisis growth model of privatised Keynesianism was at least temporarily undermined by the global financial crisis. Instead, housing scholars started pointing out that the combination of reduced home ownership and the resurgence of private landlordism indicated a shifting approach to housing wealth in capitalist societies. However, this research on the housing market of France demonstrates that the rise of private landlordism does not necessarily undermine home ownership. Unlike in many other European countries, pre-crisis credit expansion in France was not only targeted at homeowners, but also at private landlords and buy-to-let investors that used state-authorised credit loans to fund investments in the private rental sector. Because the rise of private landlordism in France has rather complemented than undermined home ownership, this paper shows that privatised Keynesianism in France has both linked homeowners and private landlords to extensive housing debt. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 143-164 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1397926 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1397926 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:143-164 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristin Aarland Author-X-Name-First: Kristin Author-X-Name-Last: Aarland Author-Name: Carolina K. Reid Author-X-Name-First: Carolina K. Author-X-Name-Last: Reid Title: Homeownership and residential stability: does tenure really make a difference? Abstract: Homeownership has long been associated with a myriad of economic, social and civic benefits, prompting countries such as Norway to expand access to homeownership for socio-economically disadvantaged households. In this paper, we explore the impact of homeownership on residential stability using a longitudinal data-set of renters who applied for a state mortgage programme in Norway between 2004 and 2010. These data allow us to specifically address the issue of selection bias in our analysis. We find that even after controlling for a wide range of demographic, socio-economic and housing market characteristics, homeownership has a substantial, positive impact on residential stability. This effect is stronger for groups that are more marginalised in Norwegian housing and labour markets, including East European and non-Western immigrants. The Norwegian case suggests homeownership policy can help to promote social goals, but also highlights the importance of providing welfare supports in tandem with access to mortgage credit in order to reduce the risks of homeownership for lower-income households. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 165-191 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2017.1397927 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2017.1397927 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:165-191 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jill L. Grant Author-X-Name-First: Jill L. Author-X-Name-Last: Grant Author-Name: Janelle Derksen Author-X-Name-First: Janelle Author-X-Name-Last: Derksen Author-Name: Howard Ramos Author-X-Name-First: Howard Author-X-Name-Last: Ramos Title: Regulating marginality: how the media characterises a maligned housing option Abstract: Communities often stigmatise forms of housing targeting low-income tenants. This paper examines how media sources characterise one such form: rooming houses that provide multiple, low-cost, single-room accommodations in structures with shared bathrooms and/or kitchens. By analysing newspaper and online media coverage in Halifax, Canada, we illustrate the way the media describe the rooming house as a risky structure and its occupants as dangerous and marginalised persons requiring surveillance and regulation. Media coverage can play an important role in creating the social context within which local government fashions planning and housing policy interventions to control the size, location, and operation of unpopular housing options. In cities where market pressures drive gentrification, negative media coverage can contribute to the on-going loss of such affordable housing opportunities. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 192-212 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1436848 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1436848 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:192-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rajiv Prabhakar Author-X-Name-First: Rajiv Author-X-Name-Last: Prabhakar Title: A house divided: asset-based welfare and housing asset-based welfare Abstract: Asset-based welfare (ABW) is a policy approach that claims the individual ownership of assets is important for individual welfare. It is concerned mainly with small amounts of financial wealth and has sparked growing scholarly criticism that argues that it ignores the dominant role of housing as a type of asset. This housing asset-based welfare (HABW) critique also charts the ways that ABW leads to pathologies in housing markets. A major problem for ABW though is that HABW has emptied ABW of its original content. This paper claims that this results in a ‘house divided’, that is two separate literatures that both purport to study assets but talk past one another. This paper suggests that research would be enhanced by a greater dialogue between these different literatures. It further argues that a theme of egalitarian property-owning democracy is a way of uniting these different literatures. Creating an egalitarian property-owning democracy suggests that there should be shared research on taxing housing wealth and developing new models of home ownership. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 213-231 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1441008 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1441008 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:213-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Matthews Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Matthews Author-Name: Christopher Poyner Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Poyner Author-Name: Richard Kjellgren Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Kjellgren Title: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer experiences of homelessness and identity: insecurity and home(o)normativity Abstract: Homelessness among the young lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* (LGBT+) population is becoming an increasing societal concern, with alarmist reporting of high rates of homelessness compared to heterosexual people. This paper presents qualitative evidence from research with 20 LGBT + people who had experienced homelessness in Scotland. Significantly, it moves discussion of LGBT + homelessness out of a concern with public health and social work, to understand it in terms of homelessness research and housing theory. The analysis also brings in queer theory to our discussions of homelessness and housing. As a result, rather than understanding our participants as passive victims of a homophobic or transphobic society, we focus on their agency in developing a queer identity alongside their experiences of insecure accommodation. In their experiences of homelessness people were carrying out ‘edgework’ at the margins of heteronormative society. Routes out of homelessness were thus associated with people becoming more comfortable within their identities. We conclude by arguing that experiences of homelessness interacted in complex ways with sexual and gender identity, and that tailored mainstream housing provision is required for LGBT + homeless people. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 232-253 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1519341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1519341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:232-253 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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 Author-Name: Anna Carnegie Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Carnegie Title: Combatting stigmatisation of social housing neighbourhoods in Dublin, Ireland Abstract: This article examines the implementation of three of the strategies most commonly used to de-stigmatise social housing neighbourhoods – built environment refurbishment, poverty deconcentration and public image change initiatives – in three predominately social rented neighbourhoods in Dublin, Ireland. This article echoes the consensus in the literature regarding the intractability and complexity of place-based stigma and the difficulties in changing stigmatised reputations once established, but it also reveals that several interventions can help to reduce this problem or prevent it from emerging in the first place. Tenure mixing is effective in combatting external stigma, particularly when employed in new developments, but it can also undermine the internal cohesion of target neighbourhoods. Media campaigns and cultural events helped improve the external perceptions of some of the case study neighbourhoods but were less effective in other cases. Similarly, many built environment adaptions had limited impact on stigma but public space redesign and public transport improvements which increased neighbourhoods’ permeability to non-residents were useful in this regard. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 254-266 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1532673 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1532673 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:254-266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristjana Loptson Author-X-Name-First: Kristjana Author-X-Name-Last: Loptson Title: A Review of “From conflict to inclusion in housing: interaction of communities, residents and activists”, Edited by Graham Cairns, Georgios Artopoulos and Kirsten Day Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 275-276 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1555972 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1555972 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:275-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christian Lennartz Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz Title: A Review of “Welfare conditionality”, By Beth Watts and Suzanne Fitzpatrick Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 273-275 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1591799 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1591799 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:273-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tomáš Samec Author-X-Name-First: Tomáš Author-X-Name-Last: Samec Title: A Review of “Reimagining home in the 21st century”, Edited by Justine Lloyd and Ellie Vasta; “The home: multidisciplinary reflections”, Edited by Antonio Argandoña Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 267-273 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1591800 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1591800 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:2:p:267-273 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Monika Grubbauer Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Grubbauer Title: Housing microfinance and the financialisation of housing in Latin America and beyond: an agenda for future research Abstract: This paper critically examines housing microfinance in Latin America and beyond in the context of ongoing debates about the financialisation of housing. The focus in these debates has been on the de- and re-regulation of mortgage markets, increases in mortgage securitisation and shifts in ownership structures. My argument is that in the international debates about the linkages between housing and finance the issue of housing microfinance tends to be overlooked. The term housing microfinance refers to small value, non-mortgage loans for purposes of home improvement, renovation and incremental building. Mainstream approaches in development policy see housing microfinance as a crucial strategy to help provide adequate shelter and respect the needs of the urban poor. However, the past 15 years have also seen the emergence and diversification of structured financial products for global institutional investment in microfinance, with housing microfinance being viewed as a potential growth market by the global finance, construction and retail sectors. The paper provides an overview of the ways in which the markets for housing microfinance are currently expanded in different countries in the region and globally. The review concludes by outlining key avenues for future research. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 436-447 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1448155 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1448155 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:436-447 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joe Beswick Author-X-Name-First: Joe Author-X-Name-Last: Beswick Author-Name: Walter Imilan Author-X-Name-First: Walter Author-X-Name-Last: Imilan Author-Name: Patricia Olivera Author-X-Name-First: Patricia Author-X-Name-Last: Olivera Title: Access to housing in the neoliberal era: a new comparativist analysis of the neoliberalisation of access to housing in Santiago and London Abstract: The housing crisis in cities across the globe has been shaped by an architecture of neoliberal housing policy. However, to bring myriad qualitatively and nationally disparate modes of housing privatisation, restriction, individualisation and marketisation under the umbrella of a single, monolithic ‘neoliberalism’ risks limiting explanatory power, ignoring national particularity and privileging theory over ‘actually existing neoliberalism’. Therefore, this paper attempts a cosmopolitan understanding of these processes across the North/South dichotomy, comparing the trajectories of two cities seen as archetypal examples of housing neoliberalisation: Santiago and London. Drawing on Latin American and Global North literatures, we analyse the socio-spatial and political-institutional effects emerging from neoliberal transformations of access to housing. By exploring mutations in: the role of the state; the origin/purpose of funding/financing; the class composition of policy beneficiaries; the geography of public housing; and, housing tenure, the paper produces a rich comparison of two significantly different housing systems. Written in the spirit of ‘new comparativism’, the paper contributes to the ongoing decentring of Western-dominated theories of neoliberalism. Two importantly different city-trajectories emerge, and these particularities enable us to add depth to our understanding of the current housing crises, while at the same time drawing cross-border comparisons and conclusions, and cosmopolitanising our theories of neoliberalisation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 288-310 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1501256 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1501256 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:288-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristine M. Stiphany Author-X-Name-First: Kristine M. Author-X-Name-Last: Stiphany Author-Name: Peter M. Ward Author-X-Name-First: Peter M. Author-X-Name-Last: Ward Title: Autogestão in an era of mass social housing: the case of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades Programme Abstract: Although Brazilian housing policy has historically focused upon upgrading and regenerating informal settlements, (urbanização), since 2009 the prioritisation of mass housing has led to social exclusion and spatial segregation across the country's urban peripheries. Using a combined ethnographic and geospatial analysis, we provide a critical analysis of MCMVE (Minha Casa Minha Vida Entidades), a community-based housing programme that alleges the use of autogestão - collective urban management organised around an ethos of social transformation. We find this claim to be misleading. Although MCMVE ostensibly increases access to housing, it is encouraging residents to leave established, well located settlements and relocate to isolated, peripheral tracts of land. Our study emphasises the need to reconsider how MCMVE might more productively assimilate autogestão and mass housing in the future. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 311-336 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540739 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1540739 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:311-336 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lucia Shimbo Author-X-Name-First: Lucia Author-X-Name-Last: Shimbo Title: An unprecedented alignment: state, finance, construction and housing production in Brazil since the 2000s Abstract: This paper analyses the unprecedented alignment between State, finance and construction in Brazil during the 2000s that enabled large contractors and developers to produce increasing volumes of housing for middle and low-income families. It empirically describes a capitalist structure of housing production focused on the ‘economic segment’. This commonly-used real estate market term refers to housing units with prices of up to USD 100,000. In analytic terms, this segment blurred the boundaries between the production of social housing (promoted by the State) and the housing market. From 2009, this production model was incorporated into the programme known as Minha Casa, Minha Vida (My House, My Life), which has since – following the example of other Latin American countries – dictated the direction of Brazilian housing policy towards large-scale production. The empirical data used in this research were collected through three strategies: (i) documentary research; (ii) analysis of primary and secondary databases; and (iii) field research in construction companies. The results indicate that sophisticated real estate-financial mechanisms were tied to the housing production, while continuing an industrial production base with archaic elements and a dependence on public subsidies and housing policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 337-353 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1573960 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1573960 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:337-353 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: George Galster Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Galster Title: In memoriam: Jürgen Friedrichs, 1938–2019 Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 455-456 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1612166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1612166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:455-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paula Freire Santoro Author-X-Name-First: Paula Freire Author-X-Name-Last: Santoro Title: Inclusionary housing policies in Latin America: São Paulo, Brazil in dialogue with Bogotá, Colombia Abstract: This article examines the impact of affordable housing agendas in Latin America, specifically in São Paulo, Brazil and Bogota, Colombia. These cities were pioneers in the conception of ‘inclusionary housing policies’, which use urban planning instruments to produce affordable housing by capturing the land value generated by real estate dynamics. In these cities land values are stimulated by incentives that incorporate affordable housing into market-rate developments using different models of public-private partnerships. The paper analyses the use of urban instruments such as land reserves and those that require percentages of land, building rights or financial resources to go to private builders willing to produce affordable housing. It shows the unquestioned incorporation of international affordable housing agendas. From a struggle to guarantee the right to housing, the issue of creating affordable housing has been appropriated to expand frontiers for real estate-financial markets. The dimension and complexity of housing needs have been ignored, raising serious questions about the sole solution currently provided (housing as private property) and the effects of federal anti-cyclical housing policies on socio-territorial inequalities. Some proposals are progressive, while others deepen the submission of policy to real-estate financial logics and are beset with contradictions: to provide land and financial resources for the production of new units, these public -private partnerships often lead to further socio-spatial segregation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 385-410 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1613870 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1613870 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:385-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luz María Vergara Author-X-Name-First: Luz María Author-X-Name-Last: Vergara Author-Name: Vincent Gruis Author-X-Name-First: Vincent Author-X-Name-Last: Gruis Author-Name: Kees van der Flier Author-X-Name-First: Kees Author-X-Name-Last: van der Flier Title: The role of third sector organisations in the management of social condominiums in Chile: the case of Proyecto Propio* Abstract: In Chile, social condominiums are a significant part of housing for low-income households. After decades of occupancy, this housing stock shows signs of rapid deterioration and devaluation due to neglected maintenance. Given the weak governmental support in management practices, third sector organisations are positioning themselves as alternatives to providing technical solutions and contributing to the enhancement of opportunities and capacities among communities that live in deprived areas. However, little is known about the dynamics between these organisations and the communities they work with as well as their interactions with their institutional environment in the context of improving condominium management practices. Employing concepts of intermediation and institutionalisation, we analyse the practice of the organisation Proyecto Propio. We describe the dynamics of the intermediary role as implementer of housing policy and catalyst of social innovation, and the institutionalisation of these practices. The main characteristic of their intermediary role in condominium management practices is a holistic approach as implementer and catalyst for complex interventions, situating the users at the centre of the process. The main challenges are related to institutionalisation: the inclusion of more incentives to scale up and consolidate the third sector as a relevant actor in housing and condominium management. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 354-384 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1613871 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1613871 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:354-384 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lochner Marais Author-X-Name-First: Lochner Author-X-Name-Last: Marais Title: A Review of “Housing market dynamics in Africa”, By El-hadj M. Bah, Issa Faye, and Zekebweliwai F. Geh Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 452-454 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1621010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1621010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:452-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jannes van Loon Author-X-Name-First: Jannes Author-X-Name-Last: van Loon Title: A Review of “Housing bubbles: origins and consequences”, By Sergi Basco Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 450-452 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1621014 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1621014 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:450-452 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tegan Bergan Author-X-Name-First: Tegan Author-X-Name-Last: Bergan Title: A Review of “Shared housing, shared lives: everyday experiences across the lifecourse”, Edited by Sue Heath, Katherine Davies, Gemma Edwards and Rachel M. Scicluna Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 448-450 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1621015 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1621015 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:448-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yasna Contreras Author-X-Name-First: Yasna Author-X-Name-Last: Contreras Author-Name: Laura Neville Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Neville Author-Name: Rodrigo González Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo Author-X-Name-Last: González Title: In-formality in access to housing for Latin American migrants: a case study of an intermediate Chilean city Abstract: Antofagasta is an intermediate Chilean city featuring an extractive mining sector which attracts a population of low-income migrants, internal and cross-national, looking for economic opportunities. This leads to a gap between supply and demand for rental housing, subletting and homeownership, resulting in a highly speculative housing market. This paper examines the consequent increase in so-called informal settlements and shows how self-built housing has become an alternative way for the population of internal and foreign migrants to access housing. Drawing upon both quantitative (secondary statistics and a survey with 102 households) and qualitative research (15 in-depth interviews), the paper shows how a private-led, profit-oriented and racist housing market has consolidated in the city. Moreover, by shedding light on the everyday ways in which residents access urban services, the research points to the complex forms of juxtaposition between the formal and the informal in central, peri-central and peripheral sectors of the city. Therefore, the paper questions the formal–informal dualities in access to housing and the necessity to rethink housing and urban policies accordingly. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 411-435 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1627841 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1627841 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:411-435 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irene Molina Author-X-Name-First: Irene Author-X-Name-Last: Molina Author-Name: Darinka Czischke Author-X-Name-First: Darinka Author-X-Name-Last: Czischke Author-Name: Raquel Rolnik Author-X-Name-First: Raquel Author-X-Name-Last: Rolnik Title: Housing policy issues in contemporary South America: an introduction Abstract: In the introduction to this special issue on Latin American housing policies, we address the common elements evident in this collection of papers with the aim of enabling a better knowledge exchange between the ‘global North’ and the ‘global South’ on potentially common issues. These include the changing relationship between state and capital, with special emphasis on the new role adopted by the State as a facilitator for financial private capital in an increasingly privatised housing sector; the need to address precarious housing conditions among vast sectors of the population, including international migrants; and the various innovative roles played by civil society in housing provision. Notwithstanding these similarities between world regions, our editorial introduction highlights a number of particularities in housing research in the Latin American region, underscoring the need to reflect critically on the applicability of concepts and models created in different geographical contexts with different historical, social and political realities. Within this editorial, we also introduce the main themes discussed in the specific articles and attempt to place them within the more general scope of earlier research on housing policies in the region. We conclude by acknowledging that a solution to long lasting housing inequality in Latin America remains an unfulfilled promise. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 277-287 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1627843 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1627843 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:3:p:277-287 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Urmi Sengupta Author-X-Name-First: Urmi Author-X-Name-Last: Sengupta Title: State-led housing development in Brazil and India: a machinery for enabling strategy? Abstract: Housing has been one of the defining issues of our times. Enabling strategies were implemented to address the housing challenges over the past decade with limited success. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of government-led large-scale programmes to provide low-income housing. New networks of collaborations have created new rules and shifted boundaries to achieve scale. In India, Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) aims to build 20 million new units by 2022. Likewise in Brazil, Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) was launched to deliver millions of affordable homes. This paper argues that the emergence of state-led housing means the value of enabling has not been supplanted but supplemented, as the shift does not herald the end of enabling strategy but a renewed commitment to the expansion of enabling principles where the state is an active agent. The state-led housing development is creating and formalising new areas of market engagement, and is far less radical and transformative than is assumed. State housing programmes such as MCMV and PMAY are inevitability highly profitable transactions, advantageous to the economy and housing markets and come at a point when profiteering and resource-extracting neoliberalism is at its zenith. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 509-535 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1510076 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1510076 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:509-535 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lena Magnusson Turner Author-X-Name-First: Lena Magnusson Author-X-Name-Last: Turner Author-Name: Terje Wessel Author-X-Name-First: Terje Author-X-Name-Last: Wessel Title: Housing market filtering in the Oslo region: pro-market housing policies in a Nordic welfare-state context Abstract: Vacancy chain theory suggests that mobility opportunities spread within and between specific states, typically flowing from attractive to less attractive units, with households moving in the opposite direction. We explore whether such welfare gains apply in a context, the Oslo region, which combines egalitarian welfare programmes and pro-market housing policies. We use merged census and register data from 2011, and include all events that initiate vacancies. Our results show that rental submarkets function poorly. There are many vacancies, but most of them are immediately absorbed by recruits, that is, households who leave no vacancy behind. Opportunities for disadvantaged groups are further reduced by rapid absorption of owner-occupied flats, often because privileged nest-leavers eschew the rental markets. Two related outcomes are segmentation between submarkets and segregation between Oslo Outer East and the remaining city. All of these adverse consequences reflect the costs of current policies, and call for initiatives that increase and improve opportunities in the rental sector. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 483-508 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1540740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:483-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Catrin Fflur Huws Author-X-Name-First: Catrin Fflur Author-X-Name-Last: Huws Title: Tenants’ rights and the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 Abstract: Following the devolution of powers by the UK Government to the National Assembly for Wales, the law in Wales has diverged considerably from the law in England on many issues, including housing policy. In Wales, recent housing policy and law focused on the improvement of housing quality and on the equalisation of the relationship between the housing provider and the housing occupier in order to ensure that those living in rented accommodation have a better awareness of their rights and clearer and more accessible paths to obtain redress. This article introduces the key provisions of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 and explains the changes it makes to the regulation of the public and private domestic rental sector in Wales. It aims therefore to outline the main changes made to the law as between England and Wales, and also aims to highlight why an increased consumer protection focus could improve the housing sector but brings with it the risk of stymieing the housing market by increasing costs and decreasing housing availability through over regulation. The paper identified how lessons from Wales may have implications for the improvement of tenant rights in other national housing markets. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 588-598 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540762 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1540762 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:588-598 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhigang Chen Author-X-Name-First: Zhigang Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Youqin Huang Author-X-Name-First: Youqin Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Author-Name: Xianjin Huang Author-X-Name-First: Xianjin Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Title: Public support for inclusionary housing in urban China Abstract: In recent years, China has been experimenting with inclusionary housing to develop affordable housing and promote mixed living in cities. There is thus an urgent need to understand residents’ preferences and public support for inclusionary housing, which is important not only for the design and implementation of inclusionary housing but also for political legitimacy and social stability. This study developed a conceptual framework to understand public support for inclusionary housing. Hypotheses derived from the self-interest, ideology and institutional setup theses were then developed. A two-level mixed effect logit model was also conducted using data from a 2013 survey in Jiangsu Province. Results indicated that most people preferred inclusionary housing to concentrated low-income housing; all three theses were supported to some degree. People of lower socioeconomic status, recipients of housing subsidies, and those living in cities with significant low-income housing coverage rates were more likely to support inclusionary housing. On the other hand, migrants were less likely to support this measure. The effectiveness of inclusionary housing was also discussed and policy recommendations were provided. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 457-482 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1560543 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1560543 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:457-482 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ian Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: Direct payment of Housing Benefit: responsibilisation at what cost to landlords? Abstract: Income-related housing allowances are used by most advanced welfare states to ensure that their citizens have access to decent accommodation at a price within their means. Surprisingly, comparing outcomes when the subsidy is paid to the claimant or direct to the landlord has attracted little attention, despite differences existing between countries. This paper uses data collected as part of the evaluation of the Direct Payment Demonstration Projects (DPDPs) in Great Britain to test the impact on rent collection and arrears of paying Housing Benefit to tenants, as oppose to the landlord direct. The DPDPs aimed to provide learning in readiness for the introduction of Universal Credit, which sees six separate benefits consolidated into one monthly payment made to the claimant. Using quasi-experimental rental account analysis techniques, the direct payment was found to have a significant negative effect on both rent collection and arrears. However, evidence suggested that the longer term impact may be smaller as tenants become more ‘normalised’ to having responsibility for paying their rent. These findings make an important contribution to the major theoretical debate on the effectiveness of using welfare policy to promote ‘responsibilisation’, which has become the dominant discourse since the mid-late 1990's. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 566-587 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1584493 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1584493 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:566-587 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barend Wind Author-X-Name-First: Barend Author-X-Name-Last: Wind Author-Name: Caroline Dewilde Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Dewilde Title: In which European countries is homeownership more financially advantageous? Explaining the size of the tenure wealth gap in 10 countries with different housing and welfare regimes Abstract: Previous research consistently shows that homeowners accumulate more wealth compared with tenants. In this paper, we describe the size of this ‘tenure wealth gap’ for 10 European countries. Furthermore, we explain why the size of the tenure wealth gap differs between countries by including cross-level interactions between institutional variables and housing tenure in a series of country-fixed effects regression models. Cross-country differences arise as the costs of owning versus renting, as well as the profitability of homeownership versus other investments, differ along the lines of welfare policies and housing regime arrangements. We attempt to control for selection bias related to tenure status by using propensity score matching techniques, using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Our findings suggest that the tenure wealth gap is largest in familialistic welfare states, in which marginalised tenants are unable to save, whereas homeownership is a family resource that provides an in-kind retirement income (‘passive’ asset-based welfare). We find smaller tenure wealth gaps in countries with a financialised promotion of homeownership, where housing wealth functions as a privatised welfare arrangement (‘active’ asset-based welfare). The smallest tenure wealth gaps occur in countries with more affordable rental housing, allowing tenants to accumulate savings. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 536-565 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1608113 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1608113 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:536-565 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tomoko Kubo Author-X-Name-First: Tomoko Author-X-Name-Last: Kubo Title: A Review of “Neoliberal urbanism, contested cities and housing in Asia”, Edited by Yi-Ling Chen and Hyun Bang Shin Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 601-603 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1654288 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1654288 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:601-603 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ray Forrest Author-X-Name-First: Ray Author-X-Name-Last: Forrest Title: A Review of “Urban warfare: housing under the empire of finance”, By Raquel Rolnik Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 599-601 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1654289 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1654289 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:599-601 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward G. Goetz Author-X-Name-First: Edward G. Author-X-Name-Last: Goetz Title: A Review of "Housing in America: an introduction", By Marijoan Bull and Alina Gross Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 604-606 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1666545 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1666545 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:19:y:2019:i:4:p:604-606 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barend Wind Author-X-Name-First: Barend Author-X-Name-Last: Wind Author-Name: Caroline Dewilde Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Dewilde Author-Name: John Doling Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Doling Title: Secondary property ownership in Europe: contributing to asset-based welfare strategies and the ‘really big trade-off’ Abstract: This paper examines the role of secondary property ownership (SPO) in Europe (EU). Focusing predominantly on residential properties used as rental-investments, it explores their role in the political economy of housing and welfare, contributing to respectively newer and older literatures about housing wealth and asset-based welfare and the ‘really big trade-off’ between outright homeownership and generous pensions. Both have hitherto largely been viewed as related to ownership of the primary residence. The empirical part of this paper is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), carried out by the European Central Bank in 2014, and providing information about property ownership by samples of households in 20 member states of the EU. The results show that the total wealth held in the form of SPO is considerable while also varying considerably from country to country. SPO held as an investment in the form of landlordism is most prevalent in countries characterised as corporatist-conservative or liberal welfare regimes. In the corporatist-conservative countries, SPO can be seen as a since long established proactive asset-based welfare strategy that compensates for the limitations of their fragmented pension systems, especially for the self-employed. In liberal welfare states, the recent upswing of buy-to-let landlordism is a manifestation of the concentration of housing wealth and limited access to homeownership for starters, which makes SPO an ever more attractive investment. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 25-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1573961 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1573961 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:25-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hang Kei Ho Author-X-Name-First: Hang Kei Author-X-Name-Last: Ho Title: Inside the world of middle-class Hong Kong transnational property investors: ‘5980 miles to my second home’ Abstract: Academic and popular debates around the movement of financial capital tied to the residential housing market in global cities such as London, tend to focus on the super-rich, wealth management and pension funds. While such debates acknowledge that these large scale capital flows influence socioeconomic structures of the destination cities, relatively little is known about how middle-class money flows across national and city boundaries, and between key intermediaries. This article aims to address these empirical and conceptual lacunae by examining the practices of middle-class Hong Kong investors, many of whom have been investing in properties worldwide since the early 1990s. Using ethnographic research and interviews carried out in Hong Kong and the UK, this article sheds light on the investment activity of two groups of middle-class investors: the wealthy middle-class and the aspiring middle-class. The article shows how a wealthy city-state like Hong Kong, with a laissez-faire economy and established international real estate sector, has enabled the outflow of capital to the global housing market. The article also highlights the ability of ethnographic studies to help us look inside processes of transnational housing investment. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 75-99 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1611364 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1611364 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:75-99 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Meaghan Stiman Author-X-Name-First: Meaghan Author-X-Name-Last: Stiman Title: Second homes in the city and the country: a reappraisal of vacation homes in the twenty-first century Abstract: In the United States and across Europe, research on second—and multiple—homeownership for vacation and leisure use has traditionally analysed the in-migration of urban residents into rural locales. Indeed, this line of inquiry has been warranted for many years because of the high concentration of urban dwellers who have sought second homes in natural amenity-rich rural destinations. However, drawing on interviews with 61 second homeowners who purchased property for vacation or leisure use, this paper unravels an empirical puzzle. While second homeownership has often been found to be an urban-to-rural phenomenon, this analysis uncovers a preponderance of second homeowners who purchase secondary residences in urban locales, as well as suburbanites who purchase secondary residences in either rural or urban destinations. To makes sense of these findings, I suggest that empirical and theoretical attention to second homeownership requires a twenty-first century reappraisal to account for both the heterogeneity of second homeownership as well as the larger socio-economic conditions under which it materialises. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 53-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1627842 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1627842 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:53-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antoine Paccoud Author-X-Name-First: Antoine Author-X-Name-Last: Paccoud Title: The top tail of the property wealth distribution and the production of the residential environment Abstract: This article investigates the ways in which the structure of the private ownership of property affects the operation of land and housing markets. It draws on detailed Land Registry data to identify the types of actors found at the top of the property wealth distribution in Dudelange, Luxembourg, and to gauge their respective influence on the production of the residential environment. While the top tail is made up of property developers, landowners and super-landlords, an analysis of the planning and land assembly processes for six large scale residential developments in the city since the 1970s shows that the production of housing is driven by a small group of tightly interconnected private landowners and property developers. The level of property wealth concentration in a given territory is thus not innocuous – it affects the production of the residential environment, especially when multiple property ownership is interlinked with the concentrated control over residential land. The study complements discussions on the relation between property, wealth and the production of housing that focus on homeowners, small-scale private landlords and the super-rich (on the consumption side) and, on the production side, on selected actors such as financialised property developers and public landowners. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 100-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1658562 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1658562 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:100-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: José Manuel Torrado Author-X-Name-First: José Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Torrado Author-Name: Ricardo Duque-Calvache Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo Author-X-Name-Last: Duque-Calvache Author-Name: Isabel Palomares-Linares Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Author-X-Name-Last: Palomares-Linares Title: The demand-side determinants of multiple property ownership in Spain Abstract: Home ownership is the usual form of tenancy in Spain and is particularly widespread across all social classes for different historical and cultural reasons. In this context, multiple property ownership (MPO) is not limited to the wealthy. It takes on different forms that have different explanations. Statistics reveal the existence of millions of second homes, private rented properties and a vast number of vacant houses, all of which are illustrative of a complex residential environment. This paper aims to quantify and analyse the types of multiple property in Spain from the demand side, focusing on individual and household owners, drawing on a variety of quantitative data sources. On the aggregate level, the number and type of multiple properties varies depending on geographical factors (coast versus inland; rural versus urban) and the characteristics of the buildings. On the micro level, we have used individual variables to model the demand-side determinants of single property and MPO. This reveals that the relevant variables are not the same for the two groups. MPO in Spain is not only linked to socioeconomic status and savings capacity, pointing to the need for more differentiated explanations. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 120-143 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1662974 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1662974 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:120-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wouter van Gent Author-X-Name-First: Wouter Author-X-Name-Last: van Gent Author-Name: Cody Hochstenbach Author-X-Name-First: Cody Author-X-Name-Last: Hochstenbach Title: The neo-liberal politics and socio-spatial implications of Dutch post-crisis social housing policies Abstract: This review discusses changes in Dutch housing policy that were implemented after the great financial crisis of 2008, notably the 2015 Housing Act and its lead-up legislation, and a landlord levy aimed at taxing housing associations. We argue that these changes should be seen as a decade-long process of institutional re-regulation that may be characterised as neo-liberalisation. In addition to reviewing the neo-liberal politics of these changes, we also provide an assessment of the social and spatial implications of the new legislation. Financial pressures on housing associations and higher income tenants together with the stricter eligibility for new tenants have led to a relative decline and residualisation of the social-rental sector. Also, housing policies are set to increase the spatial concentration of disadvantaged population groups. These socio-spatial implications may further undermine social housing in the future. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 156-172 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1682234 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1682234 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:156-172 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Justin Kadi Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Kadi Author-Name: Cody Hochstenbach Author-X-Name-First: Cody Author-X-Name-Last: Hochstenbach Author-Name: Christian Lennartz Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz Title: Multiple property ownership in times of late homeownership: a new conceptual vocabulary Abstract: The number of individuals and households that own an additional property beyond their primary home is on the rise in several countries. However, recent studies have been inconsistent in describing such properties, referring, for instance, to the return of private small-scale landlordism, the proliferation of second homes, or the significance of dwellings that are held as investment properties. Rarely are these disparate issues considered together, either theoretically or empirically. This special issue mobilises the concept of multiple property ownership (MPO) to provide a more integrated analysis. In this introduction to the special issue we propose multiple property ownership as a conceptual banner that includes second homes, buy-to-let properties, holiday rentals, intergenerational support properties and safe deposit box properties. While these properties may differ considerably in terms of purpose and use, we argue that they are part of a broader proliferation of property wealth accumulation at the household level. Considering multiple properties together can motivate a deeper understanding of property wealth concentration and changing property relations in the post-crisis context. We introduce a typology of multiple property ownership, discuss the consumption and investment value of different property types, and outline some drivers of multiple property ownership, before considering implications for housing research. We end with a brief discussion of the five articles in this special issue and how they deepen current understanding of multiple property ownership. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 6-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1697514 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1697514 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:6-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter A. Kemp Author-X-Name-First: Peter A. Author-X-Name-Last: Kemp Title: Commentary on multiple property ownership Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 144-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1697522 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1697522 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:144-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Title: Transformations in housing and housing policy research: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose Abstract: In the years since the Global Financial Crisis, the function of housing markets and role of housing sectors have shifted enormously. Consequently, research on, and understandings of, the integration of housing in the economy, polity and society – especially as a vehicle of enhanced neo-liberalisation and intensified socioeconomic division – have in many ways advanced. This editorial reflects on these transformations in relation to the latest editorial epoch in the International Journal of Housing Policy. In marking the hand over to the new editorial team, it considers how both the journal and housing policy research have changed and are changing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1706889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1706889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:1-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sebastian Kohl Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Kohl Title: A review of “The political economy of housing financialization” By Gregory W. Fuller Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 173-175 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1716291 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1716291 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:1:p:173-175 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Conceptualising ‘financialisation’: governance, organisational behaviour and social interaction in UK housing Abstract: This paper interrogates the concept of financialisation and assesses its utility for housing scholarship. It begins by noting the elasticity of the concept and considers some of the criticisms made against its deployment. The main body of the paper, using the UK as an example, puts forward suggestions to operationalise the concept across three scales: structural (to analyse the governance of housing); institutional (to explain formal and informal processes, including the behaviour of housing organisations) and individual (to understand the ways that financialisation is imposed but also resisted within social settings). Amongst the arguments presented is that the concept has most utility for researchers when applied historically, to make explicit how the variegated, situational and adaptive practices that are now in place have their origins in earlier stages of capitalist development. The paper concludes by suggesting that financialisation is most productive when applied alongside, rather than in place of concepts such as neoliberalism and commodification. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 184-202 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2018.1540737 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2018.1540737 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:184-202 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mandy Lau Author-X-Name-First: Mandy Author-X-Name-Last: Lau Title: Community-based housing solutions in Hong Kong: how and why have they emerged? Abstract: This paper reviews the emergence of community-based housing solutions in Hong Kong, including the Community Housing Movement (CHM) which was formally launched in late 2017. This phenomenon shares some of the features of community-based housing solutions in other places, such as collaboration between government, market and civil society actors to tackle housing undersupply problems. Nevertheless, there are some locally distinctive drivers behind this phenomenon. On one hand, community housing projects have been catalysed by the plight of low-income immigrant households in the private rental market, who live in poor-quality sub-divided flats. On the other hand, these projects were initiated by a local philanthropist, before being institutionalised by community organisations and attracting financial support from the government. The review concludes by emphasising the importance of going beyond the rhetoric of community housing and focusing on the root causes of affordability problems, since lower-middle income households are unlikely to benefit from current forms of community housing solutions, yet struggle with the lack of affordable homeownership opportunities in a neoliberal housing market. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 290-301 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1595910 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1595910 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:290-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Lancione Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione Title: Radical housing: on the politics of dwelling as difference Abstract: Urbanites worldwide fight for their right to housing and the city in ways that encompass what Westernized and masculine takes on ‘radical politics’ make of them. This intervention proposes a decolonial, grounded and feminist approach to investigate how resistance to housing precarity emerges from uncanny places, uninhabitable ‘homes’ and marginal propositions. This is a form of ‘dwelling as difference’ that is able to challenge our compromised ‘habitus’ of home at its root, from the ground of its everyday unfolding. The article argues that only looking within those cracks, and aligning to their politics, new radical housing futures can be built with urbanites worldwide. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 273-289 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1611121 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1611121 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:273-289 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laurence Murphy Author-X-Name-First: Laurence Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy Title: Neoliberal social housing policies, market logics and social rented housing reforms in New Zealand Abstract: Neoliberal social housing policies have profoundly altered the nature and character of social housing provision internationally. These policies, involving marketisation and privatisation, have circulated via international policy networks and have been territorialised in national housing regimes. Despite the ascendency of these policies, David Clapham argues that the logical inconsistencies and problems of neoliberal housing discourses need to be exposed. This paper examines the nature and impacts of a social rented housing reform programme enacted in New Zealand post 2010. The reforms included the introduction of reviewable tenancies, changes in the regulation and governance of social housing providers and stock transfers. It is argued that underpinning the reform process was a set of market logics that framed the sector and tenants in new and contradictory ways. In addition, it is argued that the reforms also involved the restructuring of housing providers in ways that significantly altered existing practices and fundamentally challenged the notion of security of tenure that existed within the sector. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 229-251 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1638134 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1638134 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:229-251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ben Pattison Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Pattison Author-Name: Ian Cole Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Cole Title: Opening a new route into home ownership? The extension of the Right to Buy to housing associations in England Abstract: The introduction of the mandatory ‘Right to Buy’ (RTB) in 1980 for qualifying tenants in municipal housing was a significant development in British housing policy. It was an extension of the post-war ‘social project’ of the state-subsidised expansion of home ownership, leading to the sale of nearly two million dwellings over forty years. In 2015, the UK government sought to ‘reinvigorate’ RTB by extending it to the housing association (HA) sector in England, initially on a pilot basis. This article investigates the impact of this pilot programme and the response of eligible tenants to the opportunity to purchase. It compares the pilot programme to the local authority RTB in terms of the changing demographic base of social renting, increased spatial differentiation in the housing market, the different institutional framework for HAs and the design of the pilot scheme. Research findings suggest that the take-up and impact of any national RTB scheme is likely to be limited, for a mixture of financial, institutional and demographic reasons. RTB will provide only a very selective route into home ownership for some HA tenants, as a specific segment of a more fragmented tenure than in 1980. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 203-228 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1639239 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1639239 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:203-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ida Qvenild Nesset Author-X-Name-First: Ida Qvenild Author-X-Name-Last: Nesset Author-Name: Are Oust Author-X-Name-First: Are Author-X-Name-Last: Oust Title: The impact of historic preservation policies on housing values Abstract: Historic preservation dwellings offer qualities that benefit both owners and society. At the same time, preservation policies might include some costs and restrictions. Although many studies have aimed to assess the impact of historic preservation on housing values, this study, to our knowledge, is the first to investigate whether the historic preservation premium is due to the changed juridical status (a policy effect), or the qualities observed by the buyers that are unobserved in the model. By using a unique data set that combines data of preserved historic dwellings in Oslo, Norway, and data from the housing market from 1990 to 2017, we study sales prices for the same dwellings both before and after historic preservation. The higher prices of preserved historic dwellings seem to be caused by qualities in the dwellings that correlate with the forthcoming historic preservation, and not by the policy itself. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 252-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1688633 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1688633 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:252-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Stephens Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens Title: A Review of “Remaking housing policy: an international study”, By David Clapham Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 302-304 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1716290 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1716290 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:302-304 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Clapham Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Clapham Title: A Review of “A research agenda for housing”, Edited by Markus Moos Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 302-308 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1749413 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1749413 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:302-308 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Mallach Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Mallach Title: A Review of “Introduction to housing (second edition)”, Edited by Katrin B. Anacker, Andrew T. Carswell, Sarah D. Kirby and Kenneth R. Tremblay Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 302-307 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1749416 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1749416 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:302-307 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ngai Ming Yip Author-X-Name-First: Ngai Ming Author-X-Name-Last: Yip Title: In memoriam: Professor Ray Forrest, 1951–2020 Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 310-311 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1752518 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1752518 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:310-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dallas Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Dallas Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Emma Power Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Power Title: Housing policy and the COVID-19 pandemic: the importance of housing research during this health emergency Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 177-183 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1756599 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1756599 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:177-183 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ian Cole Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Cole Title: A tribute to Dr Ben Pattison, 1979–2020 Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 311-312 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1757199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1757199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:311-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma R. Power Author-X-Name-First: Emma R. Author-X-Name-Last: Power Author-Name: Dallas Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Dallas Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Justin Kadi Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Kadi Title: Public housing and COVID-19: contestation, challenge and change Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 313-319 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1797991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1797991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:313-319 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita Author-Name: Bilge Serin Author-X-Name-First: Bilge Author-X-Name-Last: Serin Author-Name: Jenny Preece Author-X-Name-First: Jenny Author-X-Name-Last: Preece Title: A methodological quest for systematic literature mapping Abstract: This article develops an approach to systematic literature mapping that can contribute to advancing housing knowledge and theory in three ways. At a basic level, it informs more systematic, balanced and transparent literature reviews than currently performed in housing studies. As a self-contained project, it unravels research gaps, highlights where rich evidence already exists, and indicates changing conceptual approaches. Lastly, as an opening stage to evidence reviews, it informs the review’s questions, directions and dimensions. Our approach to literature mapping systematically identifies and explores a comprehensive but non-exhaustive literature related to a broad academic or policy theme. We have adapted established methodological approaches from systematic reviews to our much broader aims and shorter timeframe. By reflecting on five projects, we detail the methodological process so that it could be replicated or adapted in future studies. Besides reflecting on the systematic and less biased retrieval of relevant literature – pertinent to any academic project – we present insights into synthesising its temporal, geographical, conceptual and thematic trends. We also reflect on some inevitable methodological challenges faced in this process of translation of aims into the narration of findings, which have a wider currency across the social sciences. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 320-343 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1649040 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1649040 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:320-343 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Robinson Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Author-Name: Stephen Green Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Green Author-Name: Ian Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: Housing options for older people in a reimagined housing system: a case study from England Abstract: The housing options of older people now extend far beyond the traditional choice between staying put and making do, or moving to specialist housing or residential care. A flexible suite of options has emerged, centred on promoting independence and well-being. Valuable insights have been provided into the development, delivery, costs and benefits of these options. Light has also been cast on the experiences and preferences of older people. However, little is known about who gets what housing, where and why. This reflects a tendency within analysis to consider these different housing options in isolation. This study responds by situating the housing options of older people within wider debates about the reimagining of the housing system driven by the neoliberal transformation in housing politics. Taking a case study approach, it explores the gap between the ambitions of policy and realities of provision at the local level, relates this to the particular intersection of state practices and market mechanisms manifest within the case study and, in doing so, rises to the challenge of extending analysis of the impacts of the neoliberal approach on the right to housing to new groups and different settings. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 344-366 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1644020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1644020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:344-366 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martina Mikeszová Author-X-Name-First: Martina Author-X-Name-Last: Mikeszová Author-Name: Martin Lux Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Lux Title: Dilemmas of housing-asset-based welfare in the post-socialist context: the case of the Czech Republic Abstract: In the Czech Republic, buying housing is regarded as a way of attaining financial security in old age. People are, however, wary about using Housing-Asset-Based Welfare instruments that would allow them to withdraw housing equity. This article explains the contradictions surrounding housing-equity release in the post-socialist context and the barriers and catalyst behind the wider use of two specific instruments – reverse mortgages and reverse schemes. The paper focuses on the generation of Czechs in their forties and fifties. Members of this generation have largely remained outside the scope of research, even though they will be impacted much more by the effects of population ageing than the current generation of seniors. The paper draws on a survey of a sample of the total Czech population and in-depth interviews and focus groups with people between the ages of 40 and 55 in three Czech municipalities. The research showed that, without the introduction of strong incentives, Czechs, despite their worries, are not likely to start accumulating savings more than they do today. They view owner-occupied housing as a secure form of housing in which it is possible to save on housing costs but do not regard it as property whose value could be used to increase their quality of life in old age. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 367-389 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1669425 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1669425 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:367-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Windie Ansah Author-X-Name-First: John Windie Author-X-Name-Last: Ansah Author-Name: Dorothy Takyiakwaa Author-X-Name-First: Dorothy Author-X-Name-Last: Takyiakwaa Author-Name: Edward Atakora Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Atakora Author-Name: Michael Amoah Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Amoah Title: ‘House to let’: housing agents, social networks and Ghana’s housing law and policy Abstract: This paper explores the entanglements between housing agents, their social networks and the current rental housing regulatory framework in Ghana. Using purely qualitative methods, the paper sought primary data from 42 housing agents, one Rent Control Department officer, 10 landlords and 15 tenants, and secondary data from government related policies and reports to uncover the nuances of housing agency in Ghana and their relevance to the housing regulatory and policy frameworks. Using narrative analysis, we draw on the social capital theory to uncover how social networks, trust and norms of reciprocity shape activities and strategies of housing agents towards both productive and conflict ridden outcomes. The paper argues that the organisation of activities of housing agents is an exercise of power mobilised through an elaborately informal but orderly social networks underlined by social trust and norms. We contend that such patterns of activities of housing agents founded on the elements of social capital produce both economic and administrative values to the state which could be adapted, refined and incorporated into the current housing regulations and policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 390-416 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1712760 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1712760 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:390-416 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Patrick Brandful Cobbinah Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Brandful Author-X-Name-Last: Cobbinah Title: Homeownership aspirations: drawing on the experiences of renters and landlords in a deregulated private rental sector Abstract: While research in the developed world has shown that aspirations for homeownership are influenced in part by negative experiences in the private rented sector, little is known about the situation in developing countries. To address this gap, this article presents a situational analysis of renters and how their current tenure situations shape their homeownership ambitions. Using qualitative inquiry involving in-depth interviews with 20 renters and 10 landlords in Kumasi, the second largest city in Ghana, findings show that homeownership is importantly influenced by the renters’ experiences as co-occupants with landlords and landladies. Embedded in an epoch of high homeownership aspirations, the ambitions of renters to build houses for themselves are partly motivated by the perceived extortionist behaviour of landlords as perpetrated through ‘rent in advance’ systems, discretionary ability to increase rent suddenly and unfair allocation of utility bills to renters. Homeownership ambitions of renters are also influenced by the insecurity in rental tenure and limited freedom in rented dwellings. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 417-446 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1669424 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1669424 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:417-446 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Boelhouwer Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Boelhouwer Title: The housing market in The Netherlands as a driver for social inequalities: proposals for reform Abstract: The Dutch housing market suffered more than many other West-European housing markets from the global financial crisis. After some stimulation measures at the beginning of the crisis, the market was hit hard by several government policies in both the rented and the owner-occupied sectors. Against this background this paper pays attention to the disfunctioning of the Dutch housing market and to current housing issues which are high on the political agenda. The paper argues that the contemporary Dutch housing market serves as an engine for social inequality and leads to sharp divisions and instability in society, in social, political and in economic terms. The paper then offers some solutions for these significant housing market problems. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 447-456 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1663056 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1663056 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:447-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bruce Judd Author-X-Name-First: Bruce Author-X-Name-Last: Judd Title: A Review of 'The rise in vacant housing in post-growth Japan: housing market, urban policy, and revitalizing aging cities', Edited by Tomoko Kubo and Yoshimichi Yui Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 457-460 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1791501 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1791501 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:457-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tahire Erman Author-X-Name-First: Tahire Author-X-Name-Last: Erman Title: A Review of ‘The politics and practices of apartment living’, By Hazel Easthope Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 460-462 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1791503 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1791503 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:460-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Manzi Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Manzi Title: A Review of ‘Class, ethnicity and state in the polarised metropolis: putting Wacquant to work’, Edited by John Flint and Ryan Powell Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 462-465 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1791508 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1791508 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:3:p:462-465 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oana Druta Author-X-Name-First: Oana Author-X-Name-Last: Druta Author-Name: Dallas Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Dallas Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Emma Power Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Power Title: Holiday reading list for a post-COVID-19 housing system Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 467-473 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1838788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1838788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:467-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Job Gbadegesin Author-X-Name-First: Job Author-X-Name-Last: Gbadegesin Author-Name: Lochner Marais Author-X-Name-First: Lochner Author-X-Name-Last: Marais Title: The state of housing policy research in Africa Abstract: This paper profiles research on housing policy in Africa and evaluates its scale and quality. Using databases developed from Scopus, we reviewed papers on housing policy research from 1989 to 2018, in Africa and in South Africa in particular. We found a steady increase in the number of papers. The disciplines that have contributed most are geography, health-related disciplines, planning, development studies and economics, in that order, and there has been a shift towards disciplines with a more applied focus. Most researchers had not been involved in housing policy research for very long, apart from some in South Africa. We did not find strong research links between the rest of Africa and South Africa. A large proportion of researchers in the rest of Africa were affiliated to institutions outside Africa, unlike South Africa, which had more local affiliation. We argue that, despite room for improvement, it is understandable that the research mainly reflects the housing reality on the ground rather than analysing it theoretically, given the need to draw African governments’ notice to the continent’s severe housing problems and the need to develop implementable African housing policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 474-490 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1780186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1780186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:474-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudia Murray Author-X-Name-First: Claudia Author-X-Name-Last: Murray Author-Name: David Clapham Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Clapham Title: Housing policies in Argentina under President Macri (2015–2019): a divided nation perpetuating path dependency Abstract: This paper focuses on housing policy changes introduced by the administration of President Macri (2015–2019) which claimed to have made a U-turn in Argentinean policies. The study questions whether the housing policy changes introduced constitute a conjuncture with enduring consequences, or if the overall trajectory of the country’s housing events has only been temporarily disrupted by Macri’s administration. The paper contributes to current debates on path dependency studies in housing policies and a recent call for a more political focus in housing studies. It does so by analysing the reactive changes introduced during the conjuncture and their potential to create a new path in a politically divided nation. The results show how a dramatic turn in politics – from the extreme left to the right – can be ineffective in making enduring changes in policy paths. As more and more countries around the globe are facing an increasing polarisation and atomisation of domestic politics, the example of Argentina demonstrates that path dependency easily perpetuates in the housing systems of politically divided nations. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 491-512 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1775929 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1775929 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:491-512 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristof Heylen Author-X-Name-First: Kristof Author-X-Name-Last: Heylen Title: Targeted affordable housing subsidies in Flanders: evaluating equity using equivalence scales Abstract: In Flanders – the northern region of Belgium – various targeted housing subsidies exist, aimed at improving affordability for low income households. For these subsidies, the income limits differ according to household type, in order to adjust for different consumption needs. In this article, we will show how equivalence scales can be applied to evaluate the horizontal equity – in terms of household composition – of targeted affordability instruments. We compute the ‘implicit’ equivalence scale of each instrument and compare them with well-known equivalence scales (the modified OECD and square root scale). Using the 2013 Flemish Housing Survey, the size and composition of the target group for the main targeted housing subsidies is calculated, both for the implicit (currently used) and commonly applied equivalence scales. A comparison with the results of the well-known scales shows that the currently applied implicit equivalence scale generally favours lone parents, whereas in the case of housing allowances couples are disadvantaged compared to single people. As regards the housing allowance, the entitled share belonging to the second income quintile rose strongly when the OECD or square root scales were used. Applying these scales would therefore improve some equity aspects of the subsidies. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 513-533 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1608114 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1608114 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:513-533 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francis K. Bondinuba Author-X-Name-First: Francis K. Author-X-Name-Last: Bondinuba Author-Name: Mark Stephens Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Stephens Author-Name: Colin Jones Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Author-Name: Robert Buckley Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Buckley Title: The motivations of microfinance institutions to enter the housing market in a developing country Abstract: Microfinance is a potential powerful avenue to support the lowest socioeconomic groups in the housing market of developing countries. The purpose of this article is to consider what motivates microfinance institutions (MFIs) to enter the housing market through a factor analysis approach. A survey of 125 respondents was undertaken in two regions of Ghana. Factor analysis was conducted to identify underlying latent variables that had significant effects on MFIs’ decision to enter the housing market. The findings indicate that four important determinants emerge: MFIs' interest for profit, the ease of entry into the housing market, interest for growth, and the perceived desire of the lowest socioeconomic groups for homeownership. The study also implies that some nuances help explain the demand and supply perspectives of housing microfinance in developing countries. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 534-554 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1721411 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1721411 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:534-554 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Camillo Boano Author-X-Name-First: Camillo Author-X-Name-Last: Boano Author-Name: Giovanna Astolfo Author-X-Name-First: Giovanna Author-X-Name-Last: Astolfo Title: Inhabitation as more-than-dwelling. Notes for a renewed grammar Abstract: This essay is a response to Michele Lancione’s Housing Futures Essay, which was recently published in this journal. Bleak urban futures and the obscure perspective on housing calls for renewed attention across several disciplines, approaches and geographies. Michele Lancione pleaded to study ‘radical housing’ within everyday practices of dwelling for those living at the margins, where the latter are understood as the site where ‘a politics of life’ emerges from uncanny, uninhabitable places - with explicit reference to the work of Abdoumaliq Simone. Assuming the importance of dwelling and its immanence, can the political dimension ascribed by Lancione to the radical housing approach, be complemented with the affirmative politics of Esposito and Braidotti and Agamben’s forms-of-life? Starting from these questions, this paper aims to engage with Lancione’s dwelling as difference and offer complementary readings suggesting the rubric of ‘inhabitation’ as the result of affirmative daily strategies of learning, navigating and governing the city. By expanding the notion of dwelling to include intersecting forms of caring, repairing and imagining the future, we will substantiate the concept we refer to as ‘inhabiting’ as a relational practice occurring in marginal and fragile environments, constituted by multiple incremental and transformative acts with the ultimate purpose to hold and resist marginalisation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 555-577 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1759486 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1759486 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:555-577 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Izaak L. Williams Author-X-Name-First: Izaak L. Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: A reappraisal of contemporary homelessness policy: the new role for transitional housing programmes Abstract: In the U.S. as in many other countries around the world, Permanent Housing (PH) policy based on Housing First (HF) principles has become increasingly important in recent years in tackling homelessness, based on evidence of superior outcomes compared with traditional transitional housing programmes (THPs). This article highlights the limitations of the existing evidence base used to support this policy trend, and highlights the need for more research, as well as consideration of a broader range of evidence, to reappraise the potential continuing value of THPs in producing positive outcomes for homeless populations. I also make a number of suggestions for repositioning the role of THPs in a housing and recovery pathway approach that would help meet the complex needs of vulnerable citizens in the era of Housing First policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 578-587 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1663070 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1663070 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:578-587 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Valesca Lima Author-X-Name-First: Valesca Author-X-Name-Last: Lima Title: A Review of ‘Neoliberal housing policy: an international perspective’, By Keith Jacobs Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 588-590 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1838169 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1838169 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:588-590 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniël Bossuyt Author-X-Name-First: Daniël Author-X-Name-Last: Bossuyt Title: A Review of ‘Contemporary co-housing in Europe: toward sustainable cities?’ Edited by Pernilla Hagbert, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Håkan Thörn and Catrina Wasshede Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 590-593 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1838170 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1838170 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:590-593 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: Review Essay of 'The new enclosure: the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain', By Brett Christophers Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 594-600 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1838174 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1838174 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:594-600 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katrina Raynor Author-X-Name-First: Katrina Author-X-Name-Last: Raynor Author-Name: Carolyn Whitzman Author-X-Name-First: Carolyn Author-X-Name-Last: Whitzman Title: How intersectoral policy networks shape affordable housing outcomes Abstract: Affordable housing policy is increasingly formulated and delivered through complex policy networks comprised of state, not-for-profit and for-profit actors. While these arrangements may generate new ideas and create space for more democratic decision-making, international case studies have shown that the devolution of policy responsibility has resulted in increasingly marketised housing solutions and reduced support for low income households. Policy network literature presents a valuable lens for analysing the degree to which state and non-state actors are capable of and willing to shape policy discourses and outcomes. This paper presents a new conceptual framework and typology for interpreting policy networks, identifying integrated vertical governance, advocacy coalitions and agenda setting and shared understandings as central to housing policy and outcomes. Drawing on 54 interviews conducted with members of affordable housing policy networks in Melbourne, Toronto, Vancouver, and Portland, the paper also provides a longitudinal, comparative analysis of policy networks in these cities. We provide insights into the implications of ‘hollowed out’ governance structures characterised by limited internal capacity and steering power. We also comment on the relative success of each city’s network in advocating for increased affordable housing outcomes. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1697150 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1697150 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:1-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Morris Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Morris Title: An impossible task? Neoliberalism, the financialisation of housing and the City of Sydney’s endeavours to address its housing affordability crisis Abstract: The high cost of accommodation in the City of Sydney local government area (LGA) makes it difficult for low-income and even moderate-income households to retain their accommodation or move into the area. In response, the City of Sydney has set a target that 7.5% of housing (approximately 11,000 homes) should be affordable housing by 2030. Drawing primarily on City of Sydney and New South Wales (NSW) government publications, the article examines the endeavours by the City of Sydney to increase the quantity of affordable housing in the LGA. The article reviews the policies adopted by the City of Sydney and the challenges it faces. It shows that the overriding challenge is the reluctance of the NSW government to put in place policies that would substantially increase the quantity of affordable housing in the City of Sydney LGA. A central argument is that the NSW government’s rigid adherence to the neoliberal/financialisation of housing perspective outlined in the article, makes it extremely difficult for the state government to put in place the policies required. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 23-47 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1688634 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1688634 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:23-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Suzy Nelson Author-X-Name-First: Suzy Author-X-Name-Last: Nelson Author-Name: Jane Lewis Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis Title: Resident engagement in the regeneration of social housing: the case of Woodberry Down, London Abstract: In recent decades policies of renewing social housing in partnership with private developers have become widespread and critics have described such policies as state-led gentrification. Whilst resident participation in such schemes is often viewed as tokenistic, this paper presents a case of estate renewal where a well established residents’ association is having some success in influencing the outcomes of redevelopment. The residents’ association faces considerable challenges as the local authority has entered a partnership with a major developer and the majority of new homes will be for sale. Nonetheless, the residents’ association has influenced the regeneration in terms of the offers of rehousing to existing residents and in terms of maintaining their sense of place. However, many leaseholders have been displaced and there is an ongoing struggle to ensure that there is not a net loss of social rented housing. The paper highlights how sustained organisation by residents can affect the outcomes of redevelopment, but also illustrates the limitations of developer-led regeneration in meeting social objectives. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 48-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1683126 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1683126 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:48-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Steffen Wetzstein Author-X-Name-First: Steffen Author-X-Name-Last: Wetzstein Title: Assessing post-GFC housing affordability interventions: a qualitative exploration across five international cities Abstract: This paper confronts one of the biggest contemporary public policy conundrums globally; the challenge of decreasing housing affordability for urban residents. Aiming to align the international literature with the multitude of policy responses following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the paper explores ‘in-depth’, and via recontextualisation, the policy priorities and strategies designed to combat housing affordability challenges across five international cities from advanced economy countries – Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Singapore (Singapore), Sydney (Australia) and Auckland (New Zealand). Carefully guided by critical social science and heterodox political economy literatures, and based on an innovative multi-city comparative ethnography (MCCE) centred on 118 in-depth research interviews with key stakeholders, six approaches are singled out as especially prominent: (1) market-based housing supply; (2) direct price/rent control; (3) construction cost reduction; (4) non-market-based housing supply; (5) demand-side interventions; and (6) urban land market interventions. Whereas all strategies face serious tensions, contradictions and implementation barriers, the latter three interventions are more likely to have a positive and lasting impact. Based on these findings, there is a need for normative reorientation and intellectual innovation in order to expand understandings on those three interventions in the name of affordable housing for all. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 70-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1662639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1662639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:70-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher Phelps Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Phelps Author-Name: Mark N. Harris Author-X-Name-First: Mark N. Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Author-Name: Rachel Ong Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Ong Author-Name: Steven Rowley Author-X-Name-First: Steven Author-X-Name-Last: Rowley Author-Name: Gavin A. Wood Author-X-Name-First: Gavin A. Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Title: Within-city dwelling price growth and convergence: trends from Australia’s large cities Abstract: Within Australia’s larger cities, we observe differences in price dynamics across different sub-periods over the period 2001–2016. A combination of housing market cycles, policy reforms and different new supply configurations offers potential explanations. Neighbourhood dwelling prices within all cities and dwelling types converged during a 2001–2006 sub-period that coincided with strong housing price growth. Shifts in monetary policy as well as tax and housing policy reforms drove this convergence by boosting demand from first homebuyers and investors. Divergence had overtaken convergence in most cities and market segments by the final 2011–2016 sub-period. We argue that falling interest rates were responsible. The findings highlight how price indices based on movements in central measures of the price distribution can offer a poor guide to housing affordability trends at different points in a city’s neighbourhood price distribution. They also suggest that monetary policy has differential effects across market segments. These effects are markedly different in periods when monetary policy is relaxed rather than tightened, and have important implications for first homebuyer accessibility and the ability of existing homeowners to trade up. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 103-126 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1851635 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1851635 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:103-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ryan Allen Author-X-Name-First: Ryan Author-X-Name-Last: Allen Author-Name: Edward G. Goetz Author-X-Name-First: Edward G. Author-X-Name-Last: Goetz Title: A home for xenophobia: U.S. public housing policy under Trump Abstract: Elected after espousing xenophobic rhetoric and policy proposals, President Donald Trump has pursued an anti-immigrant approach to governance that spans multiple areas of policy and practice in the U.S., including public housing. In this essay, we argue that the Trump Administration has pursued a variety of egregious examples of xenophobic policies, but far from anomalies, these actions are in keeping with the long historical tradition of xenophobia in the U.S. In the area of public housing, policy changes that seek to exclude some immigrants and their families from living in public housing allow the administration to pursue two goals simultaneously. First, it signals to President Trump’s base supporters that he is following through on his ‘America First’ campaign promises. Second, it allows the Trump Administration to frame the debate around the deservingness of tenants using public housing, distracting the public from the continuing disinvestment in this public benefit during an affordable housing crisis in the U.S. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 127-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1803533 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1803533 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:127-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louise Crabtree Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Crabtree Author-Name: Neil Perry Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Perry Author-Name: Sidsel Grimstad Author-X-Name-First: Sidsel Author-X-Name-Last: Grimstad Author-Name: Joanne McNeill Author-X-Name-First: Joanne Author-X-Name-Last: McNeill Title: Impediments and opportunities for growing the cooperative housing sector: an Australian case study Abstract: In many countries, housing cooperatives are longstanding and stable components of housing systems, providing a range of housing options that sit between the historically dual tenure poles of renting and owning. In others, such as Australia, cooperatives represent a very small proportion of total housing stock. Such differences derive from institutional lock-in resulting from market failures, government policy and historical norms. Breaking the institutional lock-in requires evidence of the benefits of cooperative housing to demonstrate the rationale for appropriate policy frameworks. However, despite their longevity in some countries, cooperatives remain relatively under-researched, such that their purported benefits as compared to other tenure forms can be hard to assess or compare. This article provides a brief synthesis of extant literature on the benefits of cooperatives before focusing on Australia where the sector is poised for growth from a very small base. We consider the impediments and opportunities for growing the sector in Australia, which highlight issues of potential relevance to other jurisdictions with similarly nascent cooperative sectors. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 138-152 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1658916 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1658916 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:138-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Miki Seko Author-X-Name-First: Miki Author-X-Name-Last: Seko Title: A Review of "Housing in post-growth society: Japan on the edge of social transition", By Yosuke Hirayama and Misa Izuhara Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 153-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1877386 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1877386 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:153-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Clarissa Campos Author-X-Name-First: Clarissa Author-X-Name-Last: Campos Title: A Review of ‘Squatters in the capitalist city: housing, justice, and urban politics’, By Miguel A. Martinez Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 308-310 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1918921 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1918921 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:308-310 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Isabella Clough Marinaro Author-X-Name-First: Isabella Author-X-Name-Last: Clough Marinaro Title: Living the liminal life: informalities in a utopian housing project Abstract: This article presents ethnographic research carried out in Rome’s Corviale public housing project: a 1-km-long building where squatting and unauthorised construction are widespread, most notably along the entire fourth floor. It first outlines the institutional background to these informalities, demonstrating that they have not emerged outside or in opposition to the state, but are the outcome of regulatory ambiguities determined by bureaucratic (in)actions over three decades and are tightly connected to the management of Rome’s housing sector more broadly. It then explores how informalities are organised and experienced by residents; identifying social relations, power dynamics, and how squatters position their practices normatively in relation to institutional neglect and the local activities of semi-organised criminals. Beyond adding to debates on housing informalities in the global North, the analysis makes a wider theoretical contribution, focusing on the centrality of time as a defining feature of informal housing practices. It highlights how institutionally imposed temporalities generate conditions of protracted liminality, constraining residents’ means and methods of survival but also producing the foundations for claims-making and negotiations to modify regulatory practices from ‘below’. Lastly, it analyses a recent policy initiative to formalise the fourth floor, exploring its ability to uproot the multidimensional informalities that have crystallised over time. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 196-219 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1803532 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1803532 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:196-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hannah Holmes Author-X-Name-First: Hannah Author-X-Name-Last: Holmes Title: A Review of ‘Ageing in place: design, planning and policy response in the Western Asia-Pacific’, Edited by Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, and Edgar Liu Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 306-308 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1918920 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1918920 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:306-308 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zahra Nasreen Author-X-Name-First: Zahra Author-X-Name-Last: Nasreen Author-Name: Kristian. J. Ruming Author-X-Name-First: Kristian. J. Author-X-Name-Last: Ruming Title: Informality, the marginalised and regulatory inadequacies: a case study of tenants’ experiences of shared room housing in Sydney, Australia Abstract: Shared housing emerges as an important housing choice for low-to-middle income tenants experiencing difficulties accessing housing in competitive and unaffordable formal rental markets. Shared room housing – where two or more non-related tenants share sleeping spaces, such as bedrooms or partitioned living rooms – is a growing subcategory of shared housing in cities of the Global North. Shared room tenancies are arranged under multi-layered sub-letting rental arrangements that often lack written tenancy agreements and formal protection. Despite evidence that more people are living in shared room housing, there is limited research that explores the experiences of those living in these informal arrangements and the relationship with policy/regulatory frameworks that seek to govern shared housing practices. This paper addresses this gap by investigating tenants’ motivations for living, and the challenges they face, in informal shared room housing in Sydney. The study finds that shared room housing offers flexibility and rental affordability for tenants marginalised from the formal rental market; however, it also raises a series of issues, such as tenure insecurity, exploitation, health and safety risks, and lack of access to formal dispute resolution services. The paper identifies regulatory and enforcement challenges in informal shared room housing and calls for policy reforms. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 220-246 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1803531 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1803531 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:220-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mariana Schiller Author-X-Name-First: Mariana Author-X-Name-Last: Schiller Author-Name: Mike Raco Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Raco Title: Postcolonial narratives and the governance of informal housing in London Abstract: Housing informality has traditionally been associated with cities in the Global South. And yet, there is growing evidence that informal practices are also present in Northern cities, especially those traditionally considered ‘successful’ or ‘developed’ such as London, in which housing pressures are most acute. This paper, drawing on detailed policy analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews, uses the example of London to examine the rise of informal housing, the ways in which it is both represented and conceptualised as a ‘problem’ of governance to be tackled, and its institutionalisation into programmes of enforcement. It focuses on the emergence of a phenomenon known as ‘beds in sheds’, or the construction of informal housing in between existing buildings. By discussing a planning issue that is generally associated with the Global South in a Global North context, the paper engages with writings on postcolonial theory. It adopts a nexus approach to examine how the issue is embedded within particular configurations of social, political, economic and cultural circumstances. The evidence indicates that the ways in which the problem is framed and understood are underpinned by colonialist views that see migrants and their socio-ethnic communities as agents of informality, whose removal or sanction will ‘solve’ the problem. The paper concludes with reflections on broader debates on informality in urban studies. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 268-290 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1840907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1840907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:268-290 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yonah Freemark Author-X-Name-First: Yonah Author-X-Name-Last: Freemark Title: Doubling housing production in the Paris region: a multi-policy, multi-jurisdictional response Abstract: How can metropolitan regions ramp up housing production to meet the demands of a growing population, after years of inadequate construction and mounting challenges for affordability? I consider recent policy reforms in the Paris region that have successfully doubled that area’s housing-unit completion rate. I show that a focus on social housing, harnessing of publicly owned land, new financial and regulatory incentives, and the enforcement of municipal policy by higher level governments have effectively encouraged development. These policies complemented one another and were implemented by multiple levels of government as part of a shared metropolitan strategy. Paris’ example offers a model for other regions looking to identify appropriate policies to spur construction. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 291-305 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1682233 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2019.1682233 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:291-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mohammad Usman Author-X-Name-First: Mohammad Author-X-Name-Last: Usman Author-Name: Sabina Maslova Author-X-Name-First: Sabina Author-X-Name-Last: Maslova Author-Name: Gemma Burgess Author-X-Name-First: Gemma Author-X-Name-Last: Burgess Title: Urban informality in the Global North: (il)legal status and housing strategies of Ghanaian migrants in New York City Abstract: Different legal statuses of migrants are known to affect housing opportunities in the destination cities. The research explores the housing journeys of Ghanaian migrants in the Bronx in New York City to understand the processes by which poor documented and undocumented migrants access housing, and explores the role of legal status in housing allocation. Relying on qualitative data collected through 55 in-depth interviews with migrants, the study argues that legal status does not necessarily determine Ghanaian migrants’ access to housing. Instead, the findings suggest that undocumented migrants report better housing outcomes compared to their documented counterparts. This is organised through urban informality enabled by social networks in the Bronx’s ethnic enclave. The paper argues that, rather than legal status, the strength of one’s social ties in the Ghanaian migrant community regulates access to housing. Complicit actors, including profit-seeking providers and indifferent public authorities, allow the informal processes of housing allocation to operate. The paper calls attention to the relationship between immigration status and housing informality in the Global North and sheds light on the hidden, informal sub-markets that migrants create and occupy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 247-267 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1814189 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1814189 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:247-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pranita Shrestha Author-X-Name-First: Pranita Author-X-Name-Last: Shrestha Author-Name: Nicole Gurran Author-X-Name-First: Nicole Author-X-Name-Last: Gurran Author-Name: Sophia Maalsen Author-X-Name-First: Sophia Author-X-Name-Last: Maalsen Title: Informal housing practices Abstract: In this introduction to the first of two special issues on ‘Informal housing practices’ we set out the foundations for a research agenda on ‘informality’ within housing scholarship, and propose initial implications for policy and practice. In doing so we draw from the rich conceptual work by urban geographers and political economists who situate informality within wider processes of neoliberalism, globalisation and deregulation, as well as the small but emerging body of research by housing scholars who see informal housing as both a symptom of, and potential solution to, unmet housing need. Our jumping off point for the special issues was an interest in the dimensions of informal housing manifesting in expensive cities and regions of the global north, where the veneer of ‘formal’ urban development and housing markets render informal housing practices largely invisible. Grounded within this context, papers in this issue illuminate different dimensions of informal housing practice; from the physical transformation of dwellings through to the ways in which individuals navigate shared domestic space; or how policy makers seek to expand low cost rental markets by legitimising secondary dwellings and micro-apartments. Drawing on the wider literature on informality and the role of the state in producing/resolving unmet housing need; we argue that informal housing practices warrant further research and policy attention, particularly with respect to cities and regions of the global north. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 157-168 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1893982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1893982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:157-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Jones Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: Distance and proximity matters: understanding housing transformation through micro-morphology in informal settlements Abstract: Informality is a global phenomenon entrenched in the Global South and increasingly emerging in the Global North. In dense and compact informal settlements commonly seen in the Global South, housing transformation to meet resident needs typically occurs through small-scale physical alterations and adaptations. Within this setting, the aim of this paper is to provide a substantive assessment of the dynamics of change and spatial complexities of housing in informal settlements by deconstructing the micro-morphology occurring in built and unbuilt spaces. This includes the space where housing and alleyways meet; namely, the public-private interface. The paper achieves this by; (i) defining a set of interface typologies that constitute the form of the domestic housing space pushing into alleyways by using the key variables of distance and proximity, (ii) quantifying the housing typologies so as to examine types, patterns and processes of transformation, and (iii) understanding the basic planning and regulatory framework in which households undertake these adaptations. The method used in this research is a case study of kampung Lebak Siliwangi in northern Bandung, Indonesia. The paper makes a major contribution to the literature in terms of identifying principles by which housing transformation practices occur through micro-morphology which is locally self-organised and incremental. Residents undertake little or no consultation with neighbours or local governance leaders when making changes, though they observe and replicate the micro-scale changes made to housing form by other residents. The boundaries of the built (housing) and unbuilt spaces (alleyway) are fluid due to ‘interface creep’ which allows housing to create new building lines, interface types and alleyway alignments. In this setting, the notion of ‘interface creep’ and the reliance of residents on small-scale distance and proximity changes are a key narrative of the paper as they allow adaptability, having strong ties to the way housing and alleyways are locally regulated, controlled and governed. On the other hand, this dependence threatens housing conditions, sociality, access, multifunctionality and economic modes of production in public spaces (the alleyway). The paper concludes with comments of the implications of the research that could be applied to theoretical and methodological frameworks for a deeper understanding of informal housing in the Global North. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 169-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1818052 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1818052 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:169-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arundel Rowan Author-X-Name-First: Arundel Author-X-Name-Last: Rowan Title: A Review of ‘The asset economy’, By Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 311-313 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1920186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1920186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:311-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kristine von Simson Author-X-Name-First: Kristine Author-X-Name-Last: von Simson Author-Name: Janis Umblijs Author-X-Name-First: Janis Author-X-Name-Last: Umblijs Title: Housing conditions and children’s school results: evidence from Norwegian register data Abstract: In this article, we investigate the extent to which housing conditions are associated with school results for children living in Norway. We link individual exam results of students from three national exams in the 5th, 8th and 10th grades for all children living in Norway in the years 2015–2017, to a number of official national datasets including a novel housing register that has information on key housing characteristics for all households in Norway. We also use a newly released noise register, which estimates noise exposure for every address in Norway. Our results show that living in a crowded home, in rented accommodation, being exposed to high levels of noise and residential mobility is associated with poorer exam results. This negative correlation is stronger for older children. However, further testing suggests that we can no longer rule out that the negative association between renting and overcrowding is driven by unobserved cofounders. Residential mobility and noise pollution, on the other hand, remain negative even after controlling for omitted variable bias. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 346-371 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1814190 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1814190 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:346-371 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bronwyn Bate Author-X-Name-First: Bronwyn Author-X-Name-Last: Bate Title: Making a home in the private rental sector Abstract: With increasing proportions of households living in lightly regulated rental markets, long-term, there is an urgent need to examine the interconnections between tenancy regulation and private renters’ agency when making a home. Accordingly, this article asks: How do private renters, through their homemaking practices, exercise agency to overcome tenancy regulations that challenge the ways they make home? And how does tenancy regulation impact private renters’ agency? An analysis of interviews with 24 private renters living in Sydney, Australia, is used to answer these questions. For participants, meanings of home were informed by the belief that they were not homeowners and therefore, could not achieve a sense of ‘home’. Despite this, through their possessions, household relationships and their relationship with their landlord and/or property manager, participants created a sense of home within their rental property. This article argues that while the regulatory environment and structures of private rental tenure pose significant challenges and therefore change the meaning and importance of homemaking practices for private renters, renters strategically employ their (albeit limited) agency to challenge and resist these structural limitations to make a home. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 372-400 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1851633 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1851633 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:372-400 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dominic Teodorescu Author-X-Name-First: Dominic Author-X-Name-Last: Teodorescu Author-Name: Irene Molina Author-X-Name-First: Irene Author-X-Name-Last: Molina Title: Roma street-workers in Uppsala: racialised poverty and super precarious housing conditions in Romania and Sweden Abstract: Using a combination of a political economy approach for the analysis of housing with a postcolonial approach to mobility patterns of the racialised and impoverished Roma in Europe, we reflect on the relationship between racialisation and the precarious living and housing conditions of the Eastern European Roma who move from the poorer to the richer countries of the European Union. Through a qualitative and multi-sited approach to housing, we reveal the situation of permanent displacement for racialised Romanian Roma groups in both Sweden and Romania. We have followed Roma street-workers who come to Sweden for earning income in order to improve their homes in Romania, but once there, they are exposed to homelessness, harsh weather conditions, racism and discrimination. We found that the super precarious conditions of housing in Romania push the migrant Roma into even worse housing and living conditions in the destination country, completing a vicious circle of forced nomadism in which the lack of right to decent housing and permanent risk of displacement are central aspects. This article merges the interests of urban and housing researchers with those from the postcolonial tradition. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 401-422 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1854950 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1854950 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:401-422 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Xiao Ma Author-X-Name-First: Xiao Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Chinese housing policy, capital switching and the foreign real estate investment ‘boom and bust’ in Australia Abstract: This policy review shows how housing policy affected the movement of Chinese foreign real estate investor capital into and out of Australia’s residential real estate market. First, this policy review maps the contours of the Chinese real estate investment ‘boom and bust’ in Australia to set the context for the policy analysis. The second and more substantive section uses capital switching theory to better understand the interplay of policy changes in China and Australia from 2010 to 2019. This analysis demonstrates how capital switched between China and Australia as a suite of intersecting policies changed. Capital is constantly pursuing the most profitable and accessible investment, and the policy dynamics reviewed here show how capital is switching transnationally between two countries. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 451-463 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1814191 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1814191 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:451-463 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sophie Bowlby Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Bowlby Author-Name: Eleanor Jupp Author-X-Name-First: Eleanor Author-X-Name-Last: Jupp Title: Home, inequalities and care: perspectives from within a pandemic Abstract: This commentary reflects on how the coronavirus has brought experiences of ‘home’ into public, policy and media debates. We suggest it has also revealed the significance of links between housing and home on the one hand and relationships and practices of care in the other. We explore these links and, in particular, the importance of intersectionalised inequalities in access to both home and care. We briefly discuss ways of conceptualising these linkages and seeing them as part of broader social and economic relations, arguing for further academic, popular and policy attention to be given to housing and care. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 423-432 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1840901 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1840901 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:423-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dallas Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Dallas Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Emma R. Power Author-X-Name-First: Emma R. Author-X-Name-Last: Power Title: The global pandemic is accelerating housing crises Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 315-320 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1957564 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1957564 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:315-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caitlin Buckle Author-X-Name-First: Caitlin Author-X-Name-Last: Buckle Title: Research during the COVID-19 pandemic: ethics, gender and precarious work Abstract: In this essay, I reflect on my experiences of undertaking housing research during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had vast global impacts beyond the massive loss of life; disrupting economies, environments and social systems and creating a global housing crisis. Due to these extreme circumstances, conducting research at this time can have unforeseen challenges. I discuss these challenges, and their impacts (1) on research participants and (2) on researchers, as well as (3) on the quality of research outputs that can be produced. These challenges are situated within narratives of my own personal experiences as an early-career researcher and mother, conducting housing research on COVID-related topics. I offer advice on whether research should be conducted under the difficult circumstances created by the pandemic, and future priorities for the housing research community. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 433-450 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1857907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1857907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:433-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lilian Chenwi Author-X-Name-First: Lilian Author-X-Name-Last: Chenwi Title: Housing for persons with disabilities in South Africa Abstract: Though housing is a basic right that everyone is entitled to without discrimination, in practice, persons with disabilities face numerous barriers in the enjoyment of this right. South Africa is plagued with what is often referred to as a housing crisis. Though the government has taken steps towards provision of housing to qualifying beneficiaries, including efforts to accommodate disability in housing policies and provision, persons with disabilities continue to face challenges and barriers that limit their enjoyment of their right to adequate housing. This article considers how South African government has facilitated access to appropriate (adequate or reasonable) housing for persons with disabilities and facilitated independent living and inclusion in communities for these persons. It considers, inter alia, how disability is accommodated in South African housing laws and policies, and if, in practice, it has translated to realisation of housing rights for persons with disabilities. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 321-345 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1805145 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1805145 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:3:p:321-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachel Phillips Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Phillips Title: Reviving a mortgage market through financial inclusion? Experimental housing governance and alternative home loan programmes in Detroit, Michigan Abstract: Since the 2008 financial crisis, the City of Detroit has faced significant housing challenges: the conventional mortgage market in the city has collapsed; numerous residents are precariously housed; and urban ‘blight’ and property abandonment are widespread. This paper offers an empirical focus on one experimental approach to governing these problems: the roll-out of new forms of housing-related loans to low- and moderate-income (LMI) Detroit residents. Under the rubric of financial inclusion, private and public actors have promoted these loan programmes as a way to both improve the housing outcomes of financially excluded residents and reboot the city’s mortgage market. The paper critically analyses these claims through a political economy lens, asking how, why and with what impacts housing-related financial inclusion programmes have been developed in post-crisis Detroit. The paper argues: (1) that these financial inclusion efforts are the products of an existing orientation toward market-based governance mechanisms and have grown out of a broader political project of property market revival; and (2) that in spite of their rhetorical commitments to improving the housing outcomes of LMI residents, many of the new loan programmes are ill-equipped to deliver on these promises in practice, prioritising market revitalisation over the needs of borrowers. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 559-591 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1893118 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1893118 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:559-591 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Monika Grubbauer Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Grubbauer Author-Name: Philip Mader Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Mader Title: Housing microfinance and housing financialisation in a global perspective Abstract: The application of microfinance to the provision, improvement or adaptation of housing—‘housing microfinance’—is an increasingly significant area of practice and research interest. Housing microfinance has proliferated, predominantly but not exclusively in the global South. Its proliferation must be understood in the context of financialisation and the concurrently growing importance of financial self-help and private real estate investment. Promoter perspectives emphasise the affordability of microfinance solutions for housing, their appropriateness for incremental housing strategies, and potentially interesting new business models. Critical perspectives emphasise the high costs and continual need for subsidies, risks faced by borrowers and the discipline demanded from them. To advance the debate, we present an analytical typology which maps different housing microfinance approaches in terms of how they connect finance with housing, whether they are credit-led or savings-led, whether the market or the state dominates, whether they are individualistic or community-oriented, and how formal or informal they are. The five articles in this special issue, presenting material from Kenya, Mexico, U.S.A, Thailand and Argentina, collectively advance six avenues of research on housing microfinance: (1) its immediate social impacts; (2) wider impacts in terms of housing affordability, markets and policies; (3) implications for construction and retailing markets; (4) consequences for urban development and societies, (5) the financial work required from participants; (6) and the significance of the ongoing experimentation in housing microfinance. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 465-483 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1922165 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1922165 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:465-483 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Akira Drake Rodriguez Author-X-Name-First: Akira Drake Author-X-Name-Last: Rodriguez Title: Response to reviews Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 637-640 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1963581 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1963581 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:637-640 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hayden Shelby Author-X-Name-First: Hayden Author-X-Name-Last: Shelby Title: Empowerment or responsibility? Collective finance for slum upgrading in Thailand Abstract: The Baan Mankong (‘Secure Housing’) programme of Thailand has been heralded as a model of participatory slum upgrading. Many scholars have praised its participatory and community-based processes, as well as its success in terms of going to scale. The celebration of the programme emphasises its particular model of housing finance, which includes community savings, housing cooperatives, and collective loans for physical upgrading provided through a government agency. This financial model, along with the collective and participatory processes it employs, form the foundation of the programme’s claims to ‘empowerment.’ In this article, I offer a sympathetic critique of Baan Mankong by analysing how this financial model actually plays out on the ground through an in-depth ethnographic study of the policy and its participants. I conclude that, despite the policy’s intentions to empower communities through access to collective finance, many participants find themselves struggling with debt and living under a new form of financialised community that reshapes their social relations with neighbours and burdens them with the responsibility for financing and carrying out development desired by the state. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 505-533 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1840906 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1840906 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:505-533 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Watt Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Watt Title: Analysing race, gender and class in Atlanta's public housing Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 634-636 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1957253 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1957253 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:634-636 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Judith M. Lehner Author-X-Name-First: Judith M. Author-X-Name-Last: Lehner Author-Name: Alicia Gerscovich Author-X-Name-First: Alicia Author-X-Name-Last: Gerscovich Title: Contrasting housing microfinance with the social production of habitat in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina Abstract: In a context of the state withdrawing from housing provision, despite a persistent shortage of affordable housing, housing policies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, have increasingly diversified. This paper contrasts two different credit-based approaches to low-income housing provision which have been implemented since the year 2000 in the City of Buenos Aires: collective mortgage loans for self-managed housing construction and improvement projects, embedded in a logic of ‘social production of habitat’; and individual housing microloans, following a logic of financial inclusion for low-income households. We examine a case study of each approach and contrast the institutional shifts that have taken place during their implementation, the learning processes each approach facilitates for participants, and the details of how housing is produced in each approach. We conclude that, although housing microfinance and the social production of habitat may appear to follow contradictory logics, they can also be treated as complementary solutions that could be combined to address each other’s shortcomings. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 592-611 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1906484 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1906484 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:592-611 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ali Bhagat Author-X-Name-First: Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Bhagat Title: Experimental financial inclusion as refugee management: shelter insecurities at the bottom of the pyramid in Kenya Abstract: Kenya was amongst the first countries in the world to undergo structural adjustment programmes in 1980 leading to welfare retrenchment and the lack of social safety nets for many of its urban poor. This article shows how refugee hosting in Kenya has coincided with ongoing statewide neoliberalisation. With lack of state-led welfare support, and diminished global aid for a nearly three-decade long encampment in Dadaab and Kakuma, refugees have no choice but to turn to the private sector for shelter aid through microcredit loans especially in major urban centres. This article shows how neoliberal policies dovetail with refugee governance in Kenya by examining the deployment of financial inclusion strategies on multiple scales. Drawing upon fieldwork in 2018, I argue that refugee assistance intersects with the needs of private capital where refugees, due to their social marginality, are prone to experimentation in terms of financial inclusion. Housing microfinance, an ineffective guarantor of long-term refugee shelter, and new technologies of financial inclusion exemplify neoliberal experimentation and illustrate how these strategies fail to ensure the long-term survival of refugees. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 484-504 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1818051 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1818051 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:484-504 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mara Sidney Author-X-Name-First: Mara Author-X-Name-Last: Sidney Title: The powers of public policy in Diverging Space for Deviants Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 626-629 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1957257 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1957257 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:626-629 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Monika Grubbauer Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Grubbauer Author-Name: Luisa Escobar Author-X-Name-First: Luisa Author-X-Name-Last: Escobar Title: World Bank experiments in housing: microfinance for self-organised housing in Mexico in the era of financial inclusion Abstract: Framed by an agenda of financial inclusion, housing for and by the poor has become a field of experimentation. These experiments have included the introduction of small, non-mortgage loans dedicated to the construction and improvement of self-organised housing. This paper provides a close reading of how such housing microfinance schemes have been introduced in Mexico with the support of the World Bank since the early 2000s. We highlight how the roll-out of the new schemes has been facilitated through several loans aimed at structural reforms of the Mexican housing sector. Yet while wrapped in a pro-poor discourse, it ultimately served the goal of expanding housing finance to low and middle-income groups. The ensuing implementation, however, was a complex and protracted process. We argue that it was characterised by experimentation, negotiations, and failures, both within state institutions as well as between state actors, World Bank representatives, and civil society. The conclusion presents Mexico’s housing agendas as a field of finance-induced experimentation, in which institutional ruptures resulting from the changes in government rub against the long-term engagement of local housing associations and activists. The latter have played an important role in setting noteworthy limits to financially driven interests. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 534-558 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1898897 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1898897 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:534-558 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alistair Sisson Author-X-Name-First: Alistair Author-X-Name-Last: Sisson Author-Name: Pratichi Chatterjee Author-X-Name-First: Pratichi Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterjee Title: Beyond shelter: the political work of housing Diverging space for deviants: the politics of Atlanta's public housing Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 629-634 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1957216 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1957216 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:629-634 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ali Osman Solak Author-X-Name-First: Ali Osman Author-X-Name-Last: Solak Title: Squatter housing transformations in Turkey after 2002: public choice perspective Abstract: This article uses the public choice perspective to examine the squatter housing transformations in Turkey implemented by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) after 2002. AKP used the discourse of earthquake risk to the public for speeding up and legitimating transformation projects and reducing social opposition. However, in practice the principal purpose of these transformation projects has been to increase voter support for the AKP by increasing economic growth and employment, obtaining revenue, and using this revenue for social housing projects. This paper concludes that transformation projects, where economic goals have priority, stimulate the economy and satisfy the government in the short term but harm the transformation itself and the squatter community. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 612-625 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1964204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1964204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:21:y:2021:i:4:p:612-625 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Griffin Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Griffin Author-Name: Katie McClymont Author-X-Name-First: Katie Author-X-Name-Last: McClymont Author-Name: Adam Sheppard Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Sheppard Title: A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England Abstract: Informality in the global North has been largely overlooked in literature to date (Devlin, 2018). Unlike the global South, the role of informal practices in northern countries are under-represented in both theory and practice. Despite this, informality has a long and established role in housing provision outside of the global South. However, contradictions in what is perceived as legitimate and illicit or unlawful, compounds barriers between planners, policy makers and people living in informal ways. This article draws on a two-year research project that engaged with people living informally to better understand their relationship with the planning system. Grounded in real life experiences, this article engages with questions around how and if informality could be better supported in planning policy, as a space for innovative, flexible and adaptive approaches to housing production. In so doing, it challenges the way housing is conceptualised in most mainstream global North policy and academic discourse. Finally, the article sets out how informality in the highly regulated English countryside provides a useful lens through which to develop a more nuanced debate on the role of informality in wider planning practice. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 83-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1886027 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1886027 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:83-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicole Gurran Author-X-Name-First: Nicole Author-X-Name-Last: Gurran Author-Name: Sophia Maalsen Author-X-Name-First: Sophia Author-X-Name-Last: Maalsen Author-Name: Pranita Shrestha Author-X-Name-First: Pranita Author-X-Name-Last: Shrestha Title: Is ‘informal’ housing an affordability solution for expensive cities? Evidence from Sydney, Australia Abstract: Does ‘informal’ housing offer more affordable choices for low-income renters in expensive cities? This paper investigates this question with reference to Sydney, Australia, where planning reforms have sought to deregulate housing development including ‘informal’ and low cost market accommodation, in response to chronic housing affordability pressures. Examining rental advertisements, housing supply and affordability data, and through interviews with local government personnel, we find that informal secondary units and room rentals dominate Sydney’s lower cost market, but rents remain high relative to incomes. Further, and despite reforms to encourage new secondary dwellings and low cost rental supply, substandard and non-compliant housing persists, exposing tenants to serious risks. The findings suggest that in high cost cities such as Sydney, the informal sector occupies an important and unrecognised role in housing low-income renters, but that more systemic reforms beyond the planning system are needed to improve housing outcomes for disadvantaged groups. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 10-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1805147 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1805147 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:10-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Redento B. Recio Author-X-Name-First: Redento B. Author-X-Name-Last: Recio Author-Name: Tanzil Shafique Author-X-Name-First: Tanzil Author-X-Name-Last: Shafique Title: Reimagining (informal) housing futures in uncertain times Abstract: In an incisive piece in this Journal, Michele Lancione argues that the only way to envision new housing futures is to pay attention to places where housing precarity is lived and felt. We respond to such a discursive call by drawing on a wide-range of particular empirics—from our pedagogical engagement with housing informality in Melbourne to in-situ ethnographic empirical work in Manila and Dhaka—to elaborate three aspects of reimagining informal housing practices: a) informal housing as a site for grounding teaching and learning pedagogy; b) informal housing as a space for reflexive research; and c) informal housing as a mode of futuring. Our reflective insights, which put three cities with vastly different socio-political histories in conversation, also answer a growing call from critical urban scholars to abandon the usual comparison of similar cities and to overcome the division between global North and global South cities, offering ideas that stress mutual learning across this divide. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 106-118 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2019883 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2019883 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:106-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ashraful Alam Author-X-Name-First: Ashraful Author-X-Name-Last: Alam Author-Name: Claudio Minca Author-X-Name-First: Claudio Author-X-Name-Last: Minca Author-Name: Khandakar Farid Uddin Author-X-Name-First: Khandakar Author-X-Name-Last: Farid Uddin Title: Risks and informality in owner-occupied shared housing: to let, or not to let? Abstract: In Australian suburbs, due to increasing housing unaffordability, informal shared housing makes up a growing private rental sub-market. At present, there is limited research exploring what dynamics may motivate owner-occupiers to initiate informal shared housing, how informality operates in this rental sub-market and how owner-occupiers with distinct ethnic and cultural backgrounds negotiate informality. Drawing on a qualitative investigation among owner-occupiers of Bangladeshi origin in different suburbs of Greater Sydney, the paper discusses a distinct form of informal shared housing that goes beyond the perceived economic rationality of rent-and-return. What our research reveals is that owner-occupiers also take into consideration the multiple risks involved in the management of these shared housing premises and how the management of these risks results in the limitation of the rental sub-market to specific ethnic communities and social groups. Our findings highlight the importance of considering social and cultural factors in rethinking the notion of home in these non-normative housing sites. We conclude with some suggestions about policy interventions that may be able to recognise the underlying logics of informal housing tenures that are informed by cultural perceptions of risk on the part of owner-occupiers. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 59-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1877887 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1877887 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:59-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gábor Nagy Author-X-Name-First: Gábor Author-X-Name-Last: Nagy Title: Households and financialization in Europe – mapping variegated patterns in semi-peripheries Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 140-144 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2029993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2029993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:140-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kath Scanlon Author-X-Name-First: Kath Author-X-Name-Last: Scanlon Title: The fall and rise of social housing: 100 years on 20 estates Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 138-140 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2020971 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2020971 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:138-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Josh Conrad Author-X-Name-First: Josh Author-X-Name-Last: Conrad Author-Name: Sarah Mawhorter Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Mawhorter Author-Name: Jake Wegmann Author-X-Name-First: Jake Author-X-Name-Last: Wegmann Title: Can we use administrative data to quantify informal housing additions at the parcel level? An analysis of Austin, USA Abstract: Scholarship on informal housing is broadening to include more studies of cases in the Global North, with many of them taking advantage of ready data availability to produce quantitative estimates of the extent of the phenomenon even in diffuse contexts where studying informal housing has heretofore been difficult. We introduce a novel technique, Informal Housing Addition at the Parcel Scale (IHAPS). Relying on publicly available administrative tax assessment and building permit datasets and drawing inspiration from building science, IHAPS seeks to identify residential parcels within a city that underwent apparent increases in building area but that did not obtain a legally required building permit. Applying IHAPS to Austin, Texas, USA, we demonstrate the basic soundness of the technique in spite of its generation of false-positive identifications. We conservatively estimate that approximately one out of every 2400 single-family residential parcels in Austin experienced an informal (unpermitted) addition between 2008 and 2018. IHAPS has promise to reveal new insights into informal city-building processes in a Global North context, but also raises ethical and privacy concerns that researchers must consider. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 34-58 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1890535 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1890535 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:34-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sophia Maalsen Author-X-Name-First: Sophia Author-X-Name-Last: Maalsen Author-Name: Pranita Shrestha Author-X-Name-First: Pranita Author-X-Name-Last: Shrestha Author-Name: Nicole Gurran Author-X-Name-First: Nicole Author-X-Name-Last: Gurran Title: Informal housing practices in the global north: digital technologies, methods, and ethics Abstract: In this editorial for Part II of the special issue on ‘informal housing practices’, we build upon the work done in Part I that charted informality from the global South to the global North. In Part II we shift our lens to focus more explicitly on understanding the interplay between traditional and ‘digital’ methodologies and the ethical challenges encountered while researching informal housing practices through a series of papers that demonstrate a wide range of methodological richness via empirical cases from Australia, the US and the UK. Some contributions to this special issue peer through the window created by online real estate platforms to better understand informal housing practices and in so doing explore new research methodologies. Others show that the value of traditional qualitative methods remains high. All raise new ethical questions for researchers and policymakers who must tread carefully when engaging with residents and owners of informal homes. As a whole, the papers in the second part of this special issue continue to explore the diverse forms of informal housing within Global North contexts, while drawing on the rich theory and practice on informality from the Global South. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2026889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2026889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:1-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amy Clair Author-X-Name-First: Amy Author-X-Name-Last: Clair Title: The effect of local housing allowance reductions on overcrowding in the private rented sector in England Abstract: Ensuring housing affordability while controlling government expenditure is a concern in many countries. In the UK support for private renters is delivered via an income-related housing benefit calculated using the Local Housing Allowance. As part of a programme to reduce government spending the support provided by the Local Housing Allowance was significantly reduced in 2011, and ongoing changes to its uprating have further reduced its value. These changes have raised concerns about the suitability of homes people receiving the allowance can afford. Using a natural experiment approach by applying matching and difference-in-difference methods to housing stock data from the English Housing Survey, this research finds a statistically significant 5% increase in overcrowding for housing benefit recipients following the changes to the Local Housing Allowance, equivalent to approximately 75,000 additional households living in overcrowded conditions. Longer-term results show that overcrowding continued to increase as changes to the uprating system further reduced the value of housing benefit. The decision to reduce the Local Housing Allowance and sever its relationship with actual rents has therefore reduced the ability of recipients to access suitable housing which will have had important implications for health and well-being, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 119-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1964253 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1964253 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:119-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo Author-X-Name-Last: Iglesias-Pascual Author-Name: Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo Author-X-Name-Last: Iglesias-Pascual Title: Paradoxes of segregation: housing systems, welfare regimes and ethnic residential change in Southern European cities Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 145-148 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2030002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2030002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:1:p:145-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amanda Tattersall Author-X-Name-First: Amanda Author-X-Name-Last: Tattersall Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: People power strategies in contemporary housing movements Abstract: There is extensive analysis of the housing crises faced by cities around the world. Recent critical housing scholarship insists that solutions will require the construction of powerful movements of urban inhabitants demanding a right to housing. But what will these movements actually look like, and what movement strategies will be most effective in advancing these goals? This article brings together insights from urban geography, social movement theory and organisational change to identify five types of people power used by housing movements in cities. These are: ‘playing by the rules’; mobilising; organising; prefiguring, and; parties. We present four case studies of housing struggles in Cape Town, Barcelona, Sydney and Moscow, exploring their development and use of these different people power strategies. This four case comparison considers how people power strategies interlink, how they relate to crisis and context, and the how the political imaginaries associated with different strategies can generate both synergies and tensions. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 251-277 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1893120 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1893120 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:251-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mara Ferreri Author-X-Name-First: Mara Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreri Author-Name: Lorenzo Vidal Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Vidal Title: Public-cooperative policy mechanisms for housing commons Abstract: Cooperative housing is experiencing a resurgence of interest worldwide. As a more democratic and affordable alternative to dominant housing provision, it is often heralded as a blueprint for ‘housing commons’. Despite its long history, however, cooperative housing has rarely gone beyond a ‘niche’ in the housing market. Recent critical housing scholarship is beginning to address this marginalisation and understand how a more widespread development of the sector can be supported. In times and places where cooperative housing has expanded beyond a ‘niche’ solution, the role of the state, through policy making at national, regional and municipal scale, stands out as an important enabling factor. Drawing on ten international cases, this study presents a framework for a rigorous and politically meaningful comparative approach to public-cooperative policy mechanisms for ‘housing commons’. Three key phases in the housing process (production, access and management, and maintenance of the model in time) are identified and discussed through concrete examples of policy areas and mechanisms. The article contributes to scholarship on cooperative housing policy making and ‘housing commons’ and argues for a shift in attention to questions of accessibility over time, and the thorny issue of permanent decommodification. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 149-173 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1877888 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1877888 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:149-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irene Appeaning Addo Author-X-Name-First: Irene Author-X-Name-Last: Appeaning Addo Author-Name: Chika C. Mba Author-X-Name-First: Chika C. Author-X-Name-Last: Mba Title: Genealogies of Ghana’s housing crisis: the role of colonial interventions and neoliberal reforms Abstract: The urgent need to develop and increase housing units has always featured prominently in electioneering campaigns in Ghana. Successive governments have developed countless programmes to deal with the housing deficit, but there has not been a significant improvement. As we write, the government of Ghana is grappling with a housing deficit of over two million units. But why has this problem remained intractable despite what seems like concerted efforts by various administrations to provide affordable housing for Ghana’s more vulnerable populations? Focusing on the 2015 National Housing Policy, this article critically reviews Ghana’s various housing policies and reforms, exploring how colonial policies and neoliberal reforms are separately and jointly implicated, in fundamental ways, in Ghana’s currently engulfing housing crisis. Our findings reveal that the yawning gap noticeable in Ghana’s overall effort at housing provision for the populace, is rooted in the colonial logic of piecemeal intervention. This same logic has continued to traverse successive Ghanaian housing policies through the immediate postcolonial era, the adjustment years, and the current period. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 299-313 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1999127 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1999127 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:299-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 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: Combustible costs! Financial implications of flammable cladding for homeowners Abstract: More than 3400 residential apartment buildings around Australia have flammable cladding. The costs to rectify this defect fall onto homeowners. However, there is limited information about what the costs and implications are for homeowners. This paper identifies through interviews of 16 affected homeowners from Australia the different financial costs involved in rectifying flammable cladding. A range of financial implications were revealed including: increasing levies, body corporation fees, insurance rates, council rates, legal fees, material testing, inspections, other fire strategy defects and extra fire engines responding to alarms. Future costs included fines for non-compliance, loss of property value and the rectification work. The quoted costs of rectification work ranged from A$30,000 to A$12,000,000, depending on the scope of works required but this does not factor in those broader costs identified. The costs associated with cladding rectification have created significant financial burdens for households and influenced life decisions related to finances. The identification of the different types of costs could be used as a framework to quantify the costs to homeowners in further research. This would measure the costs as cladding rectification works are undertaken, in order to provide improved support to these households, not only in Australia but other impacted locations. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 225-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1893119 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1893119 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:225-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andreas Alm Fjellborg Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Alm Author-X-Name-Last: Fjellborg Title: Residential mobility and spatial sorting in Stockholm 1990-2014: the changing importance of housing tenure and income Abstract: In this paper an analysis of residential mobility and sorting by income and housing tenure in Stockholm is carried out. The study contrasts two periods: one (1990-2001) characterised by recovery after the economic crisis in 1991-1992 and one (2002-2014) characterised by large changes to the housing stock composition. With the use of a longitudinal full population data set, it is shown that the socioeconomic composition of movers is relatively stable over time, while the economic sorting of movers increases. People with low income are increasingly likely to move into low-income neighbourhoods, whether they move into the rental or owner segments of the housing market. Those who own their housing unit and mid- to high-income earners increasingly avoid moving to low-income neighbourhoods. The paper concludes that the increasingly owner-dominated housing market in Stockholm contributes to stronger socio-spatial residential patterns through the economic sorting of movers across the whole income scale. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 198-224 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1893117 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1893117 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:198-224 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carolyn Whitzman Author-X-Name-First: Carolyn Author-X-Name-Last: Whitzman Author-Name: Marie-Ève Desroches Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Ève Author-X-Name-Last: Desroches Title: Women’s housing: balancing scaling and caring in three Canadian cities Abstract: Canada has recently enshrined the right to housing in legislation and included a funding target directed towards women-led households. Women’s housing organisations are generally small and looking for ways to scale up while maintaining a care focus. This article describes potential impacts of these recent policy shifts, and how women’s housing perspectives and practices might move from the periphery to the centre of policy-making. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 278-298 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2038770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2038770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:278-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mairéad Finn Author-X-Name-First: Mairéad Author-X-Name-Last: Finn Author-Name: Paula Mayock Author-X-Name-First: Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Mayock Title: The housing experiences of immigrants in a 'new immigrant gateway': an exploration of process in an era of ‘super-diversity’ Abstract: Driven by restructuring economies, decentralising cities and the growth of suburbs and rural regions as employment centres, as well as State policies dispersing immigrants seeking asylum to rural regions, ‘new immigrant gateways’ now conceptualise the new population centres and rural areas to which immigrants are migrating. Gateways differ from earlier sites because they are ethnically and socio-economically diverse, with no one group dominating, and because immigrants move directly to rural areas rather than ‘spring-boarding’ from urban centres. This paper examines the housing pathways of immigrants based on data collected through the conduct of in-depth qualitative interviews with a diverse sample of immigrants who migrated to a rural town on the Western periphery of Europe. Situated in one such ‘gateway’ in Ireland, this quasi-ethnographic study mobilises the metaphor of the housing pathway. The findings demonstrate the interplay of employment status, gender and ethnicity as participants moved through housing, and as relationships and family life were subject to change. Employment brought options and fluidity, unemployment created barriers and constraints, and relationship breakdown negatively affected housing stability. Thus, while immigration status influenced their housing options, it was one factor among a number of others that shaped their housing pathways. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 174-197 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1890536 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1890536 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:174-197 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paulina Neisch Author-X-Name-First: Paulina Author-X-Name-Last: Neisch Title: The Private Rental Sector in Australia: living with uncertainty Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 314-317 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2073072 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2073072 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:2:p:314-317 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2102088_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Miguel Pérez Author-X-Name-First: Miguel Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez Title: The housing movement in neoliberal Chile: paradoxes and contestations Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 463-466 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2102088 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2102088 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:463-466 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2105350_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Dallas Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Dallas Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Tom Baker Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Emma Power Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Power Author-Name: Tom Moore Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Moore Title: Translating housing research to policy impact: rethinking policy and creating new publics through podcasts and documentary filmmaking Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 319-328 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2105350 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2105350 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:319-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1851634_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Basirat Oyalowo Author-X-Name-First: Basirat Author-X-Name-Last: Oyalowo Author-Name: Deji Akinpelu Author-X-Name-First: Deji Author-X-Name-Last: Akinpelu Author-Name: Timothy Nubi Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Nubi Title: Reshaping housing pedagogy and public policy through documentaries in Lagos, Nigeria Abstract: Academics, in their roles as higher education teachers and researchers continually face the need to draw the attention of various audiences to compelling issues in their cities. In this article, we present examples of how documentaries can be used to communicate to students and policy makers in a more realistic and engaging way. We show how the two academic co-authors improved academic and non-academic learning outcomes by adopting student made documentaries as a pedagogical tool in teaching a final year class about deep-rooted housing problems in Lagos. We also show the role academia can play in documentary production to enable research communication to the policy sector. We point out that academia must be able to transform from their roles as teachers and as researchers, to explore other non-printed traditional communication routes so as to engage more effectively with their end-users. Thus, the use of documentaries must be contextualised and adopted with recognition of newer forms of engagement, such as social media. Nevertheless, we promote the tremendous value of documentaries as both a pedagogical and social advocacy tool in the housing sector. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 395-413 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1851634 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1851634 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:395-413 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1851636_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Pratichi Chatterjee Author-X-Name-First: Pratichi Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterjee Author-Name: Alistair Sisson Author-X-Name-First: Alistair Author-X-Name-Last: Sisson Author-Name: Jenna Condie Author-X-Name-First: Jenna Author-X-Name-Last: Condie Author-Name: Laura Wynne Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Wynne Author-Name: Clare Lewis Author-X-Name-First: Clare Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis Author-Name: Catherine Skipper Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Skipper Title: Documentary and resistance: There Goes Our Neighbourhood, #WeLiveHere2017 and the Waterloo estate redevelopment Abstract: This paper is about a documentary that formed one component of a project to draw attention to and contest the redevelopment of Sydney’s Waterloo public housing estate. There Goes Our Neighbourhood is a strategic impact documentary that chronicles residents’ efforts to resist or reshape the redevelopment project. It was part of, and followed, the #WeLiveHere2017 campaign – a campaign which also involved the collective production of a protest artwork via the illumination of two towers with LED lights, and digital storytelling via social media. Following reflections from both the filmmaker and a participant in the campaign, we interrogate the impacts of There Goes Our Neighbourhood, including how it challenges the stigmatisation of public housing tenants and estates, and critically discuss the producers’ approach to engaging different audiences and navigating competing interests. We conclude by suggesting that while There Goes Our Neighbourhood and #WeLiveHere2017 may not have changed the course of the redevelopment, they have had – and may yet have – positive impacts in other ways. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 329-350 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1851636 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1851636 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:329-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1947124_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 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: The struggle against home evictions in Spain through documentary films Abstract: Since its inception in 2009, the housing movement in Spain, led by the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), has confronted a devastating wave of housing foreclosures and evictions. Remarkably, the PAH has enjoyed wide coverage in the mass media. Among the latter, numerous fiction and non-fiction films have portrayed home evictions and the housing struggles opposing them. This article selects four documentaries focused on the PAH and investigates how they represent the context of social and political contention and their contribution to fostering housing activism. In so doing, we mainly use first-hand interviews with the filmmakers and a comparative analysis of the narrative strategies followed by each documentary. As for the context, we present the demands, campaigns and protest repertoires of the PAH in relation to the post-2008 global financial crisis, which frames the political significance of the documentaries. By comparing the examined documentaries, we find that their narrative strategies split into ‘direct’ and ‘lecturing’ approaches on the one hand, and ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ spheres of the context subject to representation on the other. In addition, the filmmaker’s activist engagement substantially shaped the production and dissemination of the films. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 371-394 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1947124 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1947124 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:371-394 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2084223_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Kristin Skrabut Author-X-Name-First: Kristin Author-X-Name-Last: Skrabut Title: Heirs to the movement: Next generation housing activism in neoliberal Chile Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 459-462 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2084223 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2084223 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:459-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1805146_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Mai Thi Nguyen Author-X-Name-First: Mai Thi Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen Author-Name: Ashley Archer Tindall Author-X-Name-First: Ashley Archer Author-X-Name-Last: Tindall Title: Scholars and artists collaborating for social change: the ‘In the Shadows of Ferguson’ multi-media project Abstract: The ‘In the Shadows of Ferguson’ (ItSoF) multi-media project tells a story about how institutionalised racist housing and urban policies have shaped spatial patterns and opportunities for social and economic mobility for Black Americans in the St. Louis metropolitan area. This collaboration between an urban planning professor and a filmmaker sought to create an empirically-based narrative about the policies, laws, and practices that formed St. Louis into a racially divided landscape in order to spur dialogue on how to reverse this pattern. ItSoF combines social science research, art, and media and was performed as a one-hour studio performance and an immersive and interactive multi-media exhibit. The project is intended to educate a broad audience, including students, scholars, policymakers, and the public in order to provoke reflection, evoke empathy, and mobilise the audience towards social action and policy change. What we learned from working on this project was that the key to having a successful collaboration between groups that have different skills sets and disciplinary cultures was to continuously evaluate the work, recalibrate and communicate expectations often, have shared values and goals, and be adaptable with expectations when the project evolves. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 414-429 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1805146 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1805146 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:414-429 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2084225_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Samantha Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Samantha Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: Understanding politics of effort in a right to housing Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 451-454 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2084225 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2084225 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:451-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1886028_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Nitin Bathla Author-X-Name-First: Nitin Author-X-Name-Last: Bathla Author-Name: Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou Author-X-Name-First: Klearjos Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Papanicolaou Title: Reframing the contested city through ethnographic film: beyond the expository on housing and the urban Abstract: The legacy and future of the ‘ethnographic film’ has been the subject of much scrutiny and refinement in recent decades, mirroring the reinvention of ethnography itself. A number of innovative strands such as observational film, direct cinema, and sensory ethnographic film have attempted to reframe the ‘ethnographic film’ beyond its narrative expository documentary origins. In reinventing the ‘ethnographic film’, filmmakers have addressed important questions regarding representation, the relationship between the filmmaker and the subject, and the need for a more open-ended interpretation and contextualisation to involve the audience. Concomitantly, an ever-increasing number of films direct their focus towards the contested nature of housing and urban redevelopment in cities. Despite this, the use of film in housing and urban studies remains under-examined and in need of urgent critical engagement. In this paper, we discuss the representation of two contested housing and urban redevelopment projects in London, the Robin Hood Gardens public housing estate, and the Seven Sisters Indoor Market. We analyse a relatively large number of films made on these projects and compare their treatment of representation and audience to assess the significance of the ‘ethnographic’ approach, consequently arguing that filmmakers and researchers probing contested cities can benefit from a closer engagement with productive debates with it. We argue that the dialectical engagement between ‘ethnographicness’ and ‘filmicness’ can help realise the immense generative potentials presented by the filmmaking medium, allowing a reality to emerge from the film, rather than reduce the film to a representation of textually reproduced reality. In doing so, we consider the importance of the contested nature of housing and the urban as cinematic subjects. As a conclusion to the paper, we present some reflections on the need for moving towards filmmaking that dwells on the liminal experiences of communities inhabiting contested housing and urban redevelopment projects. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 351-370 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1886028 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1886028 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:351-370 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1930358_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Dieter Rink Author-X-Name-First: Dieter Author-X-Name-Last: Rink Author-Name: Björn Egner Author-X-Name-First: Björn Author-X-Name-Last: Egner Title: Local housing markets and local housing policies: a comparative analysis of 14 German cities Abstract: Over the last decade, the housing markets in major German cities have experienced major problems such as large increases in rental prices, decreases in affordable housing, housing shortage etc. As the reasons for those problems are common (strong demand due to dynamic immigration to the big cities, too little and too expensive new construction, and the reduction in social housing due to a lack of public money), differences between cities are seldomly addressed. Therefore, in this article, we discuss local housing policy in fourteen cities from a comparative perspective. The main goal is to analyse how cities respond to challenges by examining how they set agendas, formulate policy and implement their own measures, as well as the governance structures they use for tackling housing problems. The paper concludes that German cities are capable of pursuing an active housing policy, but that they depend on higher governance levels, i.e., federal and state policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 430-450 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1930358 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1930358 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:430-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2084220_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220804T044749 git hash: 24b08f8188 Author-Name: Amanda Tattersall Author-X-Name-First: Amanda Author-X-Name-Last: Tattersall Title: The people power strategies of the Pobladores housing movement? A review of the right to dignity: housing struggles, city making and citizenship in Urban Chile Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 454-458 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2084220 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2084220 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:3:p:454-458 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1958134_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Piyush Tiwari Author-X-Name-First: Piyush Author-X-Name-Last: Tiwari Author-Name: Jyoti Shukla Author-X-Name-First: Jyoti Author-X-Name-Last: Shukla Author-Name: Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala Author-X-Name-First: Raghu Dharmapuri Author-X-Name-Last: Tirumala Title: Financial constraints to adequate housing: an empirical analysis of housing consumption disequilibrium and household decisions on meeting housing requirements in India Abstract: Households can mitigate the disequilibrium in housing consumption that they face during their lifecycle by moving to another house, rebuilding, extending or altering their current house. The option of moving is rarely exercised in India due to high transaction costs. The default option is doing nothing. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of access to, and availability of, formal housing finance in determining the choice of housing disequilibrium mitigating strategies, using nationwide housing survey data for those who decided to mitigate housing consumption disequilibrium through rebuilding, extending or altering their current house. Multinomial Logit method is used to model household housing consumption adjustment choice. The results indicate that when the share of own funds as a share of total construction cost reduces, and the access to formal finance increases, there is a tendency to shift towards rebuilding rather than expanding or altering. The results are discussed in the context of a recent government policy, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Prime Minister Housing Scheme), that aims to improve housing conditions. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 474-499 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1958134 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1958134 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:474-499 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2142372_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Amitabh Kundu Author-X-Name-First: Amitabh Author-X-Name-Last: Kundu Title: Commentary on the special issue titled ‘Housing policy and governance in India: orthodoxies, challenges and power’ Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 570-577 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2142372 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2142372 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:570-577 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1840905_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Lalitha Kamath Author-X-Name-First: Lalitha Author-X-Name-Last: Kamath Title: Refusing slum-centric mass housing: indigenous urbanism and national housing programmes in Aizawl, India Abstract: This paper addresses the policy encounter between a top-down, national housing programme and bottom-up housing processes in the tribal city of Aizawl, to make two arguments. First, it extends the literature analysing the outcomes of neoliberal housing policies to argue that there are important continuities and differences with Indian and Latin American cities. Similar to other Indian cities, Aizawl was strait-jacketed by national standardised norms into producing large-scale, new housing on the peripheries where dwellers faced multiple exclusions. Ironically, the programme has created slums in Aizawl, which officially had none. Unlike other Indian cities, top-down housing transformation in Aizawl concentrated power in 'modern' state institutions slanted toward individual (property) interests and away from traditional governance associated with indigenous urbanism. The paper's second contribution is the argument that top-down housing transformation was deeply contested in Aizawl because it unsettled a local urbanism rooted in notions of indigeneity. This identity politics contributed to overturning the state's conception of mass housing and selecting a role in subsequent housing programmes that reinforced exclusions based on patriarchal and property lines. The paper reinforces the importance for policymakers of treating housing as process, and supporting tribal community governance institutions while including provisions to redress exclusions. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 522-542 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1840905 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1840905 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:522-542 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1978249_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Ruixia Chao Author-X-Name-First: Ruixia Author-X-Name-Last: Chao Author-Name: Rita Schneider-Sliwa Author-X-Name-First: Rita Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider-Sliwa Title: Housing provision structures and the changing roles of actors in urban China since 1949 Abstract: Most reviews of housing policy in China have focussed on the housing reform policies of 1979 and their consequences, and scant attention has been paid to the housing system before the reform. This is despite the fact that the welfare housing provision in the 1949–1979 period affected the housing tenure structure in ways that continued to be felt up to the late 1990s. By identifying the functions of actors within the three different housing systems that have existed since 1949, this case-based study of the city of Guangzhou explores how different degrees of government intervention affected housing outcomes. The changes that occurred over the periods were characterised by the development of the housing market and the withdrawal of government controls. The study finds that a system in which the government plays a consistently dominant role in the regulation of land use allows for the provision of affordable housing, whereas a market-oriented housing system combined with social housing supplied by the government tends to effectively improve residential environments. Consequently, different degrees of government intervention may lead to different kinds of stratification in the tenure structure, determined either by individuals’ social status or their economic capability. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 578-594 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1978249 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1978249 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:578-594 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1934649_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Sheuli Mitra Author-X-Name-First: Sheuli Author-X-Name-Last: Mitra Title: Policy-implementation dynamics of national housing programmes in India – evidence from Madhya Pradesh Abstract: The supply of housing, particularly for lower economic households, remains a major challenge in India. Given the vast scale and diversity of the country, implementation of centrally administered housing programmes occurs in varying local contexts, giving rise to significant variations in development on the ground. This research focuses on the ongoing Housing for All 2022 (PMAY) programme, which, with its combination of mass housing as well as assisted self help housing components, claims to address India’s housing shortage in a holistic manner. Statistics on the physical progress of implementation of the PMAY, rank Madhya Pradesh, one of the lesser urbanised states, among the top five states of the country. In this study, the components and structuring of the programme are compared with the experience on implementation from stakeholders and beneficiaries in selected towns of Madhya Pradesh. While the big-city bias of housing programmes is well researched, this case investigates implementation hurdles and means of negotiating them in small and medium towns of India. The paper argues the need to appropriately structure national housing programmes and embed a dialogue between the Centre, State and Urban Local Bodies, to enable context specific implementation for effectively ameliorating the housing shortage of the urban poor. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 500-521 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1934649 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1934649 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:500-521 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1785660_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 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: Glyn Williams Author-X-Name-First: Glyn Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: Outsiders in the periphery: studies of the peripheralisation of low income housing in Ahmedabad and Chennai, India Abstract: The growing emphasis on affordable housing and the sharp increase in its supply in Indian cities over the past two decades is characterised by two features that diminish the inclusive and integrative role of affordable urban housing. The first is the move toward constructing new housing stock rather than upgrading existing stock. Second, most of this new housing, increasingly in the form of multi-storied tenement buildings, is located on urban peripheries in isolated or poorly connected sites. In focusing on the peripheralisation of formal low-income housing, this paper adds a new dimension to studies of peripheral urbanisation in India, which have hitherto focused on high-end speculative developments or informal settlements of the poor. Drawing on mixed-method field studies of four formal low-income settlements in Ahmedabad and Chennai, this paper argues that residents of these settlements experience a multifaceted dynamic of disconnection, not only from the city but also from other peripheral developments, rendering them outsiders in the periphery. Three dynamics of disconnection are studied: first, the allocation of fully built housing units disconnects residents from processes of housing production. Second, spatial dislocation constrains their mobility, both physical and socioeconomic. Third, these two dynamics, combined with substandard infrastructure and housing conditions, alienate residents from the new settlements, and curtail their engagement in processes of place-making or the production of neighbourhoods. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 543-569 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1785660 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2020.1785660 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:543-569 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2133340_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Urmi Sengupta Author-X-Name-First: Urmi Author-X-Name-Last: Sengupta Author-Name: Annapurna Shaw Author-X-Name-First: Annapurna Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw Author-Name: Debolina Kundu Author-X-Name-First: Debolina Author-X-Name-Last: Kundu Title: Urban housing in India Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 467-473 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2133340 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2133340 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:467-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2122312_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Gabriel Camară Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel Author-X-Name-Last: Camară Title: Cities and affordable housing: planning, design and policy nexus Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 595-598 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2122312 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2122312 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:22:y:2022:i:4:p:595-598 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2002657_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Marie-Eve Desroches Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Eve Author-X-Name-Last: Desroches Author-Name: Blake Poland Author-X-Name-First: Blake Author-X-Name-Last: Poland Title: The place of care in social housing in a neoliberal era Abstract: The lack of affordable housing in Canada affects a growing number of female heads of single-parent families, and the current political economy presents significant obstacles to develop more social housing in response. This paper seeks to understand the extent to which new housing programmes led by community providers comply with or resist neoliberalisation. We draw on feminist ethics of care to explore and deepen the ideas, interests, institutions, and networks involved in creating social housing for female heads of single-parent families in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, Canada. The cases reveal that neoliberalisation is not eliminating care in the social housing sector. On the one hand, communities that embrace and engage with the principles of care comply with state rollback by stepping up to meet pressing needs despite the inadequacies or unavailability of public programmes. On the other hand, care ethics lead them to design programmes and spaces centred on family needs, which resist the climate that hampers social housing development and orients it toward market-driven solutions and neoliberal expectations. We conclude with a critical reflection on the inequalities in communities’ capacity to create housing with care to meet the identified needs and thereby resist the neoliberalisation of social housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 70-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2002657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2002657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:70-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2059845_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Rachel Ong ViforJ Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Ong ViforJ Author-Name: Jack Hewton Author-X-Name-First: Jack Author-X-Name-Last: Hewton Author-Name: Sherry Bawa Author-X-Name-First: Sherry Author-X-Name-Last: Bawa Author-Name: Ranjodh Singh Author-X-Name-First: Ranjodh Author-X-Name-Last: Singh Title: Forced housing mobility and mental wellbeing: evidence from Australia Abstract: This article examines the links between forced housing mobility and the mental wellbeing of Australians in an era of heightened risks in both labour and housing markets. Specifically, we examine how the links between forced housing mobility and mental wellbeing may vary according to states of employment and housing tenure insecurity. Using the 2001–2018 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we implement hybrid models across four mental wellbeing dimensions and uncover three key findings. First, there is strong evidence that forced moves impair mental wellbeing. Second, the adverse wellbeing impacts of forced moves are greater for those experiencing employment insecurity than those in secure employment. Third, forced moves can depress the wellbeing of both owner purchasers and private renters, but the wellbeing penalty is greater in the case of the former. Overall, our analysis emphasises the importance of harnessing housing as a policy instrument for promoting wellbeing. Our findings also highlight the need for policies that mitigate loss of home ownership and reforms that improve tenure security for renters. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 138-162 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2059845 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2059845 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:138-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1946636_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Liam Grealy Author-X-Name-First: Liam Author-X-Name-Last: Grealy Title: Using genre to understand healthy housing provisions Abstract: Healthy housing provisions promise to ensure housing quality and thereby improve residents’ health outcomes. Following the proliferation of such policies across numerous national contexts, this article uses theories of genre to understand healthy housing provisions as a particular textual class, with recognisable formal features and common requirements of social actors for their implementation. The tools of genre studies are appropriated to support policy development and comparative analyses of healthy housing policies, with attention paid to the production of generic components in relation to particular contexts. This article takes established healthy homes standards in New Zealand and ongoing efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana, to establish a healthy housing register as case studies. The case studies both exemplify how theories of genre can elucidate features of housing policy and represent the political, institutional, and technical work required to develop and administer effective healthy housing provisions. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1946636 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1946636 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:1-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1983245_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Brittany Goodwin Author-X-Name-First: Brittany Author-X-Name-Last: Goodwin Author-Name: Nicholas Webber Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Author-X-Name-Last: Webber Author-Name: Tom Baker Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Ann E. Bartos Author-X-Name-First: Ann E. Author-X-Name-Last: Bartos Title: Working from home: negotiations of domestic functionality and aesthetics Abstract: While ‘the home’ is omnipresent within studies of home-located work, the physical or material qualities of the home tend to be positioned as a stable setting within which occupants manage the social complications of home-work. By contrast, we discuss how domestic materialities play a dynamic role in home-work, and how these materialities are mediated by specificities of tenure, household type, dwelling size and other factors. Bringing literature on home-located work into conversation with studies of domestic materialities, the paper draws on interviews and focus groups involving 11 female entrepreneurs working from their homes in Aotearoa New Zealand. Through discussion of participants’ negotiations with the functionality and aesthetics of their homes, the paper shows how domestic materialities actively shape, in enabling and restricting ways, the practice and experience of home-located work, while keeping sight of how such materialities are patterned by household characteristics and housing market conditions. The paper offers topical insights as people and employers grapple with the normalisation and relative (un)viability of home-located work post-Covid. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 47-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1983245 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1983245 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:47-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2019882_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Steve Rolfe Author-X-Name-First: Steve Author-X-Name-Last: Rolfe Author-Name: Kim McKee Author-X-Name-First: Kim Author-X-Name-Last: McKee Author-Name: Julie Feather Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Feather Author-Name: Tom Simcock Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Simcock Author-Name: Jennifer Hoolachan Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Author-X-Name-Last: Hoolachan Title: The role of private landlords in making a rented house a home Abstract: The growth of the private rented sector (PRS) since the 2000s in countries with lightly regulated markets has led to significant questions over its ability to provide a homely environment for tenants. Much of the research in this area argues that legal frameworks, lack of regulation and financial motives of landlords are not conducive to the provision of homes which are secure, affordable, good quality and which offer tenants an opportunity to meet their health and wellbeing needs. This is despite legislative changes that seek to raise standards in the sector and promote greater professionalisation. This paper presents findings from an evidence review of research concerning home within the PRS across OECD countries. Rather than focusing on the experiences of tenants, it considers the impacts of landlord and letting agent behaviours on tenants’ ability to make their rented house a home. We argue that landlords and letting agents can play a positive role in helping their tenants create a home, and that this offers benefits for both landlords and renters. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 113-137 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2019882 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2019882 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:113-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1946639_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Dolly Loomans Author-X-Name-First: Dolly Author-X-Name-Last: Loomans Author-Name: Maria Kaika Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Kaika Title: Mortgage regulation as a quick fix for the financial crisis: standardised lending and risky borrowing in Canada and the Netherlands Abstract: Although the role of the housing sector in the unfolding of the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis has been studied extensively, the post-crisis nexus between housing and finance has not received equal attention. Grounded in a comparative case study between Canada and the Netherlands, this article adds situated knowledge from mortgage market professionals. It discusses the state interventions for regulating mortgage markets that were pursued by each national government during and after the crisis. Our analysis shows that in both cases state interventions contributed to restoring the investment value of mortgage products and failed to de-link housing from global speculative financial practices. Standardised lending regulations targeting the ‘average man’ were put in place. These contributed to further excluding non-prime households from mortgage markets, and drove them into risky practices, such as borrowing outside regulated markets. In addition, the new regulatory regimes forced households that retained access to mortgage markets to become highly leveraged and exposed to increased risks in future crises scenarios. We argue that the policies put in place as a response to the crisis in Canada and the Netherlands, ultimately led to a shift in risk-taking from lenders to current and prospective mortgage holders. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 24-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1946639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1946639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:24-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1982314_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Valesca Lima Author-X-Name-First: Valesca Author-X-Name-Last: Lima Author-Name: Romana Xerez Author-X-Name-First: Romana Author-X-Name-Last: Xerez Title: Social housing systems and welfare in Ireland and Portugal: a comparative analysis Abstract: In this study, we analyse the significant changes in housing policies and social welfare in Portugal and Ireland. Acknowledging the transformation of housing into a commodity, which has led to significant changes in the provision of social housing to low-income families, we show how these two countries, with distinct welfare systems and different patterns of retrenchment, had similar housing trajectories and pressures after the 2008 economic crisis. Using a comparative approach, our analysis shows Ireland and Portugal are not necessarily converging towards the same policy but evidence does suggest that both countries are moving their housing policy further towards financialisation. These results contribute to the understanding of how neoliberal housing policy has focused on state retrenchment and how financialisation has shaped social housing provision. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 179-189 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1982314 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1982314 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:179-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2007566_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Oana Druta Author-X-Name-First: Oana Author-X-Name-Last: Druta Author-Name: Frans Schilder Author-X-Name-First: Frans Author-X-Name-Last: Schilder Author-Name: Christian Lennartz Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Lennartz Title: Home improvements in later life: competing policy goals and the practices of older Dutch homeowners Abstract: Dutch policy-making has been framed by simultaneous efforts aimed at reforming the social care system and initiating an ambitious sustainable retrofitting programme of housing. In these processes, the willingness and ability of older people, living in owner-occupied housing, to adapt and improve their home or move to a suitable dwelling are crucial. However, our understanding of how and why older people undertake home improvements, and how these practices intersect with policy agendas is still limited. In this paper we draw on a qualitative study with 33 older Dutch homeowner households, to understand how older people conceive home improvements and investments, and their motivations for pursuing them (or not). We find that home improvement as well as moves through and into homeownership are usually deeply connected with ideas of a good life. That may involve adapting to decreasing mobility and cognitive functions, closer relations with children and grandchildren, traveling and hobbies, comfort, and even luxury. However, these practices often lack the coherence implied by policymakers and include intricate considerations of physical, mental, social, and financial well-being. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 92-112 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2007566 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2007566 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:92-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2148044_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Khadijah Na’eem Author-X-Name-First: Khadijah Author-X-Name-Last: Na’eem Title: Show me the bodies: how We let Grenfell happen Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 190-195 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2148044 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2148044 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:190-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2059846_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Sophia Maalsen Author-X-Name-First: Sophia Author-X-Name-Last: Maalsen Title: Hacking housing: theorising housing from the minor Abstract: Housing futures are increasingly diverse as they are reshaped by the intersecting forces of unaffordability, labour precarity and digital disruption. Despite this diversity, the way we think about housing has largely remained tied to frameworks that fit traditional housing markets and governance. While these give valuable insights into the structural form of housing systems, they are less appropriate for understanding the myriad of ways these changes are responded to and experienced on the ground. In this essay, I argue that we need more-than political economy approaches to understand the rapidly changing housing landscape. I pose the housing hack as a way of theorising housing from the minor, assisting in identifying ruptures in housing experiences and taking them seriously as a way to think between major narratives on housing, to show desires and possibilities previously unaccounted for, and to glimpse alternative housing possibilities. I propose the housing hack as useful for doing conceptual, analytical and speculative work demanded of thinking through these changes in housing. While hacks do not always do good, they are useful for revealing what is broken and in their workarounds can point to generative possibilities and alternative housing futures. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 163-178 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2059846 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2059846 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:163-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2037175_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Imad Dweik Author-X-Name-First: Imad Author-X-Name-Last: Dweik Author-Name: Julia Woodhall-Melnik Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Woodhall-Melnik Title: A systematic review of the relationship between publicly subsidised housing, depression, and anxiety among low-Income households Abstract: Background:Housing affordability is one of the most pervasive social determinants of physical and mental health in many parts of the world. To date, some housing scholars have looked at public housing interventions as a mechanism for increased affordability. However, their findings have not been synthesised and it is still unclear as to whether these interventions improve mental and physical health.Method:The present study is a systematic review of quantitative studies conducted over the past 25 years that assess the impact of publicly subsidised housing on mental health. In total, 1886 studies were identified from a structured search of four databases. Included articles were peer-reviewed sources that quantitatively measured the relationship between mental health and publicly subsidised housing interventions.Results:In total, 6 studies met the inclusion criteria for this review. Evidence on mental health benefits from publicly subsidised housing was inconsistent, and depended on the specific housing subsidy programme, type of housing assistance, housing stability, and neighbourhood quality.Conclusion:This review identified a need for more rigorous studies to gain a better understanding of the conditions needed for housing affordability policies and programmes to positively contribute to mental health. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 201-231 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2037175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2037175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:201-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2002658_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Erika Martino Author-X-Name-First: Erika Author-X-Name-Last: Martino Author-Name: Rebecca Bentley Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley Title: Mapping the riskscape of using privately-owned short-term lets for specialist family violence crisis accommodation Abstract: COVID-19 has generated many problems and some opportunities in the housing market. The potential role of privately-owned short-term lets meeting specialist family violence crisis accommodation demand is one such opportunity. This paper engages with an important and increasing practice in the Australian context, of the utilisation of private housing stock as a component part of a public housing crisis response system, in this case explored in relation to domestic and family violence. In seeking to gain insights into the feasibility of this practice, this article will first frame mixed public/private accommodation provision as potentially overlapping relations between a thin territory of insufficient crisis infrastructure and a thick territory of commodified short-term let infrastructure. Second, this paper situates the potential of this intersection of mixed private/public responses in terms of riskscapes by unpacking how risk is perceived within these contested territories. The findings highlight tensions between both real and perceived understandings of safety, housing, wellbeing, economic and political risks. While there was some support for utilising short-term lets for crisis accommodation, barriers were revealed to adding thickness to the crisis accommodation space. Given increasing homelessness in Australia, diversifying crisis models could offer increased violence-prevention infrastructure to support women. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 338-361 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2002658 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2002658 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:338-361 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2147352_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Karla Jaques Author-X-Name-First: Karla Author-X-Name-Last: Jaques Author-Name: Fiona Haigh Author-X-Name-First: Fiona Author-X-Name-Last: Haigh Author-Name: Siggi Zapart Author-X-Name-First: Siggi Author-X-Name-Last: Zapart Author-Name: Maria Beer Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Author-Name: Genene Peisley Author-X-Name-First: Genene Author-X-Name-Last: Peisley Author-Name: Cesar Calalang Author-X-Name-First: Cesar Author-X-Name-Last: Calalang Author-Name: Mark Thornell Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Thornell Author-Name: Stephen Conaty Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Conaty Author-Name: Patrick Harris Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: Inter-sectoral policy partnerships: a case study of South Western Sydney’s Health and Housing Partnership Abstract: The evidence linking human health and housing is overwhelming. However, less focus has been on collaborative action between the sectors to improve health. Focussing on social housing adds an important equity lens to the housing and health partnership literature. Since 2009, a unique formal partnership between a State Health Service, State Social Housing Organisation and a research organisation has existed. The partnership aims to realise potential benefits of integrating health considerations into asset and social planning within the housing sector and to empower residents to lead on outcomes they identify for the community and themselves individually. The partnership has a shared vision of working together to improve the health and wellbeing of social housing communities in one of Australia’s most disadvantaged regions. This paper presents an analysis of over a decade of the partnership work. We present the history of the partnership, overview outcomes to date, and describe key mechanisms and contextual factors that have enabled action. We present our findings using two frameworks, one a practice focussed partnership toolkit and the other a theory informed approach to health focussed governance. Both frameworks enable us to present findings linking the practical successes and challenges of this partnership work with deeper insights from theory. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 381-402 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2147352 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2147352 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:381-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1940686_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marlee Bower Author-X-Name-First: Marlee Author-X-Name-Last: Bower Author-Name: Caitlin Buckle Author-X-Name-First: Caitlin Author-X-Name-Last: Buckle Author-Name: Emily Rugel Author-X-Name-First: Emily Author-X-Name-Last: Rugel Author-Name: Amarina Donohoe-Bales Author-X-Name-First: Amarina Author-X-Name-Last: Donohoe-Bales Author-Name: Laura McGrath Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: McGrath Author-Name: Kevin Gournay Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Gournay Author-Name: Emma Barrett Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Barrett Author-Name: Peter Phibbs Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Phibbs Author-Name: Maree Teesson Author-X-Name-First: Maree Author-X-Name-Last: Teesson Title: ‘Trapped’, ‘anxious’ and ‘traumatised’: COVID-19 intensified the impact of housing inequality on Australians’ mental health Abstract: Increased time spent at home during COVID-19 exposed inequities in Australian housing quality and availability. Many Australians lack sufficient space to carry out activities shifted to their homes and the financial downturn rapidly increased stress around housing affordability. Research demonstrates living in unaffordable or poor-quality housing can negatively impact residents’ mental health. This study explores the mechanisms through which housing moderates COVID-19’s impact on mental health by analysing 2,065 Australians surveyed in mid-to-late 2020. Hierarchical linear regressions were used to examine associations between housing circumstances, neighbourhood belonging and mental-health outcomes (loneliness, depression, and anxiety), adjusted for demographics. Open-ended responses were analysed using thematic analysis and critical-realist epistemology. Feeling ‘trapped’ and ‘helpless’ because of insecure tenure or lack of money to improve housing conditions reduced participants’ sense of control. Inadequate space and noise adversely impacted participants’ well-being. Participants’ housing context – including amenities, natural spaces, and social connections – strongly impacted their emotional experiences. Safe, secure, and suitable housing is a known determinant of safety and physical health; this study suggests it is also a critical factor for Australians’ mental health. To improve mental health among the vulnerably-housed, future housing policy should not compromise on housing affordability, quality, space and access to nearby amenities. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 260-291 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1940686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1940686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:260-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2209932_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: John Flint Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Flint Title: The lived experiences and temporality of estate regeneration Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 417-420 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209932 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2209932 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:417-420 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2209934_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Keith Jacobs Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Jacobs Title: Structures of power and inequality Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 424-428 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209934 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2209934 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:424-428 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2204650_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emma Baker Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Rebecca Bentley Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley Title: Housing and health: a time for action Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 197-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:197-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2117584_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicoda Foster Author-X-Name-First: Nicoda Author-X-Name-Last: Foster Author-Name: Lydia Kapiriri Author-X-Name-First: Lydia Author-X-Name-Last: Kapiriri Author-Name: Michel Grignon Author-X-Name-First: Michel Author-X-Name-Last: Grignon Author-Name: Kwame McKenzie Author-X-Name-First: Kwame Author-X-Name-Last: McKenzie Title: Accessing adequate housing for older Black women in Toronto: a document review of housing related government strategies and action plans Abstract: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights include recommendations and protections for housing as a human right. The rising costs of housing has created difficulties for many individuals, particularly older adults/seniors. This study aimed to determine whether Ontario housing related policies and strategy documents address access to adequate housing for older racialised women, specifically older Black women. The theory of intersectionality and the stages model were used as analytical frameworks to review provincial and municipal government documents in Ontario, Canada to determine the degree to which they address adequate housing for older Black women. A thematic content analysis was completed for eight policy documents that were both municipal and provincial. The results suggest that access to adequate housing was not considered to the full scope and housing policies do not reflect the complex social reality of racialised older women. Addressing the housing challenges for older racialised women would require an increased focus on policies that are all encompassing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 403-416 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2117584 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2117584 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:403-416 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2209935_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paul Watt Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Watt Title: Estate regeneration and its discontents: a response to reviewers Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 429-435 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209935 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2209935 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:429-435 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2002660_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandros Alexiou Author-X-Name-First: Alexandros Author-X-Name-Last: Alexiou Author-Name: Kate Mason Author-X-Name-First: Kate Author-X-Name-Last: Mason Author-Name: Katie Fahy Author-X-Name-First: Katie Author-X-Name-Last: Fahy Author-Name: David Taylor-Robinson Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor-Robinson Author-Name: Benjamin Barr Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin Author-X-Name-Last: Barr Title: Assessing the impact of funding cuts to local housing services on drug and alcohol related mortality: a longitudinal study using area-level data in England Abstract: Since 2010 there have been large reductions in funding for local government services in England. This has led to reduced income to fund services, such as housing services, that potentially promote health. Housing services expenditure includes spending on housing advice services, homelessness relief and provision of temporary accommodation. During the same period there has been an increase in homelessness and drug related mortality. We carried out an ecological study by linking data on housing services expenditure to deaths from drug and alcohol abuse by local authority in England between 2013 and 2018, to assess whether those areas that experienced a greater decline in spending, also experienced more adverse trends in mortality rates. Our results demonstrate that spending cuts were associated with increased mortality rates due to drug misuse, however, we found no strong evidence of an association with alcohol-specific mortality. This study suggests that reduced fiscal support alongside the introduction of policies that changed how funds are distributed between areas may in part explain the recent adverse trends in drug-related mortality. Since housing expenditure decreased more in the most deprived areas of England compared to less deprived areas, such spending cuts may have contributed to the widening of health inequalities.KEYWORDS Housing services; spending; drug; alcohol; mortality Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 362-380 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2002660 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2002660 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:362-380 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2002659_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ralph Horne Author-X-Name-First: Ralph Author-X-Name-Last: Horne Author-Name: Nicola Willand Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Willand Author-Name: Louise Dorignon Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Dorignon Author-Name: Bhavna Middha Author-X-Name-First: Bhavna Author-X-Name-Last: Middha Title: Housing inequalities and resilience: the lived experience of COVID-19 Abstract: COVID-19 policy responses have intensified the use of housing as a spatial and material defence against community spread of infection. In so doing, they have focussed attention upon pre-existing inequalities and the effects of socio-economic management of COVID-19. This paper draws upon individual households’ accounts to explore these effects on housing inequalities, and then adapts a critical resilience framework from disaster response in order to examine the implications for policymaking. The empirical work centres upon a case study of lived experiences of COVID-19-constrained conditions, based on a longitudinal-style study combining semi-structured interviews with 40 households, photographs and household tours at two datapoints (before/during COVID-19) in Victoria, Australia. The study reveals how these households were impacted across four domains: (1) employment, finances, services, and mobilities; (2) homemaking including comfort and energy bills, food and provisioning, and home-schooling/working from home; (3) relationships, care and privacy, and; (4) social, physical and mental health. The interviews also indicate how households coped and experienced relief payments and other related support policies during COVID-19. Drawing upon literature on disaster response, we highlight the centrality of vulnerability and resilience in recognising household exposure and sensitivity to COVID-19, and capabilities in coping. From this analysis, gaps in COVID-19 housing and welfare policy are exposed and guide a discussion for future housing policy interventions and pandemic planning. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 313-337 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2002659 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2002659 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:313-337 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2209933_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Edward G. Goetz Author-X-Name-First: Edward G. Author-X-Name-Last: Goetz Title: Dissembling and displacing: the legacy of estate regeneration Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 421-423 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209933 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2209933 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:421-423 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2037177_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 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: Emma Baker Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Title: Exploring the well-being of renters during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: The well-being of people during COVID-19 lockdowns has been a global concern. Renters, who often live in small, shared and less secure forms of housing, are potentially more vulnerable during COVID-19 and associated restrictions such as lockdowns. This paper explores the well-being of renters during COVID-19 in Australia using a survey of 15,000 renters, and 20 renters who undertook a 4-week ethnographic diary. The results found that most renters had a reduction in their mental well-being; many had increased levels of worry, anxiety, loneliness and isolation, as a result of the pandemic. More than two thirds of renters attributed their housing to declines in their mental health. The qualitative diaries revealed themes that influenced the state of well-being including: housing uncertainty and precarity, the form and quality of the living environment, and the impact on relationships. This study highlighted the importance of offering opportunities for social engagements and relationships within multiple occupancy buildings, better access to green spaces, and functional homes for work and living, as well as sleep and security. The research demonstrates a need for greater consideration required for well-being in housing policy and support, especially since the home is being used as a public health intervention. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 292-312 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2037177 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2037177 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:292-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1971033_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Craig M. Gurney Author-X-Name-First: Craig M. Author-X-Name-Last: Gurney Title: Dangerous liaisons? Applying the social harm perspective to the social inequality, housing and health trifecta during the Covid-19 pandemic Abstract: Global rates of excess mortality attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic provide a fresh impetus to make sense of the associations between income inequality, housing inequality and the social gradient in health, suggesting new questions about the ways in which housing and health are treated in the framing and development of public policy. The first half of the paper uses a social harm lens to examine the threefold associations of the social inequality, housing and health trifecta and offers new insights for policy analysis which foregrounds the production, transmission, and experience of various types of harm which occur within the home. The main body of the paper then draws upon the outcomes of an international systematic literature mapping review of 213 Covid-19 research papers to demonstrate three specific harms associated with stay-at-home lockdowns: (i) intimate partner and domestic violence, (ii) poor mental health and (iii) health harming behaviours. The reported findings are interpreted using a social harm perspective and some implications for policy analysis are illustrated. The paper concludes with a reflection on the efficacy of social harm as a lens for policy analysis and suggests directions for further research in housing studies and zemiology. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 232-259 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1971033 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1971033 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:2:p:232-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2007567_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lois C. Towart Author-X-Name-First: Lois C. Author-X-Name-Last: Towart Author-Name: Kristian Ruming Author-X-Name-First: Kristian Author-X-Name-Last: Ruming Title: Manufactured home estates as retirement living in Australia, identifying the key drivers Abstract: Manufactured Home Estates (MHEs) have become increasingly popular in Australia as a retirement housing option and in response, large investor-operators have entered the industry accumulating extensive portfolios. MHEs are appealing to investors as they require lower levels of capital investment compared to other forms of retirement housing and are supported by policy settings which maximise financial returns. The financial and regulatory environment in Australia has resulted in an investment structure where investors are required to act as operators. This paper identifies and examines five interconnected drivers which have encouraged investor-operators to commence MHEs and accumulate large portfolios. First, Australia’s ageing population emerges as a key driver of demand for retirement housing. Second, MHEs represent affordable housing for retirees. Third, broader housing policy providing support to low-income households improves financial returns to investor-operators. Fourth, investor-operator financial returns are improved by the requirement that residents purchase their dwellings through designated suppliers on which a fee is received. Fifth, the investment potential of MHE is linked to planning policies which permit their development on sites outside established residential areas, sometimes creating problems by locating older Australians in hazard affected locations. This paper provides important insights into contemporary analysis of seniors housing in Australia by outlining how policy settings have encouraged investor-operators to purchase and develop of MHEs and how, drawing on scholarship of the financialisation of housing, the investment logics of owner-investors situates MHEs as financial asset, not simply as affordable retirement housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 501-522 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2007567 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.2007567 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:501-522 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2074268_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sara Caramaschi Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Caramaschi Author-Name: Francesco Chiodelli Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Chiodelli Title: Reconceptualising housing emptiness beyond vacancy and abandonment Abstract: The academic reflection on different manifestations of building emptiness is broad, intersecting the last sixty years of various debates on urban issues. Despite this, the conceptualisation of building emptiness and its nuances is not yet completely satisfactory. Definitions are blurred and different phenomena are often mixed. It is against this backdrop that, after a short state-of-the-art review, this paper proposes a precise conceptualisation of the main states of emptiness of housing assets. Four critical conditions are identified: i) uncompletedness, that is the condition of a building which, during the construction phase, is left unfinished; ii) long-term vacancy, that is the state of a property which remains on the real estate market for a prolonged period of time, for any reason other than the conventional circumstances of the ordinary life of a building; iii) under- and unoccupancy, which are conditions of finished properties that are not available for sale or rent and are either used occasionally (under-occupancy) or not put to any residential use (unoccupancy); iv) abandonment, that is the state of an empty building which has not been inhabited and maintained for a long time, thus being detached from the housing market due to its physical decay. Subsequently, the implications of such conceptualisation are stressed, with reference to both descriptive and normative issues. For instance, this conceptualisation could help a finer understanding of the negative externalities of different states of housing emptiness, as well as it could favour more careful ethical judgements. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 588-611 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2074268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2074268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:588-611 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2236357_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jenny Wood Author-X-Name-First: Jenny Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Title: What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest Through Workplace Ethnographies Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 656-659 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2236357 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2236357 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:656-659 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2072662_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Deb Batterham Author-X-Name-First: Deb Author-X-Name-Last: Batterham Title: Magnet mobility myths: exploring geographical mobility amongst people experiencing, or at-risk of, homelessness in Australia Abstract: It is often assumed that people experiencing homelessness gravitate to large cities and central city areas because of the concentration of homelessness services — a so-called magnet or honeypot effect. Yet little is actually known about how people experiencing homelessness move across space over time. This article explores this geography by comparing the mobility of those experiencing homelessness, those ‘at-risk’, and those renting privately in Australia, between waves in two Australian panel surveys: Journeys Home and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA). Results suggest that while people experiencing homelessness are more likely to move than the other two groups, they more similarly short distances and appear more likely to move for reasons such as relationship breakdown, eviction and to escape violence. While some evidence of movement to areas with particular characteristics (sorting) was detected amongst those at-risk and those renting privately, this was not the case for those experiencing homelessness. Results do not support the contention that people experiencing homelessness gravitate to central urban areas well-resourced with homelessness services over time. The findings challenge assumptions about magnet effects and homelessness and have important implications for the provision and delivery of homelessness services in Australia and beyond. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 565-587 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2072662 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2072662 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:565-587 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2153983_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Galyna Sukhomud Author-X-Name-First: Galyna Author-X-Name-Last: Sukhomud Author-Name: Vita Shnaider Author-X-Name-First: Vita Author-X-Name-Last: Shnaider Title: Continuity and change: wartime housing politics in Ukraine Abstract: The article analyses the war-imbued housing crisis in Ukraine and emergency response to it in the first four months of the full scale Russian invasion as embedded in the wider context of Ukrainian housing politics. As in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe after 1989/91, the Ukrainian housing sphere has been shaped by mass giveaway privatisation, which created a super homeownership regime that is characterised by high expectations towards the state in the support of homeownership. Despite the mass destruction of the war and scale of the displacement, housing politics continues to be shaped by institutional inertia and attempts to resolve the current housing crisis with existing instruments and the support of homeownership. Such an ad-hoc policy approach leaves displaced households without coherent assistance in finding shelter. Only rather sporadic and insufficient options provided by communities at local level and international aid organisations are available. However, while lacking institutional and policy adjustment in the first months of war, the Ukrainian housing sector is changing. Growing importance of renting in the tenure structure and the pressing need to shelter those who lost access to homeownership as a result of war call for the development of a new, more comprehensive, housing strategy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 629-652 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2153983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2153983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:629-652 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2037176_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michael Byrne Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne Author-Name: Juliana Sassi Author-X-Name-First: Juliana Author-X-Name-Last: Sassi Title: Making and unmaking home in the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative research study of the experience of private rental tenants in Ireland Abstract: The intersection between Covid-19, housing and inequality has played an important role in the pandemic, particularly in the private rental sector (PRS). This article draws on qualitative research in Ireland to examine tenants’ experiences of ‘home making’ and ‘home unmaking’ during the pandemic. It explores the structural and everyday processes that shaped tenants’ experience of ‘home’, and identifies the factors which undermined that experience. Our research finds that the Covid-19 pandemic collided with an existing set of structural inequalities in the PRS, including those related to insecurity, poor quality dwellings and inability to control or adapt dwellings. Analysing how the structures of the rental sector interacted with the impact of Covid-19, as well as with everyday practices and experiences of home making and home unmaking, re-centres home in order to make visible the politics of home in the context of the pandemic. The article suggests that equality of housing and home needs to be ‘baked in’ to our housing systems to avoid the kind of mutually reinforcing dynamic between external shock and pre-existing inequalities identified in the present research. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 523-542 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2037176 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2037176 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:523-542 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2105193_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Edward S. W. Ti Author-X-Name-First: Edward S. W. Author-X-Name-Last: Ti Title: Big houses on a small island: legislating Singapore’s ‘good class’ bungalows Abstract: Land reform in post-independent Singapore was led by compulsory purchase predominantly in the 1960s–70s and resulted in numerous kampungs or villages being demolished. With efficient assembly of land, high-rise public flats were built to accommodate the country’s burgeoning population. Today, 95 per cent of residents reside in high-rise dwellings and Singapore is the 3rd most densely populated country globally. Remarkably, planning regulations protect a housing typology known as ‘good class bungalows’ (GCBs). Though housing less than 0.2 per cent of Singapore households, GCBs collectively take up 7 per cent of the available land for housing. Numbering less than three thousand, GCBs have statutorily required large minimum lot sizes and are situated in Singapore’s choiciest residential enclaves. Development of GCB land to more intensive use is strictly prohibited. In this article, I examine the legal policies and socioeconomic rationale for maintaining this uniquely Singaporean institution, concluding that there are indeed cogent justifications for its existence. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 612-628 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2105193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2105193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:612-628 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1930504_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Or Cohen Raviv Author-X-Name-First: Or Cohen Author-X-Name-Last: Raviv Title: Class differences in homeownership and mortgage debt burden across cohorts: the Israeli case Abstract: This study investigates class inequality in homeownership and the mortgage debt burden of young adults (aged 25–35) in Israel, from the present cohort and from the 1980s. These two time points reflect the shift from a social-welfare system to a neoliberal regime. Data was drawn from the Household Expenditure Survey for the periods 1975 and 1980, as well as 2012–2013 (Israel CBS). The findings reveal that while gaps between the probability of mortgaged homeownership and outright ownership have remained remarkably stable for the low-income and middle-income classes, the high-income class has substantially improved its probability of mortgaged homeownership and decreased its probability of non-homeownership. Furthermore, the middle class has the highest mortgage debt burden. However, in late young adulthood (ages 30–40), the low class is saddled with a higher mortgage debt burden relative to income than the middle class, residing in locations with lower socio-economic status. Moreover, the high class has a higher mortgage debt burden than the middle class, when residing in areas with higher socio-economic status. This practice increases the latter’s wealth prospects and shows the financial burden imposed upon the low class in order for its members to have ‘a roof over their head’. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 464-500 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1930504 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1930504 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:464-500 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2240078_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tom Simcock Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Simcock Title: Social housing. Wellbeing and welfare Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 653-656 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2240078 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2240078 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:653-656 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2072661_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Krista Evans Author-X-Name-First: Krista Author-X-Name-Last: Evans Title: An examination of perceptions and preferences for tiny house villages for the homeless in Missouri Abstract: Homelessness is increasingly being addressed with tiny house villages. These developments face barriers, the greatest of which is NIMBYism (Not-in-my-backyard sentiment) (Evans, 2021). Through a stakeholder survey, this research examines community perceptions of, and preferences for, various visual, physical, and social factors related to tiny house villages for the homeless. The survey finds that stakeholders do have distinct preferences for certain physical characteristics and traits related to tiny house villages for the homeless. The research suggests that taking such preferences into account may result in tiny house villages for the homeless that enjoy greater community support than those that do not. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 543-564 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2072661 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2072661 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:543-564 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1910784_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Xenia Fuster-Farfán Author-X-Name-First: Xenia Author-X-Name-Last: Fuster-Farfán Title: Exception as a government strategy: contemporary Chile’s housing policy Abstract: The adverse effects of Chile’s neoliberal social housing policy have been evident for years. The housing deficit, amount of informal housing and pressure from citizen groups have increased in recent years. Numerous stop-gap strategies have been devised in order to contain its adverse effects, many of which can be classified as “exceptional” policy responses, as opposed to “standard” policy responses. Such strategies may include tailormade rights and arbitrary flexibility, the results of which are radically different from those of the “standard” policy. Our hypothesis is that exception is a government strategy to face the deficiencies and conflicts that the policy brings about. A qualitative study was carried out to study the origins, characteristic and repercussions of exception. The results showed four dimensions of this government strategy. First, the application of exception amid the occurrence of environmental emergencies. Second, the use of exception for economic and political purposes and interests. Third, when inhabitants demand exceptional measures. Fourth, when exceptional targeting mechanisms are created to deal with a population whose characteristics are so particular that they are beyond the sphere of political action. It is concluded that exceptions become the norm in a context of neoliberal governance of social housing policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 437-463 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1910784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1910784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:3:p:437-463 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2234176_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Nancy Worth Author-X-Name-First: Nancy Author-X-Name-Last: Worth Title: Centring the family in housing studies: wealth transfer and property ownership, for some Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 839-842 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2234176 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2234176 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:839-842 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2164398_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Konstantin A. Kholodilin Author-X-Name-First: Konstantin A. Author-X-Name-Last: Kholodilin Author-Name: Sebastian Kohl Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian Author-X-Name-Last: Kohl Title: Do rent controls and other tenancy regulations affect new construction? Some answers from long-run historical evidence Abstract: The (re-)introduction of tenancy regulation in the form of rent controls, tenant protection or supply rationing is back on the agenda of policymakers in light of rent inflation in many global cities. While rent controls promise short-term relief, economists point to their negative long-run effects on new construction. This study presents new long-run data on both rent regulation and housing construction for 16 developed countries (1910–2016) and finds that more restrictive rental market legislation generally has a negative impact on both new housing construction and residential investment. This is especially true for strict rent controls and housing rationing measures in the post-1960 period. Tenancy security can on average also dampen construction activity. The negative effect is overall less significant and strong in magnitude than expected and may have been offset by exemptions for new construction, by compensating social housing construction and by a flight of new construction into the owner-occupied sector. Still, on average, rent controls came at the cost of less construction activity. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 671-691 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2164398 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2164398 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:671-691 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2089079_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 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 Author-Name: Adriana Mihaela Soaita Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Mihaela Author-X-Name-Last: Soaita Title: Rent regulation: unpacking the debates Abstract: In the context of chronic problems with high housing costs, rent regulation has returned to the forefront of policy debate in several countries. This paper addresses three distinct questions related to rent regulation and the role of evidence. First, what are the drivers of policy change on rent regulation and what role does evidence play in shaping change? Second, what is the nature of the evidence base on rent regulation and the key messages that emerge from it? Third, how is this evidence base transmitted into policy debate? We take the example of the recent UK policy debate to examine this issue. The paper discusses the case of current policy development in Scotland to reflect upon policy drivers and the role of evidence. The paper combines insights from a recent evidence review and a decade-long policy ethnography. Not only does research indicate that evidence has played a limited role as a driver for policy change on rent regulation but the nature of the evidence base is such that there are limits on the guidance it can offer and the extent to which policy can in principle be rooted in evidence. The case of Scotland illustrates the forces at play in shaping rent regulation policy. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 734-757 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2089079 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2089079 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:734-757 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_1983246_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Chris Martin Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Author-Name: Alistair Sisson Author-X-Name-First: Alistair Author-X-Name-Last: Sisson Author-Name: Sian Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Sian Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: Reluctant regulators? Rent regulation in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: Rents in the Australian private rental sector (PRS) have long been determined by the market, but during the public health and economic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, state and territory governments implemented emergency measures to prevent evictions and regulate rents. This article reviews the rent measures implemented and their outcomes, using survey data and other quantitative evidence, and interviews with PRS stakeholders. We find the rent measures, which relied on negotiations between individual landlords and tenants, had a modest effect – just 8–16% of tenants got a rent variation – and tenants, landlords and agents struggled in unfamiliar roles. The emergency period holds lessons and prompts questions about future directions in policy-making for rental affordability and PRS relations. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 783-803 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1983246 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2021.1983246 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:783-803 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2059844_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Pekka Sagner Author-X-Name-First: Pekka Author-X-Name-Last: Sagner Author-Name: Michael Voigtländer Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Voigtländer Title: Supply side effects of the Berlin rent freeze Abstract: On 23 February 2020, the Berlin Senate introduced the Berlin rent freeze (‘Mietendeckel’). The law was repealed on 25 March 2021. The Berlin rent freeze was an unprecedented market intervention in the German housing market. We analyse how the rent cap part of the legislation which fixed rents at below market levels affected the supply side in the short term. We find rent decreases accompanied by decreases in supply five times as large. We further investigate spillover effects on the purchase market, regionally heterogeneous effects as well as different effects by dwelling characteristics. We find the rent freeze did not have spillover effects on dwellings for sale which point to a ‘wait-and-see-attitude’ on the investors’ side. We make use of a rich dataset of real estate advertisements and employ hedonic difference-in-difference and triple-difference estimation strategies. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 692-711 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2059844 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2059844 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:692-711 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2232591_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Laura James Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: James Title: Housing families and families in housing Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 842-846 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2232591 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232591 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:842-846 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2132461_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Libby Porter Author-X-Name-First: Libby Author-X-Name-Last: Porter Author-Name: David Kelly Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Kelly Title: Dwelling justice: locating settler relations in research and activism on stolen land Abstract: There is a general consensus now in Australia that we are in the grip of a severe housing crisis. The characteristics of spiralling housing costs and deepening precarity are unfolding in a context of the systematic managed decline of public housing as a critical social infrastructure, such that the capacity to make and find ‘home’ is thinning every day. Yet in a settler-colony, such as Australia, the struggle against housing injustice is set inside an already violent relationship of un-homing that creates the very conditions for others to make home. Reckoning with this monstrous dilemma, of the politics of dwelling justice on stolen land, is the focus of this essay, which springs from our own experience and failure to fully comprehend the ways that our housing research and activism works to reinforce settler colonial logics of dwelling on stolen land. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 817-835 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2132461 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2132461 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:817-835 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2089080_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway Author-X-Name-First: Montserrat Author-X-Name-Last: Pareja-Eastaway Author-Name: Teresa Sánchez-Martínez Author-X-Name-First: Teresa Author-X-Name-Last: Sánchez-Martínez Title: Private rented market in Spain: can regulation solve the problem? Abstract: Spain has traditionally shown one of the lowest levels of participation in the rented market within the housing system in Europe. Several authors have argued that housing policies oriented toward facilitating housing access have not paid enough attention to the development of the sector, except for decreasing its regulation. During the last decade, Spain, as many other European countries, has witnessed a relative increase in demand for rented dwellings and subsequent rent increases. A debate is taking place where possible regulation and alternative ways of increasing the rent supply are being discussed to ease the persistent problem of housing access of Spanish households. We argue in this paper that rent regulation cannot be decontextualised from the housing system, especially in countries like Spain where the rented sector has acted as social housing and tenants’ financial vulnerability is high. We distinguish between measures with short term effects such a rent regulations and interventions addressing the lack of rent supply with a longer impact. Finally, we advocate for a national framework that allows enough regional and local freedom to adequately solve their rented housing situation. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 758-782 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2089080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2089080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:758-782 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2272383_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Michael Voigtländer Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Voigtländer Author-Name: Christine Whitehead Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Whitehead Title: Rent controls - a timeless and controversial intervention Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 661-670 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2272383 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2272383 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:661-670 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2155338_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Conor O’Toole Author-X-Name-First: Conor Author-X-Name-Last: O’Toole Title: Exploring rent pressure zones: Ireland’s recent rent control regime Abstract: Following a number of years of rapid rental inflation in the private market, in late 2016, Ireland introduced a regime of rent controls whereby areas are designated as ‘Rent Pressure Zones’ if they meet criteria for excessive inflation and elevated levels of rent. In these areas, rental inflation is capped, initially at 4% per annum, with targeted exemptions. In this article, we consider these regulations along a number of dimensions. First, the criteria, calibration and qualification of the rules are outlined and discussed. Second, we use local-electoral area data to document the areas classified and show the price moderation in these areas was between 2 and 5 percentage points using difference-in-difference techniques and error correction specifications to deal with differential housing market developments. We also highlight the use of exemptions to the policies for new supply, maintenance and energy efficiency. We show low exemption usage and more targeting for energy efficiency upgrades needed given the Irish private rental building stock. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 712-733 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2155338 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2155338 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:712-733 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2057003_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Chantalle Elisabeth Rietdijk Author-X-Name-First: Chantalle Elisabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Rietdijk Title: Affordability of social housing for youth in greater Taipei: justice for whom? Abstract: This policy review examines the new social housing policy implementation in Taipei and New Taipei City. This policy specifically targets young adults since the problem of housing affordability is perceived as an intergenerational question. This study examines the affordability of social housing apartments for different income groups and demonstrates that middle- to average-income households benefit most from living in the social housing. As a consequence this policy potentially jumpstarts the housing careers of middle-class youth, while the needs of low-income and disadvantaged families are under addressed. The reasons for the focus on ‘Generation Rent’ are discussed, as well as the cultural context of intra-generational wealth sharing in Taiwan. Furthermore, the social housing apartments are compared with options in the private rental market in terms of size and affordability. The results show that the government provides a segment of housing options, through social housing, that is currently absent in the private rental market. Lastly, the effect of this policy on the transformation of the housing market is discussed and found to be insufficient, because the narratives of commodified housing and the cultural value of ownership as an achievement in life are not challenged. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 804-816 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2057003 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2057003 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:804-816 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2234151_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Rory Coulter Author-X-Name-First: Rory Author-X-Name-Last: Coulter Title: Housing becomes a family affair Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 836-839 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2234151 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2234151 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:836-839 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2275403_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20231203T183118 git hash: be90730853 Author-Name: Richard Ronald Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ronald Author-Name: Rowan Arundel Author-X-Name-First: Rowan Author-X-Name-Last: Arundel Title: What about families, housing and property wealth in a neoliberal world? Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 847-854 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2023 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2275403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2023.2275403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:23:y:2023:i:4:p:847-854 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2123270_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Michael Manlangit Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Manlangit Author-Name: Nikos Karadimitriou Author-X-Name-First: Nikos Author-X-Name-Last: Karadimitriou Author-Name: Claudio de Magalhães Author-X-Name-First: Claudio Author-X-Name-Last: de Magalhães Title: Everyone wins? UK housing provision, government shared equity loans, and the reallocation of risks and returns after the Global Financial Crisis Abstract: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis was an extreme shock to the UK housing market. Frozen international capital markets resulted in highly restrictive mortgage lending by UK retail banks, and the collapse in homebuying threatened the heavily indebted housebuilding industry. To counteract the threat, between 2008 and 2013, the UK Government issued shared equity loans requiring matching loans from housebuilders alongside retail bank mortgages and deposits from homebuyers. In 2013, it introduced a new shared equity scheme, Help to Buy (HtB), which no longer required matching loans from housebuilders. This article explores the distribution of the benefits of the UK Government’s issuance of shared equity loans for homebuyers to buoy demand through its effects on the UK’s three largest publicly listed housebuilders. The article found that the housebuilders increased their output by 29,000 homes and generated an additional £1.4 billion in cash between 2013 and 2017 as a direct result of HtB. Over the same period, the housebuilders paid shareholders £3.5 billion in dividends and their share prices rose by an average of 140 per cent, suggesting a clear transfer of income and wealth from taxpayers to housebuilders to shareholders and the emergence of a new mode of housing provision. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 98-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2123270 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2123270 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:98-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2106540_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Mădălina Mezaroş Author-X-Name-First: Mădălina Author-X-Name-Last: Mezaroş Author-Name: Antoine Paccoud Author-X-Name-First: Antoine Author-X-Name-Last: Paccoud Title: Accelerating housing inequality: property investors and the changing structure of property ownership in Luxembourg Abstract: This paper tracks the arrival of investors in the housing market of Dudelange, Luxembourg. In so doing, it focuses on the socio-economic changes accompanying the transformation of homes into assets, since the first apartment was built in the city in the mid-1960s until 2018. Drawing on complete land registry data, we chart the structure of apartment ownership in the context of the city’s transition from an industrial to a financialised economy, with particular attention to three characteristics of buyers: age at purchase, country of birth and occupation. We investigate how homeowner characteristics have shifted over time in a context where housing policies have incentivised investor activity and demand. We highlight how three policies put in place in the early 2000s to encourage real estate investments seem to have strengthened the position of the group already most advantaged on the Luxembourg housing market: those born in Luxembourg and over 45 years of age. Given that this group has on average the highest median incomes and the highest homeownership rates, we argue that these policies that incentivised property investments are likely to have accelerated housing (and wider) inequalities in an overheated housing market. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 23-43 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2106540 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2106540 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:23-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2310867_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Craig M. Gurney Author-X-Name-First: Craig M. Author-X-Name-Last: Gurney Title: Stay Home: Housing and Home in the UK During the Covid-19 Pandemic Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 185-189 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2310867 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2024.2310867 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:185-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2106541_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Rowan Arundel Author-X-Name-First: Rowan Author-X-Name-Last: Arundel Author-Name: Ang Li Author-X-Name-First: Ang Author-X-Name-Last: Li Author-Name: Emma Baker Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Rebecca Bentley Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Author-X-Name-Last: Bentley Title: Housing unaffordability and mental health: dynamics across age and tenure Abstract: This paper examines changing trends in housing affordability in the Netherlands and its link to mental health across tenures and age cohorts. Using the LISS panel dataset over 11 years (2008 to 2019), we assess trends in the prevalence of unaffordable housing and subsequently examine its relationship with psychological wellbeing based on ‘Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5)’ responses. Our research shows a clear overall increase in the experience of unaffordable housing. Increases are, however, starkly differentiated by tenure and age, occurring almost entirely within the rental sector and disproportionately affecting younger adults. We also find a clear link between living in housing that is unaffordable and poorer mental health scores, and this association is particularly strong among renters and younger people. The results underscore how changes in housing systems have intensified housing precarity, specifically within the rental sector, and reveal how this may contribute to worsening mental health at the population level and shape tenure-based health inequalities. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 44-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2106541 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2106541 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:44-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2148339_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Hang Kei Ho Author-X-Name-First: Hang Kei Author-X-Name-Last: Ho Author-Name: Maurice Yip Author-X-Name-First: Maurice Author-X-Name-Last: Yip Title: From micro- to nano-segregation: policy-led vertical urbanism in Hong Kong Abstract: While Hong Kong is an extremely wealthy city, where one in seven residents is a millionaire, the city also has one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the world. This policy review examines how the development of various housing policies since the 1950s have contributed to segregation and housing inequality. After exploring various aspects of Hong Kong’s housing market, we introduce a typology of segregation, the study of which would allow a deeper understanding of the current housing situation. Building on the existing studies of micro-segregation and our recent observation, we further introduce the concept of nano-segregation. Micro- and nano-segregations take place in Hong Kong both horizontally and vertically. They manifest the severe socio-spatial inequalities that result from the aspirations expressed in the policies, and from the benefits to individuals who have gained from the changes. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 142-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2148339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2148339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:142-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2155339_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Louise Crabtree-Hayes Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Crabtree-Hayes Title: Establishing a glossary of community-led housing Abstract: Recent decades have seen the re-discovery or emergence of a diverse range of housing models such as cohousing, co-operatives, community land trusts, and other forms that seek to address various persistent issues of social, environmental, and economic justice. This has generated commensurate growth in research on the objectives and outcomes of such models, including the creation of relevant typologies of conceptual approaches and schemas of organisational objectives to build understanding of the field’s theoretical and practical implications. Despite the growth of relevant models, their relative unfamiliarity and diversity of forms and objectives means practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and others associated with the field may not understand the forms and objectives of models under examination and development, leading to delays, project failures, and confusion. This paper therefore presents a glossary of community-led housing as a base on which to continue to foster understanding and growth of relevant models, and enable collaborative and comparative work. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 157-184 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2155339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2155339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:157-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2123272_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Emma Jo Griffith Author-X-Name-First: Emma Jo Author-X-Name-Last: Griffith Author-Name: Mirte Jepma Author-X-Name-First: Mirte Author-X-Name-Last: Jepma Author-Name: Federico Savini Author-X-Name-First: Federico Author-X-Name-Last: Savini Title: Beyond collective property: a typology of collaborative housing in Europe Abstract: Collaborative housing is generally defined by what it is not: it is neither solely private tenure nor fully state-run public housing. As a result, housing studies have not fully captured the great diversity of collaborative housing forms. This article develops a complex typology of collaborative housing based on an analysis of 100 cases from Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany. We identify differentiating features across three key dimensions: the architecture of the estate, the institutional set-up of its property rights, and the values motivating the collective inhabiting and managing of the estate. We then apply our typology using the case of the 4Stelle Hotel, a collaborative housing estate in Rome. This study lays the foundations for future international comparative research that moves beyond the reductive understanding of collaborative housing as property sharing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 121-141 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2123272 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2123272 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:121-141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2123268_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Rachel Ong ViforJ Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Ong ViforJ Author-Name: Hal Pawson Author-X-Name-First: Hal Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson Author-Name: Ranjodh Singh Author-X-Name-First: Ranjodh Author-X-Name-Last: Singh Author-Name: Chris Martin Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Title: Analysing the effectiveness of demand-side rental subsidies: the case of Australia’s Commonwealth Rent Assistance scheme Abstract: Proponents of demand-side rental subsidy programmes have argued that they enhance consumer choice while costing less than supply-side interventions. However, unanswered questions remain on the effectiveness of demand-side rental subsidies in reducing affordability stress among low-income renters. This paper analyses Australia’s Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) as a case study for evaluating the effectiveness of housing allowance interventions. Our evaluation exemplifies some important policy principles. First, we demonstrate that a multi-pronged package can simultaneously improve adequacy and targeting on those in greatest housing stress, while maintaining revenue neutrality. Second, whether CRA is designed as an income-oriented or housing-oriented subsidy can affect its effectiveness in improving rental affordability. Third, country-specific institutional contexts cannot be ignored. In Australia, constitutional amendments may be required if CRA is to be paid as a stand-alone housing payment rather than as a supplement to other social security payments. Furthermore, given the role of CRA in the esoteric funding structure of social housing, reforms to payment structure must incorporate meaningful measures to avoid unintended damaging consequences in this arena. Finally, any implementation of reforms should be embedded within a strong housing logic that aims to reduce affordability stress rather than as part of a fiscal cost reduction exercise. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 75-97 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2123268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2123268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:75-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2089083_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Sharon Parkinson Author-X-Name-First: Sharon Author-X-Name-Last: Parkinson Author-Name: Gavin A. Wood Author-X-Name-First: Gavin A. Author-X-Name-Last: Wood Author-Name: Iain Campbell Author-X-Name-First: Iain Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell Title: Labour and housing market precarity: What is the impact of time-related underemployment? Abstract: Though unemployment has long been recognised as a threat to housing security, the impact of time-related underemployment remains neglected. This article takes an integrated approach, linking unemployment and underemployment within the context of a household analysis of housing insecurity. It draws on panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and deploys an innovative measure that differentiates households in terms of employment hours deficits. The results confirm a significant relationship between total employment hours deficits within the household and housing payment arrears and reinforce the importance of integrating time-related underemployment into labour market and housing analysis. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 1-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2089083 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2089083 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:1-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2308739_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Shuai Shi Author-X-Name-First: Shuai Author-X-Name-Last: Shi Author-Name: Siu Kei Wong Author-X-Name-First: Siu Kei Author-X-Name-Last: Wong Author-Name: Ruiyang Wang Author-X-Name-First: Ruiyang Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Chongyu Wang Author-X-Name-First: Chongyu Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Title: Does housing status matter? Evidence from Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong Abstract: Face-fo-face contact is known to be the primary transmission route of the Covid-19 virus. Social norm and positional good theories suggest that people would interact with others selectively in order to fulfil social needs and prevent infections simultaneously. Previous studies focus on the impact of conventional social status factors (e.g., income and occupation) on virus transmission. It is unclear whether housing status, as another proxy of social status, also plays a role. This article thus makes use of three salient housing features – housing price, ownership rate, and wealth gap – to elucidate housing status and its link to public health. We combine the data of Covid-19 cases, housing transactions, and Census statistics to quantitatively estimate the association between housing status and Covid-19 infections at the street block level in Hong Kong from January 2020 to December 2021. It is found that among infected neighbourhoods, those with lower housing prices, lower ownership share, and less variation in housing wealth face a larger risk of Covid-19 infections. The potential circular causation between housing status and viral transmission highlights the need for better coordination between public health and housing policies. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 316-343 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2308739 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2024.2308739 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:316-343 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2100614_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Francesco Maniglio Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Maniglio Author-Name: Fernando Casado Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Casado Title: The right to housing under the new Latin American constitutionalism: progresses and challenges in the Ecuadorian case study Abstract: In recent decades, most Latin American countries have had their constitutions substantially amended, and several countries have introduced new constitutions altogether. Ecuador’s new constitution came into effect in 2008 and, ever since, the society has shifted its traditional attitudes towards social rights, which had previously been undervalued and dismissed as mere subjective issues. Regarding housing as a basic human right, the promotion of social housing has been constitutionally guaranteed, and public policies have been set forth for that purpose. The present work will analyse: (1) the justice procedures set out in order to enforce habitat and housing rights, as brought to the fore in Ecuador since the advent of the 2008 Constitution; and (2) the public housing policies enforced, emphasising their historical constraints, financial aims, political potentialities, and actual outcomes, which in some cases were the reproduction of inequality. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 211-223 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2100614 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2100614 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:211-223 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2097853_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Sara Alidoust Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Alidoust Title: Older people, house-sitting and ethics of care Abstract: Urbanisation, housing affordability and an ageing population are key focus areas in major cities in Australia and worldwide. A lack of affordable housing is affecting a greater number of people, and particularly, a growing number of older populations. This paper draws inspiration from Power and Mee (Housing Studies, 35(3), 496, 2020) and asks: ‘is this a housing system that cares?’ The paper explores opportunities for care that emerge from practices of house-sharing and in particular house-sitting. Findings from semi-structured interviews with older house-sitters (aged 50 years and over) suggested house-sitting provides an affordable shelter for older people experiencing financial insecurity, thus has the potential to increase their capacity for care-related expenditure. Housing mobility, insecure tenure and a lack of a caring governance to manage the relationship between owners and sitters can however put older house-sitters in a vulnerable position, leading to negative impacts on their wellbeing. The research findings inform housing policy-makers and researchers about the growing practices of house-sitting among older people, and help grow and sustain a housing system that cares. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 191-210 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2097853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2097853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:191-210 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2147354_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Seyithan Özer Author-X-Name-First: Seyithan Author-X-Name-Last: Özer Author-Name: Alasdair Jones Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: Changing socio-spatial definitions of sufficiency of home: evidence from London (UK) before and during the Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions Abstract: In this paper, we explore how London residents understand, live, and experience their dwellings. Growing evidence shows that existing housing stock in the UK performs poorly in terms of functionality and flexibility. Policy and planning debates focus on the potential benefits of introducing standards for dwelling size while engaging less with broader questions of how to develop standards. Drawing on an online survey (n = 234) and in-depth interviews (n = 22) concerned with experiences of housing, we explore Londoners’ understandings of housing design sufficiency. Our findings show that experiences of dwellings, and understandings of those dwellings as sufficient for occupants’ needs, vary by household type and dwelling occupancy patterns. Moreover, social constructions of dwelling sufficiency are related not only to the size of dwellings, as often described and conceptualised by housing authorities in the UK, but also to the type, form, and layout of rooms. We further show that stay-at-home restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic challenged understandings of dwelling size and dwelling sufficiency. This prompts a discussion of the assumptions made in UK housing design regarding dwelling use, dwelling users, and future housing. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 290-315 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2147354 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2147354 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:290-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2154905_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Ali Osman Solak Author-X-Name-First: Ali Osman Author-X-Name-Last: Solak Title: Housing policies in Turkey post 2002 Abstract: Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP), has launched large-scale national housing programmes in line with the emerging international trend in low-income housing provision. This paper analyses the place of the government’s housing programmes in economic policy and in the international context to illustrate the overall picture of the Turkish housing policy in the AKP era. Housing programmes have enabled low and middle-income people to access homeownership. However, other areas of housing policy such as land provision, taxes, subsidies, or housing finance have ignored the housing needs of low-income households. The case of Turkey reveals that the area on which the government should focus for low-income housing provision is access to affordable finance. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 372-387 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2154905 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2154905 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:372-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2339441_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Jin Zhu Author-X-Name-First: Jin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhu Author-Name: Hal Pawson Author-X-Name-First: Hal Author-X-Name-Last: Pawson Author-Name: Shenjing He Author-X-Name-First: Shenjing Author-X-Name-Last: He Author-Name: Bingqin Li Author-X-Name-First: Bingqin Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: COVID-19 and aggravated housing precarity for international students: an Australian case study Abstract: Housing experience of international students has attracted increasing academic attention in recent years. Australia’s large international student population is largely reliant on lightly-regulated private rental housing, a market sector subject to extreme turbulence during COVID-19. However, while aspects of Australian student housing stress during the pandemic have been already investigated, the specific issues affecting a substantial component of the broader cohort have yet to be examined. Around 130,000 Australian international students were stranded overseas for two years (2020-22) by international border closures. Their experiences cast new light on vulnerable renter precarity in lightly-regulated markets. Via an online survey and in-depth interviews, this paper examines the challenges posed for stranded international students in terms of their Australian tenancies, and how these were handled. Three main findings emerge: 1) uncertainty deriving from travel restrictions reduced student bargaining power in the rental market; 2) inability to terminate leases, unfavourable rent negotiation outcomes and welfare exclusion caused serious financial stress; and 3) widespread subletting exposed students to eviction and exploitation. These findings foreground important downsides of Australia’s long-existing neoliberal university regime and inadequate student housing provision that endanger the fundamental purposes of higher education, and risk tarnishing Australia’s reputation as an international student destination. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 344-371 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2339441 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2024.2339441 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:344-371 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2346371_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Amber Howard Author-X-Name-First: Amber Author-X-Name-Last: Howard Title: Private Renting in the Advanced Economies: Growth and Change in a Financialised World Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 388-391 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2346371 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2024.2346371 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:388-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2097852_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Raven Simonds Author-X-Name-First: Raven Author-X-Name-Last: Simonds Author-Name: Natasha B. Khade Author-X-Name-First: Natasha B. Author-X-Name-Last: Khade Author-Name: Jacob T.N. Young Author-X-Name-First: Jacob T.N. Author-X-Name-Last: Young Title: Does paid transitional housing impact reentry outcomes during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders? Evidence from a natural experiment within an RCT Abstract: In response to COVID-19, states implemented stay-at-home orders, affecting two key correlates of recidivism: housing and employment. In this study, we examine how a programme that sought to facilitate successful reintegration through paid transitional housing was impacted by stay-at-home orders. Specifically, we evaluate the impact of an RCT where formerly incarcerated individuals were provided with paid transitional housing before and during a stay-at-home order. Results indicate no difference in the likelihood of the treatment group and control group to be employed or return to prison prior to the stay-at-home order. After the implementation of the stay-at-home order, however, individuals in the treatment group were more likely to be employed and less likely to return to prison. Our findings suggest that the relationship between housing, employment, and re-incarceration was further exacerbated during the pandemic. The findings illustrate the benefits of paid transitional housing for those returning home during the pandemic. With the economic and social consequences of COVID-19 likely to persist, finding ways to set up formerly incarcerated individuals for success is imperative. Results suggest that paid transitional housing and additional housing assistance may be one avenue to accomplish this goal. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 246-267 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2097852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2097852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:246-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2132460_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Alan Morris Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Morris Author-Name: Catherine Robinson Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Author-Name: Jan Idle Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Idle Author-Name: David Lilley Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Lilley Title: Ideal bureaucracy? The application and assessment process for social housing in three Australian states Abstract: Social housing in Australia is an extremely scarce resource in high demand. This scarcity makes how applicants are prioritised for this resource a crucially important process with significant consequences. We examine the assessment process in three Australian states, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. In all three, the processes in place are premised on the assumption that they allow for the fair assessment and allocation of social housing to those most in need. Drawing on interviews with 40 informants with expert knowledge of the application process, we examine the three different approaches. We use Weber’s concept of ideal type bureaucracy to assist and frame the analysis. A central premise of Weber’s analysis is that to avoid corruption, discretion in the making of decisions should not be a feature of a bureaucracy. We conclude that although the assessment processes in place are rule-bound, in many instances discretion is essential and beneficial for the applicant. Further, we demonstrate (in line with Weber’s analysis), that the expertise of assessment workers is key. However, there is limited transparency and appealing a decision is possible but can be a challenging task. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 224-245 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2132460 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2132460 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:224-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2346370_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Catherine Hastings Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Hastings Title: Homelessness: A Critical Introduction Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 391-394 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2346370 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2024.2346370 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:intjhp:v:24:y:2024:i:2:p:391-394 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: REUJ_A_2133341_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a 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: The theory and practice of a politics of compassion in the private rental sector: a study of Aotearoa, NZ and ‘kindness’ during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: What is a politics of compassion, and what are the implications for the private rental sector? In this article, we describe how an intended politics of compassion manifested in Aotearoa during the pandemic and analyse how this compares to compassion’s theoretical framing in the work of Martha Nussbaum. Building on these theoretical insights, we then turn to practice, by analysing the vulnerabilities of, and barriers to, a politics of compassion evident in Government and landlord response to renters during the pandemic. We find a compounding of existing power inequity and the absence of compassion from political and administrative understandings in the face of neoliberal myths of the individualised market and fear of opportunism from those in poverty. We conclude with a discussion of the potential for a more compassionate private rental sector and make the case for an analysis of power, equity, and justice, in the theory and practice of a politics of compassion. Journal: International Journal of Housing Policy Pages: 268-289 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2024 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2133341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/19491247.2022.2133341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. 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