Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2204901
Laura Bates, D. Collins
ABSTRACT The housing studies field has been critiqued since the 1980s for under-engagement with theory. In this paper, we present the findings of a systematic literature review that investigates the extent to which contemporary housing scholarship engages with theory. By reviewing all research papers published in three leading housing journals in 2019 and 2020, we identify references to theory and evaluate the extent of engagement with theory. In total, 313 papers were reviewed to assess current theoretical frontiers in housing studies. We conclude that the theory-scape of housing research is more complex and nuanced than previously depicted, with contemporary scholarship engaging meaningfully with diverse theoretical frameworks of both “general” and “housing-specific” application. Our findings illuminate how housing studies is growing not only as an interdisciplinary field, but also as a well-theorized one.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2205403
Kimberly Skobba
ABSTRACT The use of housing career and housing pathways concepts has increased over the past several decades. The two concepts have shared origins in housing research but have different theoretical foundations. Housing careers and housing pathways concepts are defined as synonyms, distinctly different but complementary, and incompatible concepts. While the lack of shared definitions is common in interdisciplinary research, it may result in a fragmented knowledge base and hindrance to theory development and use. This research uses concept analysis to examine definitions of the concepts of housing career and housing pathways provided in the literature between 2001 and 2020. The analysis findings suggest that the concepts have both shared and unique attributes. However, concept definitions were missing or inconsistent across the literature, and distinctions between housing career and housing pathways concepts were often unclear. Grounding concepts in theory appears to result in greater concept definition consistency.
{"title":"Housing Careers and Housing Pathways: Conceptual Evolution or Confusion?","authors":"Kimberly Skobba","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2023.2205403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2205403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The use of housing career and housing pathways concepts has increased over the past several decades. The two concepts have shared origins in housing research but have different theoretical foundations. Housing careers and housing pathways concepts are defined as synonyms, distinctly different but complementary, and incompatible concepts. While the lack of shared definitions is common in interdisciplinary research, it may result in a fragmented knowledge base and hindrance to theory development and use. This research uses concept analysis to examine definitions of the concepts of housing career and housing pathways provided in the literature between 2001 and 2020. The analysis findings suggest that the concepts have both shared and unique attributes. However, concept definitions were missing or inconsistent across the literature, and distinctions between housing career and housing pathways concepts were often unclear. Grounding concepts in theory appears to result in greater concept definition consistency.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"485 - 502"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47088258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2200784
Chi Jin, B. Li, S. Jansen, H. Boumeester, P. Boelhouwer
ABSTRACT In the context of skyrocketing house prices and fierce competition for talents between cities, this study explores the housing pathways of young talents and their future migration plans in Shenzhen, China. Using the housing pathways approach and Bourdieu’s theory of practice with three concepts, this study uncovers how structural factors and the often-overlooked agency factors together influence the formation of different housing pathways. Drawing on 18 semi-structured interviews with young talents, four different housing pathways were identified: staying at parents’ home, private renting to owning, talented renting, and progressive private renting. We found that the interaction of habitus and different forms of capital shapes different housing pathways. In addition, young talents following different housing pathways have various future migration plans. This paper sheds new light on the use of the housing pathways approach and Bourdieu’s theory of practice in providing a nuanced understanding of housing and migration behaviour.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2186946
Ids Baalbergen, Gideon S. Bolt, Yanliu Lin, P. Hooimeijer
ABSTRACT Sub-standard living conditions among migrant workers have become a structural feature all over Europe. Although this has attracted the attention of many scholars, there is a lack of studies on the complex relations between various stakeholders in governing housing. This study fills this gap by analysing this housing issue from a governance network perspective. Through an analysis of policy documents and interviews with twenty-one stakeholders, we investigated institutional and strategic complexities. The results show that decision-making is complicated by unclear institutional accountability patterns and the diverging strategic interests of various stakeholders. The interrelationship between the loosely defined institutional setting (structure) and the varying interests of involved actors (agency) has led to a policy impasse that is difficult to breach. We argue that a reconsideration of existing accountability patterns is needed to reduce sub-standard housing conditions among migrant workers in the Netherlands.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2181863
Casey J. Dawkins
ABSTRACT This article provides a survey and critique of several arguments advanced to support the claim that gentrification is unjust. I describe eight distinct injustices have been linked to gentrification: deprivation, estrangement, erasure, domination, censure, exploitation, disrespect, and marginalization. Scholars seeking to provide a comprehensive account of the injustices associated with gentrification must contend with the plural and contested nature of gentrification-induced injustice, the pervasiveness of domination as a distinct form of injustice and a component or contributor to other forms of injustice, and the difficulty of accommodating individual and collective forms of injustice within a single conception of justice. Although landlords, property owners, developers, and gentrifiers share blame for inflicting the harms of gentrification, states ultimately have the moral obligation to rectify the injustices of gentrification through the establishment of policies and institutions that discourage unjust actions.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2173287
Stefanie Plage, Ella Kuskoff, Cameron Parsell, Andrew Clarke, Christine Ablaza, F. Perales
ABSTRACT Increasingly unaffordable housing means that family homelessness represents an urgent issue for social policy and practice. Targeting families at risk of homelessness, Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) subsidizes leases and offers support aimed at sustaining tenancies and family unity. We explore how short-term funding cycles in an advanced welfare system impacts experiences with service delivery. Building on housing scholarship employing an ontological security lens, we interrogate the temporal dimensions of SHF, and how these are intertwined with understandings of home in spatial terms. The analyses are based on research conducted to examine a 12-month SHF pilot in Southeast Queensland, Australia. We analyse qualitative interviews conducted with families (n=17), statutory child protection officers (n=7), and SHF support workers (n=10) involved in this pilot. Findings indicate that fixed-term funding impacts every aspect of service delivery, resulting in the collective production of ontological insecurity, as families continue to long for a forever home.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-29DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2171111
K. Brickell, Mel Nowicki, E. Harris
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how stigma is constructed and deconstructed through linguistic and aesthetic dimensions of “Rapid Build” housing in Dublin, Ireland. Through analyses of in-depth interviews and focus groups with residents and stakeholders, we explore how the nomenclature and brick-clad modular construction of the builds influenced residents’ experiences of stigma. Emphasizing the importance of the symbolic dimensions of housing materialities in mediating stigma, we argue resident experiences reflect the importance of understanding relationships between social housing construction and stigma power in three interrelated ways. First, the nomenclature and materiality of housing has a profound effect on social imaginaries of residents and their self-perceptions. Second, stigmatized groups are not devoid of agency within constructions of stigma, and are both actors in the embedding of, and resistance to, its production. Third, engaging with residents’ experiences is integral to better understanding, and resisting, the role of architecture in the “stigma machine”.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-08DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2022.2161622
Rachel Ong ViforJ, Christopher Phelps
ABSTRACT This paper unpacks the drivers of growing intergenerational housing wealth inequality in Australia. We also account for the multidimensional nature of housing wealth divides by examining the interaction between age and other divides. We find that the Australian intergenerational housing wealth gap widened from 161% in 1997–98 to 234% in 2017–18, favouring the older cohort. This was driven by lower rates of homeownership and lower property value growth among younger cohorts, with the relative lack of homeownership access the more significant driver. However, higher rates of couple formation and tertiary education amongst the young mitigated a further widening of the gap. The intergenerational housing wealth gap is exacerbated within specific population subgroups. The growing housing wealth gap between the income-poor young and income-rich old has been particularly alarming, climbing from 532% to 1230% over two decades. We discuss implications for policies seeking to alleviate intergenerational tensions in housing markets.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2022.2163283
Peta Wolifson, Sophia Maalsen, D. Rogers
ABSTRACT Rental discrimination is a key factor in the reproduction of socio-economic inequality under emergent rentier capitalism within the asset society. Our research into the effects of discrimination in the Australian private rental sector shows how factors including age, race, gender and socio-economic status intersect to shape experiences of discrimination. A compounding and exponential discriminatory burden – financial, psychological, and physical – confronts those experiencing discrimination based on more than one factor. Yet, to date, policy aimed at improving housing experiences has largely been ad hoc and carried out in policy siloes. We argue for an intersectionalized approach to housing research, planning and policy, highlighting the conceptual value of intersectionality for responding to structural disadvantage and lived experiences of discrimination amid rentier and asset logics.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2022.2163513
Catherine Hastings, L. Craig
ABSTRACT In rich-economy countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand women are increasingly experiencing first-time homelessness in older age. Focusing on the specific case of Australia, this article develops a theoretical critical realist causal account of how a gendered role in care and social reproduction has increased contemporary homelessness risk by constraining women’s capacity to build financial security. We show how gender, capitalism and age have intersected as social structures to explain gendered economic outcomes for women over the life course; and how life events, individual women’s experiences, agency, and decision-making interact with these structures to explain homelessness. Women’s gendered financial vulnerability, accumulated whilst living conventional lives, sits at the heart of older women’s susceptibility to housing loss. Limited resources reduce their capacity to respond to crises challenging their housing security within the contemporary context of Australia’s unaffordable housing market.
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