Pub Date : 2021-03-12DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1900905
J. Adianto, R. T. Gabe, Muhammad Attariq Zamel
ABSTRACT This study explores the commoning of public goods by residents of rental apartment buildings in Indonesia. Rental apartments have been Indonesia’s means of providing affordable housing to people evicted from high-density kampung settlements. However, this mass-produced housing presents various socio-spatial problems for the underprivileged residents, who have responded in many cases by taking over and repurposing public areas. A rental apartment complex in Jatinegara, East Jakarta, was examined as a case study to understand the transformations of corridors on many of its floors. The study found that commoning among neighbours and building management transformed the public into common goods and that the occupants negotiated agreements among themselves to avert rivalry over the newly appropriated resources. This study recommends a new perspective of rental apartment design, regulations, and management to accommodate the commoning of the tenants to meet their unaccommodated needs.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1881611
M. Lundholm
ABSTRACT This study contributes to the extant research on foreclosure by focusing on the relevance of lender-borrower relations. Donald Black’s theory of the behaviour of law is assessed by examining the association between revocation of compulsory sale by the lender and four different variables, proxying variations in the scope, history, and frequency of contact between the lender and the borrower. This association is modelled in a logistic regression framework of micro-level data on compulsory sale and mortgage borrowers in Sweden from 2010 to 2014. The results indicate that there are more revocations in cases that are deferred by the lender. There are fewer revocations in cases with digital banks and when there are also other creditors than the lender. These empirical findings partially confirm Donald Black’s propositions about the association between the quantity of law and relational distance, and point at the importance of lender-borrower relations in explaining foreclosure outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-21DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1888788
Daniël Bossuyt
ABSTRACT Tenure in collaborative housing remains under contextualized. Unpacking tenure contributes to internal differentiation of collaborative housing, its comparison to other modes of housing provision and the evaluation of potential benefits. This paper develops an ideal-typical typology of tenure through property regimes. These constitute social arrangements regarding the allocation of rights, rules and roles with respect to a resource. In terms of organizational characteristics, collaborative housing is based on limited common property, self-governance and sets of internal rules. While sharing these characteristics with other residential communities, collaborative housing can be differentiated by virtue of collectively held management and commissioning rights. Property regimes are a mediating variable for both positive and negative effects attributed to collaborative housing.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-10DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1887348
H. Holmes, G. Burgess
ABSTRACT Homelessness remains a prevalent issue, and estimates of the number of people without adequate shelter in the UK suggest that the issue is growing. This research draws on literature on the cognitive impact of poverty, stigma, and self-esteem to show how confidence is improved by coaching programmes with those at risk of homelessness. The paper is based on empirical research into one such programme which offers one-to-one guidance on the interlinked issues of financial management, digital skills, and employability. The research shows that coaching helps to provide relief for participants, which in turn frees up “mental bandwidth”, allowing them to focus on issues such as managing debt and rent arrears. Confidence and self-esteem, which are often lowered by class-related stigma, are also shown to improve, and it is concluded here that this is largely due to participants becoming more closely aligned with normative neoliberal assignments of value.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1879252
R. Chiu
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the comparative housing and policy transfer scholarship by analysing marketized-socialist Shenzhen’s processes of transferring liberal-interventionist Hong Kong’s subsidized housing policy between 1988 and 2020 and by explaining the transfer trajectory and policy outcomes. Data were collected from in-depth interviews, published policy documents and site visits. Applying policy transfer concepts, the study reveals that the transfer evolved from almost wholesale transplant to self-policy development, then lately signs of re-convergence emerged. Overall, Shenzhen utilises more market resources and regulatory tools in subsidy provision but operates a much smaller public housing sector than Hong Kong. The transfer trajectory and policy outcomes are rooted in incompatibility and changes in policy contextual environment, specifically socio-economic functions of housing policy and the cities’ jurisdictional and spatial scales; and in policy operational environments: differences in planning governance, tenure policy and housing finance model. Temporality is essential for understanding policy transfer and its efficacy.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-02DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2021.1939135
Colin Jones, Abdulkader Mostafa
ABSTRACT Very little empirical attention has been given to the mobility constraints linked to accessibility to and upgrading within home ownership. Both are central to the operation of the housing market and can be seen within a framework of housing careers. This paper places them also in the context of changing housing market conditions and in particular the role of housing cycles. The research simulates, in purely financial terms, the behaviour of the average first-time buyers in each region of the UK over three decades. The analysis finds the accessibility mobility constraint is more psychological than financial but is also dependent on interest rates and the scale and duration of market downturns. The analysis of the upgrading constraint through housing cycles demonstrates that the ease of moving in the upturn fuels a boom but the subsequent inabilities to accumulate the capital necessary for such a move brings a long muted recovery.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-11DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2020.1867236
B. Watts, Janice Blenkinsopp
ABSTRACT Informed by the capabilities approach, this paper considers the importance of control over one’s environment for people experiencing homelessness. Drawing on a study of temporary accommodation in Scotland, we make four arguments. First, control over one’s immediate living environment has been insufficiently recognized as a foundational component of a minimally decent life within the capabilities literature. Second, such control is compromised, sometimes severely, in temporary accommodation provided for homeless households, with these impacts especially acute in congregate accommodation. Third, lacking control over one’s immediate environment can be understood as a corrosive disadvantage that actively damages people’s bodily and mental health and affiliation-related capabilities. Fourth, both intrinsic and contingent features of different kinds of temporary accommodation are implicated in constraining people’s control over their environment. This distinction enables us to identify changes to existing provision that can mitigate their negative impacts, and to clarify where accommodation models are inherently problematic.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-30DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2020.1867235
Evelyne Dyb
ABSTRACT In the course of two decades, “homelessness” was re-defined/re-invented in Norway. Homelessness” had long been seen as a social problem and a moral issue. Then, in 1996, a survey conceptualized it as a housing issue. A broader concept of unfavourable positions in the housing market was operationalized to include various situations beyond the narrow stereotypes of shelter-user and vagrant. The survey enumerated, defined and delimited the population of “homeless persons” as constituting a new category of statistics. This approach paralleled major policy shifts in housing politics and the reshaping of the Norwegian State Housing Bank. Drawing on the concept of governmentality, this article investigates how homelessness, previously placed in the sphere of social problems, was re-defined as a housing problem and became a force in developing a new field of social housing policy. The “new” concept includes an administrative territorial aspect defining who are deemed homeless and who are not.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-29DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2020.1867234
Damilola Aguda, C. Leishman
ABSTRACT Many housing researchers and policymakers assume that homeownership remains the tenure of choice for many individuals and their households in the UK and internationally. Housing affordability concerns and access to mortgage finance have taken centre stage in the debate about the declining prospects for young adults to enter homeownership. Yet, some recent studies have questioned how well we understand other factors that combine to shape housing and tenure outcomes for young adults. We specifically ask whether different combinations of neighbourhood effects, homeownership path dependency and social capital influence tenure transitions for young adults. We provide estimates using multi-level mixed-effects logistic regression models using the British Household Panel Survey 2001-15 for Great Britain. We find evidence to support the argument that these specific effects help to shape housing and tenure outcomes for young adults, albeit with socialization within the family appearing to have a stronger effect in comparison to neighbourhood socialization.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-20DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2020.1853225
Steph Grohmann
ABSTRACT In UK public discourse, landlords count among the most unpopular figures. Their assumed immorality is often summarized in the image of the “parasite”. This paper draws on original ethnographic data from online communities for small-scale property investors who are also landlords, in order to explore what ethical ideas landlords themselves embrace. I argue that in the context of UK “asset-based welfare”, particularly the connection between pension provision and the property market, landlords can be seen to engage in ethical practices of “working on themselves” in order to become successful investor subjects. Next to techniques of affect management and the accumulation of “information capital”, this centrally involves eradicating in oneself ethical dispositions belonging to the waning paradigm of collectivized welfare and labour relations.
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