Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2272840
Jeremy Lim-Soh, Poh Lin Tan, Nikhitha Mary Mathew
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266383
Laura Witte, Jack Tsai, Paula Cuccaro, Andrea Link, Vanessa Cox, Vanessa Schick
AbstractIn the United States, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the main way that the federal government subsidizes place-based housing for low-income individuals including those with experiences of homelessness. Although these communities are at risk of criminal justice involvement (CJI), the relationship between living in LIHTC housing and CJI remains underexplored. This study analyzed data on a retrospective cohort of LIHTC supportive housing residents to examine changes in CJI after move-in and how residents with CJI and without CJI after move-in differed. Compared to the time period before move-in, arrests, convictions, and time sentenced to confinement decreased significantly after move-in. Age, sex, and more extensive criminal history were significantly associated with CJI after move-in. Using negative binomial regression, increasing time in housing was associated with decreasing arrests, convictions, and time sentenced to confinement after move-in.Keywords: Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)supportive housinghomelessnesslow-incomecriminal justice involvement AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the leadership, staff, and residents of New Hope Housing, Inc. (NHH) without whom this study would not be possible.Disclosure statementThis research was funded by New Hope Housing, Inc. (NHH). NHH had no input on analysis or reporting of these results. The primary author has disclosed these interests fully to Taylor & Francis and has in place an approved plan for managing any potential conflicts arising from this arrangement. This work was also supported by the Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research (HPEER) fellowship, through the VA Office of Academic Affiliations Advanced Fellowships Program. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the HPEER program or the Department of Veterans Affairs.Additional informationFundingThis research was funded by New Hope Housing, Inc. This work was also supported by Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research fellowship through the VA Office of Academic Affiliations Advanced Fellowships Program (3HPECCD2020).Notes on contributorsLaura WitteLaura Witte, DrPH, MPH is an advanced postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research and the National Center on Homelessness among Veterans fellowships. Her community-based research focuses on the health of veterans, LGBTQ+ communities, and individuals experiencing homelessness and incarceration.Jack TsaiJack Tsai, PhD, MSCP serves as Campus Dean and Professor of Public Health at the UTHealth School of Public Health. He also serves as Research Director for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He has received federally funded grants and publishe
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266391
Jinhee Yun, Megan E. Hatch
AbstractHousing insecurity is associated with myriad negative outcomes for individuals and communities. Less understood is the indirect and direct relationships between specific types of housing insecurity and health. Using Swope and Hernández’s (Citation2019) 4C’s of housing insecurity, data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), structural equation modelling, and binary logistic regression, we examine the relationship between different types of housing insecurity and mental and general health. We find housing cost independently decreases health outcomes while consistency insecurity indirectly affects health by increasing cost burdens. Most forms of housing cost, consistency, and context insecurity have independent and significant negative associations with short-term (12 month) and medium-term (seven to eight years) mental health. This suggests policymakers and advocates should place greater emphasis on housing assistance as an entitlement and cash assistance that vulnerable populations can use to address the cause of their specific type of housing insecurity.Keywords: Housing insecurityhealthhousing affordabilitycost burdenmental health AcknowledgementsWe thank the reviewers and editors for their helpful comments, which greatly improved this manuscript’s quality. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2021 American Society for Public Administration conference.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The most recent wave (wave V) was not fully released in time for this project.2 The final analytic sample used for this study is a subset of the original wave IV Add Health sample of 15,071 individuals. This sample consists of a total 11,303 respondents who possess non-missing data for all variables in the analysis (to avoid the need for data imputation).3 We do not include contextual variables in wave III in this model because of model stability issues. However, we get substantively similar results when including the context variables in wave III in our models.4 The SEM result without weights is largely similar to that of the analysis with weights, with three exceptions. As we expected, racial minority groups are statistically and significantly more likely to have housing insecurity for the unweighted SEM because Add Health oversampled racial minority parents with higher education (Chen & Chantala, Citation2014; Harris et al., Citation2009). Females are more likely to have a cost burden in wave IV (p < 0.001), and consistency in wave III and earlier has significant negative effects on general health (p < 0.001).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJinhee YunJinhee Yun is an Associate Research Fellow in the Department of Housing Culture Research at AURI (Architecture & Urban Research Institute). Her research focuses on poverty, the consequences of inequality, and the impacts of unequal access to opportunities, particularly on housing, ne
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2262949
Michal Synek, Dana Hradcová
AbstractHome is not only a concrete place and a complex system of relations, but also an end-in-view that connects perceived shortcomings in the current versions of home with the desired goals and the means to achieve them. Our case study centres on a dining improvement project which strives to create home in residential institutions for people identified as disabled by serving a ‘home-like meal’. We describe three versions of home that are enacted in residential institutions – home as a commune, home as a private space and home as an intimate sphere – and document how they influence the serving of meals. We combine pragmatic theory of valuation with ethnographic research of home-making practices to assess the feasibility of these ends-in-view in relation to the housing options available to the disabled-identified. We show that when the realization of the chosen goals proves unfeasible under present circumstances, the discrepancies between the desired and actual versions of home can be effaced through various re-contextualization strategies. Of the three versions of home encountered during our intervention/research, the home enacted as an intimate sphere is the one most firmly grounded in clients’ real wishes and needs, and therefore the one most favourable to positive change.Keywords: Residential homeinstitutional diningpragmatic theory of valuation AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Liat Ben-Moshe for convening the Critical Disability Studies Caucus II The home which is not one: Disability and institutional ‘home’ at the American Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, in 2016, where material used in this article was first presented, and for her stimulating comments. For their comments on previous versions of the article, we would also like to thank Terezie Lokšová and other students of Zdeněk Konopásek’s doctoral seminars at the Centre for Theoretical Study of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, as well as Jeannette Pols, Walter Lorenz, Kateřina Lišková, Andrea Bělehradová, Lenka Hadarová and the anonymous reviewers of Housing Studies. Last but not least, we would like to express our gratitude to the inhabitants (past and present) and employees of the residential institutions where our research for this article took place.The meal improvement intervention described in the article was realized as part of the ‘Gerontological and organisational supervision’ project, a joint project of the Gerontological Centre, the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University and the Czech Alzheimer Society. It obtained ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of the Gerontological Centre and was implemented with the agreement of the Regional Authority. The Czech Science Foundation’s grant GA ČR 19-07724S/P404, through which the analysis of the data and the publication of the article was supported, obtained ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University.Disclosure statement
摘要:家不仅是一个具体的场所和一个复杂的关系系统,而且是一个最终的视角,它将当前版本的家的缺陷与期望的目标和实现目标的手段联系起来。我们的案例研究集中在一个餐饮改善项目上,该项目致力于通过提供“家一样的饭菜”,为残疾人士在住宿机构中创造家。我们描述了在寄宿机构中形成的三种版本的家——作为公社的家、作为私人空间的家和作为亲密领域的家——并记录了它们如何影响饭菜的供应。我们将实用主义的估价理论与造家实践的人种学研究相结合,以评估这些目标的可行性——考虑到残疾人可获得的住房选择。我们的研究表明,当所选择的目标在当前情况下无法实现时,可以通过各种重新情境化策略来消除期望和实际家庭版本之间的差异。在我们的干预/研究中遇到的三种版本的家中,作为亲密空间的家是最牢固地建立在客户真实愿望和需求基础上的,因此是最有利于积极改变的。作者感谢Liat Ben-Moshe于2016年在科罗拉多州丹丹市举行的美国研究协会年会上召开了“关键残疾研究核心小组II:家不是一个:残疾和机构“家”,本文中使用的材料首次在会上提出,并感谢她的鼓舞人心的评论。我们还要感谢Terezie Lokšová和zden<e:1> Konopásek在查尔斯大学理论研究中心和捷克科学院博士研讨会上的其他学生,以及Jeannette Pols、Walter Lorenz、Kateřina Lišková、Andrea b<e:1> lehradov<e:1>、Lenka hadarov<e:1>和《住房研究》的匿名审稿人。最后但并非最不重要的是,我们要感谢我们为这篇文章进行研究的居住机构的居民(过去和现在)和员工。文章中描述的膳食改善干预是作为“老年学和组织监督”项目的一部分实现的,该项目是老年学中心、查尔斯大学人文学院和捷克阿尔茨海默病协会的联合项目。它获得了老年学中心伦理委员会的伦理批准,并在区域当局的同意下实施。捷克科学基金会资助GA ČR 19-07724S/P404,通过该基金支持数据分析和文章发表,并获得查尔斯大学人文学院伦理委员会的伦理批准。作者无竞争利益需要申报。注1搭配“mental impairment”可能是这个最广泛使用的捷克术语最接近的英语翻译。通过把它加上引号,我们与它的冒犯性用法保持距离,而它的构造过程——我们称之为“标记”——将在文章的第五节中详细讨论自2007年通过新的后社会主义社会服务法(捷克共和国议会,Citation2006)以来,居住在"健康障碍者之家"的人被称为"服务使用者",或更通俗地称为"客户",这反映了新自由主义普遍强调顾客/供应商关系。虽然将我们故事中的主角简单地称为“食客”、“食客”或“居民”可能更准确,但我们坚持使用用户/提供者这两种最广泛使用的术语许多项目参与者认为对座位顺序的干预是改善餐厅氛围的有效方法所有的名字都改了斜体原文。本出版物由捷克科学基金会资助,资助GA ČR 19-07724S/P404“脆弱住宅中的弱势居民:对住宅护理紧张关系的调查”。在丹佛举行的美国研究协会年会上,捷克共和国教育、青年和体育部通过“研究机构长期发展的机构支持”资助了一项试点研究,该资助于2016年授予查尔斯大学人文学院,并于2014年至2018年授予马萨里克大学社会研究学院。文章中描述的膳食改善干预措施是由地区管理局资助的“老年学和组织监督”项目的一部分。 作者简介:michael Synek是一位社会学家和民族志学家。他的研究领域包括:痴呆症患者的护理组织、寄宿机构的膳食供应、残疾人士在“家中”的护理和维护实践,以及最近被诊断为精神障碍的人的生活故事。现任英国查尔斯大学人文学院应用社会科学系高级研究员。他对在科学技术研究、残疾研究和护理研究的交叉领域具有实际影响的理论问题感兴趣。Dana HradcováDana hradcov<e:1>从护理研究和经验伦理学的角度研究被认定为残疾人的相互依赖、残疾和解放。她参与了与残疾生活相关的跨学科研究项目,解决了去机构化和长期护理的挑战。在她对社会和卫生保健工作者以及社会和卫生保健服务管理人员的教学中,她着重于合作学习和行动,通过合作制作、民族志和叙事访谈来探索和发展服务。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266412
Alexandre Flage, Julie Le Gallo
AbstractWe implement correspondence testing to detect and assess the extent of discrimination against people with disabilities in the French rental housing market. By sending 1,750 emails in a matched-pair procedure, we provide evidence of significant and extensive discrimination against blind people with a guide dog, individuals with mental disabilities, and individuals with motor impairments in the process of rented housing allocation. However, the primary cause of discrimination against blind individuals appears to stem from the presence of the guide dog, rather than the disability itself. Our results are also consistent with the presence of statistical discrimination (particularly based on financial means). We find that absolute discrimination against disabled applicants increases in accordance with the level of rent, while real estate agents discriminate significantly less against disabled applicants than private landlords.Keywords: Disabilitydiscriminationtestinghousing marketfield experimentJEL CLASSIFICATION: C93C12J14R21 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 French law n° 2008-496 of May 27, 2008: ‘Constitutes direct discrimination the situation in which, on the basis of their origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, etc., one person is treated less favorably than another is, has been or will have been in a comparable situation. Constitutes indirect discrimination a provision, a criterion or a practice that is neutral in appearance, but likely to entail, for one of the reasons mentioned in the first paragraph, a particular disadvantage for people compared to other people, unless this provision, this criterion or this practice is objectively justified by a legitimate aim and that the means to achieve this aim are necessary and appropriate.’2 For instance, on June 28, 2005, the 17th Correctional Chamber of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris condemned a landlord who had refused to rent an apartment in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, located on the 6th floor with an elevator, on the grounds that the prospective tenant was a disabled person.3 By able-bodied person, we mean a person without physical and/or mental disabilities.4 https://www.ifop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/118472-Presentation.pdf5 By first stage, we mean the stage of expression of interest, where the applicant expresses their interest and contacts the landlord, who chooses to reply or not. The second stage usually involves the selected applicants visiting the rented property and the signing of a rental agreement between the landlord and the selected applicant. Therefore, while we measure the extent of discrimination at the first stage of the process, further discrimination can still happen at the second stage.6 Indeed, this study compares response rates for disabled applicants and able-bodied applicants when the disabled applicant is more qualified for the housing – for example, having a higher level of inco
主要研究方向为住房经济学、空间经济学和地方公共经济学,尤其注重空间数据计量经济学和影响评价。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266392
Jia-Huey Yeh, Yucheng Zou, Guoliang Xu
AbstractThe surge in second-home ownership, particularly in China, has garnered significant interest. This study delves into the motivations and satisfaction levels of Chinese second-home owners, with a focus on Confucian cultural influences and ‘face’ consciousness. Surveying 327 s-home owners in Wentang Town, China, we employ a Structural Equation Model to unravel the intricate relationships. Our findings spotlight the importance of nostalgia in fostering place attachment, influencing both individual and family ‘face.’ Place attachment, in turn, positively impacts satisfaction, primarily mediated through family ‘face,’ underscoring the cultural significance of filial piety. Additionally, we identify a moderating effect of the distance between primary and second homes, emphasizing the role of Confucianism in shaping family-centric decisions. This study offers insights into the motivations and satisfaction of Chinese second-home owners, illuminating cultural nuances. It also provides practical recommendations for policymakers and the real estate industry, advocating for family-centric second-home experiences and improved transportation accessibility.Keywords: Second homemotivationsatisfactionfacefilial pietyWentang TownChina Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Only those Chinese elites and merchants knowledgeable on Confucianism and having outstanding political, social, and cultural contributions could join elite circles and be allowed to participate in seasonal tourist activities. Merchants not knowledgeable on Confucianism, no matter how rich and successful, were not accepted by these elite circles (Du & Chen, Citation2007; Salazar & Zhang, Citation2013).2 Culture can be classified into two types: individualist (such as Western cultures) and collectivist (such as Asian cultures) (Triandis, Citation1998).3 Benson and O’reillys’ (2009) review the existing studies and explain the concepts of lifestyle mobility including inter alia, retirement mobility, leisure mobility, (international) counter urbanisation, second-home ownership, amenity-seeking and seasonal mobility.Additional informationFundingThis study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42161047).Notes on contributorsJia-Huey YehJia-Huey Yeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Uban Planning and Development Management at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. Her research focuses on housing inequality, affordable housing, and urban economics.Yucheng ZouYucheng Zou is a PhD student in the Department of Land Resources Management at Zhejiang University, China. His research focuses on regional economics and housing inequality.Guoliang XuGuoliang Xu is an assistant professor in the School of Finance and Public Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics. His research focuses on human geography, and land use management.
{"title":"Home plus home: understanding Chinese second-home owners’ motivations and satisfaction through the role of ‘face’","authors":"Jia-Huey Yeh, Yucheng Zou, Guoliang Xu","doi":"10.1080/02673037.2023.2266392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2266392","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe surge in second-home ownership, particularly in China, has garnered significant interest. This study delves into the motivations and satisfaction levels of Chinese second-home owners, with a focus on Confucian cultural influences and ‘face’ consciousness. Surveying 327 s-home owners in Wentang Town, China, we employ a Structural Equation Model to unravel the intricate relationships. Our findings spotlight the importance of nostalgia in fostering place attachment, influencing both individual and family ‘face.’ Place attachment, in turn, positively impacts satisfaction, primarily mediated through family ‘face,’ underscoring the cultural significance of filial piety. Additionally, we identify a moderating effect of the distance between primary and second homes, emphasizing the role of Confucianism in shaping family-centric decisions. This study offers insights into the motivations and satisfaction of Chinese second-home owners, illuminating cultural nuances. It also provides practical recommendations for policymakers and the real estate industry, advocating for family-centric second-home experiences and improved transportation accessibility.Keywords: Second homemotivationsatisfactionfacefilial pietyWentang TownChina Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Only those Chinese elites and merchants knowledgeable on Confucianism and having outstanding political, social, and cultural contributions could join elite circles and be allowed to participate in seasonal tourist activities. Merchants not knowledgeable on Confucianism, no matter how rich and successful, were not accepted by these elite circles (Du & Chen, Citation2007; Salazar & Zhang, Citation2013).2 Culture can be classified into two types: individualist (such as Western cultures) and collectivist (such as Asian cultures) (Triandis, Citation1998).3 Benson and O’reillys’ (2009) review the existing studies and explain the concepts of lifestyle mobility including inter alia, retirement mobility, leisure mobility, (international) counter urbanisation, second-home ownership, amenity-seeking and seasonal mobility.Additional informationFundingThis study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42161047).Notes on contributorsJia-Huey YehJia-Huey Yeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Uban Planning and Development Management at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. Her research focuses on housing inequality, affordable housing, and urban economics.Yucheng ZouYucheng Zou is a PhD student in the Department of Land Resources Management at Zhejiang University, China. His research focuses on regional economics and housing inequality.Guoliang XuGuoliang Xu is an assistant professor in the School of Finance and Public Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics. His research focuses on human geography, and land use management.","PeriodicalId":48138,"journal":{"name":"HOUSING STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136209901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266396
Erin Dej, John Ecker, Natasha Martino
AbstractThe right to housing is enshrined in Canadian law, however, access to housing can be limited by administrative requirements. This is particularly true for people experiencing homelessness and/or insecure housing, as they may not have access to documentation, such as identification or notice of assessments (i.e. income tax verification). The current research examines program eligibility and documentation requirements for access to social housing across Canada. Sixty-seven communities that receive funding from Canada’s federal government were examined via Internet-based searches. Eligibility requirements were grouped into five main categories: (1) Citizenship; (2) Finances; (3) Support needs; (4) Housing history; and (5) Legal history. Similarly, documentation requirements were grouped into four main categories: (1) Identification and Citizenship; (2) Finances; (3) Housing history; and (4) Personal circumstances. The results demonstrate the complexities in applying and being approved for social housing in Canada. The potentially onerous eligibility and documentation requirements may limit access to social housing for those who are most in need. Policy and program recommendations are discussed to improve access to social housing in Canada.Keywords: Social housingadministrative barriershomelessnesssocial policy Disclosure statementThe authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Table 1. Prevalence index of program requirements.Download CSVDisplay TableNotes1 Data coming from communities Point in Time counts reveal that unsheltered homelessness increased significantly in 2021, during the pandemic, compared to the previous 2018 count. See, for example, Dufferin County (Citation2021) 2021 Point-in-Time Count Results Report; Flow Community Projects (Citation2021) Regina Homelessness Count; Niagara Region (Citation2021) Niagara Counts Results 2021; Homelessness Services Association of BC (Citation2021) 2020/21 Report on Homeless Counts in B.C.; Brantford-Brant (Citation2021) 2021 Point-in-Time Count Report.2 Of course, particular people and groups continue to be denied these rights both formally and substantively. For example, newcomers who do not hold citizenship status are ineligible for many social rights, and First Nations People living on reserves are regularly denied equal access to health, education, and housing resources, as evidenced through the ongoing legal challenges to actualize Jordan’s Principle (Blackstock, Citation2016).Additional informationNotes on contributorsErin DejErin Dej, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She studies and advocates against the social exclusion of unhoused people, including the criminalization of homelessness. She is the author of A Complex Exile: Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada, with UBC Press.John EckerJohn Ecker, PhD, is a Research Manager at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Unity Health Toronto, and the Director
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266409
Guya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho
AbstractIf literature has stressed the role of marginal gentrifiers in bringing resources to the areas where they move, apart for relevant exceptions, the potentialities and limits of their contribution to urban struggles has not been systematically addressed. This article assesses the role of these newcomers in the defence of the right to housing in post-austerity Lisbon focusing on their interaction with established activist networks. Resorting to a multi-method approach and an interactionist social movement framework, our study is supported by event analysis, 22 interviews, ethnographic observation and a questionnaire-survey. Our findings show that interactions between marginal gentrifiers and previous housing players helped to consolidate the local activist arena and contributed to the emergence of new urban collective contentious identities. Nevertheless, this contribution seems partially affected by further displacement waves in the context of growing gentrification and touristification, which have threatened the survival of resistance networks. The case of Lisbon can help illuminate similar processes in contexts highly impacted by gentrification and touristification.Keywords: Right to housingmarginal gentrifiersgentrificationsocial movementstouristificationLisbon Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Drawing on Alberto Melucci, we consider collective identity as ‘an interactive and shared definition produced by several individuals (or groups at a more complex level) and concerned with the orientation of action and the field of opportunities and constraints in which the action takes place’ (Melucci, Citation1996, p. 70). Collective identities (as well as individual identity, arenas, etc.) are the result of constant relationship and negotiations among actors and contexts, thus being in constant transformation. Accordingly, we also consider the consolidation of collective identities as a fluid process. When referring to contentious collective identity, we mean that the addressed collective identities are engaged in contentious politics, simply considered as all forms of carrying out politics other than voting or party-participation and that have a conflictual connotation (i.e., promoting or opposing changes). When adding the term ‘urban’ to this definition, we mean collective or contentious collective identities specifically connected with the city and its problems, so that the urban aspects are intrinsically part of the identity itself.2 These are groups that take inspiration from the 1970s Italian autonomist groups (and authors) in their political practice in which they avoid political parties and State institutions.3 We will describe these organizations in depth in the following sections.4 In this framework, players are ‘those who engage in strategic action with some goal in mind’ (Jasper, Citation2015, p. 10), and encompasses both collectives and individuals that can play an important r
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266398
Nick Bailey, Mark Livingston, Bin Chi
The suburbanization of poverty has been noted in many advanced industrial nations including the UK. Theory focuses on economic and labour market restructuring combined with processes of market- and/or state-led housing change. This paper examines the contributions of housing and welfare reforms. In the UK, housing policy has driven low-income households increasingly to find accommodation in the private rental sector at the same time that welfare reforms have constrained the rents these households can afford. This paper traces the spatial consequence of these reforms, drawing on a novel combination of Government data and a database of private rental adverts. Up to 2011, the shift from social to private renting for low-income households was relatively neutral in its impacts on suburbanization. Since then, low-income households in private renting have been increasingly pushed to less central locations as rents in more central areas have risen faster. The role played by housing and welfare policy in the suburbanization of poverty needs wider consideration.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2256257
Timothy Blackwell, Ståle Holgersen, Maria Wallstam
This paper problematises the perception that enhanced competition within the Swedish residential construction sector offers a panacea to rising building costs and deteriorating housing affordability. The paper investigates the relationships between housing production, exchange, and consumption from three perspectives: (i) an historical analysis of the residential construction industry; (ii) elite semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, and (iii) an exploration of state crisis management. Instead of viewing competition within the construction sector as an isolated sphere, we argue that the inherent unevenness within this sector needs to be grasped in combination with broader political-economic developments. We claim that rising productions costs (particularly in the tenant-owner sector) have been fuelled by soaring land prices, and that this situation has provided fertile terrain for rent-seeking throughout the housing supply chain. We conclude that calls for more competition, both in Sweden and further afield, tend to oversimplify the complex issue of housing provision and shroud more fundamental housing system imbalances.
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