Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2286360
Samantha K. Brooks, Sonny S. Patel, Dale Weston, Neil Greenberg
People spend a substantial amount of time at home, so it is important that homes are safe, healthy environments. Damp and mould represent common housing problems but little is known about their pot...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2286359
Constance Uyttebrouck, Pascal De Decker, Caroline Newton
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Work from home (WFH) received much public attention. Imposing such a measure was feasible in the context of labour markets’ flexibilisation, which has reshaped urban l...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2280033
Hung-Ying Chen, Colin McFarlane
This paper offers an approach to understanding high-density living in precarious housing. Developing a conception of housing density based on ‘density expressions’ and ‘density modalities’, we argue for a focus on how domestic density is experienced and intervened in by residents and other groups. This approach builds in existing work in Housing Studies and Urban Studies on domestic over-crowding by demonstrating the value of attending to its sensorial experiences, and practices that seek to alleviate those experiences. Drawing on fieldwork in Hong Kong, one of the densest and more unequal housing markets in the world, we identify ‘infiltration’ as a key form of density expression. We go on explore two density modalities through which residents and other groups, including civil society organisations and the state, practice modest forms of intervention in the struggles of precarious housing: ‘improvisation’ and ‘transition’. We conclude by considering the implications both on housing in Hong Kong and for future research on precarious housing.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2278857
Garrett L. Grainger
Published in Housing Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《住房研究》(2023年出版前)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-12DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2277769
Pengyu Zhu, Yuqing Guo, Praveen Maghelal
Telecommuting has become widespread during the pandemic and are expected to become mainstream work culture in the post-pandemic era. By applying a three-step Instrumental Variable analysis to the 2009 and 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Surveys, this study analyzes the impact of telecommuting on homeownership and housing type choices. Results show that, households with telecommuters are more likely to be homeowners and to live in detached or duplex houses compared to their counterparts. These effects are especially prominent for middle-aged (30–55) households. Relying on robust and national representative historical data before the COVID-19 pandemic, this study provides convincing evidence on how telecommuting affects people’s housing decisions and thus has important implications for understanding the fast-evolving housing markets in the post-pandemic era when a growing number of telecommuters look for homeownership and extract spaces to accommodate home office. It will provide important guidance for revisiting existing housing policies for both urban and rural policymakers to meet the new demand and preferences.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2200236
Mary-Kay Bachour
AbstractService providers’ crucial roles in securing housing for refugees in Canada is a topic scantly addressed in the broader literature. A focus on frontline workers in the housing and settlement sectors offers a productive analytic lens to map the critical link between service provision and housing access for refugees. Based on thirteen semi-structured interviews with service providers across nine organizations in Toronto, Canada, this study illuminates housing access barriers, such as lack of affordable housing and perceived housing discrimination. Furthermore, this paper unearths the intersectional praxis of frontline workers. Broadening the analytical frame to include an intersectional lens centring race, class, immigration status, and gender, this paper enriches current scholarship on 1) housing inequality, 2) refugee settlement, and 3) intersectionality. This paper also makes an epistemic intervention in the evolving field of housing studies at critical junctures. While this research was conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this study reflects on the added complexity of the pandemic to refugees’ housing access.Keywords: Housing inequalityintersectionalityaffordable housingrefugeessettlementsocial service provision AcknowledgmentThank you to all of the service providers who participated in this project. Your knowledge, experience, and insights made this paper possible.A special thank you to my post-doctoral supervisor, Dr. Marieme Lo, for reading several drafts of this paper. Your insights and support throughout the years were integral to the completion of this paper. I would also like to thank my PhD supervisor, Dr. Rachel Silvey, and the entire dissertation committee for supporting this work. Lastly, a big thank you to all of my family and friends, including Sumaya, Thom, Killian, Ashley, and many more, for all of your support, edits, and encouragement.In addition, I would like to thank the reviewers of this paper for their valuable comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 These statistics are non-inclusive of the recent displacement of Ukrainian refugees resulting from the current Russian invasion.2 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is the federal governing body that develops and regulates policies related to immigration in Canada.3 There are different admission categories and classes to immigrate to Canada. These categories include economic immigrant, family-sponsored, and refugees. There are also different categories of refugees, which include government-assisted refugees (GARs), privately sponsored refugees (PSR), blended visa office-referred program (BVOR), and refugee claimants. GARs, PSRs and BVORs, are considered resettled refugees and are designated refugees prior to arrival to Canada. Refugee claimants are those who make a refugee claim, while living or arriving in Canada.4 Frontline staff were contacted via e-mail from a list of organizations avail
Regent Park是多伦多市中心的一个社区，由多伦多社区住房公司(TCHC)管理的公共住房项目组成过度拥挤的住房也会对健康产生负面影响，特别是在大流行期间，在感染COVID-19时进行自我隔离非常重要。然而，对于低收入者来说，多户家庭住在一个单位有时是唯一可行的选择在安大略省，房东在法律上可以要求担保人。这个人同意在租约上的房客没有支付租金和/或在租约约定的日期之前搬走的情况下支付租金难民申请人和寻求庇护者将在本文中交替使用。作者简介:mary - kay BachourDr。Mary-Kay Bachour是多伦多大学妇女与性别研究所的博士后，她在那里调查了大多伦多地区(GTA)种族化难民妇女的住所和住房经历。bacour博士在多伦多大学获得地理和规划博士学位以及妇女和性别研究硕士学位。她的研究兴趣包括难民和移民研究、女权主义地理学、跨国和反种族主义女权主义、批判性城市研究、服务提供、住房获取、住房危机、公平和正义。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2269114
Katriina Rosengren, Jarkko Rasinkangas, Hannu Ruonavaara
Segregation is a relatively recent issue in larger Finnish cities. The existence of segregation contradicts the Nordic welfare model, and segregation has been raised to the national policy level in Finland to combat a slowly widening gap between social groups on a spatial level. Local municipalities are central actors in urban policies. Therefore, we look at segregation from a local policy perspective. Our results confirm that segregation has not been seen as a burning issue in Finland on a local level, and recognition depends on the size of the city. Where segregation is acknowledged, it is often named a problem in city strategies but does not translate into anti-segregation policies locally. In mid-size cities, ‘spatial deprivation’ rather than segregation is acknowledged, rendering systematic interventions aimed at segregation even more difficult.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2274444
Heather Rollwagen, Brennan Mayhew
AbstractThis paper critically examines why young adults characterize themselves as ‘lucky’ when describing their housing experiences, often when those experiences reflect considerable struggle. We explore this narrative as it emerges in conversation with 29 young adults living in Toronto, Canada. Results of the analysis indicate that some young adults employ the narrative of luck to describe structural forms of privilege they experience within the housing system, while others make use of this narrative in ways that reflect their sense of disentitlement to housing. A critical interpretation of these findings suggests that these two narratives, while used by different groups of individuals, both reflect and reinforce a broader discourse of neoliberalism within the housing system. Specifically, our analysis highlights how the narrative of luck obscures structural inequalities that condition access to safe, secure and suitable housing, while simultaneously reinforcing a neoliberal ideology of (dis)entitlement to housing. We conclude our analysis by considering the implications of this narrative for the immediate- and long-term housing struggles of young adults.Keywords: Luckhousing aspirationsyoung adults and housingneoliberal housing systemsentitlement AcknowledgmentsThe authors are grateful for the helpful comments and feedback provided in a preliminary version of this paper, which was presented virtually at the 2020 Housing Studies Association conference, as well as the constructive feedback of the anonymous reviewers. We would also like to acknowledge the research assistance provided by Renée Ferguson and Chelsea James.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Initial plans had been in place to conduct more interviews; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all interviews ceased in March 2020 when the Canadian government declared a state of emergency. The present analysis reflects the sentiments of young adults in the pre-COVID housing market. Like many urban centres, Toronto’s housing system has seen tremendous instability since this time. While some temporary policy changes were implemented during various waves of the pandemic, such as a temporary ban on evictions, the private rental market and the ownership market remain extremely unaffordabe.Additional informationNotes on contributorsHeather RollwagenHeather Rollwagen is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). Her research lies at the intersection of housing studies and criminology, exploring questions related to safety, precarity, and urban livability.Brennan MayhewBrennan Mayhew recently completed her Master’s in Urban Planning at the School of Urban Planning at McGill University. Her research spans housing studies and urban design, with a particular focus on topics such as placemaking, housing justice, and food systems.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2266401
Alan Morris, Catherine Robinson, Jan Idle
AbstractAlthough tens of thousands of households are on the waiting-list for social housing in Australia, little is known about how they experience waiting for social housing. Drawing on 75 interviews conducted with people on the waiting-list (waitees) in three Australian states, we examine the impact of waiting on waitees utilising the concept of triple precarity. Double precarity refers to the insecure employment and housing that a substantial proportion of low-income households are experiencing in the contemporary period. We argue that waitees experience triple precarity. Not only are waitees unemployed or intermittently employed and suffer from housing stress and insecurity, but they also have to endure endless waiting. This adds another challenging dimension to their already difficult lives. We show that besides the impacts of insecure housing and employment, waiting for social housing contributes to waitees’ dire living circumstances and quality of life, difficulty finding employment and poor health. Waiting for social housing has emotional and material costs.Keywords: Social housingwaiteesendless waitingtriple precarityAustralia Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 In Australia social housing is made up of public and community housing. The former is owned and controlled by state governments whereas community housing is owned and managed by community housing providers which are non-profit organisations.2 Waiting list implies that there is some order in the allocation process and waitees merely have to wait their turn. This is clearly not accurate. There is no clear queue and waitees often have no idea if or when they will access a social housing dwelling. However, we decided to use the more familiar term ‘waiting list’ rather than the less familiar ‘housing register’ which is now the term favoured by state governments in Australia.3 In March 2023 the full government Age Pension for a single person was $532 a week and for couples it was $802. The Disability Support Pension benefit was the same as the Age Pension. The unemployment benefit was much lower—$346 a week. In addition, depending on the rent paid, households reliant mainly on government benefits are entitled to rent assistance. The maximum rent assistance in March 2023 was $78.60 a week for a single person and $74 for couples.4 There were no differences in the way waitees experienced waiting in the respective jurisdictions. Also, whether they were in a regional or metropolitan area did not have an impact. The pervasive scarcity of housing in all three states meant that the waiting experience was similar.5 When interviewed in March 2023, Natasha was still in the same accommodation. The landlord had postponed his demolition plan for the moment.6 Superannuation was introduced in 1992. An employer has to contribute a proportion of an employee’s salary into a ‘super fund’. The fund is supposed to provide for a person’s retirement.7 For
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Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2023.2273459
Andrea Sharam
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