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Housing as an Arena for Change – From Eco-Efficiency to Sufficiency in the Swedish Housing Sector Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Pernilla Hagbert, Liisa Perjo, Åsa Nyblom
The housing sector in Sweden, as elsewhere, faces major transitions to meet far-reaching sustainability targets. Eco-efficiency has tended to dominate the sustainability discourse, with a reliance ...
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Pricing or Prizing? The Valuation of Need in a Crisis of Housing Affordability Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Quintin Bradley
The concept of affordability in housing policy signalled a critical shift away from the priorities of housing need. This displacement of need by affordability can be understood as an act of economi...
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From Cave to Cage? The Evolution of Housing Complexity and the Contemporary Dead End for the Human Brain Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Mohamed Hesham Khalil
The evolution of the ever-changing neuroplastic human brain is inseparably linked to its environment. While early humans evolved in response to nature’s complexity and unpredictability, over millen...
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Housing Limitarianism: What’s Wrong with Owning Excess Homes? Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Susan Erck
There is a growing contention in the Housing Justice movement from activists, theorists, and politicians that not only should everyone have enough housing, but there is something wrong with having ...
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Low-Income Homeownership and Safety Nets: The Role of Radical Community Practices Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Sowmya Balachandran
Nonprofit networks that oversee housing accessibility within urban neighbourhoods emerge as crucial arenas for inducing transformative shifts in policy and practice in the United States. However, c...
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Layers of Commodification in the City of Decommodification: The Transformation of Regulated Private Renting in Vienna Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Justin Kadi
Among housing observers, Vienna is typically treated as a posterchild of decommodification, showcasing the power of politics to tame the profit motive in housing. We argue that this view requires n...
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Capturing Low Demand Through Long Time-On-Market: Functional Obsolescence and Owner Resignation Among Old Rental Houses Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Masatomo Suzuki, Yuta Arai, Daisuke Yamato
In Asian countries, including Japan, the rapid demolition and new construction of housing continues, causing demand for old housing stock to fall. Employing unit-level listing information obtained ...
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Time, Care, and Sustainability: Temporal Conflicts and Housing Renovation Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Elena Bogdanova, Linda Soneryd
This paper contributes to the wider discourse on sustainability and housing by showing how the dynamics of temporality and care plays out in processes of renovation. We explore five empirical cases...
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Housing in the Margins. Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin’s Allotment Gardens Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Gabriel Camară
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Review of Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Gretchen Purser
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Allocating Housing Assistance After the Decentring of Social Housing: From Rationing to Social Sorting Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Andrew Clarke, Hal Pawson, Cameron Parsell
Anglophone countries are diversifying their responses to housing insecurity, decentring social housing and expanding use of market-oriented assistance that aims to promote “housing independence” . ...
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Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Jennie Gustafsson, Carina Listerborn, Irene Molina
How can struggles for housing justice act as a lens to expand housing researchers’ understanding of the rental crisis and of the systems that underpin this crisis? By presenting papers from Sweden,...
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Can Tenants’ Unions Challenge Neoliberal Housing Governance? The Emergence of a New Movement in Spain and Its Impact on Post-neoliberal Housing Policy Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Javier Gil, Jaime Palomera
This paper analyses how tenants’ organizations approach the state for “post-neoliberal housing policy” that challenges decades of neoliberal housing governance. It introduces the concept of “counte...
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“It Feels Like Temporary accommodation”: The Impact of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions on Alleged Perpetrators” Feelings of Ontological Security in Social Housing Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Kirsty Cameron
ASB interventions have been framed as a necessity to allow residents to feel safe and secure within their own homes by intervening with those who act in a way that causes nuisance or annoyance, how...
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How Is Mutual-Help Housing Participatory? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Socio-Spatial Responses to Informality in Chile and Brazil Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Alejandro de Castro Mazarro, Markus Kurth, Thuc Han Tran
Participation is a prerequisite for mutual-help housing projects aimed at the sustainable transformation of informal urban areas. Given the ambiguity in how participation is understood in such proj...
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Housing Vulnerability Reconsidered: Applications and Implications for Housing Research, Policy and Practice Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Yushu Zhu, Meg Holden, Rebecca Schiff
Social housing policies in neoliberal contexts have become residualized. The notions of housing vulnerability and vulnerable populations emerged as a new organizing principle for the housing policy...
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Behavioural Approach in Housing Market Studies: Past, Present, Future Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Mateusz Tomal, Justyna Brzezicka
This paper introduces a special issue of Housing, Theory and Society entitled “Behavioural biases in the housing market”. First, we provide a brief overview of theoretical considerations and empiri...
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Vulnerability and Constructed Precarity in the Canadian Housing Regime Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Katie M. MacDonald
This article brings together feminist and critical theoretical perspectives on vulnerability to critique normative framing of vulnerability in housing. Vulnerability is often positioned as the prob...
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The Use of Turning Points in Understanding Homelessness Transitions: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Vivien Burr, Alexander James Bridger, Sara Eastburn, Philip Brown, Peter Somerville, Gareth Morris
We argue for use of the narrative concept of the “turning point” in homelessness research from a critical social psychology perspective.BackgroundTurning points are often understood as rifts in the...
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Hauntology: The Emotional Costs of Social Policy for Mothers Experiencing Homelessness Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Sadie Parr
The article is concerned with the emotional effects of homelessness on women who are mothers. It develops a multi-disciplinary conceptualization of “haunting” to bring understanding to the ongoing ...
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Local Housing Policies and Corporate Social Financial Logics: Insights from the Financialization of Housing in Barcelona Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Georgia Alexandri, Michael Janoschka
This article explores the way local states can challenge the process of housing financialization, by focusing on policy innovation for housing vulnerability. Building upon theoretical discourses th...
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Seven propositions about ‘generation rent’ Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Amber Howard
Intergenerational disparities in housing have emerged across countries, giving rise to narratives of “generation rent”. Despite popularization of the term across academia and public discourse, it r...
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Behavioural Aspects of Price Expectations and the Anchoring Effect on the Housing Market – Polish Case Study Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Joanna Waszczuk
Housing is a heterogeneous good, which makes choosing a house a complex process. An unexplained variability of the housing prices led to growing interest in studying prices and price expectations f...
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Towards Transversal Housing Solidarities Across Space, Time and Subjects Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Matina Kapsali
The paper documents the emergence of precarious local and migrant tenants as political subjects that build transversal housing solidarities in Greek cities amidst multiple intersecting crises. In d...
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Exploring Cultural Determinants of Tenure Decisions: Evidence from an Owning-Centric Context Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Hasniyati Hamzah, Mohd Nazari Ismail, Rini Novelia Suawa
Most countries are still nations of homeowners, i.e. owning-centric despite home ownership being an economically irrational tenure due to its long-term financial risk. Seemingly, pre-existing socia...
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How Can Scholarship Contribute to Housing Justice? Three Roles for Researchers Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Pratichi Chatterjee, Alistair Sisson, Jenna Condie
This article discusses three ways that research, within and outside academia, can contribute to housing activism. First, we discuss the role that documentation, using non-traditional methods such a...
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Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’ Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mara Ferreri
Understanding the relationship between struggles for housing justice and alternative housing models is riddled with epistemological and methodological challenges. A posteriori definitions of specif...
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Picturing a Home: A New Perspective on Home-Making Through Photo-Elicitation Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Alexandra Stout, Damian Collins
The photo-elicitation method can provide rich insights into home-making – the process whereby residents use, modify and personalize domestic space. However, previous studies have prioritized the wo...
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“Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Åse Richard
By following tenants who resist the destruction of their common yards in a post-renoviction neighbourhood of Uppsala (Sweden), this article examines how the local resistance by marginalized communi...
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DIY Housing Studies Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Renee Tapp
In response to Javier Moreno Zacarés’ paper, I argue for a more empirically engaged and policy-relevant political economy of housing. This is necessary given the global transformation of housing fr...
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On Ideal Types, Abstraction and Noise in the Political Economy of Housing Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Manuel B. Aalbers
Javier Moreno’s “Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework” does a great job at distilling how two opposite logics – capitalist production and rent extraction – are at work in housing...
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Are Landlords so Different? Comments on Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Michael Ball
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Labour, Financialization, and Rent in the Construction Industry: Towards a Hybrid Framework of Accumulation Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Aretousa Bloom
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Dialogues on Residential Accumulation: Housing Provision, Theory & Political Economy Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Timothy Blackwell
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Javier Moreno Zacarés
Although housing plays a pivotal role in global capitalism, the theoretical links between housing research and political economy remain tenuous. Building on the recent revival of rent theory, this ...
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Political Economy in Housing Studies: Geography or History? Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Callum Ward
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Land, Abstraction, and Housing Provision Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Javier Moreno Zacarés
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Interpreting the Changing Meaning of the Peri-Urban Holiday House: The Complex and Paradoxical Nature of Housing Financialisation Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Deborah Levy, Harvey C Perkins, Jane Horan
In recent studies of housing financialisation, a “financial paradox” has been identified in which owner-occupied houses are simultaneously places of ontological security and financial investment. T...
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On the Land Value Capture: Politics of Land Use in the Global North and South Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Paulo Nascimento Neto, Luis Salinas Arreortua, Tomás Moreira, Frederico Lago Burnett
Land Value Capture (LVC) in the Global South has long been a subject of long-standing debate, primarily driven by the need to address uneven urbanization and finance public investments. Despite its...
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Intergenerational Assistance with Home Ownership: Understanding the Relational Development of Financialized Subjectivities Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Julia Cook, Louise Overton
Recently scholars have turned their attention to the role of intergenerational financial assistance in facilitating entry into home ownership for young adults. This practice has been identified as ...
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The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Inés Gutiérrez-Cueli, Javier Gil, Miguel A. Martínez, Ángela García-Bernardos
Impoverished and working-class migrant women have been the hardest hit and most exploited people during both the real estate-financial accumulation cycle and the aftermath of the 2008 crisis in Spa...
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The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Inés Gutiérrez-Cueli, Javier Gil, Miguel A. Martínez, Ángela García-Bernardos
Impoverished and working-class migrant women have been the hardest hit and most exploited people during both the real estate-financial accumulation cycle and the aftermath of the 2008 crisis in Spa...
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The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bronwen Lichtenstein, Joe Weber
Scant attention has been paid to the racial impacts of bankruptcy and foreclosure in the United States. This article examines the links between bankruptcy, housing loss, and “risk responsibilizatio...
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The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bronwen Lichtenstein, Joe Weber
Scant attention has been paid to the racial impacts of bankruptcy and foreclosure in the United States. This article examines the links between bankruptcy, housing loss, and “risk responsibilizatio...
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Recognitional Relations and Autonomy-Related Vulnerabilities in a Temporary Accommodation Service for Homeless People Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mikko Ilmoniemi
This article examines a temporary accommodation service for homeless people in Finland. By building on institutional ethnography, it aims to map the relations that coordinate the everyday work and ...
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The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Joshua Evans, Pablo Wikander
It took 50+ years of federal housing policy and municipal planning to transform Canada into a homeownership society. Over the past three decades, these efforts also coincided with significant perio...
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Recognitional Relations and Autonomy-Related Vulnerabilities in a Temporary Accommodation Service for Homeless People Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mikko Ilmoniemi
This article examines a temporary accommodation service for homeless people in Finland. By building on institutional ethnography, it aims to map the relations that coordinate the everyday work and ...
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The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Joshua Evans, Pablo Wikander
It took 50+ years of federal housing policy and municipal planning to transform Canada into a homeownership society. Over the past three decades, these efforts also coincided with significant perio...
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Intersecting Barriers: The Production of Housing Vulnerability for LGBTQ Refugees in Alberta, Canada Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Kenna McDowell, Damian Collins
Canada’s National Housing Strategy acknowledges that identity factors are closely connected to housing vulnerability. Specifically, it identifies 12 groups at heightened risk of negative housing ou...
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Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Simone Tulumello, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
This article sets out a conceptual/operational framework designed to analyse how the state has enabled, promoted and shaped housing financialization. We build on the systematic analysis of literatu...
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Negotiating Urban Greening Through Housing Development: Stakeholders and Sociospatial Strategies in a Municipality-Led Eco-Building Programme Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Chihsin Chiu
Existing studies neglect the state-society relations in urban greening, particularly as mediated by residential greening practices. This article fills this gap by investigating the Taichung City Li...
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An Anarchist Approach to Addressing Housing Precarity: Implementing Anarchist Strategies to Program Efforts for Housing Justice Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jayne Malenfant, Hannah Brais
The right to housing is fraught with impositions of market housing logic: our solutions to housing generally imply that people must be housed in conventional housing markets, with a goal that they ...
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An Anarchist Approach to Addressing Housing Precarity: Implementing Anarchist Strategies to Program Efforts for Housing Justice Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jayne Malenfant, Hannah Brais
The right to housing is fraught with impositions of market housing logic: our solutions to housing generally imply that people must be housed in conventional housing markets, with a goal that they ...
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Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Simone Tulumello, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
This article sets out a conceptual/operational framework designed to analyse how the state has enabled, promoted and shaped housing financialization. We build on the systematic analysis of literatu...
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Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ira Maya Saputri, Rizqi Aulia Fajarwati Hassan
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ira Maya Saputri, Rizqi Aulia Fajarwati Hassan
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Housing Regime Typologies and Their Discontents: A Systematic Literature Review Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Lindsay B. Flynn, Giuseppe Montalbano
Housing regime typologies represent a key conceptual construct in the comparative housing research literature, whose classificatory and explanatory capacity is still the subject of lively debate. T...
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Housing Regime Typologies and Their Discontents: A Systematic Literature Review Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Lindsay B. Flynn, Giuseppe Montalbano
Housing regime typologies represent a key conceptual construct in the comparative housing research literature, whose classificatory and explanatory capacity is still the subject of lively debate. T...
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How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts? Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Garrett L. Grainger
Housing First (HF) is a service model that addresses chronic homelessness with permanent supportive housing. Previous studies have analysed market constraints on housing searches, strategies casewo...
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How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts? Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Garrett L. Grainger
Housing First (HF) is a service model that addresses chronic homelessness with permanent supportive housing. Previous studies have analysed market constraints on housing searches, strategies casewo...