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Heterogeneities in willingness to pay for circular affordable housing: insight from young users Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Pei-Hsuan Lee, Qi Han, Bauke de Vries, Yi-Kai Juan
Circular affordable housing (CAH) is crucial to advancing sustainability, but the lack of empirical evidence on users’ active attitudes towards circularity limits its applicability. To fill this ga...
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The state house prices make: the political elasticities of house prices and rents Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Sebastian Kohl, James D. G. Wood
Fiscal policy allocation is not purely determined by the labour-capital conflict, but increasingly around cross-class housing coalitions. Although rising house prices are conventionally understood ...
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Unlocking housing wealth through mortgage debt: do patterns and motivations vary by age? Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Rachel Ong ViforJ, Christopher Phelps
Successive waves of house price appreciation have prompted homeowners to tap into housing wealth, increasing mortgage debt to meet spending needs. This paper addresses three questions about equity ...
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Social mix and social interaction: evidence from Los Angeles County Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Chungeun Koo, Javier M. Rodriguez
Research shows that policy tools to reduce residential segregation are also effective to reduce economic inequality and, for decades, achieving the adequate level of 'social mix' has been an import...
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Migrant residential mobility and tenure transitions within different housing regimes: evidence from three Nordic capital cities Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Karin Torpan, Terje Wessel, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, Anastasia Sinitsyna, Tiit Tammaru
Migrant housing-related disadvantages and residential segregation are both important concerns in migrant-receiving countries. However, there exists little understanding about the connection between...
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The role of housing in central banks’ monetary policy decisions in Australia and the UK Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Mark Stephens
This article provides direct evidence of the role of housing in central banks’ monetary policy decisions through the examination of the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia Board (RBA) and the ...
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Rental housing types and economic wellbeing in Canada Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Xavier Leloup, Catherine Leviten-Reid, Nazeem Muhajarine, Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk, Laurence Simard
The aim of this article is to examine the association between different types of rental housing and household economic wellbeing. Its main objective is to better understand how the different types ...
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The importance of stable housing in social capital development and utilisation: how homelessness undermines reciprocity, recognition, and autonomy Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Nadia Ayed, Andrew Clarke
Social capital is recognised as an important resource for people experiencing poverty, yet conceptualisations of its relationship to homelessness are underdeveloped. Some studies show that social c...
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Exploring the conditions for the emergence and sustainability of housing cooperatives in Latin America Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Daniela Sanjinés Encinales, Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Natalia Quiñónez
Housing cooperatives are being reconsidered in many countries worldwide as potentially relevant actors in the provision of affordable housing. This is also the case in Latin America, characterised ...
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Social sustainability in public housing: insight from social network analysis of recent residential developments in Enugu, Nigeria Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Chuba O. Odum, Victor U. Onyebueke, Eziyi O. Ibem
Despite the growing need for public housing schemes to contribute to the attainment of sustainable residential neighbourhoods in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), the extent t...
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Live-in or locked-out: housing of migrant workers before and during COVID-19 Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Tamar Barkay, Yahel Kurlander, Idit Zimmerman
This article presents a comparative policy analysis of housing arrangements for migrant caregivers and farmworkers before and during COVID-19. By Juxtaposing structural conditions and industrial se...
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Collective action success factors and community satisfaction in Malaysia’s urban commons Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Hong-Kok Wang, Teck-Hong Tan
This study examines maintenance and management in socio-economically grounded multi-owned low-cost housing schemes in Malaysia, employing an augmented institutional analysis framework. Focusing on ...
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Race equality in housing: tracing the postracial turn in English housing policy Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 David Robinson
Ethnic inequalities in housing in England are entrenched and long-standing. Minority ethnic groups are more likely than the White British population to experience housing disadvantage and deprivati...
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Assessing anxiety and depression trajectories among single homeless adults receiving rapid rehousing following placement in housing Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Thomas Byrne, Deborah Chassler, Mohit Tamta, Jordana Muroff, Roxanne Anderson, Matan BenYishay, Angela Giordano, Elizabeth Hestad
Despite growing international interest in using rapid rehousing (RRH) to address homelessness, there is little information about the mental health outcomes of RRH participants. We examined changes ...
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Municipal housing queues as a generator of housing inequalities between natives and immigrants in Sweden Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Simone Scarpa
The ongoing debate on Swedish municipal housing’s universalist characteristics has focused on declining supply, stricter access criteria, and changing tenant demographics. This study addresses a re...
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Unravelling social housing exclusion. Marketization, privatization and neoliberal reforms in the Métropole européenne de Lille Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Hadrien Herrault
The conceptualization of the neoliberalization of social housing has been largely dominated by Harloe’s models, which define it as the transition from a ‘mass’ to a ‘residual’ model. However, this ...
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Property relations between state and market: a history of housing cooperatives in Denmark Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Henrik Gutzon Larsen
Housing cooperatives are frequently evoked as models for affordable housing pursuable by civil society actors. But this housing form typically assumes intermediate and historically unstable positio...
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Understanding the landscape of domestic violence transitional housing: services and housing for rural and non-rural clientele Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Bethany L. Backes, Julia O’Connor, Julie M. Olomi, Rachel Voth Schrag, Leila Wood
Housing support is one of the most powerful and in-demand remedies to address domestic violence (DV), with almost 40,000 survivors served daily in U.S. based DV housing programmes. DV transitional ...
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Calculating the system-wide supply impacts of social housing estate renewal: new measures and methods Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Alistair Sisson, Kristian Ruming
Estate renewal has come to be touted as a means of improving social housing supply both qualitatively and quantitatively, replacing ageing and under-maintained dwellings and increasing the total st...
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Migrant homelessness and the crimmigration control system Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 David Robinson
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 9, 2024)
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Residents’ thermal comfort in Swedish newly built homes: political aesthetics and atmospheric practices Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Wiktoria Glad, Madelene Gramfält, Malin Nilsson
This paper draws on a case study of newly constructed passive houses in Sweden and explores how architecture and the material influence everyday life. We suggest the new aesthetics as a potential t...
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Philosophy of home: domestic space and happiness Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Simon W. Hill
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 8, 2024)
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Understanding the consequences of international migration for housing tenure: evidence from a multi-site and intergenerational study Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Şebnem Eroğlu, Sait Bayrakdar, Ayse Guveli
This research is the first to examine the consequences of international migration for housing tenure through comparisons between the ‘settler’ migrants who originated from Turkey and are now living...
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Are the in-work poor more disadvantaged in urban areas? An analysis of housing affordability in Italy Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Claudia Colombarolli
In Europe, there is growing empirical evidence on the difficulties workers face in making ends meet. High housing costs may compound the picture. This study investigates the housing affordability p...
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The colonial face of ‘housing’ refugees: the construction of the racialised subject within a necropolitical infrastructure Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Giovanna Astolfo, Harriet Allsopp
The incredible mobilisation to welcome Ukrainian refugees following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022 demonstrated how housing is an affective sociomaterial infrastructure. In cruel contr...
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Housing and mental health inequalities during COVID-19: the role of income and housing support measures Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Ang Li, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley
The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted people’s mental health and wellbeing. Using a national dataset of >11,000 Australians collected before and during the first two years of the pandemic, this...
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Factors associated with housing stability for Aboriginal families in South Australia: a prospective cohort study Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Arwen Nikolof, Stephanie J. Brown, Yvonne Clark, Cathy Leane, Karen Glover, Deirdre Gartland
Stable, affordable and safe housing is a key determinant of health and wellbeing. Evidence from an Australian population-based cohort of 344 Aboriginal mothers and children aged 5-9 years shows tha...
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Adverse childhood experiences in a pathway to single adult homelessness in Hamilton, New Zealand Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Carole McMinn, Damian Collins, Polly Atatoa-Carr, John Oetzel
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can contribute to housing instability and risk of homelessness, featuring disproportionately in the life histories of many people experiencing homelessness. How...
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Adequate housing in Taipei City’s private rental market: a visual content analysis of online rental unit advertisements Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Chantalle Elisabeth Rietdijk
Since 2017, Taipei City government has implemented a policy to expand the rental housing market with a set of incentives for landlords that brings more affordable apartments to the market. This stu...
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The many geographies of urban renewal: new perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949, edited by Douglas R. Appler, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2023, 232 pp., US$32.95 (paperback) EAN: 9781439921715 Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Katrin B. Anacker
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 7, 2024)
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The writings of Colin ward and the legacy of anarchism for housing studies Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Keith Jacobs
British anarchist Colin Ward (1922–2010) wrote extensively on housing issues. His work offers insights on governmental power and alternative forms of organisation. Whilst Ward’s views have been dis...
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Fairytale-estate homes, real estate hopes: A framework informing housing decisions in Egypt Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Mohamed Hesham Khalil
Housing decisions are often constrained by practicality, while dream home aspirations remain unrestrained. This gap widens significantly in the housing industry, where boundaries blur, advertising ...
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Suburban bubbles: emerging suburban gated communities in the Prague Urban Region Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Adela Petrovic, Martin Ouředníček
Gated communities, which physically embody prestige and exclusivity through their security features and gating practices, started proliferating in the United States and were subsequently copied by ...
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Housing quality and homelessness among people who beg Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Teodora Soare, Stef Adriaenssens, Koen Hermans
The poverty literature often overlooks the relationship between housing insecurity and income-generating activities. The often informal sources of income among the homeless strongly connect to othe...
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A theory of housing provision under capitalism Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Keith Jacobs
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 6, 2024)
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War in Ukraine, the refugee crisis, and the Polish housing market Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Michal Gluszak, Radoslaw Trojanek
The ongoing war in Ukraine has become a global issue and caused a major refugee crisis in Europe. The displacement of millions of people from Ukraine, who entered neighbouring countries, attributed...
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‘People need housing to live in’: precarity and the rental market during tourism gentrification Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Már Wolfgang Mixa, Kristín Loftsdóttir
Numerous studies from the twenty first century underscore how housing challenges have increased in Western countries. This article focuses on the dynamics of renting, showing how housing precarity ...
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Subjectification as an ideal tenant. Competing for housing in the Viennese private rental market Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Susanna Azevedo, Raphaela Kohout, Ana Rogojanu, Georg Wolfmayr
Despite its reputation as a ‘paradise for renters,’ housing seekers in Vienna also face increasing difficulties in finding affordable housing, especially in the private rental housing market. We ex...
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From collective centres to private accommodation: housing trajectories of asylum migrants in Switzerland Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Julie Lacroix, Anne-Laure Bertrand
This paper examines the housing trajectories of complete cohorts of asylum migrants in Switzerland. It emphasizes the logistics of housing allocation by local authorities and how it shapes individu...
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Framing the housing crisis: politicization and depoliticization of the Dutch housing debate Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Cody Hochstenbach
How does a housing crisis become a crisis? In answering this question, this paper turns to framing in public and political debate. The case is the Netherlands where in the decade following the Glob...
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Renovation without renoviction: the green redevelopment of a municipal housing estate in Drewitz, Germany Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Alessandro Busà
In this paper I discuss a case of ‘green’ redevelopment of a social housing complex in former East Germany, and unpack the key elements that have led to its comprehensive regeneration without wides...
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Re(de)fining success: tenancy issues, provider supports, and tenancy outcomes in an Australian Permanent Supportive Housing programme Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Francisco Perales, Cameron Parsell, Christine Ablaza, Ella Kuskoff, Stefanie Plage, Rose Stambe
Insecure housing—particularly for low-income groups—constitutes a critical and enduring social problem. While Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives show promise as a solution to mitigate t...
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Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Regina Serpa
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 5, 2024)
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Conflicts within the neoliberal state? The limited representation of renters in Israeli housing policies and debates Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Talia Margalit, Dikla Yizhar
Following housing protests in 2011, Israeli politicians advanced a program to create a massive supply of rental housing and enact new rental regulations. A few years later, the focus shifted to a p...
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Students take over: prefiguring urban commons in student housing co-operatives Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Anke Schwittay
Student housing has become financialized in many countries, resulting in unaffordable and unsuitable accommodations that negatively affect students’ studies and health. Students are beginning to mo...
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Homeowner-renter wealth inequalities and position in the rural-urban hierarchy Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 George Galster, Terje Wessel
Prior scholarship has documented and tried to explain growing inequalities in individual wealth holdings—especially between homeowners and renters—but has not considered the role of residential pos...
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Cracking the housing crisis: financialization, the state, struggles, and rights Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Özlem Çelik
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 6, 2024)
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The changing role of cooperatives in the Swedish housing regime – a path dependence analysis Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Bo Bengtsson
Several studies have demonstrated the importance of path dependence in housing institutions and policy. So far, however, perspectives of path dependence have not been systematically applied to coop...
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Linking landlords to uncover ownership obscurity Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Forrest Hangen, Daniel T. O’Brien
Identifying the ownership of rental properties has been a difficult but important step in understanding the current state of property consolidation. We show that the difficulty in linking landlords...
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Contrasting inclusionary housing initiatives in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway: how the past shapes the present Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Anna Granath Hansson, Janni Sørensen, Berit Irene Nordahl, Michael Tophøj Sørensen
Inclusionary housing policies, aiming at creating both affordable housing and mixed neighbourhoods through land use regulation, do not have a long history in Scandinavia. Although Denmark, Norway, ...
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A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Richard Harris
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 4, 2024)
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‘In-betweenness’: migrants experience accessing rental housing in the innerburbs neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Andrea Urbina Julio
Migration movements have been happening worldwide, and Latin America has also been part of this global phenomenon, particularly through increased intraregional migration. Chile has emerged as an ec...
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The effect of supply- and demand-side subsidies on low-income renters’ housing outcomes: evidence from South Korea Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Bo Kyong Seo, In Hyee Hwang, Hyun-Jeong Lee
In recent decades, there has been a global policy shift away from supply-side housing assistance towards demand-side cash subsidies. However, there has been insufficient empirical evidence on wheth...
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Social networks and dispositional factors determining housing status of urban residents: evidence from Ethiopia Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Efa Tadesse Debele, Taye Negussie
This article examines the social networks and dispositional factors that affect the housing status of urban residents. Despite their considerable role in the housing market, this paper stresses the...
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Heterogenous treatment effects of a voluntary Inclusionary Zoning program on housing prices Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Marcelo Ortiz-Villavicencio, Gonzalo E. Sánchez, Mario A. Fernández
Housing affordability remains a social and economic issue in New Zealand. Affordability policies such as Inclusionary Zoning have been promoted to streamline land delivery and boost the housing sup...
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The repertoire of housing contention: the birth of the Stay Put campaign in Barcelona Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Jordi González Guzmán
Past research in the housing-movement literature has assumed a close link between the post-2008 cycle of housing financialization and the resurgence of housing contention in many Western democracie...
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The regulation of families with children in apartments Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sophie-May Kerr, Hazel Easthope, Cathy Sherry
Condominium housing is now ubiquitous in contemporary cities globally. For residents, the success of compact cities depends on built environment quality, social relationships within buildings, and ...
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Tenant participation and emerging social media practices in the social housing sector Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Jenna Condie, Liz Ayres
Many housing organizations are using social media to engage with a range of stakeholders including tenants. Tenant participation is being reworked in social media spaces as different (previously mo...
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Conceptualising housing as infrastructure: a framework for thinking infrastructurally in housing studies Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Tegan L. Bergan, Emma R. Power
Drawing on new infrastructural scholarship, this paper conceptualises housing as infrastructure, outlining a way forward for housing researchers to draw the concept into their empirical practises. ...
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Evaluating the impact of public housing after prison for a sex offence Housing Studies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Rebecca Reeve, Chris Martin, Ruth McCausland, Hal Pawson, Eileen Baldry
This article evaluates the impact of housing assistance on the post-release pathways of people convicted of sex offences, in terms of a range of criminal justice outcomes and associated costs. Usin...