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Contrasting inclusionary housing initiatives in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway: how the past shapes the present Housing Studies (IF 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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 3.516) 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...
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Stacked decks: building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Katrin B. Anacker
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Peripheral housing rentierisation in Southern Europe: reflections from the Portuguese case Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ana Cordeiro Santos
Housing is increasingly treated as a source of capital gain and rent extraction rather than a source of shelter and security for the household. This is the outcome of financialised home ownership t...
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Housing as a human right, rent supplements and the new Canada Housing Benefit Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Catherine Leviten-Reid, Megan Digou, Jacqueline Kennelly
‘Demand-side’ approaches to housing affordability—including rent supplements and housing allowances—are used to address housing precarity in many countries. A core program of Canada’s new National ...
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Single-family rental (SFR) investor types, property conditions, and implications for urban neighbourhoods: evidence from Memphis, Tennessee Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Austin Harrison, Dan Immergluck, Jeremy Walker
Over the last decade the American single-family rental (SFR) market experienced consequential financialisation. The American SFR industry was once dominated by more local, smaller ‘mom-and-pop’ lan...
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A qualitative analysis of housing and homemaking for people labelled/with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sabine O’Donnell, Ann Fudge Schormans, Robert Wilton
In this article, we examine people labelled/with intellectual disabilities’ experiences of their current homes and what they imagine or desire for their home in the future. Definitions of home in C...
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Class, emotions and the affective politics of social inequality Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Jenny Preece
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2024)
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Three contradictions between ESG finance and social housing decarbonisation: a comparison of five European countries Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Alejandro Fernández, Marietta Haffner, Marja Elsinga
The regulation of financial markets according to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria has become a priority for the European Union (EU). Recent legislation, such as the EU Green Taxo...
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Homelessness and housing advocacy: the role of red-tape warriors Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Garrett L. Grainger
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Psychological effects of mould and damp in the home: scoping review Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 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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Living and working in the (post-pandemic) city: a research agenda Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 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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Awareness of segregation in a welfare state: a Finnish local policy perspective Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 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...
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Feeling lucky: young adults, housing struggles, and the neoliberal politics of entitlement Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Heather Rollwagen, Brennan Mayhew
This paper critically examines why young adults characterize themselves as ‘lucky’ when describing their housing experiences, often when those experiences reflect considerable struggle. We explore ...
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Dire consequences: waiting for social housing in three Australian states Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Alan Morris, Catherine Robinson, Jan Idle
Although 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 cond...
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Can Canada become home without a house? The intersectional challenges to housing and settlement among refugees Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Mary-Kay Bachour
Service 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 sector...
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Too close for comfort? Impact of pandemic residential environment on women’s life satisfaction and spousal relationships Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Jeremy Lim-Soh, Poh Lin Tan, Nikhitha Mary Mathew
Few studies have examined the role of residential conditions during different phases of the pandemic on life satisfaction and spousal relationships. Using survey data on 440 married women collected...
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Introducing social housing Asset Management as a comprehensive system Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Andrea Sharam
Social housing is an asset-intensive business, and the value of these assets globally runs into trillions of dollars. Although knowledge about social housing asset management practices is limited t...
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Housing cost, consistency, and context and their relationship to health Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Jinhee Yun, Megan E. Hatch
Housing 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...
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Changes in criminal justice involvement among renters in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit properties Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Laura Witte, Jack Tsai, Paula Cuccaro, Andrea Link, Vanessa Cox, Vanessa Schick
In 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 experience...
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At home in the ‘home’? Narratives of home in repertoires of institutional dining Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Michal Synek, Dana Hradcová
Home 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 mean...
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Marginal gentrifiers, networks of mobilization and new contentious collective identities. The struggle for housing in post-austerity Lisbon Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Guya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho
If 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...
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Housing and welfare reform, and the suburbanization of poverty in UK cities 2011–20 Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 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...
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Discrimination against people with mental, physical or visual disabilities in the French rental housing market: field experiment Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Alexandre Flage, Julie Le Gallo
We 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...
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Barriers to accessing social housing programs in Canada Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Erin Dej, John Ecker, Natasha Martino
The 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 in...
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New flawed consumers? Problem figuration, responsibility and identities in the English building safety crisis Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jenny Preece, John Flint, David Robinson
Abstract Particular populations within the UK housing sector (most notably social housing tenants) have been conceptualised as ‘flawed’ consumers (Bauman, Citation1998Bauman, Z. (1998) Work, consumerism and the new poor (Buckingham: Open University Press). [Google Scholar]) subject to stigmatisation in governmental and popular discourses for failing to enact the correct forms of consumption within
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Women’s life course and precarious housing in older age: an Australian qualitative study Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Maree Petersen, Cheryl Tilse
Abstract With increasing numbers of older Australian women facing housing precarity, it is essential to understand how this social problem persists and grows despite structural change with greater participation of women in employment and education, and greater societal recognition of their rights. We drew on a life course framework to consider the interaction of personal and societal conditions to
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International Migration and Citizenship Today (2 nd edition), by Niklaus Steiner, London, Routledge, 2023, 208 pp., £32.99 (Paperback), ISBN 9781032114101 Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Hendri Irawan
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 38, No. 9, 2023)
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Reconstruction fiction: housing and realist literature in Postwar Britain, by Paula Derdiger, The Ohio State University Press, 2020, 230 pp., $59.95 (hbk), $34.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-8142-5770-8 Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Jamileh Manoochehri
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 38, No. 9, 2023)
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Non-performing loans, non-performing people: life and struggle with mortgage debt in Spain Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Hung-Ying Chen
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 38, No. 8, 2023)
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Long-term housing challenges: the tenure trajectories of EU migrant workers in the Netherlands Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Dolly Loomans
Abstract Finding a new house is an essential but challenging undertaking for migrant workers. Current understanding of these migrant housing trajectories is rudimentary, contrasting migrants with non-migrants, or looks at the housing situation at a certain point in time. This article presents a fine-grained and longitudinal perspective on housing trajectories including less-studied alternative tenures
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Demand for rent-regulated apartments in the Swedish housing market Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Mats Wilhelmsson
Abstract We are analysing Stockholm, Sweden’s regulated rental housing market, by analysing the distribution of rental apartments based on a person’s position in the housing agency queue. Our objective is to examine queue times and estimate the demand for rent-regulated apartments, as well as the market’s income elasticity. Using the hedonic two-step approach, we use empirical data from rental contracts
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The French touch to the financialisation of housing. Institutional investment into the Paris city-region (2008–2021) Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Antoine Guironnet, Pierre-Henri Bono, Nordine Kireche
Abstract There is ample evidence of the financialisation of housing as it is purchased by institutional investors and their financial intermediaries. In urban and housing studies, many accounts focus on boom-bust markets targeted by ‘global corporate landlords’. To advance our understanding of the process as variegated and path-dependent, this article focuses on a different case: the Paris city-region
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Acquisition capital: using a new concept to explore housing outcomes among millennials in the United States Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Lindsay B. Flynn, Sarah Kostecki
Abstract What resources help young people secure homeownership and housing wealth? We combine findings from two literatures, one which emphasizes the role of income, education, and inheritances and one which emphasizes the role of financial strategies, to evaluate whether a more comprehensive set of resources help young people aged 18–45 navigate the housing market in the United States. Using the 2019
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Discounted housing? Understanding shared rental markets under platformisation Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Nicole Gurran, Zahra Nasreen, Pranita Shrestha
Abstract Low-income earners and others facing housing market barriers have long sought to save costs by sharing. Potentially a release valve in constrained markets, the share sector is poorly understood due to the difficulty of tracing informal negotiations between cohabiting households. However, the rise of online accommodation platforms opens new opportunities to view these hidden arrangements while
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The rural housing crisis: analytical dimensions and emblematic issues Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Stefan Kordel, Matthias Naumann
Abstract While the urban housing crisis is pivotal to current debates in housing studies, the question of affordable as well as sustainable housing in rural settings has arisen only recently. However, recent developments, including increasing demand for housing as well as for a specific supply, indicate that there is a rural housing crisis. Connecting the scattered strands of literature on rural housing
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Discrimination in the private rental market in Australia: large families from refugee backgrounds Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Anna Ziersch, Nicole Loehr, Keith Miller
Abstract Securing appropriate housing is a crucial component of resettlement for people with refugee experience, but many face challenges in securing private rental housing, including discrimination, particularly for large families. This paper explores refugee and asylum seeker experiences of discrimination in the private rental market through in-depth semi-structured interviews with refugees and asylum
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Operationalizing the problem of political alienation for housing studiesTenants experiencing mass cancellations of rental contracts in Basel, Switzerland Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Luisa Gehriger
Abstract This paper adds to a revitalization of alienation as a political problem in the field of housing studies, pointing us to property relations that fragment tenants from acting together with other residents in similar positions. Analyzing ethnographic observations and interviews conducted in Basel with tenants facing mass cancellations of rental contracts, it operationalizes the problem of alienation
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Book Review Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Ryan Powell
Published in Housing Studies (Vol. 38, No. 7, 2023)
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Housing abandonment and socio-spatial inequalities: experience from a shrinking inner-city area of Incheon, South Korea Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Youngmee Jeon, Saehoon Kim
Abstract Housing abandonment is one of the most distinct characteristics of urban shrinkage. Previous research has investigated the extent and process of abandonment in the United States and Europe’s former industrialized centers. However, little is known about its features in places that have recently seen rapid urbanization. The study examines the relationship between vacant houses and a variety
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New emotive attachment to abandoned homes after 1974 Turkish Cypriot displacement in North Cyprus Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Burcu M. Esentepe, Kağan Günçe
Abstract This article examines the development of Turkish Cypriot refugees’ new emotive attachment to abandoned homes, after 1974 Turkish Cypriot Displacement in North Cyprus. After the war in 1974, refugees were relocated into abandoned homes containing objects abandoned by Greek Cypriots, who were also displaced by the war. Using an ethnographic research method, the results suggest that Turkish Cypriot
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Institutional isomorphism and performance management: exploring the linkage and relationship in English social housing Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Graham Manville, Richard Greatbanks
Abstract This paper investigates institutional isomorphism within English social housing through the theoretical lens of strategic performance management. By employing a multiple case study analysis, we uncover how external isomorphic pressures are sensed within the organization as a strategic dissonance through its strategic performance management system. Housing Associations (HAs) need to respond
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Framing home injury: opportunities and barriers to regulating for safer rental housing in Aotearoa/New Zealand Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Sarah Bierre, Michael Keall, Philippa Howden-Chapman
Abstract Like many countries in the OECD, Aotearoa NZ does not comprehensively regulate or enforce the safety of rental housing, despite evidence that the significant scale of home injury can be reduced through cost-effective home modifications. We examine the framing of home injury in media, political, and organisational discourse to identify barriers to creating and enforcing laws for safer rental
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Affordability is king–with private bedroom: exploring the mismatch of students’ housing preferences in constrained housing markets Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Shelagh McCartney, Ximena Rosenvasser
Abstract As Generation Z young adults are entering post-secondary education, little is known about the role of affordability in understanding these students’ housing preferences. For this purpose, we introduce a methodology, the Housing Preferences Choice Board (HPCB), mimicing conditions of expensive rental markets. This paper seeks to elucidate students’ decision-making concerning housing (including
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Stigma consciousness in Toronto’s mixed-tenure Regent Park neighbourhood Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Daniel J. Rowe, James R. Dunn
Abstract The ongoing mixed-tenure redevelopment of Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood is a multi-decade effort to rebuild the aging community’s stock of post-war public housing and radically reshape the social composition of the community with the introduction of market owners and renters. This research provides a useful quantitative complement to the now extensive body of qualitative research concerning
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Singapore: a property-owning procedural democracy in practice Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Beng Huat Chua
Abstract Political philosopher, John Rawls, conceptualizes property-owning democracy (POD) as a constitutional liberal democracy that practices wide social distribution of productive assets, namely property and human capital, that enables citizens to exercise their political freedoms, with security, equality, justice and fairness. However, with their ossified ideological, economic and social structures
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Consumer housing choices among residents living in wooden multi-storey buildings Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 J. Jussila, F. Franzini, L. Häyrinen, K. Lähtinen, E. Nagy, C. Mark-Herbert, A. Roos, A. Toppinen, R. Toivonen
Abstract Wooden multi-storey construction (WMC) offers an alternative building solution for urban consumers seeking a low-carbon, sustainable lifestyle yet, the literature on consumer experiences in newly constructed WMC-apartments is sparse. This exploratory study develops an understanding about consumer choices with newly built WMC-apartments through thematic interviews of residents and property
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Promising practices for providing effective tenancy support services: a qualitative case study situated in the southeastern United States Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Donna J. Biederman, Mina Silberberg, Emily Carmody
Abstract Tenancy support services (TSS) allow homeless or institutionalized people with disabilities to obtain and maintain housing in community settings. In the United States, Medicaid is expanding to include coverage for these services. We conducted a comparison case study of two high performing North Carolina (NC) TSS provider agencies, augmented with the voices of key stakeholders in NC and experienced
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Housing return volatility in large metropolitan areas in the United States across market cycles (2000–2022) Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Hongwei Dong
Abstract This study compares the inter- and intra-metropolitan patterns of housing return volatility in four market phases (boom, bust, recovery, and pandemic) in the United States between 2000 and 2022. The study finds a weak correlation between the physical characteristics of neighborhoods and housing market volatility. Notably, higher-density neighborhoods show greater market volatility throughout
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Measuring housing well-being of disaster affected persons in Chennai (India) Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Shukla
Abstract The impact of disasters on human well-being extends beyond loss of assets. Asset based compensation approach, usually in monetary form, that the governments adopt for reconstruction of losses of affected persons is marred by challenges in identification of compensable disasters; identification of eligible claimants; identification of compensable losses; and valuation of losses. The largest
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Placemaking and public housing: the state of knowledge and research priorities Housing Studies (IF 3.516) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Elinor Chisholm, Crystal Olin, Ed Randal, Karen Witten, Philippa Howden-Chapman
Abstract This article examines the international literature on placemaking – practices or initiatives that encourage a sense of place – in public housing communities. Placemaking is likely to be particularly beneficial to public housing tenants, and is a current priority for public housing providers; yet reviews of placemaking research have failed to consider public housing. Our systematic quantitative