{"title":"Well-Behaved Owners and Troublesome Tenants? How Dense Social Mixing Shapes Housing Communities and Dispels Prejudices","authors":"Jutta Juvenius","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2023.2264311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2264311","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the kinds of boundaries laid by residents of mixed-tenure housing communities and how distinctions are rationalized. Based on interview data on a densely mixed community (both owner-occupied and social housing apartments mixed with stairwells) in Helsinki, Finland, I observe how residents outline their neighbourhood. Based on the analysis, urban anonymity was the most significant repertoire defining communal life, followed by others such as sense of home and fiscal prudence. In densely mixed settings, residents are forced to witness each other’s domestic life; thus, dense social mixing can prevent prejudices between tenure groups. The study results contribute to the understanding of cultural repertoires in hierarchical relationships vis-à-vis each other, creating varying contexts and defining the lived realities in communities. Empirically, the results question prevailing images of troublesome tenants and well-behaved owners.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136278213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making BIPOC Lives Matter: A Qualitative Analysis of Managerial Resistance to Racial Exclusions in US Homeless Systems","authors":"Garrett L. Grainger, Erin Gaede","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2023.2254770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2254770","url":null,"abstract":"The way racial disparities get re/produced or challenged by homeless systems is an underexplored subject in housing studies. This paper advances scholarship on that topic by examining how homeless system managers in the USA are responding to demands for colour-conscious vulnerability screenings. The VI-SPDAT is a popular tool for measuring the vulnerability of homeless service recipients and making resource allocation decisions. Recent studies suggest the VI-SPDAT is racially biased and thwarts Black Indigenous People of Colour (BIPOC) from getting rehoused. This paper presents interview-based research conducted with 35 participants from 28 homeless systems that answers questions about how managerial staff perceive the VI-SPDAT and steps they are (not) taking to address racial disparities associated with the tool. Our findings delineate various ways system managers indirectly support service recipients by resisting institutional practices that marginalize BIPOCs. This extends homeless scholarship by showing how race relations shape supportive interventions in the USA and the way system managers try to allay racial disparities.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135246565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Discourse of Housing Debt: The Social Construction of Landlords, Lenders, Borrowers and Tenants","authors":"C. Hunter, J. Nixon","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149893","url":null,"abstract":"The critical role of discourse and the social construction of the UK housing system have been highlighted in a number of recent studies. This article is concerned with the construction of tenure within housing policy discourse, with a focus on the tenure-specific conceptualisation of housing debt, particularly arrears of rents and mortgages and how landlords and lenders respond to them. By scrutinising politicians' housing debt discourse and comparing it with other, contrasting housing debt discourses we seek to further our understanding of how tenure stigmatisation becomes internalised within the political policy-making process. We apply Schneider and Ingram's theory of the impact of the social construction of a target population on policy design. In doing so we explore how the constructed images of owners and tenants, lenders and landlords influence the policy agenda and the rationalisations that legitimise policy choices, and test the usefulness of Schneider and Ingram's model in drawing these out.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129463101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Should the Government Play a Role in Housing?: A View from North America","authors":"J. Quigley","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149929","url":null,"abstract":"(1999). Why Should the Government Play a Role in Housing?: A View from North America. Housing, Theory and Society: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 201-203.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114359839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obituary: Valerie Karn","authors":"J. Kemeny","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149875","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128967025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning from the UK: Towards Market-oriented Land-use Planning in Finland","authors":"R. Mäntysalo","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149901","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the paradigm shift towards market-orientation currently taking place in Finnish local land-use planning. In general, market-oriented planning means such public-sector planning that is primarily motivated by creating favourable conditions for economic growth and private investment. Local market-oriented planning is justified in terms of better adaptivity to urban complexity, in terms of neoliberalist political ideology, and in terms of economic scarcity. During the Thatcher government in the UK important legislative and administrative changes were made that led to the dismantling of the welfare state and to the redefinition of the public sector as a resource and protector of private sector economic activity. The tasks and methods of local land-use planning were changed accordingly. In Finland these measures have recently been looked upon as exemplary, as our municipalities are searching for a way out of their paralysing economic difficulties. Although the Finnish and UK municipal org...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130415897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Kitchen Floor to the Basement - Sharing Arrangements in two Centuries","authors":"Marit Ekne Ruud, Viggo Nordvik","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149910","url":null,"abstract":"Letting part of the home is one form of sharing. Such arrangements can be found in both rental and owner-occupied housing units. In this article we discuss the mechanisms that generate sharing arrangements. In particular, we argue that economic strain rather than affluent space leads to households being let. Furthermore, we note that there is often some family or other type of relationship between those who let and their tenants/lodger. We therefore believe that there are also other, non-monetary, arguments behind the decision to let and the choice of tenant/lodger. We discuss these propositions in the light of two quite different studies: the first, an ethnological study of lodgings at the end of the 19th century, the second, an econometric study of letting of secondary dwellings in single-family houses at the end of the 20th century. Despite the enormous differences between the two points in time, we claim that there are structural similarities between the mechanisms that generated the lodging phenomena...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125448967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De-commodification and Welfare: Evaluating Housing Systems","authors":"J. Doling","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149884","url":null,"abstract":"This article adopts an operational definition of de-commodification that emphasises its significance for the welfare of individuals. It explores what the definition indicates about different forms of home ownership and renting found in industrialised countries. The evaluations are brought together to derive quantitative estimates of the degree of de-commodification found in the housing systems of Britain, Sweden and Germany. Deriving the degrees of de-commodification of particular forms of housing and of entire national housing systems is a complex process. They cannot be read-off from knowledge of, say, tenure, and conclusions may differ from those generally assumed.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127557132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unravelling the \"Australian Housing Solution\": The Post-War Years","authors":"M. Berry","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149974","url":null,"abstract":"Australia has long been seen as the prime example of a ?home owning democracy?. More than 50% of the population were home owners by the turn of the 20th century. This figure climbed to 70% in the first 15 years after the Second World War. More than 90% of middle aged and older Australians alive today have owned their dwelling at some stage in their lives. However, in the 1990s there are clear signs that home ownership is on the decline. The proportion of households purchasing on a mortgage is falling across all age groups and income classes. Decline is particularly evident among younger and lower income groups, suggesting that underlying economic and demographic forces are at work. Governments at all levels in Australia are turning away from an almost exclusive concern with encouraging owner occupation in favour of targeting housing subsidies towards low income tenants in the private rental market, as well as the small social housing sector. This paper traces the rise and imminent decline of owner occupat...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121127425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Social Construction of Housing Management Discourse: Objectivity, Rationality and Everyday Practice","authors":"Lise Saugeres","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149965","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the ways in which housing management is socially constructed as bureaucratic reality. Housing management is the function in local authorities and housing associations that provides and manages subsidized rented housing. Increasingly, public housing is taken up by people dependent on welfare benefits who cannot afford any other form of tenure. As a result, housing staff have to take on a welfare role that sometimes gets blurred with that provided by other welfare agencies. At the same time, cuts in budgets and subsidies available to housing organizations means that public housing is a scarce resource that has to be rationed. This process of rationing is usually based on a system that prioritizes people's housing needs. These needs are defined and determined differently by different housing organizations. Similarly, the provision of social housing is allocated differently by different organizations. However, a dominant discourse within housing management and other welfare bureaucracies i...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134132286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}