{"title":"Assembling Imperceptibility: The Material, Financial and Policy Dimensions of Combustible Cladding in Residential High-Rise","authors":"Nicole Cook, E. J. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2099460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2099460","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on the predicament of owner-occupiers and small investors presently liable for the removal of combustible cladding on build-to-sell residential high-rise. We argue that while the proliferation of combustible materials has been shaped by cost-cutting and risk-shifting by construction firms, these practices did not on their own transfer the responsibility of remediation to consumers. Examining the attempts of one densifying nation, Australia, to locate responsibility for combustible cladding through two parliamentary inquiries, we analyse witness testimonies to show how public policies encouraged materials substitution, removed on-site inspection and protected corporations from litigation. Moving beyond neoliberalism, these policy reforms leveraged information asymmetries and the material complexity of residential high-rise to create a climate of “imperceptibility” towards unsafe materials. Together, material, financial and policy dimensions intersected to enable capital accumulation through the expansion of consumer harm in high-rise housing markets. We conclude that construction materials and processes are an overlooked, yet critical domain of governance in financialised housing regimes.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"113 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48667285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing, the welfare state and poverty: On the financialization of housing and the dependent variable problem","authors":"R. Hick, M. Stephens","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2095438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2095438","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The comparative study of housing systems enjoys a “disjointed” relationship with comparative literature on the welfare state and poverty, a separation which has been to the detriment of each of these fields. Such are its implications for the income distribution that the concept of “financializaton” developed in housing studies provides potentially rich raw material for welfare state and poverty literature. However, there are also limitations in the way in which “financializaton” has been operationalized in housing studies: definitions are often inconsistent, and it has proven challenging to identify indicators that measure convincingly the multiple dimensions of financialization. We argue that greater consideration of the “dependent variable problem”, extensively discussed in the welfare state literature, but generally neglected in housing studies, can advance understanding of housing market financialization and its effects. A greater integration of scholarship on the welfare state, housing studies and poverty would be to mutual benefit.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"78 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44038742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating Built Environments: Bridging Knowledge and Practice Divides","authors":"R. Rocco","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2096312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2096312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"130 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47997661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Smart Technologies Enter Household Practices: The Gendered Implications of Digital Housekeeping","authors":"Line kryger Aagaard","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2094460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2094460","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the social and gender implications of smart home technology (SHT) by looking at its role in everyday practices and domestic relations. Based on qualitative interviews and “show-and-tell” home tours in Danish smart homes, empirical insights on digital housekeeping are presented, a concept often associated with masculinity in the literature. By showing how digital housekeeping also relates to housework traditionally associated with femininity, including home decoration and cognitive labour, the paper nuances the gendered implications of the concept. The meaning and effects of digital housekeeping are discussed by critically examining the gendered manifestations in everyday practices and household members’ experiences. The paper shows how digital housekeeping potentially redistributes (gender) roles of everyday practices and forms a new point of control in the home. Although involving acts of inclusion, digital housekeeping also risks reinforcing power imbalances and existing domestic gender roles.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"60 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43935969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Morris, Andrew Clarke, C. Robinson, Jan Idle, Cameron Parsell
{"title":"Applying for Social Housing in Australia – The Centrality of Cultural, Social and Emotional Capital","authors":"A. Morris, Andrew Clarke, C. Robinson, Jan Idle, Cameron Parsell","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2085169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2085169","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social housing scarcity has underpinned the development of detailed social housing application processes across Australia. Applications require the strongest possible evidence of disadvantage and need, conceptualized in this paper as the required demonstration of “inverse distinction”. Drawing on 47 in-depth interviews in three Australian states with people who have expert knowledge of the application process, we argue that the onerous requirements of the application means that if an applicant does not have a skilled supporter or advocate, they are less likely to achieve an optimal result. Drawing on Bourdieu’s framework and the concept of emotional capital, we demonstrate that being prioritized invariably involves an applicant sub-contracting cultural and social capital to an advocate. Further, the latter needs to have the requisite emotional capital. This article shines new light on the practical and emotional workload of social housing applications for both housing professionals and those in need of housing assistance.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"42 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43040041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiations of Urban Ontological Security: The Impact of Housing Insecurity on Being-in-the-City","authors":"Carolin Genz, I. Helbrecht","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2074097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2074097","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Housing insecurity has rendered urban life inherently unpredictable owing to the constant increase in rent. Consequently, housing insecurity impacts urban residents’ well-being and feelings of security. Considering this fact, this study aims to understand renters’ subjective perceptions of rental housing insecurity by exploring the ties between housing and ontological insecurity. Drawing on qualitative interviews and photo-elicitation with participants of different age groups in Berlin, this study engages with coping strategies for insecurities on the rental housing market. We apply the concept of ontological security to private tenants’ situations, and thereby, develop a spatial perspective on housing insecurity. The study’s results suggest that ontological security is continuously negotiated and shifting, and that urban geographical imaginations, contribute to residents’ notions of “being-in-the-city.”","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"22 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41833548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“You’re Always in Transit, but the House Stays”: Remitting, Restoring and Remaking Home in a Migrant Family House in Cuenca, Ecuador","authors":"Paolo Boccagni, Stefania Yapo","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2063941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2063941","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Unravelling the emotional and relational bases of migrant transnational housing is an emerging challenge for research on home, family and migration. Based on a house biography in Cuenca, Ecuador, this paper reconstructs how a transnational family strived to preserve their past house by renovating it as a bed-and-breakfast. Building on narrative and ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how far a house with a commercial purpose and no permanent dwellers reproduces a sense of “home”, and to the benefit of whom. We thereby connect this house biography to four societal questions: the retention of family memories, the interdependence between distant kin, the temporalities of housing and the commodification of the domestic. This fourfold analysis has fundamental implications for the meaning of home for migrants and for its interplay with housing, fixity and continuity, with an ultimate focus on what the house does, rather than on what it is.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"611 - 629"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45374859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using “Home” to Explain the Factors Affecting Residential Satisfaction The Case of Panama’s Heterogeneous Environments During The Covid-19 Crisis","authors":"Pablo García de Paredes","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2063940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2063940","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study’s goal is to explore the representations of home that underlie residential satisfaction during the Covid-19 crisis, by developing new tools for housing research. We hypothesize that the concept of home helps explain the different experiences of social groups during the confinement period, and its effect on residential satisfaction. To test our hypothesis, we developed a mixed-methods approach departing from 135 original surveys. . First a quantitative index was created, measuring four groups of home dimensions; the inside of home (1), the outside connection (2), home as protection against stressors (3) and home as a place for positive adaptation (4). Secondly, we used content analysis to enlarge the explanatory power of the index. Our results show the index is a viable tool for exploring the different experiences of confinement. Our method potentially improves research on residential satisfaction leading to more resilience, and better design guidelines for professionals.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"589 - 610"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Justice and Democracy: A Progressive Agenda for the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Sine Bağatur","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2064091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2064091","url":null,"abstract":"This newest book of Mike Berry further develops the ideas presented in his earlier books: The Affluent Society Revisited (2013) and Morality and Power: On Ethics, Economics and Public Policy (2017). Following on the “comprehensive consequentialist” conception of social justice devel-oped in his earlier work, Berry’s central thesis in this book is that “to move towards a more just world, in the actual circumstances of justice that we face, the weaknesses and threats to liberal democracy must be overcome through reconstructing robust, resilient social democracies” (p. 8). In line with this central thesis, and as the title of the book hints at, Berry suggests that justice and democracy are necessarily and intimately linked: it is not possible to have one without the other. Accordingly, the book is structured around these two key themes of justice and democracy.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"380 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42573642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Gbadegesin, L. Marais, J. Cloete, K. Rani, M. Lenka, Motsaathabe Serekoane, M. Boivin, Cilly Shohet, D. Givon, C. Sharp
{"title":"Housing, Home and Children’s Socio-Emotional Health: Conceptual Ideas and Empirical Evidence from a South African Pilot Study","authors":"F. Gbadegesin, L. Marais, J. Cloete, K. Rani, M. Lenka, Motsaathabe Serekoane, M. Boivin, Cilly Shohet, D. Givon, C. Sharp","doi":"10.1080/14036096.2022.2058602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2058602","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The literature linking home and housing with the socio-emotional health of children focuses primarily on the physical attributes of housing. We conducted a pilot study to measure physical and socio-emotional attributes of housing for a sample of 69 children from a low-resource setting in South Africa. We used the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We analysed the data using descriptive and inferential methods. Our preliminary evidence from the descriptive methods shows that the children’s socio-emotional health had a statistically significant correlation with six of the subscales in the HOME inventory but with only two of the physical attributes of their housing. We conclude that studies of the relationship between home and children’s socio-emotional health should pay more attention to the concept of home and how it has been operationalized through the HOME inventory.","PeriodicalId":47433,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory & Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"555 - 572"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45479094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}