Britain's new housing precariat: housing wealth pathways out of homeownership

Köppe, Stephan

doi:10.1080/14616718.2016.1185286

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“…Whilst the impact of employment insecurity is filtered by institutional characteristics (Lersch & Dewilde, 2015), the interdependency between labour market and housing precarity is an area that warrants further investigation (Koppe, 2017). As our review found, individuals' experiences of labour systems structure their housing experiences and choices.…”

Section: Political-economic Dimensionsmentioning

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Understanding changing housing aspirations: a review of the evidence

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This article reviews the literature on changing housing aspirations and expectations in contemporary housing systems. It argues that there is a conceptual and definitional gap in relation to the term 'housing aspirations', as distinct from expectations, preferences, choices and needs. The article sets out working definitions of these terms, before discussing the evidence on changing housing (and related) systems. Emerging research has begun to consider whether trends such as declining homeownership, affordability concerns and precarious labour systems across a range of countries are fundamentally changing individuals' aspirations for the forms of housing they aim to access at different stages of their lives. Whilst much of the research into housing aspirations has been considered in terms of tenure, and homeownership in particular, this article suggests that research needs to move beyond tenure and choice frameworks, to consider the range of dimensions that shape aspirations, from the political economy and the State to socialization and individuals' dispositions for housing. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Political-economic Dimensionsmentioning

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“…Second, we use time since separation as the 'clock' to study housing trajectories of separated individuals. Previous studies have either used age or time since start of the panel as the timeline in sequence analysis (e.g., Köppe 2017;Pollock 2007;Spallek, Haynes, and Jones 2014). We argue that time since separation provides a natural 'clock' for the analysis of housing trajectories of separated individuals.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…First, using sequence analysis, we investigate housing trajectories of separated women and men. Although a number of studies have investigated residential trajectories of various population subgroups using sequence analysis (Clark, Deurloo, and Dieleman 2003;Falkingham et al 2016;Köppe 2017;Pollock 2007;Spallek, Haynes, and Jones 2014;Stovel and Bolan 2004), no study has examined the housing trajectories of separated individuals. Studying housing trajectories will significantly improve our understanding of how individuals' housing conditions evolve over time following separation and of the short-and long-term consequences of separation.…”

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Union dissolution and housing trajectories in Britain

Mikolai¹,

Kulu²

2019

DemRes

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BACKGROUND A growing body of literature shows that divorce and separation have negative consequences for individuals' residential mobility and housing conditions. Yet, no study to date has examined housing trajectories of separated individuals. OBJECTIVE We investigate housing trajectories of separated men and women using longitudinal data from Britain. METHODS We apply sequence analysis to data from 18 waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008). We use time since separation as the 'clock' in our analysis and examine the sensitivity of the results to attrition, the length of the observation window, and the choice of classification criteria. RESULTS We identify five types of housing trajectories among separated individuals: 'owner stayers,' 'owner movers,' 'social rent stayers,' 'social rent movers,' and 'private renters.' Men are more likely to stay in homeownership, whereas women are more likely to stay in social housing. There is an expected educational gradient: Highly educated individuals are likely to remain homeowners, whereas people with low educational level have a high propensity to stay in or to move to social housing. Overall, this study shows that some individuals can afford homeownership after separation, and that social housing offers a safety net for the most vulnerable population subgroups (low-educated women with children). However, a significant group of separated individuals is unable to afford homeownership in a country where homeownership is still the norm. http://www.demographic-research.org CONTRIBUTION This study shows that separation has long-term consequences for individuals' housing conditions and that post-separation housing trajectories are significantly shaped by individuals' socioeconomic characteristics.

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“…The assumption is that people with sufficient assets can manage their own welfare and they are, therefore, not a liability to government. Regardless of the debates, most households aspire to getting a foot on the housing ladder, referred to by researchers as a ‘linear progression towards homeownership’ (Koppe , p. 177). In many parts of the Global North, owning rather than renting ‘has become a key marker of difference’ (Haffner et al , p. 169).…”

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“…New homeowners and lower‐income homeowners have been among the most damaged (Clarke ). Particularly at risk have been female‐headed households, younger households, households with a high mortgage‐payment‐to‐income‐ratio and households going through relationship break‐ups (Koppe ).…”

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A Tale of Two Markets: Unequal Access to Private Property in a South African City

Marais¹,

Awuzie²,

Cloete

et al. 2019

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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In line with international trends, South Africa's post-apartheid government has embarked on a housing policy that emphasises asset building. Homeownership has become a dominant policy for assisting the historically disadvantaged Black population. This paper looks at two property markets in Mangaung, a metropolitan municipality that includes Bloemfontein. We analysed property activity on 2,545 residential stands in former Black and former White areas in Mangaung since 1990. Our findings show two distinct markets. The formal property market in former Black areas shows a low number of transactions, low value and slow turnover. In the former White areas, a housing investment made between 1990 and 2016 would have yielded an annual return of 14 per cent, but in the former Black areas only 7 per cent. This poor return makes it difficult for homeowners in former Black areas to use housing for asset building.

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Britain's new housing precariat: housing wealth pathways out of homeownership

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Understanding changing housing aspirations: a review of the evidence

Understanding changing housing aspirations: a review of the evidence

Union dissolution and housing trajectories in Britain

A Tale of Two Markets: Unequal Access to Private Property in a South African City

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