Digital/material housing financialisation and activism in post-crash Dublin

Lochlainn, Maedhbh Nic

doi:10.1080/02673037.2021.2004092

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“…O'Callaghan succinctly summarises that to address the challenge of vacancy would require ‘moving beyond technocratic fixes and opens up more fundamental questions about how we value urban space, prioritise particular forms of development, and balance the rights and responsibilities of property as absolute right to exclude against the common good’ (O'Callaghan, 2021, n.p.). Dublin has been described as ‘an urban space reshaped by housing financialisation and struggles resisting it’ (Nic Lochlainn, 2021, p. 1). To fully understand the story of Dublin, discussions need to not only focus on the processes of urban planning and financialisation at work in the city, but the outcomes of this on the people living, working, acting, playing, embodying, experiencing and spending time in Dublin.…”

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Liquid urbanisms: Framing the intrinsic fluidity of the urban

McArdle

2023

Geography and Environment

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Cities are lived and made and constantly in a state of flux, and the same urban spaces can be used by a variety of people in very different ways. I propose the concept of 'liquid urbanisms' to understand these provisional uses of urban space. Liquid urbanisms are provisional places and spaces, connected through the loose and flexible networks of people and projects, that are not immediately obvious but which solidify around a certain project or topic, then become liquid again, until another time in the future. Liquid urbanisms was a helpful concept for me in my research, but also has a wider resonance in how we think about and conceptualise provisional locations in the city. Liquid urbanisms builds on and adds to work in urban studies, focusing attention on the spatial practices of urban actors at the local scale and acknowledging the importance of the temporal in understanding space and place and acknowledging the fluidity of cities. My research conducted in 2013-17 in Dublin initially looked at so-called 'temporary spaces' but quickly grew to include parks, squats, art spaces, urban gardens, autonomous social centres, networking groups and direct actions. I created the conceptual framework of liquid urbanisms to be able to discuss these projects together, as empirically from my research I could see that the projects I was researching had two main shared characteristics: a looser understanding of temporality than existed in mainstream urban planning understandings of the city, and a shared network of people, places and resources, but no body of literature encompassed both of these characteristics. The focus of this article is the concept of liquid urbanisms and how the framework of liquid urbanisms can highlight the different temporalities, spatialities and networks that exist in city spaces, reminding scholars to pay attention to the diverse fluidity of cities.

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Liquid urbanisms: Framing the intrinsic fluidity of the urban

McArdle

2023

Geography and Environment

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“…One of the reasons families are not favouring BTR buildings is the higher price of rent for living in a central locality, which families do not value as much [43]. However, there are factors that can change the main tenant market, such as market demand, the location of developments, and investor interests [10,12,55]. A recent example of a market change was seen in the UK, where, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the BTR-target market shifted towards key workers.…”

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Key Themes of Build-to-Rent: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Achieving Successful Developments through a Systematic Literature Review

Carvalho,

Liu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Buildings

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There is currently a pressing need for rental housing to be built and the Build-to-Rent (BTR) market is growing to address such housing demands. Existing research focuses on the financial and planning aspects of existing BTR markets. However, more research is needed to clarify the responsibilities and strategies of key stakeholders to achieve success in BTR developments. Moreover, as an emerging topic, identifying the key themes of research and future directions may be beneficial for the body of knowledge. This study critically analyses the existing research published on BTR and aims to identify their key themes and recommend strategies, via a conceptual framework, for achieving success in BTR developments. Systematic literature review methodology was employed to identify recent publications on the topic of BTR, utilising the databases Web of Science and Scopus. A total of 58 research publications from 2013 to 2023 were identified. Using Leximancer software, the identified literature was systematically and thematically analysed. The analysis identified four themes: (1) stakeholders’ influences on the uptake of the BTR model; (2) BTR as a viable model for addressing soaring rental housing demand; (3) tenant-oriented BTR development; and (4) design and construction management of BTR. This research combines these themes into a conceptual framework, provides useful recommendations to facilitate the implementation of BTR developments, and identifies future research directions for this topic.

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“…There is also an increasing amount of literature devoted to the response to the housing crisis among millennials (or young people in general) in some Western countries (especially Ireland, Germany, Spain or Sweden). Millennials are usually described there as active and sometimes radical in the ways in which they seek to raise awareness of the housing crisis and in the ways in which they seek to change the neoliberal housing policies in their countries (Lima, 2021 ; Lochlain, 2021 ; Waldron, 2022 ; Hoolachan & McKee, 2019 ; Listerborn et al, 2020 ; García-Lamarca, 2017 ).…”

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Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic

Lux

Kubala

Sunega

2023

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The housing affordability crisis is one of the most pressing issues in urban centres around the globe, affecting especially young adults. Some theorists have in response begun calling for the provision of more public housing or less housing financialisation (free market). The goal of our article is to demonstrate the housing attitudes of Czech millennials towards state interventions that are designed to address the decline in housing affordability, using a quantitative attitude survey and a series of qualitative interviews. The results of our study reveal that young Czechs are sceptical about increased public housing provision as a solution, and on the whole their views align more with the neoliberal ideas, the very ideas that are criticised by critical theorists. We show that there are contextual reasons that explain why young Czechs are not calling for radical policy change - reasons such as familialism, which facilitates the intergenerational transmission of norms, habitus, and resources within families; the legacy of socialism and society transformation; a belief that more redistribution of resources could be unfair; and stronger support for competition, individualism and right-wing politics. There is also, however, some inconsistency and uncertainty in their attitudes, especially between their general worldview and their suggestions for concrete action. This study contributes to the research in the field of youth studies that looks at young people’s strategies for dealing with the problem of decreasing housing affordability, and to the discussions surrounding diverse housing policy responses to a common global challenge.

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Digital/material housing financialisation and activism in post-crash Dublin

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Liquid urbanisms: Framing the intrinsic fluidity of the urban

Liquid urbanisms: Framing the intrinsic fluidity of the urban

Key Themes of Build-to-Rent: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Achieving Successful Developments through a Systematic Literature Review

Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic

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