Historicizing housing typologies: beyond welfare state regimes and varieties of residential capitalism

Blackwell, Timothy; Kohl, Sebastian

doi:10.1080/02673037.2018.1487037

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“…A second aim is to explore how this local alteration of public housingan alteration which I understand as an interaction of spatial, financial and ideological processesmanifests in public housing's historical and contemporary role in the city. Thus, the paper complements previous theorizations of Sweden's housing politics within comparative housing research (Bengtsson 2013b;Kemeny 2006 and recently;Blackwell and Kohl 2018) with an understanding of housing neoliberalisation avoiding both the temporal focus on the 1990s, as mentioned above, as well as the focus on the national scale as a departure point for explaining political change.…”

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Spatial, Financial and Ideological Trajectories of Public Housing in Malmö, Sweden

Gustafsson

2019

Housing, Theory and Society

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Public housing has been one of the primary tools mobilized in Sweden historically to fulfil citizens' right to housing. However, the nominally universal character of public housing in the Swedish context has increasingly been circumvented through processes of segregation, residualisation, gentrification and displacement. Furthermore, previous housing research points to the neoliberal shift of Sweden's housing politics since the early 1990s, encompassing the deregulation of public housing at the national level. Focusing on the example of public housing, this paper argues for a multiscalar and nuanced understanding of housing neoliberalisation in Sweden, by investigating the change of public housing locally. The political landscape of public housing in different localities has been transformed as a result of interacting trajectories of spatial restructuring, financialisation and ideological reconstruction. The paper examines this "conjunctural" transformation empirically through a case study of public housing in the city of Malmö.

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Spatial, Financial and Ideological Trajectories of Public Housing in Malmö, Sweden

Gustafsson

2019

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Narrow homelessness definitions and the general international absence of enforceable legal rights to housing beyond emergency accommodation represent stumbling blocks to further policy transfer beyond the UK, which would require a significant departure from current homelessness policy trajectories. Indeed, the historical development of welfare and housing institutions (i.e., path dependency) and associated costs may act as constraining influences (Blackwell and Kohl, 2018). Nevertheless, the Canadian case suggests that policy transfer may be possible if there is sufficient support for change.…”

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Policy Transfer and Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014

Wilding¹,

Madoc-Jones²,

Ahmed³

et al. 2019

Social Policy and Society

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Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014 and its implementation has been keenly observed by governments outside of Wales, as they continue to search for policy solutions to help address the homelessness crisis. This article examines the extent to which there has been policy transfer from Wales to other national contexts and the potential for such transfer to occur in the future. It is identified that some transfer has already taken place within the UK and there is the potential for future policy transfer both within the UK and internationally. Adaptation to each of the new contexts is necessary to underpin successful transfer of provisions of the Act; however, outside of the UK this will need to be more extensive and include the introduction of a right to housing.

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“…He believes that Kemeny's focus on the use of public investment in the rental housing sector and its subsequent maturation is not only a fragile ("delicate") part of the Kemeny thesis (as I observe), but cannot simply be traced back to "power structure and political ideology". Echoing Blackwell and Kohl (2019) he points to the role of "the historic/ institutional structure of society" in shaping contemporary housing systems, and (more specifically) suggests that a range of public support (including off-balance sheet expenditures) broader than financial subsidy to cost-rental landlords should be considered. He agrees that globalization as an external force is an important influence on housing systems (to the extent that "the explanatory power of mid-level theories is greatly diminished by this fact"), and argues that a greater range of institutional interactions need to be built into an explanatory model of housing.…”

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Towards a Multi-layered Housing Regime Framework: Responses to Commentators

Stephens

2020

Housing, Theory and Society

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In this article I respond to commentators' observations relating to my Focus Article, "How housing systems are changing and why", and propose a multi-layered housing regime framework. I argue that the institutions of housing system are naturally located in the middle-range, and fall into three distinct spheres of production, consumption and exchange. These spheres interaction with the "wider welfare regime" which represents the institutions of the labour market, taxation and social security. They have distinctive distributional tendencies and set the "boundaries of possibility" of the social rented sector's role. Sitting above these middle-range institutions are macro-level drivers including macroeconomic policy and the relatively new phenomenon of "really big finance" implied by unconventional monetary policies adopted by many central banks. Beneath the middle-range institutions lie regional and metropolitan markets where institutional variations and market pressures may produce intra-regime variation of outcomes.

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Historicizing housing typologies: beyond welfare state regimes and varieties of residential capitalism

Cited by 53 publications

References 55 publications

Spatial, Financial and Ideological Trajectories of Public Housing in Malmö, Sweden

Spatial, Financial and Ideological Trajectories of Public Housing in Malmö, Sweden

Policy Transfer and Part 2 of the Housing Act (Wales) 2014

Towards a Multi-layered Housing Regime Framework: Responses to Commentators

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