It’s about Process: Who Draws up the List of Capabilities and How?

Foye, Chris

doi:10.1080/14036096.2019.1705385

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“…Functions are, however, widely accepted to be useful proxy indicators for capabilities on the basis that most people will seek to achieve their capabilities as far as possible. They often serve, too, as capabilities for other functionings (Durand, 2015;Foye, 2020;Robeyns, 2006;Schischka et al, 2008;Wolff & de-Shalit, 2013). Secondly, Nussbaum's (2003) list of functions was used as an organizing framework for analysis.…”

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“…There is also growing consensus that capabilities are a highly valuable informational base for the evaluation of housing outcomes, providing researchers with a framework which extends the traditional boundaries of research and more effectively captures the plurality of ends which users value (Clapham et al, 2018;Foye, 2021;Kimhur, 2020;Watts & Fitzpatrick, 2020). It is important to note, nonetheless, that despite its ethical merits, few studies have evaluated housing outcomes using 'capabilities' (rather than functionings), as these are largely abstract hypothetical states and thus difficult to measure (Foye, 2020). Linked to this and building upon the seminal work of King (2003), the application of the CA as a conceptual lens seems to be fostering more progressive (and explicitly normative) debate about what housing ought to enable us to do and be, what housing and homelessness policy should aim to achieve and how these aims might translate into practice (Batterham, 2019;Kimhur, 2020;Nicholls, 2010;Watts & Blenkinsopp, 2021;Watts & Fitzpatrick, 2020).…”

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Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents

Irving

2021

Housing Studies

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While housing can facilitate many of the freedoms associated with a 'well-lived' life, the Capabilities Approach (CA) is yet to have transformed housing research and evaluation. This paper explores the relationship between housing conditions and wellbeing, using Nussbaum's version of the CA as the basis for analysis. It draws on data from a UK-based qualitative study of the experiences of individuals residing in privately-run hostels in the North of England. The analysis reveals much diversity in terms of the ways in which the residents perceived their housing conditions and the impacts of these on their exercise of key functions, despite all living in similar environmental conditions. This highlights the highly subjective and complex nature of the relationship between housing conditions and well-being. It is argued that a more robust understanding of the key factors that mediate the relationship being investigated is needed if the potential of the CA to advance housing research and evaluation is to be further realized.

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Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents

Irving

2021

Housing Studies

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“…En coherencia con la postulación inicial de este estudio de realizar una lista de capacidades específicas para comprender la calidad de vida de jóvenes universitarios, los hallazgos confirman que esta estrategia es aconsejable para tal propósito; lo cual coincide con trabajos sobre la construcción de listas específicas (Foye, 2020;Kinghorn y Coast, 2018;Robeyns, 2003;Su et al, 2020;Walker, 2008;Wilson-Strydom, 2016).…”

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Capacidades humanas de los jóvenes universitarios: validación de una lista específica

Flores

2023

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Desde el enfoque del desarrollo humano de Sen, se propone comprender la calidad de vida de los jóvenes universitarios a través de construir una lista específica de capacidades. Se aplica una metodología en tres pasos: primero, construir una lista arquetípica mediante listas consolidadas; después, investigación empírica para incluir el punto de vista de los insiders, y finalmente, validación de la lista a través de una prueba Delphi. Como resultado, se obtiene una lista específica de capacidades con 11 dimensiones, cuyo valor es su validez, replicabilidad y potencialidad para retroalimentar los estudios y la política pública en el campo del desarrollo.

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“…The practicalities of the housing capability idea is yet greatly in doubt (Foye, 2020;Batterham, 2020;McCallum & Papadopoulos, 2020), but when debating this practicality issue, it is often overlooked that philosophical ideas are not always directly transferable to practical guides for policy. Some intermediate steps are required to bridge the philosophical ideas and practical applications, such as connecting vocabulary of philosophy and policies, and dealing with the gaps between ideals and real-life situations where the ideals are to be implemented.…”

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Housing justice as expansion of people’s capabilities for housing

Kimhur

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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Housing inequality is a growing concern in our society. In recent decades, this inequality has been exacerbated by the phenomenon of housing being financialized and commodified as a means for wealth accumulation. Management of financial institutions and housing markets has become the centre of attention in policy discussion. The questions of how to promote the moral values tied to housing, such as human rights, dignity and freedom, and how to better enable people to access suitable housing have been marginalized. As a way forward, the states’ re-intervention and redistribution policies, and the human rights-based approach to housing policies are discussed, but this thesis advocates for a more ambitious paradigm shift. By extending Amartya Sen’s capability approach to housing, the thesis argues for resetting the primary goal of housing policies as expansion of people’s capabilities for housing—expanding opportunity, ability and security to lead their valued ways of residing—beyond the distribution of monetary and material resources for housing, such as housing benefits and dwelling units. This thesis presents the theoretical foundations of this argument and proposes basic principles to guide housing policies, which can serve as a normative basis of housing debates on necessary policy actions. An essential tool to guide housing policies towards this newly proposed goal is to evaluate policy outcomes and housing affairs of people—well-being, deprivation and inequality in housing—with capability considerations. The thesis suggests how this evaluation can be done and can help policies address the inequalities in what people can do to pursue their suitable housing options and how well they are actually residing.

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It’s about Process: Who Draws up the List of Capabilities and How?

Cited by 5 publications

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Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents

Exploring the relationship between housing conditions and capabilities: a qualitative case study of private hostel residents

Capacidades humanas de los jóvenes universitarios: validación de una lista específica

Housing justice as expansion of people’s capabilities for housing

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