The commodification of temporary housing

Debrunner, Gabriela; Gerber, Jean-David

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102998

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“…Current housing transitions are further explained by the profit-seeking in temporary housing (Debrunner & Gerber, 2021) and the financialisation of the student housing sector (Revington & August, 2020). According to Aalbers (2016, p. 2), financialisation is defined as the increasing dominance of financial actors, markets, practices, measurements, and narratives, which leads to a transformation of economies, firms, states, and households.…”

Section: Current Transitions In the Purpose-built Student Accommodati...mentioning

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The Changing Role of Student Housing as Social Infrastructure

Franz

Gruber

2022

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The role of student housing within social infrastructure provision is arguably overlooked. This is a vital issue, as purpose-built student accommodation provides a significant stock of affordable accommodation for students in European university cities while also supporting their social integration in the urban environment. Although an increasing involvement of for-profit student home developers and providers has been diversifying the landscape of student housing across European university cities in the last decade, this change has been mainly associated with the internationalisation of students’ mobility and the financialisation processes driven by private investors. Subsequently, this article expands these supply and demand side perspectives by localising student housing as social infrastructure. Using Vienna as a case study, the authors mapped purpose-built student accommodation locations and conducted qualitative interviews to analyse recent changes in the provision of student housing and to discuss its implications for the social dimension of purpose-built student accommodation. Accordingly, the respective analysis identifies different logics of student housing providers concerning expansion plans and housing quality, which, in turn, affect the function of student housing as social infrastructure. As a result, this article emphasises the need to critically reflect on the overlooked role of student housing as social infrastructure and the role of public actors as well as their policies in the financialisation of purpose-built student accommodation.

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The Changing Role of Student Housing as Social Infrastructure

Franz

Gruber

2022

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“…They can have different motivations and drivers (Bernhardt et al, 2020) and be politically or culturally influenced. In the last years we have witnessed for instance the emergence of collective action as protests against austerity measures (Della Porta, 2015), against the growing commodification of public and residential space (Di Masso, 2012;Larsen and Lund-Hansen, 2015;Debrunner and Gerber, 2021;Lima, 2021) or more broadly as claims for more inclusive and just urban transformations (Chatterton, 2010;Andretta et al, 2015). In a similar vein, our exploration in this article relates to urban initiatives and collective action with a progressive emancipatory-transformative agenda toward a city of (more) commons.…”

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Knowledge Practices Within and Beyond Sharing and Commoning Urban Initiatives

Cermeño

Bretfeld

Bernhardt

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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In the context of neoliberal cities, with growing levels of housing commodification and space competition, sharing and commoning urban initiatives within the larger framework of urban social movements are shaping tactics of contestation. To what extent they represent sustainable efforts to urban commons governance remains largely unexplored. This article aims therefore to contribute to better understand how practices of solidarity can be maintained beyond their first productive phase and to explore the engagement of social movement and initiatives actors in the production and maintenance of shared spatial resources. To do that, we focus on knowledge practices as a key factor to ensure sustainability of actions within and beyond urban initiatives that engage with and practice sharing and space-commoning. Drawing on figurational sociology, we consider individuals involved in these urban initiatives as embedded in multiple social settings and networks of collaboration and interdependence, in which transactions such as resources, ideas and information take place giving way to collective action, new modes of participation and urban transformation. Within this conceptual framework, we explore how urban initiatives networks produce and transfer their knowledge (1) within their own internal set-up, (2) to private and public institutions (e.g., administration and political actors) and (3) to other civil society organizations. To do so, we draw on qualitative research conducted in three German cities, Kassel, Stuttgart, and Berlin on the topics of sharing and commoning practices in the field of housing and public space. By looking at the practices by which knowledge—required for action and networking—is co-/re-produced and exchanged, we identify those that constrain or enable sharing and commoning strategies on the long-term and have therefore a larger potential for sustaining efforts of urban commons governance.

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“…These creative applications of urban space or temporarily unused buildings have been extensively covered in one of the research papers that resulted from the here discussed project [6]. In other urban examples, temporary housing is faced with profitability issues, thus moving away from typologies that are urgently needed for a particular user group towards typologies that are wanted as part of urban densification [7].…”

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Temporary housing environments in urban areas – challenges and key findings for implementation

Österreicher,

Fischer,

Huber-Humer

2024

MATEC Web Conf.

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Cities are increasingly confronted with the need to provide shortterm and cost-efficient housing as several factors, such as natural disasters, migration due to political or climatic circumstances or other unpredictable events can result in a sudden and at times temporary need for additional housing. Providing affordable, and flexible but at the same time sustainable and re-useable housing concepts that are easy to construct and quickly to implement are thus requirements that cities must face. Currently there is limited research available in this field, as disaster architecture and temporary housing have not yet been widely researched in an interdisciplinary manner. The project “Urban pop-up housing environments and their potential as local innovation systems” has aimed at addressing this research gap by investigating in a highly interdisciplinary approach how and under which circumstances temporary housing solutions could be implemented under challenging framework conditions. The aim of the project was to systematically investigate and evaluate existing temporary housing options, and to develop and assess innovative and sustainable models for pop-up living systems in urban environments regarding resource uptake as well as social aspects, which may serve as incubators for urban innovation. From a technical perspective the models are focused on integrating aspects related to architecture, energy technologies, resources and materials, water as well as landscape design. Starting with a data pool of international examples, a classification and systematization of relevant typologies has been carried out in combination with user profiles for the different housing situations. On this basis, potential urban areas have been identified for selected scenarios and finally six theoretical temporary housing models have been created and subsequently assessed and analyzed in detail. The purpose of this paper is to present the key findings related to the scenarios and models, that have been developed within this basic research project and the methodologies that have been applied to assess them. The challenges of the scenarios and overall project results are summarized to provide an outline for potential implementation and future pilot projects.

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The commodification of temporary housing

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

The Changing Role of Student Housing as Social Infrastructure

The Changing Role of Student Housing as Social Infrastructure

Knowledge Practices Within and Beyond Sharing and Commoning Urban Initiatives

Temporary housing environments in urban areas – challenges and key findings for implementation

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