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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the rise of impact investment in social housing in an age of entrenched financialization and enduring public underinvestment through the case of philanthropic investors in Southern Ontario, Canada. Social finance scholarship has highlighted tensions between financial and social returns, while overlooking the role of place
Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
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Apartment Security: A Note on Gated Access and Rental Rates [PDF]
The effect of gated access restrictions on garden apartment rents is empirically evaluated. Garden apartment rents are positively related to the presence of gated access constraints, although the combination of in-unit alarms with gated access is rent ...
William G. Hardin III, Ping Cheng
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HOUSING RETROFITS IN JUST TRANSITIONS? Emerging Contradictions in Catalonia, Spain
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Efforts to decarbonize residential housing are growing globally. Following ambitious targets set by the European Commission's Renovation Wave and subsidized through Covid‐19 recovery funds, Spain's housing retrofit programme deployed EUR 3.4 billion in European grants to retrofit half a million homes between 2022 and 2026.
Melissa García‐Lamarca
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TERRITORIAL VALORIZATION: How Positive Stereotypes Advance Suburban Water Insecurity in Detroit
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Suburbs historically enabled and protected white middle‐class wealth in the United States; however, their more recent diversification has included a rise in suburban poverty. This article examines these dynamics through the issue of household water access—a feature of rising suburban impoverishment that deserves greater attention.
Dana Kornberg, Mackenzie Taradalsky
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Waugh, Daniel Clarke
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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The Way from Home, or the “Box Man”
Проект Байкал, 2018 Throughout the 20th century, citizens have been losing the idea of Home as a constant in life. Depersonalized “housing estates” with a standard set of things are a common lot.
Elena Bagina
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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