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The reform of China’s housing system has gone through a complex historical process from private real estate before 1949 to public ownership and then partial privatization.
Guo Yuhua
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Learning from Barcelona’s grassroots housing struggles: Towards a transformational Degrowth agenda
This article contributes to the nascent literature on housing for Degrowth. It recognises that housing plays a pivotal role in the creation and perpetuation of socio-ecological injustices, and therefore must be a core strategic element of a ...
Aeve Ribbons
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During the years of economic crisis and austerity, and the subsequent economic growth dependent on real estate and tourism, housing has returned into the spotlight on the political agenda in Southern European countries and cities, where activists and ...
Simone Tulumello, Nadia Caruso
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Unwanted Housing: Localism and Politics of Housing Development
We examine pervasive opposition to building market-rate housing and relate it to localism: a perspective that grants moral authority to incumbent residents. We argue that localism has become prevalent in housing planning in the United States and that its seeming equality—allowing all communities the right to define themselves—conceals profound ...
Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen
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This essay explores the defining role that council housing has played in populist politics in Britain from the post-war era to the present. Central to this was Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy scheme – an archetypal populist policy that became totemic ...
Owen Hopkins
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SQEK: Agenda de Investigación del Colectivo “Okupando Europa” - v. 1.0
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(SQEK) SQuatting Europe Kollective
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Owning a house is the most important economic choice most families will ever make. Yet, our understanding of the political causes and consequences of homeownership is rather thin. This review argues that political scientists need to take housing much more seriously, not least because of the unprecedented surges and collapses of house prices over the ...
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The city region of Madrid can be considered as an exponent of the striking contradictions associated with the contemporary market-oriented production of housing.
Janoschka, Michael
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THE IDEOLOGY OF ECONOMIC LIBERALISM AND THE POLITICS OF HOUSING IN ROMANIA
The privatization of housing (linked to the privatization of means of production), respectively the creation of a new private housing fund, have been crucial for the emergence of capitalist property regime and market economy in Romania.
Enikő VINCZE
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The Politics of Housing Metaphors
Political metaphors condition social reality and mediate authority. One repeatedly used metaphor in discourses about migration and refuge is the misconception that ‘the state is a house.’ Far from only defining the modalities of inclusion and exclusion,
Laurin Mackowitz, Daniel Lorenz
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