Access to housing in the neoliberal era: a new comparativist analysis of the neoliberalisation of access to housing in Santiago and London

Beswick, Joe; Imilán, Walter; Martínez, Patricia Eugenia Olivera

doi:10.1080/19491247.2018.1501256

Cited by 17 publications

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“…Drawing on Massey (1984), the lack of national coherence in provision is understood to be the product of the ongoing interaction between contemporary process of disruption and change and accumulated layers of national and local policy and practice, institutional frameworks, regulatory performances, political struggles and associated patterns of investment and provision. Previous studies have emphasised the importance of recognising national particularity in neoliberal transformations of housing (Beswick et al, 2019). This study has revealed local particularity to also be an important dimension of what Springer (2010Springer ( , p. 1025 refers to as "neoliberalism's hybridized and mutated forms as it travels around our world".…”

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confidence: 84%

Specialist housing for older people in an era of neoliberal transformation: exploring provision in England

Robinson

Wilson

2021

Housing Studies

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Specialist housing for older people is an important welfare service and integral part of the housing offer in many countries. An extensive evidence base details the relative merits of different modes of provision, but little light has been cast on the forces shaping provision and the interests served. Drawing on a new model of demand and supply of specialist provision in England at the local authority level, this study addresses this lacuna. Two key contributions are made to knowledge and understanding. First, the uneven landscape of specialist housing provision is charted and the extent to which this maps onto need is revealed. Second, this condition is explained by situating specialist housing within wider debates about the reimagining of housing systems driven by the neoliberal transformation of housing politics, and recognising that these processes can have uneven effects embedded in the nature of places.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

Specialist housing for older people in an era of neoliberal transformation: exploring provision in England

Robinson

Wilson

2021

Housing Studies

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“…Such processes strengthened the influence of the real estate industry in some Latin American countries, allowing developers to dictate housing development patterns in order to enhance their profit margins (Rolnik, 2013; Beswick et al ., 2019). Yet housing finance strategies have differed significantly across countries.…”

Section: Early Housing Financialization Processes In Brazil and Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Chile was the first to follow neoliberal housing and urban development policies and promote low-income housing construction in peri-urban areas, following the socio-spatial dictates of land markets (Vergara et al, 2019). Despite the segregation and negative implications that accompanied peripheral housing development (Tapia, 2011;Beswick et al, 2019), and its implementation during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, the Chilean housing model was touted as a success in reducing the quantitative housing deficit and was adopted by other countries, most notably Mexico and later Brazil (Nascimento Neto and Salinas Arreortua, 2020). Such processes strengthened the influence of the real estate industry in some Latin American countries, allowing developers to dictate housing development patterns in order to enhance their profit margins (Rolnik, 2013;Beswick et al, 2019).…”

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THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

Reyes¹,

Basile²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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After defaulting on their foreign-debt obligations in the 1980s, several Latin American countries had to restructure their economies to boost market-led growth. Some of the ensuing housing reforms promoted mortgage expansion and mass housing production. Mexico was among the first countries to follow this logic, and in a particularly aggressive manner. Credit liberalization allowed a handful of real estate firms to experience massive expansions in their operations in the 2000s as they were able to build lower-middle-income housing at an accelerated rate by accessing public, pension and private equity funds. Brazil eventually appropriated some aspects of the Mexican housing model, but not others. In the late 2000s, Brazil began providing deep subsidies to low-income households to connect the private supply of housing with a publicly subsidized demand. This article discusses, challenges and moves beyond prior analyses of these processes by contrasting the two countries' housing finance models and examining the more recent (2010s) evolution and normative shifts in their housing and urban development policy agendas. Despite the direct policy transfer between the two contexts, the South-South comparative analysis presented in the article highlights the fluctuating and unstable nature of financialization processes given the varied inclination of national governments to manage, promote or restrict them, or to contain or accentuate capitalist crises and their implications.

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“…Social capital created by individuals reinforced through private and latent acts reciprocity within the home (Bourdieu, 1986;1997) contributes to a wider resilience strategy which stretches far beyond the domestic sphere. As neoliberalist driven housing policies globally to continue to create socio-spatial inequalities (Beswick et al 2019), further research is needed to assess the role which MGHs may occupy in the housing landscape of the future in different countries. Significantly, the MGH model potentially protects present and future generations from resorting to 'asset stripping decumulation.'…”

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Fortifying futures: how older boomerangers in English multigenerational households boost resilience through social capital accumulation and distribution

Maye-Banbury

McNally²

2019

Housing Studies

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Multigenerational households (MGHs) are the UK's fastest growing household type. This paper critically explores the relative influence of 'Generation X' in shaping social capital accumulation and distribution strategies within English MGHs. We contend that this cohort, described here as 'amalgamation generation,' (older 'boomerangers') recognise how the quintessential inter/ intra generational forms of social capital present in MGHs may be consolidated to boost resilience at a time of economic uncertainty and social instability. We challenge therefore the largely negative discourse surrounding boomerangers which exists in existing scholarship. Our analysis highlights the dialectical relationship between the concepts of resilience and social capital when applied to multigenerational living. In doing so, we highlight the relevance of network centrality, shared family values, an awareness of the natural life cycle and the importance of family 'social capital bank' in promoting the overall cohesion of the MGH. The extent to which English MGHs may be construed as a liquid, temporal and fluid asset over space, place and time is explored.

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Access to housing in the neoliberal era: a new comparativist analysis of the neoliberalisation of access to housing in Santiago and London

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Specialist housing for older people in an era of neoliberal transformation: exploring provision in England

Specialist housing for older people in an era of neoliberal transformation: exploring provision in England

THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

Fortifying futures: how older boomerangers in English multigenerational households boost resilience through social capital accumulation and distribution

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