How Housing Systems are Changing and Why: A Critique of Kemeny’s Theory of Housing Regimes

Stephens, Mark

doi:10.1080/14036096.2020.1814404

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“…If a housing regime withdraws to a minority of regions, does this fact disqualify as a concept and an option? Why not study regions where integrated rental markets survived all the "high-level forces of convergence associated with globalization" (Stephens 2020), and other regions, where new coalitions are forged to limit the spread between the private and the social rental market?…”

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How and Where Non-profit Rental Markets Survive – A Reply to Stephens

Matznetter

2020

Housing, Theory and Society

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According to Stephens, Kemeny's integrated rental markets have all disappeared on the level of nation-states. In his reply, the author draws attention to sub-national housing markets where cost rental principles continue to dominate within a city or region. Where local majorities and coalitions allow, the legal and institutional preconditions for integrated rental markets can be safeguarded and renewed. This includes various forms of land policy and rent control, and a large and experienced sector of cost-rental housing providers-public, non-profit and benevolent landlords alike. Urban/regional support for such housing policies seems to be on the rise, as a reaction to the massive increase in housing costs and affordability issues brought about by the ongoing financialization of housing.

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How and Where Non-profit Rental Markets Survive – A Reply to Stephens

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2020

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“…As housing-welfare regimes are changing in light of recent policy reforms (Stephens, 2020), tenure restructurings and changes in housing segmentation are important analytical elements in understanding the chang-ing redistributive role of housing, also concerning segregation. Housing segmentation can be understood as a process in which housing provision is segmented into different forms of tenure characterised by "different qualities and conditions for access" (Andersen et al, 2016, p. 3).…”

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“…For these reasons, it becomes increasingly important to focus on multi-level institutional arrangements to allow for a more thorough understanding of the changing distributive effects of housing-welfare systems and changing levels and patterns of segregation (Arbaci, 2019). Stephens (2020) argues that the theory on housing regimes needs to engage more in-depth with the role of institutions, both at the very local level and upper-tier levels. From this perspective, research should focus on how the access to housing segments is regulated and how local policy choices unfold concerning supra-national and global financial mechanisms, such as the European Union's financial policy.…”

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Housing Vienna: The Socio-Spatial Effects of Inclusionary and Exclusionary Mechanisms of Housing Provision

Friesenecker

Kazepov

2021

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The provision of housing plays a decisive role in segregation processes. In a European context increasingly influenced by variegated neo-liberal housing policies, Vienna’s approach is characterised by generous access to social housing. This inclusive strategy aims at actively preventing segregation and the isolation of certain groups. Over the last 30 years, however, reconfigured multi-level arrangements and wider contextual changes have transformed Vienna’s housing governance. This article explores how. In particular, it aims at disentangling the relationship between housing policy reforms at multiple policy levels and the changes of the mechanisms shaping the access to tenure segments and residential segregation in Vienna. Through the use of process tracing, we identify critical junctures of housing governance and relate them to housing segmentation and segregation measures over a period of approximately 30 years. Our findings show that reforms on multiple levels produce an increasingly deregulated private rental market and an increasingly fragmented access to a diversified provision of social housing. From a spatial point of view, persistent patterns of segregation blend with new ones, leading to decreasing segregation characterised by a more even spatial distribution of low and high-status groups. At the same time, both groups show very low, but slightly increased levels of isolation. Tenant profiles in social housing are, however, generally still very mixed. Balancing the trade-off between a social mix and social targeting without excluding residents in need will remain the main challenge for Vienna’s social housing model.

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“…Regarding European cities, research in urban studies has analysed how housing policy reforms -such as homeownership promotion, privatisation of social housing and de-regulation of rent control -have contributed to tenure restructurings and transformed housing systems (van Duijne and Ronald, 2018;Stephens, 2020). Applying the concept of regulated marketisation, Hochstenbach and Ronald (2020) reveal how and why a revival of private rental took place in Amsterdam.…”

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Vienna

Kazepov¹,

Verwiebe²

2021

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This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the environment. Historically, European cities have been characterised by a strong association between social cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State. Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years, however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this volume discusses Vienna's responses to these pressures in key policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore the local capacity to innovate urban policies and to address new social risks, while paying attention to potential trade-offs.The book questions and assesses the city's resilience using time series and an institutional analysis of four key dimensions that characterise the European city model within the context of post-industrial transition: redistribution, recognition, representation and sustainability. It offers a multiscalar perspective of urban governance through labour, housing, participatory and environmental policies, bringing together different levels and public policy types.Vienna: Still a Just City? is aimed at academics, researchers and policymakers in urban studies, including urban sociology, ecology, geography and welfare.Yuri Kazepov is a professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Vienna (Austria). Among his fields of interest are multilevel governance, the territorial dimension of social policies. On these issues, he has been carrying out comparative research and evaluation activities for the EU and National Agencies.Roland Verwiebe is a professor of Social Stratification Research at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include the domains of social inequality, migration, attitudes and values as well as quality of life in the city. On these topics, he has published in leading international journals. Built Environment City StudiesThe Built Environment City Studies series provides researchers and academics with a detailed look at individual cities through a specific lens. These concise books delve into a case study of an international city, focusing on a key built environment topic. Written by scholars from around the world, the collection provides a library of thorough studies into trends, developments and approaches that affect our cities.

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How Housing Systems are Changing and Why: A Critique of Kemeny’s Theory of Housing Regimes

Cited by 53 publications

References 41 publications

How and Where Non-profit Rental Markets Survive – A Reply to Stephens

How and Where Non-profit Rental Markets Survive – A Reply to Stephens

Housing Vienna: The Socio-Spatial Effects of Inclusionary and Exclusionary Mechanisms of Housing Provision

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