Southern European welfare states and homelessness: Portugal and Greece

Kourachanis, Nikos

doi:10.1108/hcs-10-2018-0025

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“…When this takes place in the years of a crisis, it leads to a double negative consequence. While housing problems are being exacerbated, housing support measures, which are poor in any case, are being reduced even further (Kourachanis, 2019). This fact has been discussed in previous studies, which take the urban environment as their starting point (for example, Arapoglou and Gounis, 2017;Papadopoulou and Kourachanis, 2017).…”

Section: Residual Public Housing Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Anthopoulou

Partalidou

Kourachanis

2019

Grsr

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The article examines invisible deprivation and housing precariousness in the countryside through the phenomenon of counterurbanization as a vehicle for overcoming poverty phenomena of urban households in Greece during the economic crisis. We argue that, despite the idealized picture for living in a village, as shown in the predominantly public discourse; rural life is governed by equally unfavorable living conditions for households at the risk of poverty. Through the theoretical framework of hidden homelessness in the rural, fundamental dimensions of housing problems and inadequate living conditions in the countryside are presented. Through the analysis of the different life pathways of people returning from the city to the village, the housing and social living conditions, during the crisis, in the Greek countryside are empirically examined. In the conclusions we find that returning back to rural areas, without accompanying established social support policies, only leads to the reproduction of a situation of proletarianization of households and to the transformation of urban poverty to rural poverty.

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Section: Residual Public Housing Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Anthopoulou

Partalidou

Kourachanis

2019

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“…In 2022, in the region of Attica, 76% of tenants, after covering housing costs, had to either limit other essential expenses or rely on financial support from third parties (Eteron, 2022a, b, c). Moreover, 76,9% of young people (18 to 34) are hosted by their parents (Eurostat, 2021a, b), while the population of homeless people has increased (Kourachanis, 2019). Finally, rent prices in central Athenian districts in Europe concerning the fastest amortization of real estate investment, as it takes just 17.66 years for the original investment to be amortized (Kathimerini, 2022).…”

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Platform—driven housing commodification, financialisation and gentrification in Athens

Pettas,

Avdikos,

Papageorgiou

2024

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The emergence and expansion of the digitally mediated, short-term rental (STR) market in Athens underplayed a key role in the rising inaccessibility to affordable housing, interrelating with broader transformations of the housing landscape, including i) the translation of the economic crisis into a housing one, ii) the unfolding of touristification processes in central Athenian districts and iii) the increased involvement of international investors and funds in the real estate market. In this paper, we bring out the role of STRs in the commodification and financialisation of housing and the unfolding of touristification processes in central Athens. We delineate the aforementioned developments as a series of successive waves, arguing that the STR market initially enabled the commodification of housing through its disassociation from the sphere of households’ social reproduction and its assetisation, facilitating the engagement of domestic and foreign investors and the association of the housing landscape with financial flows.

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“…In addition, research has also shown that as the number of people in extremely precarious living situations rises, few are managing to break the cycle and move into regular housing [3]. This may be due to the multifactorial nature of homelessness [4][5][6][7] as well as a lack of political focus on addressing the causes of homelessness within national policies [8,9]. The phenomenon of living in temporary accommodation has been termed the "paradox of chronic emergency" [10].…”

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“…Providing basic needs for this population, such as a roof or food, is essential but is also insufficient. Social rehabilitation can only be effective when the biopsychosocial causes of homelessness are also addressed [8,9,11].…”

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Homelessness and Research: Methodological Obstacles and Lessons Learned from a Psychological Study in Parisian Homeless Services

Chevreau

Vallat‐Azouvi

Coll

et al. 2021

Psych

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Homelessness, defined as a lack of appropriate, stable, and permanent housing, is a common issue in many societies and is linked to both structural and individual factors. These factors include psychological mechanisms and disorders which can trigger or worsen already precarious situations. In order for these factors to be taken into account in social rehabilitation programs, they need to be precisely described. However, at present, studies in this field are lacking in France. Despite homelessness being an issue across the country, few studies have evaluated the underlying psychological or neuropsychological mechanisms. More data are needed, not only to provide an accurate description of the situation in France, but also to ensure that foreign observations and interventions are relevant for application to the homeless population. In order to achieve this, more quantitative and qualitative data and investigative methodologies and studies are needed. Sharing experience and methods within the scientific community is one way to support further research, particularly in complex domains such as homelessness. At the moment, only a few such papers have been published. In this paper, we share our experiences from a research project that started in 2020 (currently unpublished) on the prevalence of cognitive disorders among homeless service users in Paris. We describe the exploratory phase of our project, obstacles encountered during the implementation of the study, including how we dealt with ethical issues, and data collection. We end the paper with recommendations for future psychological studies on homelessness.

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Southern European welfare states and homelessness: Portugal and Greece

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Ηidden homelessness and poverty trajectories in rural areas: stories of crisis counterurbanization in Greece

Platform—driven housing commodification, financialisation and gentrification in Athens

Homelessness and Research: Methodological Obstacles and Lessons Learned from a Psychological Study in Parisian Homeless Services

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