The Ongoing Role of Family in the Provision of Housing in Greece during the Greek Crisis

Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Myrto

doi:10.13060/23362839.2018.5.2.441

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“…In this context, older generations have been shown to provide financial support and childcare assistance to the younger generations, due to the availability of pensions and time. Similar evidence has been found for Greece (Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, 2018), Italy (Floridi, 2020), Portugal (Frade and Coelho, 2015;O'Connell and Brannen, 2021;Pedroso de Lima, 2016) and Spain (Moreno- Mínguez, 2017).…”

Section: Household Composition and Intergenerational Solidaritysupporting

confidence: 78%

Household Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile

Palma

Araos

2021

Front. Sociol.

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Chile was severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The implementation of social distancing measures strongly affected the Chilean economy: the unemployment rate grew rapidly as well as the proportion of population temporarily excluded from the labour force. This article analyses the strategies deployed by Chilean households to cope with the impact of the pandemic at the intersection with household structure and its socio-economics characteristics. Secondary data analysis from the Encuesta Social COVID-19 (COVID-19 Social Survey), carried out by the Chilean Ministry for Social Development and Families, were used to analyse the income-generating and expenditure-minimising strategies adopted by households during the early months (March to July of 2020) of the pandemic. The results show that 60.3% of households experienced a drop in family income, 70.3% indicated that they had to use at least one income-generating strategy, and 76.6% at least one expenditure-minimising strategy during the early months of the pandemic. Indebtedness and decapitalisation characterised most of the coping strategies adopted by households. While living in multigenerational households does not protect family members from declining economic well-being, older people living in one- and two-generation households were found to be least affected economically during the crisis. They were also less likely to resort to these coping strategies, insofar as their income was mainly secured from pensions. Although female-headed households did not show a greater reduction in income than male-headed households, they were more likely to adopt income-generating strategies. This article draws attention to the possible effects of decapitalisation and indebtedness on the long-term economic well-being of households with different structures, and the resulting inequalities in their capacity to recover from the effects of the pandemic. The findings suggest that having a source of family income that is not dependent on labour market flows is crucial in times of crises.

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Section: Household Composition and Intergenerational Solidaritysupporting

confidence: 78%

Household Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile

Palma

Araos

2021

Front. Sociol.

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“…Extreme events such as terrorist attacks and violence (Mills 2002 ; Hazam and Felsenstein 2007 ), natural disasters (Hallstrom and Smith 2005 ; Pommeranz and Steininger 2020 ), economic crises (Whitehead and Williams 2011 ; Kennett et al 2013 ; Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou 2018 ), and epidemics and pandemics (Wong 2008 ; Liu and Tang 2021 ) all have direct and indirect effects on housing markets. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the GFC has been a topic of interest among scholars due to its widespread effects on global and national economies.…”

Section: Housing Market Reactions Under Extreme Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in housing markets during the economic crisis and Covid-19 pandemic: Turkish case

Khurami

Sarı²

2022

Asia-Pac J Reg Sci

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The recent global economic crisis and pandemic have shown that housing markets are highly exposed to the prevailing economic and social circumstances. Relevant literature indicates that housing output and transaction volumes were negatively affected during the Covid-19 pandemic. In contrast, price levels displayed variations under different circumstances shaped by demand shifts. Housing affordability conditions also deteriorated and household budgets were squeezed by the high housing cost burden due to the loss of livelihood and increased time spent at home during lockdowns. In the Turkish case, a severe economic crisis in 2018/19 preceded the Covid-19 pandemic. Housing output, housing prices, and the unemployment rate were much more affected by the economic crisis than by the pandemic. Spatial variation in the changes in the supply level was not homogeneous throughout the country. Lower supply levels were observed in the southern and south-eastern parts of the country and the major employment centres. However, compared to the international tendencies, total demand for housing increased, raising the housing transaction volume to record-high levels. In addition, housing prices during the pandemic skyrocketed, accompanied by increasing inflation rates. Furthermore, a demand shift towards single-family houses was observed, and the price gap between single-family houses and flats has widened since the pandemic began. The investment function of housing became prominent once again for wealthier households during the high inflation periods observed during the pandemic. The major conclusion drawn from this study is that the housing market deepened the existing inequalities in society during the current pandemic.

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“…It serviced at once the double role of extracting value and of extracting political consent from the plethora of the occasional proletariat (Leontidou, 1989), by turning them into propertied individuals. In this asset-based welfare avant la lettre, a person's or household's social security and 'worth' was decisively dependent on their position in property relations and heavily reliant on the working members of the family and mainly the figure of the male breadwinner (nikokiraiosνοικοκυραίος), benefiting from good employment opportunities during his active years and from a significant pension in retirement (Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, 2018).…”

Section: Familistic Hypertrophy Vis-a-vis Administrative Atrophymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the explanatory framework of the paradigmatic turn in most (North) European countries, described as a rolling back or redeployment of the state (Harvey, 2005;Wacquant 2007;, Greece is an outlier. The Greek property regime, marked by the longstanding statist strategy of minimal involvement (Emmanouel, 2007, p. 81) rests upon the family (Allen et al, 2004;Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, 2018;Papadopoulos & Roumpakis, 2013), emerging as a substitute social security institution. In this asset based welfare avant la lettre, linked to the plethora of the conditional proletariat inflating Greek cities, possession of residential assets secured by the working members of the family was key for subsistence and social safety.…”

Section: Introduction: Circumventing the Marginsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a political economy of violence: Property and revanchism in West Thessaloniki

Vrantsis¹

2022

RHJ

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Encompassing data from a year-long field-based work in the neighborhood of Ksiladika, Thessaloniki in Northern Greece, I divulge a campaign of vigilant evictions of migrant squatters by local property owners. To contextualize this vigilant violence historically, I point to the distinct trajectory of the Greek property regime, carved by the minimal involvement of the state in welfare provision, the role of the family as a welfare substitute and a valorized norm hybridizing familism with a laissez-faire ethos linked to the possession of (residential) assets. Geographically, I marry Wacquant’s conceptualization of advanced urban marginality with rent gap theory to unearth the specificity of Ksiladika, a space at once relegated yet loaded with the promise of revaluation. I suggest that this violence is linked with what local impoverished landholders perceive as an opened rent gap that is what drives their pursuit to reorganize space according to the dictates of the markets as a way to secure, valorize and restore their property with its attendant meanings vis-a-vis the social reproduction squeeze brought about the economic restructuring of the Greek economy. Advancing Wacquant’s conceptualization of advanced urban marginality as an effect of the neoliberal state crafting on a global scale I suggest (i) that the schematization of a neoliberal Janus-like centaur state that performs liberalism for the privileged and punitive paternalism for those at the social bottom needs due to the expanding zone of precarity is no longer reserved for the marginalized and (ii) that neoliberal governing is attained not merely by the penal apparatus of the state, but via a diversified repertoire of state responses, including the governing through the precarized subjects who internalize the postulates of the ideology of self-reliance mediated through possession of (residential) assets in times when the resource is scarce.

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The Ongoing Role of Family in the Provision of Housing in Greece during the Greek Crisis

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Household Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile

Household Coping Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile

Trends in housing markets during the economic crisis and Covid-19 pandemic: Turkish case

Towards a political economy of violence: Property and revanchism in West Thessaloniki

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