The roof over our heads: Property restitution in Romania

Stan, Lavinia

doi:10.1080/13523270600661011

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“…Chelcea (2003) documented the enduring effects that housing nationalisation had on co-residency arrangements between prior owners who were confiscated (part of) their homes and their tenants in Bucharest. Other studies documented tense political, legal and emotional struggles between prior owners and tenants in the redistribution of property rights via restitution (Zerillis 2006, Dawidson 2004, Stan, 2006. Disputes over ownership rights are likely to distress residents" meanings of home not only in nationalised housing, but also in forcibly expropriated dwellings for redevelopment or in the new condominiums where communal/private boundaries are still negotiated.…”

Section: The Romanian Housing Environmentmentioning

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The meaning of home in Romania: views from urban owner–occupiers

Soaita

2014

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Abstract:The post-communist privatisation of state flats to sitting tenants has transformed Romania into a nation of homeowners; yet its popularity appears perplexing given the poor quality of the stock and disappointing, given flat-owners" subsequent lack of action regarding home improvement.Conversely, self-builders" proactive agency moved them up the housing ladder. While this striking contrast draws attention to various structural conditions, which have constrained the former and enabled the latter, it also raises intriguing questions on residents" meanings of home. By interrogating 48 homeowners" narratives, this paper sustains the multilayered and multi-scalar meanings of home, which intertwine the socio-cultural territory of family and nation; the physical frame of one room or several dwellings; the emotional domain of object-memories; and the ontological realm epitomised by something as minimal as "my bed". Findings demonstrate that flat-owners and self-builders do not significantly differ in their meanings of home but detached houses rather than flats facilitate more fully their appropriation.

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Section: The Romanian Housing Environmentmentioning

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The meaning of home in Romania: views from urban owner–occupiers

Soaita

2014

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…On quite the contrary, one might speak of nearly a linear continuity, especially with regard to the study of subjects such as gender in the society (Fodor 2006, Glass 2008; property restitution and other aspects of societal transformation (Vecernik 1999, Stan 2006; the persistence of nationalism as a component of daily social discourse (Fox 2004, Clark 2008; and the contribution of non-governmental agents towards the consolidation of civic societies (Cellarius and Staddon 2002). Nevertheless, the period after the second half of the 1990s saw a greater academic interest in sociological research on marginalized groups (most commonly the East European Roma) as well as the emergence of various forms of racist violence in post-Communist Europe (Barany 2000, Mudde 2005.…”

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Twenty years after 1989: moving on from transitology

Petsinis

2010

Contemporary Politics

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“…Moreover, the city underwent two major legal interventions: the selling of the state housing stock to the population and the restitution laws (Stan, 2006). The high percentage of private house ownership and gradual but constant shrinkage of the job market are among the factors that influenced the stagnation of social housing investments.…”

Section: Bucharest: a Violent City?mentioning

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Evictions and Voluntary Returns in Barcelona and Bucharest: Practices of Metropolitan Governance

Vrăbiescu

2016

Intersections

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This article is about techniques of exclusion by local governments against Romani people. Tackling the case of people of Romani ethnicity in Barcelona and Bucharest, I explore evictions and voluntary return as practices of segregation within and exclusion from the city. I reflect on the condition of being or becoming Roma in the process of spatial cleansing by interrogating the construction of Roma as an ethnicized mobile minority, a category that is submitted to social and territorial exclusion. Under the pretext of defending the social security and the urban development of cities, the local authorities produce moral panic around the presence of Roma. Portraying them first as vulnerable, then as having a mobile life-style, the authorities justify a range of interventions that eventually push out the Roma habitants and subsequently deny them the right to the city.

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The roof over our heads: Property restitution in Romania

Cited by 41 publications

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The meaning of home in Romania: views from urban owner–occupiers

The meaning of home in Romania: views from urban owner–occupiers

Twenty years after 1989: moving on from transitology

Evictions and Voluntary Returns in Barcelona and Bucharest: Practices of Metropolitan Governance

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