Types and forms of housing tenure: Towards solving the comparison/translation problem

Ruonavaara, Hannu

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“…Both Kemeny (1981) and Ruonavaara (1993) distinguish between two types of housing tenures: owning and renting. The main division concerns the right of disposal, where homeowners tend to possess this right, whereas the right of disposal among the renters often is restricted.…”

Section: Tenure Typesmentioning

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“…Here it is relevant to distinguish between types and forms of housing tenure, where types of housing tenure refers to broad categories such as renting and forms of housing tenures aim to capture historically-specific arrangement across countries, such as tenant-owned housing in Sweden (bostadsrätt), British Council renting and housing company in Finland (Ruonavaara, 1993(Ruonavaara, , 2005.…”

Section: Social Policy Strategies and Housing Tenure Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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Section: Tenure Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Policy Strategies and Housing Tenure Typesmentioning

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Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Various researchers (Ruonavaara, 1993;Barlow and Duncan, 1988) have demonstrated how diffi cult it is to come up with a universal defi nition for the different tenure sectors. Some countries have forms of tenure that do not exist in other countries and ostensibly similar housing tenures may be intrinsically dissimilar in different types of society.…”

Section: Defi Ning Social Rental and Private Rental Housingmentioning

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“…According to Ruonavaara (1993), there are only two main tenure categories: owning and renting. The cardinal difference between the two lies in the right of disposal.…”

Section: Defi Ning Social Rental and Private Rental Housingmentioning

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Two Types of Rental System? An Exploratory Empirical Test of Kemeny's Rental System Typology

Hoekstra

2009

Urban Studies

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The organisation of the rental market varies from country to country. Kemeny draws a distinction between societies with an integrated rental system (relatively minor differences between the non-profit and the profit rental sectors) and societies with a dualist rental system (relatively major differences between the non-profit and the profit rental sectors). In this exploratory paper, Kemeny's typology is tested against data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The tentative conclusion is that integrated rental systems and dualist rental systems do indeed exist, but there are signs of increasing convergence between the two.

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“…Somerville discusses the example of home ownership in Britain and Bangladesh; the meaning of this type of tenure is very different in these societies (c.f. Ruonavaara 1993). In his response to this critique, Kemeny admits certain crudeness in his thesis but considers Somerville's emphasis on historical and cultural specificity exaggerated: "Taken to its logical conclusion, the argument leads to a conceptual paralysis and to research spiralling downwards in ever-increasing circles towards greater and greater detail and less and less generalizability" (Kemeny 2005b, 92).…”

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Theory of Housing, From Housing, About Housing

Ruonavaara

2017

Housing, Theory and Society

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Four positions concerning theorising housing-related phenomena are discussed.(1) Theory of housing (v1) : It is possible and desirable to construct a theory of housing to which all housing-related research topics can be related. (2) Theory about housing: It is not possible, nor desirable to try to construct a theory of housing; one should rather apply theoretical resources developed in established disciplines and research fields in theorising housing-related topics. (3) Theory from housing: It is possible and desirable to theorise housing by scrutinising the nature of housing as a special activity and experience. (4) Theory of housing (v2) : It is possible and desirable to construct a theory about the invariable relationships between features of the housing system and features of society. Theory of housing (v1) is shown to be questionable basically due to the fact that housing is not a research topic but a common denominator of various topics. Theory about housing is acceptable with the qualification that housing research can feed back to more general theorising. Theory from housing offers a limited perspective on theorising but it can serve as a necessary check to other theorising. Problems with Theory of housing (v2) have to do with the balance between abstract generalisation and concrete empirical/historical analysis.

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Types and forms of housing tenure: Towards solving the comparison/translation problem

Cited by 55 publications

References 14 publications

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Two Types of Rental System? An Exploratory Empirical Test of Kemeny's Rental System Typology

Theory of Housing, From Housing, About Housing

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