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Selected Papers from Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023
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Selected Papers from Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Policy and Welfare".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2024) | Viewed by 4195

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Adele Irving

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School of Health & Society, University of Salford, Salford M6 6NY, UK
Interests: homelessness; multiple disadvantages; wellbeing
Dr. Gareth Young

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Department of Urban Studies and Planning, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Interests: social housing policy; planning and housing provision
Dr. Helen Taylor

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Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff CF5 2YB, UK
Interests: social justice; homelessness; housing education

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Our 2023 conference Futures of Housing Justice explored the theme of housing justice and equity, examining current issues in housing and what we can do to make access to housing in the future fairer for all. This Special Issue brings together papers which explore the foundations and future of housing justice creating a platform to examine our traditional understandings of housing problems, and to explore, promote and mobilise around effective and progressive solutions.

This Special Issue will explore the theme of housing justice and equity. It will bring together papers from a mix of early career researchers and academics, from a range of disciplines, which explore individuals’ experiences of homelessness and housing precarity, as well as methodological approaches to research, that often lie at the margins of housing scholarship. In particular, the papers will all focus on experiences resulting from the intersection of needs—whether these be multiple disadvantages, trauma, neurodiversity, and/or migration, for example—as well as the experiences of those at the intersection of housing and related services. International in scope, the Special Issue will broaden and deepen understanding of how experiences at the margins affect housing and broader human rights, service needs and the impact of competing ideologies of homelessness on the nature of services available to them. It will also put forward a range of novel approaches to analysing, evaluating, and solutions for tackling housing injustices.

Dr. Adele Irving
Dr. Gareth Young
Dr. Helen Taylor
Guest Editors

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  • housing justice
  • housing equity
  • homelessness

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Negotiating Shared Lives: Territorialisation and Conviviality in an Urban Community Land Trust
by Robert Read, Alison Hirst, Alison Pooley and NezHapi-Delle Odeleye
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(11), 574; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13110574 - 24 Oct 2024
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Urban Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have been acclaimed for their politically transformative potential: de-commodifying land and providing permanently affordable housing under community control. Few studies include CLT residents and this paper features two case studies to help fill the gap. St Clements in [...] Read more.
Urban Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have been acclaimed for their politically transformative potential: de-commodifying land and providing permanently affordable housing under community control. Few studies include CLT residents and this paper features two case studies to help fill the gap. St Clements in East London, UK, and Citizens House, Southeast London, both created by London CLT, collectively have 34 households living in them. Unlike more geographically focused CLTs, London CLT provides governance, knowledge, and skills to support people across London to build the affordable housing they campaign for. The selection criteria prioritised the needs of those failed by the existing housing market, who had long-standing connections to the borough, and contributed to community life. London CLT hoped residents would have a transformational impact on the neighbourhood, spreading the ethos of community control. Using the conceptualisations of territorialisation and conviviality, new knowledge has been produced about residents’ experience of negotiating shared lives. While residents are happy with their homes, and value the neighbourliness that comes from knowing others better, investing time and energy in more organised activity and decision making has been slow. The two spaces display both the affectivity and distancing associated with territorialisation and the ‘rubbing along’ and ambivalence of conviviality. Full article
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The Role of Companionship in Volunteer Homelessness Support Services: A Qualitative Study
by Helen Taylor and Henry Dawson
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(11), 568; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13110568 - 23 Oct 2024
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Drawing on developments in the application of occupational science to issues of homelessness and tenancy sustainability, this paper will argue for the recognition of authentic, everyday relationships as a core part of tenancy support. Data from a small-scale evaluation of a volunteer-led homelessness [...] Read more.
Drawing on developments in the application of occupational science to issues of homelessness and tenancy sustainability, this paper will argue for the recognition of authentic, everyday relationships as a core part of tenancy support. Data from a small-scale evaluation of a volunteer-led homelessness support service will be explored through a framework of social support to show the importance of companionship in enabling individuals to exit homelessness. The data show that individuals valued the provision of social support from volunteers in everyday locations, as it replicated authentic relationships which individuals had sometimes lost through their experiences of homelessness. This paper argues that the facilitation of authentic, everyday relationships should be considered an important part of homelessness support. Full article
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Breaking Siloed Policies: Applying a Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) to Homelessness during Pregnancy in Canada
by Barbara Chyzzy, Sepali Guruge, Kaitlin Schwan, Joon Lee and Stacia Stewart
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(9), 486; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090486 - 13 Sep 2024
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Amongst women and gender diverse (WGD) populations experiencing homelessness in Canada, one of the most vulnerable and understudied subgroups are those who are pregnant. A key barrier to accessing housing for this population are policies that lead to siloed sector work and complicated [...] Read more.
Amongst women and gender diverse (WGD) populations experiencing homelessness in Canada, one of the most vulnerable and understudied subgroups are those who are pregnant. A key barrier to accessing housing for this population are policies that lead to siloed sector work and complicated and inaccessible services. Frequent relocation and fragmented access to essential prenatal and postnatal support are the result. Experiences of homelessness for WGD people are distinct from that of cisgender men; the former tend to experience ‘hidden homelessness’ and are more likely to rely on relational, precarious, and sometimes dangerous housing options. The homelessness sector, its policies, and services tend to be cis-male-centric because of the greater visibility of homelessness in cis-men and fail to meet pregnant WGD people’s needs. This paper describes the findings from a one-day symposium that was held in Toronto, Canada, in June 2023 that aimed to address the siloed approach to housing provision for pregnant WGD people experiencing homelessness. A key focus was to understand how to incorporate a gendered and intersectional discourse into practice and policy. Adopting a gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) approach within policymaking can help illuminate and address why certain groups of WGD people are disproportionately affected by homelessness, including Indigenous Peoples, recent immigrants, racialized people, and those experiencing intimate partner violence, poverty, and substance use. Full article
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Explaining Housing Policy Change through Discursive Institutionalism
by Jordan Carnaby King
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(9), 468; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090468 - 4 Sep 2024
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Explaining how and why housing policies change is an ongoing theoretical challenge for housing scholars. A key approach is the ‘housing regimes’ framework (Kemeny 2006), drawing from Esping-Andersen’s work on the role of labour/capital struggles in shaping welfare states. However, this framework has [...] Read more.
Explaining how and why housing policies change is an ongoing theoretical challenge for housing scholars. A key approach is the ‘housing regimes’ framework (Kemeny 2006), drawing from Esping-Andersen’s work on the role of labour/capital struggles in shaping welfare states. However, this framework has been criticised (Stephens 2020; Clapham 2020) for inadequately explaining housing system changes, including neoliberal shifts and financialization. In response, scholars have turned to political science and sociology theories on policy change, such as historical institutionalism (Ruonavaara 2020) and discursive theories focusing on interactions between policy actors (Clapham 2018). This article builds on Clapham’s discursive turn in housing studies by incorporating concepts from ‘discursive institutionalism’ (DI) (Schmidt 2008). DI explains policy change by examining the interplay of ideas, interactions, and power dynamics in a given policy field. DI provides a methodological framework for understanding how policy actors develop and use ideas to shape policies, while considering the influence of the institutional context and power relations. The aim of the article is to highlight the utility of DI as a framework for examining housing policy change. As a vehicle for doing so, an analysis of social housing policy change in New Zealand employing DI is provided for empirical reference. The article builds on Clapham’s (2018) focus on discourse in housing studies, adding DI to the repertoire of conceptual frameworks available to researchers interested in the causal role of ideas and discourse in policy change processes. Full article
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Structural Disadvantage in Housing Opportunities
by Nigel de Noronha
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(9), 460; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090460 - 2 Sep 2024
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This paper discusses the ways that race and migration have shaped the housing opportunities people experience in England. It explores the historical development of policy and practice that has shaped racial inequalities in housing. It argues that the violence created by national and [...] Read more.
This paper discusses the ways that race and migration have shaped the housing opportunities people experience in England. It explores the historical development of policy and practice that has shaped racial inequalities in housing. It argues that the violence created by national and local state-supported housing policies has disproportionately affected racialised minorities, as has the slow violence generated by the neglect and stigmatisation of working-class housing. In turn, this has provided the justification for clearances and the remaking of space for those with the money to invest in the financialisation of land and housing through dispossession and denial of the right to safe, secure, and affordable housing. This analysis will be used as a basis to propose ways in which housing research can develop a coherent, critical perspective to race and migration and develop an alternative discourse to challenge the dominant market-driven, individualistic narratives. Adopting a critical approach allows researchers to move beyond the logic of housing policies at national and local levels to analyse and propose action to address persistent racial inequalities in housing. Full article
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