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The embeddedness of housing in the welfare regime
No full textThis chapter addresses the embeddedness of housing in the wider welfare regime. Through an analytical framework constructed on the basis of earlier research and empirical findings from previous chapters in the book, editors Martin Grander and Mark Stephens develop the theoretical understanding of the embeddedness of housing in the wider welfare regime. The chapter connects the changes in the global housing and welfare regimes described in the previous chapter to the previous understanding of the housing-welfare nexus. The authors start by examining the countries’ wider welfare regimes, and then the housing regimes, first within the context of Kemeny’s typology of housing regimes, and then within the framework based on previous work by Stephens, where housing is examined through the spheres of production, consumption and exchange. Finally, the two perspectives are drawn together. By such an application the authors contribute to an updated understanding of how housing can be understood and analysed as part of the welfare state
Understanding the relationship between housing and welfare
No full textIn this chapter, Martin Grander and Mark Stephens discuss the current academic understanding of how housing interlocks with welfare. The chapter problematises models that seek to analyse housing and welfare in tandem, building on the literature on decreasing housing affordability, more limited access to housing, and increasing housing inequality. Based on this literature – and on recent critiques of the housing-welfare regime framework from housing scholars – the authors argue for an updated empirically grounded understanding of the relationship. The chapter presents a framework for an updated, understanding of the interrelation, developing Kemeny’s theories and the current paradigm of analysing housing systems from a comparative welfare state perspective. As the authors argue, such a developed understanding needs to be based on empirical data on housing and welfare from different contexts, which evidently have undergone important changes in recent decades
Conclusions: Welfare regimes in the 21st century: from labelling to explaining
No full textIn this concluding chapter, editors Martin Grander and Mark Stephens summarise the findings and reflect on the evolution of regime approaches as theoretical frameworks for understanding housing systems. The central thesis is that the housing regime operates within a wider welfare regime that incorporates both micro- and macro- social and economic institutions. Identifying the interrelationships between the housing and wider welfare regimes is key to understanding how housing systems operate, and what policy can – and cannot – achieve. Interpreting welfare regimes and housing regimes, and the relationship between them has become more complex as the world has become more integrated; it has become simply impossible to understand housing systems solely from within. Neither merely describing institutional frameworks and policies nor categorising them on the basis of the role of the state, market and households will provide a satisfactory explanation. Understanding requires capturing organisational logic, which is itself more difficult as traditional ideologies and party systems are weakened, although the significance of legacy regimes remains
Understanding housing and welfare
No full textIn this chapter, the basic concepts of housing and welfare are clarified by editors Martin Grander and Mark Stephens. The notions of welfare regimes and housing regimes are defined and elaborated, discussing the distributional logic of welfare and housing in different contexts. The chapter discusses the basis for Esping-Andersen’s classic typology of welfare regimes as well as more recent developments, critiques, and alternative understandings of such a categorization. Regarding housing, the authors first introduce how comparative approaches to theorize housing have mirrored approaches more closely focused on welfare states. Here, the “housing-welfare regime” framework, founded by Kemeny, serves as the main point of departure. Thus, the chapter introduces and summarizes the two principal articulations of regime theory as applied to the welfare state and to housing, as well as the key studies that preceded them. It also highlights the political and economic context in which these regimes were created in the 20th century and how this has changed under the pressures of economic globalization and political fragmentation. The chapter also demonstrates how regime theory has bifurcated between housing and the wider welfare state and this inevitably inhibits our ability to understand the relationship between them, particularly in a changing world
Changes in housing and welfare – a global analysis
No full textIn this chapter, editors Martin Grander and Mark Stephens draw conclusions on the changes in housing and welfare regimes based on the empirical findings from the countries explored in the previous chapters. The chapter shows that both housing and welfare systems – regardless of their earlier constitution – have changed markedly in terms of income inequality and housing accessibility due to processes such as marketization and income polarization. Inequalities in both housing and welfare have in some countries been reinforced during the last decade by migration and everywhere by the COVID-19 pandemic. The current economic crisis continues to exacerbate such inequalities as inflation and increasing interest rates tend to place a disproportionate strain on low-income households. The chapter shows how the development of the national housing policy is driven by policies of fiscal consolidation, rather than welfare state development. This development calls for a more in-depth analysis of the interrelation between housing and the wider welfare state, which also includes the sphere of finance
Introduction
No full textThe introductory chapter, written by editors Martin Grander and Mark Stephens, introduces the housing question as one of the most pressing issues of societal importance in recent decades. The authors summarize the problems of global housing markets in terms of accessibility, affordability, and residential segregation and argue that a deeper understanding of such problems requires the interrelationship between housing and welfare to be addressed. The authors argue for the application of “welfare regimes”, as proposed by Gøsta Esping-Andersen, which makes it possible to commence a deeper analysis in which distinctive housing systems can emerge in parallel to such wider welfare systems. The chapter shows that Jim Kemeny’s analysis of the relationship between welfare and housing regimes has recently been contested by both empirical and theoretical research. It is therefore argued that there is a need to revisit the connection between housing and welfare, considering changes in both the wider welfare regimes and housing systems. Thus, the aim of the book is introduced – to provide an empirically grounded and theoretically updated perspective of how welfare regimes relate to housing systems from the 2020s onwards
Harbinger, 1982
No full textIncludes poetry and prose. 84 pages.TABLE OF CONTENTS: MARY BETH LEON – First Fall; LAURA E.A. PRITCHETT – Dachau; SUZETTE MILLER – Illustration; SHARON HELENE O’NEIL – Tourist, His Sister; TERRI CIACCHI – Near Miss, Obesity, Living Alone; LISA SINGER –Illustration; CAROLYN KELLEHER – Sheilah, Your Smile; JOANN M. BUSH -- Birthday Bouquet; MARIE WILSON – The Swallowtail; MEGAN RADDANT – Sit-Com, Detroit Impression; ROHENA DIANE AXTELL – Illustration; BARBARA THOMAS -- Valora Fruit Market, On Thanksgiving; ALICE GOODMAN – New York; STEPHEN CARROLL – Illustration; ALICE GOODMAN – Martin Luther King Was Shot in my Hometown; CAROLINE ST. JOHN – Coy; KIRSTY BUCHANAN – Illustration; ROBIN LARSON – Utopia; ANDREA SKOWRONEK – Dance with Me; CHELLA McNEICE GARRETT – Illustration; CAM-LELSIE WILDER – a preference for j.d.; STEPHEN CARROLL – Illustration; AMY KNOX BROWN – Transparency; PAM SUMNERS – The Magician’s Daughter, For Your Leaving; ROHENA DIANE AXTELL – Illustration; PATTY D. DAVIS – Illustration; JOAN RANQUET – An Aversion to Blondes; CHELLA McNEICE GARRETT – Illustration; SHARON HELENE O’NEIL – Mama; JUSTINE MANGANO – Illustration; PAM SUMNERS – A Ball of Twine; CHELLA McNEICE GARRETT – Illustration; BARBARA THOMAS – Autumn Exit; KATIE WILSON – Illustration
Dorthy Stephens interview, 2023 November 27
No full textOral history documenting the life of tenet advisor, nonprofit director, and therapist Dorthy Stephens, who discusses her childhood in segregated Georgia, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Martin Luther King's assassinations, being one of the first Black students to attend the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, her work with the Chattanooga Housing Authority, Girls Incorporated, and the Fortwood Center, and Chattanooga's struggles with gentrification, poverty, and food insecurity
Dorthy Stephens interview, 2023 November 27
No full textOral history documenting the life of tenet advisor, nonprofit director, and therapist Dorthy Stephens, who discusses her childhood in segregated Georgia, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Martin Luther King's assassinations, being one of the first Black students to attend the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, her work with the Chattanooga Housing Authority, Girls Incorporated, and the Fortwood Center, and Chattanooga's struggles with gentrification, poverty, and food insecurity
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