TY - JOUR
T1 - From Asset to Patrimony
T2 - The Re-emergence of the Housing Question
AU - Bohle, Dorothee
AU - Seabrooke, Leonard
N1 - Published online: 16. October 2019
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - The global financial crisis has ushered in a major housing crisis in many European countries. The paper seeks to shed light on why, despite massive housing crises, there are few policy efforts at tackling it. Probing into the policy paradigms that have informed housing policies, the paper demonstrates a shift towards housing as an asset before the crisis. Increasingly, housing policies have become interwoven with financial markets. This has led to a major policy mismatch after the crisis: while the return of the ‘housing question’ would have required renewed efforts at establishing housing as a social right, de facto policy makers sought to stabilise financial markets. The result is a paradoxical outcome, where neoliberal market-driven programmes are embedded in increased dependence on family wealth. The article demonstrates the shift from housing as asset to housing as patrimony in three different varieties of residential regimes, represented by Ireland, Denmark and Hungary.
AB - The global financial crisis has ushered in a major housing crisis in many European countries. The paper seeks to shed light on why, despite massive housing crises, there are few policy efforts at tackling it. Probing into the policy paradigms that have informed housing policies, the paper demonstrates a shift towards housing as an asset before the crisis. Increasingly, housing policies have become interwoven with financial markets. This has led to a major policy mismatch after the crisis: while the return of the ‘housing question’ would have required renewed efforts at establishing housing as a social right, de facto policy makers sought to stabilise financial markets. The result is a paradoxical outcome, where neoliberal market-driven programmes are embedded in increased dependence on family wealth. The article demonstrates the shift from housing as asset to housing as patrimony in three different varieties of residential regimes, represented by Ireland, Denmark and Hungary.
KW - Housing
KW - Residential capitalism
KW - Financialisation
KW - Comparative political economy
KW - Family
KW - Property
KW - Paradigms
KW - Housing
KW - Residential capitalism
KW - Financialisation
KW - Comparative political economy
KW - Family
KW - Property
KW - Paradigms
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U2 - 10.1080/01402382.2019.1663630
DO - 10.1080/01402382.2019.1663630
M3 - Journal article
VL - 43
SP - 412
EP - 434
JO - West European Politics
JF - West European Politics
SN - 0140-2382
IS - 2
ER -