The ENHR Homeownership and Globalisation working group, in collaboration with the PROPEL project at the University of Luxembourg, is organizing a workshop around the theme ‘Homeownership, housing, and inequality: Continuity and change’ (December 10-11, 2024).
While governments in many Western countries continue to tout homeownership as a superior housing tenure, in practice, this contrasts sharply with the reality of home buying and home ownership access. In the context of spiraling house prices, stagnating income and labour market developments, as well as recent hikes in interest rates, the barriers for many would-be first-time buyers have become even more pronounced, particularly among younger age groups. The concomitant revival of private renting not only signals a wider rearrangement of Western housing systems, but has also driven a diversification of living arrangements among those renting privately (e.g. sharing housing, informal housing), as well as renewed interest in alternative tenure options (e.g. social/public housing, collaborative housing).
The workshop aims to bring together scholars working on these and related issues. The workshop organizers Richard Ronald (University of Amsterdam), Justin Kadi (University of Cambridge),Lindsay Flynn (University of Luxembourg) welcome single case studies and comparative papers, as well as studies focused on the national and the urban/local level and are particularly interested in papers that relate to one of these broader themes:
• Continuity and change in policies towards homeownership
• Access to and pathways into, as well as exclusion from home ownership
• Housing experiences of those squeezed out of homeownership
• Dynamics in home ownership and inequality
• Parental support and inter-generational transfers related to home-ownership access
Please send abstracts to R.Ronald@uva.nl