Post-Socialist Housing Systems in Europe: Housing Welfare Regimes by Default?

0460375 - SOÚ 2017 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Stephens, M. - Lux, Martin - Sunega, Petr
Post-Socialist Housing Systems in Europe: Housing Welfare Regimes by Default?
Housing Studies. Roč. 30, č. 8 (2015), s. 1210-1234. ISSN 0267-3037. E-ISSN 1466-1810
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP404/12/1446
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : Welfare regimes * financialisation * housing policy
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography
Impact factor: 1.309, year: 2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2015.1013090

This article develops a conceptual framework derived from welfare regime and concomitant literatures to interpret housing reform in post-socialist European countries. In it, settled power structures and collective ideologies are necessary prerequisites for the creation of distinctive housing welfare regimes with clear roles for the state, market and households. Although the defining feature of post-socialist housing has been mass-privatisation to create super-homeownership societies, the emphatic retreat of the state that this represents has not been replaced by the creation of the institutions or cultures required to create fully financialised housing markets. There is, instead, a form of state legacy welfare in the form of debt-free home-ownership, which creates a gap in housing welfare that has been partially filled by households in the form of intergenerational assistance (familialism) and self-build housing.
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