Geography Of Housing Research Articles

Walls of capital: quantitative easing, spatial inequality, and the winners and losers of Canada’s pandemic-era housing market

AbstractThis paper analyzes the Bank of Canada’s (BoC) pandemic-era quantitative easing (QE) programs and their distributive implications, focusing on the Canadian housing market. First, we analyse the priorities and effects of QE: increasing liquidity and encouraging lending and borrowing. Next, we identify the sectors of the economy most influenced by QE, highlighting that investment in real estate soared in comparison to other sectors. Finally, we present a case study of real estate transactions in Toronto, finding that the increased investment in residential and multi-family housing worked to the detriment of marginalised populations. In spatializing macrofinance and identifying monetary policy’s role in geographies of housing, we call for increased attention to central banks and the distributional effects of monetary policy.

Digital informalisation: rental housing, platforms, and the management of risk

ABSTRACT The eruption of disruptive digital platforms is reshaping geographies of housing under the gaze of corporations and through the webs of algorithms. Engaging with interdisciplinary scholarship on informal housing across the Global North and South, we propose the term ‘digital informalisation’ to examine how digital platforms are engendering new and opaque ways of governing housing, presenting a theoretical and political blind spot. Focusing on rental housing, our paper unpacks the ways in which new forms of digital management of risk control access and filter populations. In contrast to progressive imaginaries of ‘smart’ technological mediation, practices of algorithmic redlining, biased tenant profiling and the management of risk in private tenancies and in housing welfare both introduce and extend discriminatory and exclusionary housing practices. The paper aims to contribute to research on informal housing in the Global North by examining digital mediation and its governance as key overlooked components of housing geographies beyond North and South dichotomies.

Scenarios post foreclosure crisis in Catalonia: accumulation of housing by banks as the first step for the rise of large private landlords

The article analyses the uneven geography of foreclosed housing owned by large private landlords in Catalonia. A Negative Binomial Model is applied to identify the local determinants of the concentration patterns of 32,941 housing units in Catalan cities. Indicators of socioeconomic vulnerability, such as the percentage of foreign population or the percentage of unemployed residents, are identified as key explanatory factors of the regional geography of housing accumulated by banks which, in turn, correspond to areas in which global corporate landlords are focusing their business for profiteering from the rental market in the current expansionist phase of the housing cycle. Our findings demonstrate that the concentration of properties in the most vulnerable areas was fuelled by foreclosures responsibility of banks rescued with public funds. In tandem, we provide detailed information for the understanding of the new scenarios that have emerged during the post-crisis phase.

A gender approach to housing loss in Spain: the case of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

In pre-pandemic times, Spain was one of the European countries where the economic crisis hit the real estate market hardest, leading to rising mortgage foreclosures and eviction of tenants, as highlighted by many scholars on the financial geography of housing. Its matched social effects reveal the outstanding role of gender, foreign status, and income levels, starting from the hypothesis that the intersection among these categories shows the dimension of inequality in the neoliberal configuration of cities. The aim of this article is to provide this evidence through the study case of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, using a GIS to implement statistical correlations of these categories on a microurban scale. The created database rests on information contained in judicial archives (women’s foreclosures and evictions) and on ethnicity and income level statistical information. This allows us to go deeper into the factors of exposure to vulnerability, in accordance with an established academic tradition regarding gender, housing and the city.

Financial markets, developers and the geographies of housing in Brazil: A supply-side account

Financialisation and housing are predominantly associated to mortgages for homeownership and securitisation techniques. This paper looks at how financial markets influence the development industry, its business strategies, and the nature and location of its products. Adopting a supply-side account, the paper inquires into the rising role of financial markets as a source of funding for a consolidating development industry and its influence on the geography of housing in Brazilian cities. It develops the concept of resonance by combining two yet unrelated strands of literature on the study of financial markets (cultural economy and conventionalist economics). Narratives co-authored by the stock market community and development firms management over each individual firm, and the discursively linked strategic moves of developers, are shown to resonate, at the meso-level of the industry, into shared social representations (or conventions) on how to best assess and interpret the value of development firms. Analysing the wave of Initial Public Offerings occurring in the mid 2000s, the paper highlights that narratives of quick capital gains associated with the removal of the land banking bottleneck faced by developers supported a convention giving priority to the growth in total output, and contributed to the observed changes in the forms, scales and locations of housing projects in Brazilian cities. As discrepancies between the promises of returns for shareholders and actual financial results emerged, the growth convention unravelled, making way for other narratives and strategic moves to resonate anew and possibly change again the geographies of housing.

Linking Housing Changes to Crime

Housing figures prominently in debates about crime in Britain. It has become commonplace to comment on the increasing associations between crime and council housing. This paper explores some of the issues which link housing and crime. It argues that it is important to recognize how the social base and geography of housing have changed and to understand processes which lead to an increasing concentration in council housing of those with least choice in the housing market and fewest resources elsewhere. At the same time there is a danger in overstating the associations between crime and council housing and neglecting other associations with housing, and homelessness. In view of the associations between crime and council housing, considerable effort has been expended on developing management and other responses designed to reduce crime. The general view is that a broad approach is required in such initiatives and the limited research evidence does not suggest that housing management action alone is effective in reducing crime. The association which exists between council housing and crime requires a policy response which relates to why the most deprived sections of the community are increasingly concentrated in parts of the housing market and exposed to increased risks, and one which relates to the pattern of opportunities and choices in the housing system and not just to housing management.

The Geography of Housing

The Geography of Housing

English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography

List of figures List of tables Preface A note on prices and distances 1. Urban geography and social history 2. Sources of diversity among Victorian cities 3. Contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century cities 4. Public transport and the journey to work 5. The geography of housing 6. Class consciousness and social stratification 7. The spatial structure of nineteenth-century cities 8. Residential mobility, persistence and community 9. Community and interaction 10. The containing context Notes Bibliography Index.

The State and Housing in New Zealand to 1919

The history and historical geography of housing in New Zealand are themes which have attracted comparatively little research interest, with the exception of changing architectural styles (Schwarz 1977, Hedley 1980), and a general review by Wilkes and Wood (1984). Elsewhere housing has long been of interest to social historians and to the historians of public policy and administration, particularly in the United Kingdom where much attention has been focussed on the origins and development of State involvement in the housing market. This paper will discuss the origins of State involvement in New Zealand during the period to 1919 when the State first interceded with respect both to financing and to the construction of houses for sale and lease.

The Geography of Housing

The Geography of Housing

Book review: Bourne, L.S. 1981: The geography of housing. London: Edward Arnold. vii+288 pp. £14.95 cloth, £6.50 paper

Book review: Bourne, L.S. 1981: The geography of housing. London: Edward Arnold. vii+288 pp. £14.95 cloth, £6.50 paper

Book Reviews

Abstract Abstract Geographic Perspectives on Global Problems: An Introduction to Geography. by Ronald Ft. Boyce, New York: John Wiley, 1982. xi and 362 pp., maps, diags., tables, and index. $25.95 cloth. The Geography of Housing, by Larry S. Bourne, New York: Halsted Press, 1981. viii and 288 pp., maps, diags., index, and biblio. $37.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Patterns of Underdevelopment, by John Bale, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: Thomas Nelson, 1982. 48 pp., maps, diags., illus., tables. $4.50 paper. Patterns of Underdevelopment, by John Bale, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: Thomas Nelson, 1982. 48 pp., maps, diags., illus., tables. $4.50 paper. Signposts for Geography Teaching, by Rex Walford, New York: Longman, 1981. xviii and 22 pp., figs., tables, and biblio. $15.95 cloth.

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The Geography of Housing

The Geography of Housing

Review: Regional Disparity and Economic Development in the European Community, Regional Policy: A European Approach, Energy Development in the Western United States: Impact on Rural-Areas, Energy Conservation and Public Policy, Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation; Applications to Urban and Regional Systems, Studies in Geography 11. A Man for All Regions: The Contributions of Edward L Ullman to Geography, Geography as Spatial

Review: Regional Disparity and Economic Development in the European Community, Regional Policy: A European Approach, Energy Development in the Western United States: Impact on Rural-Areas, Energy Conservation and Public Policy, Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation; Applications to Urban and Regional Systems, Studies in Geography 11. A Man for All Regions: The Contributions of Edward L Ullman to Geography, Geography as Spatial