Informal Housing in the Global North : Exploring Practices, Actors and Processes in a Transforming Housing System.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gałuszka, Jakub.

Series:

Explorations in Housing Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

Informal Housing in the Global North proposes analytical and conceptual approaches to investigate the progressing 'informalisation' of contemporary housing in the Global North and beyond.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Figures

Table

List of Contributors

1 Introduction: Perspectives On Housing Informality in the "North"

Introduction

Housing Informalities as a Local, Permanent and Widespread Feature of Housing Systems

Informal Housing On the Rise Amidst an Intensifying Housing Crisis

Informal Housing in a Conjuncture Between State and Market Action

Informality as a Space of Co-Production of the Housing System

Encroachment

Solidarities

Struggles and Appropriation

Gatekeeping

Acknowledgements

References

Part I Encroachment

2 Formal/informal Continuum?: Secondary Dwelling Production and Digital Rental Markets in Sydney, Australia

Informality and Secondary Dwelling Production

Deregulatory Frameworks for Secondary Dwellings

Data Challenges and Insights

A Digital Rental Market of Secondary Dwellings

Understanding the Rise of Secondary Dwellings as an Affordability Solution in Sydney

The Formal-Informal Continuum for Secondary Dwelling Markets

Conclusion

3 Navigating Hong Kong's Informal Housing: Stakeholders' Interactions On Spatial Quality in Subdivided Homes

Formation of Subdivided Units as Informal Housing

The Agencies in Subdivided Units

Role of the Landlords

Role of the Government

Role of Residents

Role of Building Professionals

Future Directions of Affordable Housing Policies

Part II Solidarities

4 Otherness and Informality: Everyday Tactics of Social Inclusion Among Oxford Boating Community

Solidarities and Informality

Boating Community in Oxford

Intra-community Relations: Everyday Solidarities and the Community.

Relations Beyond the Community: Otherness and Inclusion

Conclusions

5 Refugee Access to Housing in Germany: (In)formal Restrictions and Opportunities

Conceptual Frame

Refugees Access to Housing in Germany: Restrictive Factors

Formal State Regulations: Civic Stratification By Country of Origin and Social Welfare Dependency

Housing Markets and Housing Market Discrimination

Refugee Access to Housing: Enabling Factors

State Support Measures

Civil Society Efforts to Help Refugees Find Housing

Support From Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Social Networks

Immigrant Social Networks

Social Support From Non-Immigrants

Informal Commercial Services

Discussion: the Relationship Between Restrictive and Access-Enabling Factors

Notes

Part III Struggles and Appropriation

6 For a Spatial Politics of Dwelling: Awareness, Contestation and Homemaking in the Individual Occupations of Public Housing in Naples, Italy

The Variety of Squatting in Western Cities

Home: Dwelling Is a Process

Housing Conditions in Italy

Housing Conditions in the City of Naples

The Field of Investigation: the De Gasperi Neighbourhood of Naples

The Variety of Non-Authorised Access to Public Housing in Naples

Squatting in Public Housing: the Act of Breaking Into Empty Spaces

Informal Takeover of Public Housing

A Provisional Definition of the Spatial Politics of Dwelling

Shared Awareness

Forms of Contestation

Homemaking

7 Making a Platz in the City: How Roma Families Appropriate Urban Space to Have a Home in Paris Suburbs

Introduction: Migrants in (Shanty)towns, the Context of the Northern Suburbs of Paris

Ethnographic Method and Pragmatist Approach: From Roma People to Platz Inhabitants.

Policy Context and Mobilisation Against the Systematic Eviction Approach

Informal Appropriation to Face the Lack of Access to Formal City

Occupation Strategies and Knowledge of the Law: Another Definition of the Legal City

Making a Place in the City: Scouting, Discretion and Circularity

The Experience of Informal Housing as Asserting Right to the City

Housing: to Have (A Habitation) and to Be (An Inhabitant)

Allotting Spaces and Building Baraques: Skills, Affinities and Resources

Taking Care of the Inside: Fitting Out a Practical and Attractive Home

Engaging in Relations of Ordinary Sociability: Family Life and Common Spaces

The Family Cocoon: Everyday Life in a Baraque

Sharing Space: Between the Sociability of the Pathway and the Constraints of Cohabitation

Part IV Gatekeeping

8 Unpacking Everyday Management in a City Improvement District: Property Caretakers as Street-Level Bureaucrats in Ekhaya, Hillbrow, Johannesburg

Theoretical Framework

Tracing Hillbrow's Building Politics: Caretakers' Rise as 'Bureaucrats'

Ekhaya Caretakers as Street-Level Bureaucrats

Managing Internal Environs

Managing External Environs

Managing Social Relations: Ekhaya Caretakers as 'Governed Governors'

9 Living in Someone Else's Place: An Exploration of Subletting Practices in Berlin in Times of Housing Crisis

Precarious Housing in Cities of the Global North

Housing Market Dynamics in Berlin

Subletting in Germany - Under the Radar But Strictly Regulated

Methods - Documenting the Tenants' Experiences

The Permanency of Short-Term Sublets - Housing Trajectories of Newcomers to the City

Intransparency, Affordability, and Exploitation - the Finances of Subletting.

Living in Unstable Tenancy Arrangements

Substandard Accommodations and Living in Other People's Rooms - Experiencing Constrained Living Spaces and Estrangement

Precarious Housing Trajectories' Impact On Tenants' Well-Being

Note

10 Concluding Remarks and Way Forward

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-03-264526-1

1-04-042705-7

1-04-042710-3

1-03-264529-6

9781032645292

OCLC:

1535984433