| Beschreibung |
The housing question is back on the political agenda of many cities: displacement of low-income households, racial discrimination on tight housing markets, increasing homelessness and growing social segregation pose severe challenges to city governments. In the seminar we will take a look at these challenges in their specific contexts and analyze how urban governments react to them with housing policy changes. Doing so we employ a framework of comparative housing studies and examine cities of the Global North situated in different – liberal, corporatist, social-democratic, post-socialist and Mediterranean – welfare regimes. We will ask how the institutional and ideological framework established in these welfare and housing regimes influences present political decisions. Special attention will be paid to the influence of housing movements on those decisions. Through readings on theory and on case studies such as Berlin, New York, Barcelona, Malmö and Prague students will develop an understanding of comparative housing studies, welfare regime theory and get to know a variety of measures tackling the recent housing crisis. |
