Print Email Facebook Twitter Housing and the welfare state: Changing perspectives and a research agenda Title Housing and the welfare state: Changing perspectives and a research agenda Author Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Research Date 2013-06-19 Abstract The relationship between housing and the welfare state is a heavily researched topic in international comparative housing research. This exploratory paper provides a historical overview of the academic debate. For a long time, the discussion primarily focused on the degree and the nature of government intervention within the field of housing. Various scholars have contributed to this discussion by presenting housing policy related typologies of housing systems, or by applying welfare state regime typologies to the field of housing. In recent years, attention has also been paid to the financial aspects of the housing system. Housing was increasingly considered as the basis for socalled asset-based welfare. Furthermore, alternative typologies of housing systems, based on financial factors rather than on state interventions, were developed. In recent years, welfare systems and housing systems were influenced by some new trends: the Global Financial Crisis, an increasing influence for European Union regulations and the rise of multilevel welfare states. In the last part of the paper, these new trends will be translated into a research agenda. Subject welfare systemhousing systeminternational comparative researchresearch agenda To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:900c0043-b86a-411b-b4a7-ae83dd0af9a7 Publisher ENHR Source ENHR 2013 Conference “Overcoming the Crisis, Integrating the Urban Environment", Tarragona, Spain, 19-22 June 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. Files PDF 293664.pdf 958.7 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:900c0043-b86a-411b-b4a7-ae83dd0af9a7/datastream/OBJ/view