Promoting the private rented sector in metropolitan China: Key challenges and solutions

The private rented sector (PRS) plays an increasingly important role in accommodating young people and migrants in China’s metropolitan cities. However, the PRS in China is still underdeveloped, as evidenced by, e.g. a low degree of professionalisation, lack of basic rental laws and regulations, and poor housing experiences of tenants. The...

Housing inequalities: The space-time geography of housing policies

Changes in policy over the last thirty years, particularly within advanced economies, have allowed for increased financialization, deregulation and globalisation of housing. What differentiates real-estate from other financial markets is that it possesses a salient socio-spatial geography. Housing inequalities are often framed as an outcome...

Approach to housing justice from a capability perspective: bridging the gap between ideals and policy practices

When correcting policies to tackle rising housing inequality, certain principles of housing justice are necessary. Recently, the capability approach to justice has attracted the attention of housing scholars, as promising guidance to compensate for problems in conventional policy approaches. However, the practicality of its policy application...

A Capability Approach to Evaluating well-being and Equality in Housing: Clear Conceptual Difference but Unclear Practical Difference?

This study empirically examines the difference of the capability<br/>approach to evaluating well-being and equality in housing, with<br/>data from the Netherlands. Conventionally, well-being/inequality in<br/>housing have been evaluated by measures of economic/material<br/>means for housing or satisfaction. In theory, these evaluation<br/...

How the other half lives: coronavirus, housing and justice

Covid-19 and especially the extreme measures of the lockdown in response to the virus, have exposed existing housing inequalities. They revealed how, in the 21st century, households still live in poor and insecure housing conditions exposing them to increased physical and mental health risks. In the Netherlands, where we as authors are based,...

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