Housing concerns and the associated research objectives/ research questions: on home ownership

 Housing concerns and the associated research objectives/ research questions: on home ownership

Article 1: Srna Mandič (2018) Motives for Home Ownership: Before and After the Transition, Housing, Theory and Society, 35:3, 281-299, DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2017.1329164.

 Housing concerns

“Home ownership has underpinned the dramatic transformation of housing that occurred in countries today generally referred to as post-socialist. The shift to home ownership that came through housing reforms and the privatization of housing has been broadly debated and extensively documented (Clapham, Hegedüs, and Tosics 1996; Hegedüs, Mayo, and Tosics 1996; Lowe and Tsenkova 2003; Struyk 1996; Turner, Hegedüs, and Tosics 1992). Given its strategic role in transitional processes, it is not surprising that home ownership has drawn considerable attention among housing analysts. However, while the changing institutional and policy frameworks of home ownership have been thoroughly examined, very little attention has been paid to its interpretative frameworks, which remain an under-researched issue”;

 

Research objectives/ research questions

“In this paper, the focus is on an interpretative framework for home ownership in post-socialist countries and, more specifically, the motives for home ownership. The aim is to identify the key motives for entry to home ownership and examine any changes following the transition to post-socialism. More precisely, motives for entry to home ownership are examined and compared among pre-transitional, transitional and post-transitional entrants to home ownership based on qualitative data acquired from interviews with 25 Slovenian homeowners from the town of Celje. The interviews form part of the collaborative project “Demographic Change and Housing Wealth” (DEMHOW) (see Doling and Elsinga 2013) and represent three distinct cohorts that became homeowners in different historical periods. The approach of analytic induction is used, leading to a systematic initial search for similarities in broader categories, which are then developed into subcategories. The resulting categorization of home ownership motives is thus original and data-driven”;

 

Article 2: Chika Ezinwanne Udechukwu, (2008),"Obstacles to individual home ownership in Nigeria", International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Vol. 1 Iss: 2 pp. 182 – 194.

 Housing concerns

“Home ownership ranks high amongst the priorities of most individual households and often times, represents their largest singular investment accounting for about 60 per cent of household income. With a per capital income of less than $300, it is no surprise that there is acute shortage of dwelling units in the country”;

 

Research objectives/ research questions

“This paper sets out to investigate the various inhibiting factors to individual home ownership in Nigeria. It aims to establish just how feasible home ownership is in Nigeria and to proffer viable recommendations for positive change”;

 

 

Article 3: Richard Ronald & John Doling (2010) Shifting East Asian Approaches to Home Ownership and the Housing Welfare Pillar, International Journal of Housing Policy, 10:3, 233-254, DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2010.506740.

 Housing concerns

“The broad ownership of housing assets is argued to have been perceived by East Asian governments as a means to enhance the family base of welfare provision (Ronald, 2007). Following the Asian Economic Crisis of 1997, housing markets slumped and substantial pressure was put on welfare structures by economic downturn and growing unemployment. In the wake of this challenge, governments adopted new strategies. In the 2000s, state driven expansion of home ownership dissipated and there has been considerable divergence in housing policy approaches”;

 

Research objectives/ research questions

“This paper considers patterns of convergence and subsequent divergence in housing systems in three countries – Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong – in recent decades. Essentially, housing policy readjustments reflect a reorientation around the function of the housing sector that in many respects are becoming detached from the property base of family security, or in other words the home ownership welfare pillar. The overall objective of such an analysis is to demonstrate the dynamic and changing function of housing commodification in East Asian welfare regimes. This was initially characterised by shared tenure-policy logic, but shaped by differences in socioeconomic and market contexts, and policy pathways”;

 

“The contribution of this paper, however, is not only to provide an update on policy trajectories up to and, to some extent, through the recent Global Financial Crisis, but also to deal explicitly with the nature of asset or property-based welfare in the East Asian context and the specific role of home ownership polices and market developments. Moreover, consideration of longer-term socioeconomic destabilisation in East Asian contexts provides some insight for other societies that have more recently sought to build-up owner-occupied housing sectors as a welfare pillar (Doling & Ronald, 2010a, b)”;