Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe

by Allen, Judith; Barlow, James; Leal, Jesú; s; Maloutas, Thomas; Padovani, Liliana

• ISBN13: 9781405103077
• ISBN10: 1405103078
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized. However, much of this analysis is rooted without question in the welfare states of northern Europe - there has been almost no research published in English on the provision of housing in southern Europe. Such research as exists deals with specific feature of housing policy, invariably in a single country. There is probably a better understanding of the housing systems of the former communist countries than those of southern Europe.

Author Biography

Judith Allen is the author of Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe, published by Wiley.

James Barlow is the author of Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe, published by Wiley.

Jesús Leal is the author of Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe, published by Wiley.

Thomas Maloutas is the author of Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe, published by Wiley.

Liliana Padovani is the author of Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Authors	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Scope of this book	1	(2)
Some basic concepts	3	(7)
Structure of this book	10	(1)
Bibliography	11	(4)
Are Southern Housing Systems Different?	15	(44)
Introduction	15	(1)
Tenure patterns in southern Europe	15	(3)
Countries of home owners	18	(14)
One home in two houses: high proportion of secondary homes	32	(7)
Housing access, family cycles and residential mobility	39	(9)
Production and promotion of housing	48	(9)
Conclusion	57	(2)
Urbanisation and Housing Systems in Southern Europe	59	(10)
Introduction	59	(1)
The articulation between urbanisation and industrialisation: the pivotal role of housing	59	(2)
Demographic patterns, family and housing	61	(4)
Similarity and difference in south European housing processes and urban patterns	65	(4)
Welfare Systems in Southern Europe	69	(50)
Introduction	69	(1)
Welfare systems and institutional complexes	69	(2)
Welfare regimes, welfare states and welfare activities	71	(1)
Esping-Andersen and welfare regimes	72	(6)
Welfare regimes: Groups of countries or ideal-typical construct?	78	(5)
Applying the concept of welfare regimes to housing	83	(7)
Castles and families of nations	90	(3)
Setting the south in a European context	93	(2)
Is there a separate southern welfare system?	95	(8)
Civil administration, dualistic labour markets and familialism	103	(13)
The southern European welfare system	116	(3)
Family and Housing	119	(38)
Family, tradition and culture	119	(2)
Regional specificity in family, housing structures and practices	121	(6)
The place of the family in the southern development model and welfare system	127	(2)
Demographic parameters and trends	129	(2)
Household cycles and housing	131	(10)
Family solidarity contextualised or the circumstantial role of the family	141	(3)
Family strategies for housing: northern and southern Europe	144	(2)
Aggressive and defensive housing strategies	146	(5)
New conditions and changing context for family solidarity	151	(4)
Conclusion: Family solidarity, housing and social cohesion	155	(2)
Public Action in Housing	157	(30)
Concepts	157	(4)
Ideologies, political systems and conceptions of public action in housing	161	(2)
Distinctive features of public action in housing in southern Europe	163	(17)
Conclusions: public action versus state action	180	(7)
Conclusions	187	(12)
The distinctiveness of southern European housing systems	189	(3)
Theorising housing provision: lessons from southern Europe	192	(2)
The future of southern housing systems	194	(5)
References	199	(12)
Index	211