Access to housing in the neoliberal era: a new comparativist analysis of the neoliberalisation of access to housing in Santiago and London
Por:
Beswick, Joe, Imilan, Walter, Olivera, Patricia
Publicada:
1 ene 2019
Resumen:
The housing crisis in cities across the globe has been shaped by an
architecture of neoliberal housing policy. However, to bring myriad
qualitatively and nationally disparate modes of housing privatisation,
restriction, individualisation and marketisation under the umbrella of a
single, monolithic `neoliberalism' risks limiting explanatory power,
ignoring national particularity and privileging theory over `actually
existing neoliberalism'. Therefore, this paper attempts a cosmopolitan
understanding of these processes across the North/South dichotomy,
comparing the trajectories of two cities seen as archetypal examples of
housing neoliberalisation: Santiago and London. Drawing on Latin
American and Global North literatures, we analyse the socio-spatial and
political-institutional effects emerging from neoliberal transformations
of access to housing. By exploring mutations in: the role of the state;
the origin/purpose of funding/financing; the class composition of policy
beneficiaries; the geography of public housing; and, housing tenure, the
paper produces a rich comparison of two significantly different housing
systems. Written in the spirit of `new comparativism', the paper
contributes to the ongoing decentring of Western-dominated theories of
neoliberalism. Two importantly different city-trajectories emerge, and
these particularities enable us to add depth to our understanding of the
current housing crises, while at the same time drawing cross-border
comparisons and conclusions, and cosmopolitanising our theories of
neoliberalisation.
Filiaciones:
Beswick, Joe:
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Univ Leeds, Sch Geog, Leeds, W Yorkshire, England
Imilan, Walter:
The Housing Institute, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Development, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Univ Chile, Housing Inst, Fac Architecture & Urban Dev, Santiago, Chile
Olivera, Patricia:
Department of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Dept Geog, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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