Beyond Home Ownership

Richard Ronald is an Assistant Professor in Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Housing and Interior Design at Kyung Hee University, Seoul. He is review editor of the International Journal of Housing Policy and section editor of the International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. He has published widely on housing, urban and social change in Europe and Asia-Pacific and in particular on international market and policy transformations concerning home ownership. Marja Elsinga is a Professor in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She is associate editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home and editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal for Housing. She has published widely on home ownership and risk, housing affordability, social housing and housing governance.

• Preface Introduction 1. Beyond Home Ownership Part 1: Demographic Change, Housing Wealth and Welfare 2. Housing and Demographic Change 3.The Housing Pillar of the Mediterranean Welfare Regime: Family, State and Market in the Social Production of Home Ownership in Italy 4. Home Ownership in Post-Socialist Countries: Between Macro Economy and Micro Structures of Welfare Provision Part 2: Government, Markets and Policies 5. Home Ownership and Nordic Housing Policies in ‘Retrenchment’ 6. Owner-Occupation in an Increasingly Uncertain World: The English Experience 7. Home Ownership as Public Policy in the USA 8. Home Ownership Risk and Responsibility Before and After the U.S. Mortgage Crisis Part 3: Housing Ladders and Fading Dreams 9. The Shifting Housing Opportunities of Younger People in Japan’s Home-Owning Society 10. Home Ownership - Continuing or Fading Dream?

The articles in this compilation…overlap rather remarkably in their shared discussions of the welfarestate, the advance of neoliberal housing regimes, and the contextualization of current housing crisesinto larger structural patterns. The authors clearly reflect on common questions in the process ofwriting individual pieces, and the resulting articles are richer for it. This book is recommended foracademics and practitioners as well as educated lay audiences.- Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 37/No. 1/2015