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来源

HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY,Vol.35,Issue4SI,P.410-431

语言

英文

关键字

Rental housing; resilience; single elderly households; public assistance; inner city; Osaka; HONG-KONG; SOCIETY

作者单位

[Kiener, Johannes] Osaka City Univ, Urban Culture Res Ctr, Sugimoto 3-3-138, Osaka 5588585, Japan. [Kornatowski, Geerhardt; Mizuuchi, Toshio] Osaka City Univ, Urban Res Plaza, Osaka, Japan. Kiener, J (reprint author), Osaka City Univ, Urban Culture Res Ctr, Sugimoto 3-3-138, Osaka 5588585, Japan. E-Mail: johanneskiener01@gmail.com

摘要

For this paper we apply the framework of resilience as an adaptive process to examine alternative practices that assist socially vulnerable populations into the urban fabrik. The recent direction of Osaka's inner city rental housing market for public assistance recipients is used as case study. We look on systemic aspects such as changing tenant revenues and welfare policies, and analyze the innovative housing reuse practices of local landlords and real estate agents. Our results show that the resilience-producing systemic properties are co-produced by public assitance policies, the particular condition of Osaka's inner city and individual stakeholders' actions. While these stakeholders have benefited immensely from the housing market's resilient response, it is structured by uneven dependencies, which ultimately affects the housing opportunities and care services for current and future tenants.