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作者

Timothy Blackwell;Sebastian Kohl

来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.34,Issue2

语言

英文

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作者单位

Arts C Building, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany

摘要

Comparative housing scholars have, for many years now, imported typologies from non-housing spheres to explain housing phenomena. Notably, approaches attempting to account for divergent housing tenure patterns and trends have frequently been organized around typologies based on the assumption that a causal relationship exists between homeownership rates and the type of welfare regime or, more recently, the variety of residential capitalism a country exhibits. While these housing-welfare regime approaches have provided important research tools, we argue that the typologies they generate represent cross-sectional snapshots which offer little enduring cogency. Based on long-run data, we show that the postulated associations between homeownership, welfare and mortgage debt are historically contingent. This paper makes the case for employing historicized typologies, proposing a country-based typology linking historical housing finance system trajectories to urban form and tenure, with regional dimensions. We argue the need for typologies which can accommodate longitudinal, path-dependent dimensions, both within and between countries.