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来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.32,Issue5,P.613-637

语言

英文

关键字

Private rental sector; landlords; asset-based welfare; property; inequality; United Kingdom; HOME OWNERSHIP; EAST-ASIA; CRISIS; PENSIONS; PEOPLE

作者单位

[Soaita, Adriana Mihaela; McKee, Kim] Univ St Andrews, Ctr Housing Res, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. [Searle, Beverley Ann] Univ Dundee, Sch Social Sci, Dundee, Scotland. [Moore, Tom] Univ Sheffield, Town & Reg Planning, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England. Soaita, AM (reprint author), Univ St Andrews, Ctr Housing Res, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. E-Mail: asoaita@yahoo.com

摘要

Ongoing neoliberal policies have realigned the links between housing and welfare, positioning residential property investment - commonly through homeownership and exceptionally also through landlordism - at the core of households' asset-building strategies. Nonetheless, the private rented sector (PRS) has been commonly portrayed as a tenure option for tenants rather than a welfare strategy for landlords. Drawing on qualitative interviews with landlords across Great Britain, we explore landlords' different motivations in engaging in landlordism; and the ways in which their property-based welfare strategies are shaped by the particular intersection of individual socioeconomic and life-course circumstances, and the broader socioeconomic and financial environment. By employing a constructionist grounded approach to research, our study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the different ways that asset-based welfare strategies operate within the PRS. We draw attention to an understudied nexus between homeownership and landlordism which we argue represents a promising route for future research.