Housing Flashcards
(12 cards)
What is a home? (Bryne, 2021)
- Ontological Security: provides reliability, sense of safety, security, privacy and to be able to shape our homes provides a sense of identity.
- Social Reproduction: a hub for care practices and care relations.
What is Vienna’s Housing System?
- Vienna has more public housing than anywhere else in Europe
- Unlike Vienna, many cities sold off their social housing in the 1990’s
- 45% of homes belong to the council or to subsidised landlord
- Permanent contract and affordable rents
What is the Housing for All 2021 Policy?
The Housing for All 2021 policy plan states the important role of the private market delivering housing, reflected by the projection of new build private rental and private ownership homes estimated at 24,000 in 2030, compared to 10,200 social homes build that same year
What are the Irish Housing System problems?
- The residual(Leftover) nature of the social housing sector
- The growth of private market ‘solutions’ to social housing need
- The reliance on private developers to boost supply
- The rise in ‘economic evictions’ and homelessness
Housing Policy after Financial Crisis?
1995-2007 (Celtic Tiger)- Economic Growth
Mortgages were traded globally, lower interest rates and more trading and loaning made house prices cost greater. When market collapsed, stock market collapsed putting pressure on social housing.
Critique of Irish housing policy
- A common point of the numerous critiques of Irish housing policy is the degree to which policy is influenced by market forces /
exchange values and the prioritisation of home ownership. - This emphasis is a reflection of power in Irish society.
- The root of Irish housing problems over time and the present multi-dimensional housing crisis
-Boom-bust cycle
Stat on social to private housing?
2/3 of local authority built sold on to tenants – now accounts for over 16% of total owner-occupied (Norris and Winston, 2011)
Downfall of Social Housing??
- Long term downgrading of social housing and lack of social housing supply, combined with selling of existing stock – since the 1970s.
- Paralleled a boom in private house construction and the increase in this tenure share.
- Social housing was being residualised long before the 2008 crisis
What is HAP(Housing Assistance Payment)?
- Provides support to those who have long term housing needs.
- Tenant finds the accommodation within HAP limits (or tops up)
- Tenant pays differential rent to Local Authority, Local Authority pays the landlord
Problems with HAP?
- Tenants on HAP are taken off the housing list. (masking the true scale of the housing crisis)
- Over half of all rent received by private landlords now via social renting (€542m per year spent by gov on HAP) -major form of corporate welfare. Is it really value for money?
- HAP is a more expensive mechanism for the delivery of social housing when compared with direct build social housing.
- HAP spending 2014- 0.4 million 2022- 548 million
-Also some evidence of landlord refusal
and discrimination towards HAP tenants (Hearne and Walsh, 2022)
4 aims for Housing for All?
- Increasing home ownership: Up to 24,000 new private houses per year by 2030. Plus up to 4,000 new affordable houses for FTBs(First time buyers) per year
2.Eradicating homelessness: Up 10,200 new social homes per year by 2030 - Increasing New Housing Supply;
- Addressing Vacancy and Efficient Use of Existing Stock.
Problems with Housing for All?
- No mention of a right to housing in the plan.
- Emphasis very much back on supporting home ownership
- Tiny commitment to cost rental model (2,000 per year). Exemplar, Vienna has two-thirds of its housing stock in cost rental
- In sum, not a radical policy. Does not meet current housing needs and does not change the role of the market in Irish housing.
- Minimal change to how the housing market functions.
- Limited state interventions.
