Periodic Reporting for period 4 - PaDC (Property and Democratic Citizenship: The Impact of Moral Assumptions, Policy Regulations, and Market Mechanisms on Experiences of Eviction)
Período documentado: 2022-02-01 hasta 2023-08-31
This research provides the opportunity to rethink the role of property within democracy based on extensive empirical data about how moral assumptions combine with particular ways of regulating and marketing property to exacerbate, alleviate or create inequalities within contemporary experiences of democratic citizenship.
The main results achieved so far include: extensive data collection in all five case studies plus harmonization of the datasets used for the quantitative analyses (EU-SILC, PSID and AHS), the design of a mixed methods research approach to integrate PaDC’s quantitative and qualitative findings, development of a conceptual model through which to interpret these findings, a literature review of housing outcomes in Europe and the United States, and a literature review of key policy milestones shaping property markets in the countries studied.
The Results of the quantitative analyses performed thus far relate to three main areas: (1) the relationship between property relations and income inequality across selected countries in the aftermath of the global financial crisis; (2) the cross-country impact of technological changes on housing markets, local policies and citizenship experiences; and (3) the relationship between residential displacement, housing precariousness and citizenship status. So far we have found the following interesting trends for further analysis: 1. an examination of three categories of housing property relationship (landlords, tenants and homeowners) reveals that the share of homeowners has declined substantially across countries, with the sole exception of Greece, 2. several countries in our sample exhibit a substantial rise in the share of landlord households, and where this has occurred, the decompositions reveal a striking rise in both overall and between-group inequality, independently of country-level variation in terms of housing policy regimes. Initial analyses reveal that automation, digitalisation and platformisation are giving way to new housing practices, most notably in urban contexts.
Our quantitative analyses have identified major shifts in the structure of housing property regimes in Europe and the United States, including the expansion of private landlording in specific country contexts and emerging inequalities between property classes. Moreover, our analyses of housing precariousness and residential displacement move beyond the largely descriptive findings of previous approaches to their study in Europe, refining existing indicators and identifying their determinants through multivariate analysis. By linking citizenship with housing precariousness and displacement, we also bridge housing research and social stratification with the emerging literature on internal bordering.
Going forward, our quantitative research seeks to identify policy approaches and contextual factors that have exacerbated or mitigated the aforementioned socioeconomic divergence, as well as whether this trend has been accompanied by divergence or polarization in sociopolitical and cultural attitudes and health inequalities (primarily through self-reported health and the presence of chronic illness). We will also further explore the relationship of citizenship status with monthly rental and mortgage payments. Finally, further qualitative research seeks to clarify mechanisms through which risk is allocated among actors in local housing markets, including tenants, buyers, landlords, firms and government.