Project description DEENESFRITPL Investigating affective economies of private rental housing Rental housing is often associated with inequalities of wealth, opportunities and wellbeing, particularly where informal tenancy agreements in the private rental sector are concealed from state regulation. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the AFFECTIVE-PRS project aims to investigate emerging and hidden private rental housing in post communist Romania. It seeks to better understand what motivates tenants and landlords to enter into private rental activity and how they conceive the concepts of authority, trust, security and risk, as well as space and time. Data analysis from interviews, photos, observations and questionnaires will be interpreted through multidisciplinary methods. The research results will ultimately help to address social inequalities and inform the debate on housing regulation in Europe. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective This proposal aims to understand, through the conceptual lens of home, tenants’ and landlords’ practices in ‘hidden’ private rental sectors, where informal transactions increase risks and hide vulnerability away from state regulatory gaze - as the Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly exposed across much of the globe. Taking the post-communist context as an example of an emerging and hidden PRS and drawing on a specific view of home as assemblage of materials, money, relations and affects, this research project aims to: Understand a hidden social world, by asking why tenants and landlords engage in the sector, whether their practices permit making a private tenancy home, and how they construct ideas of power, risk and trust; Nuance existing concepts of space and propose new concepts of time as they unfold in a privately rented home; Inform the national and international debate on PRS regulation. To achieve its aims, the proposal takes a qualitative multi-disciplinary approach, creating synergies between methods developed from meta-ethnography (critical interpretative synthesis), sociology and visual studies (qualitative questionnaires and photo-elicitation interviews), and public policy (scenario building). Through its focus on rental housing, a mechanism that generates important inequalities of wealth, health and wellbeing, the project aligns with the European Union strategy of creating a more resilient and inclusive society, and its concern for addressing inequalities. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policiessocial sciencessociologymedical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemicsmedical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronaviruses Programme(s) HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 Call for proposal HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI Net EU contribution € 133 735,68 Address SOSEAUA PANDURI 90 050663 Bucuresti Romania See on map Region Macroregiunea Trei Bucureşti-Ilfov Bucureşti Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data
