Housing Wealth and Welfare

Edited by Caroline Dewilde, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University and Richard Ronald, Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

'Home ownership has always been connected to both welfare and wealth, but the ties have been strengthened in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Now, the editors and authors of Housing Wealth and Welfare discuss the current state of affairs. They sketch different scenarios for different countries and cohorts but never lose touch of the general trends. Required reading for anyone interested in the various faces of home ownership.'

• Contents:1. Why housing wealth and welfare?Richard Ronald and Caroline DewildePART I OLD AND NEW CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF HOUSING AND WELFARE2. The rise and fall of Ireland’s property based welfare state: Home ownership rates, policies and meanings in a historical perspectiveMichelle Norris3. Home ownership, housing policy and path dependence in Finland, Norway and SwedenBo Bengtsson, Hannu Ruonavaara and Jardar Sørvoll4. Housing wealth and welfare over the life courseStephan Köppe and Beverley A. Searle5. Housing wealth and welfare state restructuring – Between Asset-Based Welfare and the Social Investment StrategyChristian LennartzPART II INSTITUTIONAL VARIEGATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSING, WELFARE PROVISION AND INEQUALITY6. Financial resilience and security: The impacts of the housing market downturn on low-income home owners in Northern IrelandAlison Wallace7. Trends in social inequalities regarding home ownership: A comparison of East and West GermanyKathrin Kolb and Sandra Buchholz8. Home ownership in post-socialist countries – The negative impact of the transition period on old-age welfareSrna Mandič and Maja Mrzel9. Experiences of home ownership and housing mobility after privatization in RussiaJane R. Zavisca and Theodore P. Gerber10. The changing nature of outright home ownership in Romania: Housing wealth and housing inequalityAdriana Mihaela SoaitaEpilogue Housing wealth and welfare: spatially and temporally contingent John DolingIndex