Contemporary Housing Struggles : : A Structural Field of Contention Approach.

• Author: Florea, Ioana.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gagyi, Agnes.; Jacobsson, Kerstin.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: Embedding the Analysis of Housing Contention in the Sociopolitical Complexity of Structural Crises -- Studying Contention in Its Structural Context: The Structural Field of Contention Approach -- Methodology -- The Book's Contributions -- Chapter Outline -- References -- 2: The Structural Field of Contention Approach -- Dynamics of Contention -- Coalition Models -- Fligstein and McAdam's Strategic Action Field -- Field Relations Beyond Strategic Action: Crossley's Field of Contention -- Adding Context to the Field: The Structural Field of Contention Approach -- Conclusion: The Structural Field of Contention Approach -- References -- 3: The Structural Background of Housing Contention in Bucharest and Budapest -- Urban Development Before 1945 -- Housing Policies and Their Political-Economic Context in the Socialist Period -- Regime Change and Housing Policies After 1989 -- Differences in Late Socialist and Postsocialist Global Economic Integration -- The Privatization of Housing and Postsocialist Housing Policies -- The 2000s: Problems of Housing Access and the Mortgage Boom -- Political-Economic Transformation After 2008 -- Tensions Around Housing Poverty After 2008 -- The Politics of Debt Crisis Management and the New Housing Boom -- After 2019: Changes in the Structural and Political Context of Housing Contention During the Pandemic -- Conclusion: Long-term Structural Factors in the Dynamics of the Contention Field -- References -- Interviews (cited) -- 4: Housing Contention in Budapest -- The 1990s: Hierarchical Privatization, the Peripheralization of Poverty, and the Institutionalization of Homeless Assistance -- The Silent Peripheralization of Housing Poverty -- Responses to Inner-City Housing Poverty and Homelessness: Self-Advocacy, Volunteer Social Work, and Professional Homeless Assistance.

Participative Initiatives in Social Housing and Social Self-Build -- The Dissipation of Struggles Based on State Tenant Status: The Tenants' Association -- A Long-Lasting Structure of Maintenance-Related Interest Representation: The Alliance of Housing Cooperatives -- Mortgage-Based Homeownership: A Silent Challenge -- The 2000s: The Mortgage Bubble and Housing Contention in Left- and Right-Leaning Anti-Neoliberal Movements -- Social Urban Rehabilitation Efforts -- Real Estate Speculation -- New Types of Homeless Advocacy: Man on the Street and the City Is for all -- Debtors' Organization during the Forex Mortgage Crisis -- Plans for Rental Housing Development -- After 2010: Housing Struggles in the Orbán Regime -- Forex Mortgage Debtors' Advocacy after 2010 -- The Criminalization of Homelessness and the Inclusion of Housing Poverty Struggles in Opposition Politics -- A New Real Estate Boom after 2015: Struggles and Silences -- Conflicts over the Peripheralization of Housing Poverty -- New Initiatives for Cohousing, Cooperative Housing, and Social Housing Agencies -- New Context: Opposition Local Governments and the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Conclusion: Multiple Actors and Field Transformations -- References -- Interviews (cited) -- 5: Housing Contention in Bucharest -- Responses to Privatization and Lack of Housing Access Prior to the 2008 Crisis -- Homelessness as a Silent Aspect of the Field -- Household Debt as a Silent Challenge -- Mobilization Around Evictions and Urban Regeneration -- Housing Struggles During the Crisis of 2008 and the Following Austerity Period -- Housing, Urban Regeneration, and Heritage Protection -- Debtors Caught Between Political Silence and Contention -- Evictions and Housing Struggles During the Post-2008 Austerity Years.

Waves of Right-Leaning Politicization: Architectural Heritage Protection and Natural Heritage Protection -- Building the Common Front for Housing Rights in the Context of Class Fractures -- After 2015-Housing Struggles in a Period of High GDP Growth -- The FCDL's Responses to a New Wave of Urban Middle-Class Protests -- Scaling Up Housing Struggles: The Block for Housing -- The Heritage Protection Movement and Multiscalar Politics -- Housing, Debt, and Wage Struggles Since 2015 -- Ending the Silence on Informal Housing in 2017 -- Housing Struggles Since the Pandemic Years -- Conclusion: A Dynamic Field of Alliances and Conflicts, Silences, and Political Expressions -- References -- 6: Structural Fields of Contention in Housing Struggles: Comparative Lessons -- Structural Areas of Tension -- Tensions around Severe Forms of Housing Poverty -- The Problem of Housing Access for Low- to Middle-Income Groups -- Different Political Contexts of Housing Contention after 2008 -- From Postsocialist Liberal Hegemony to the Opposition Movements against the Orbán Regime in Post-2010 Hungary -- The Alliance between Post-2008 Movements and Liberal Politics in Romania -- Positioning of Leftist Housing Groups in Various Post-2008 Political Environments -- Integration of Debtor Groups into Various Fields of Post-2008 Politics -- Debtors and Leftist Housing Groups: Two Cases of Political Fracturing of Post-2008 Housing Movements -- Translating Tensions into Politicized Demands: The Role of Middle-Class Expertise and Institutional Interfaces -- Dynamics of Alliances in Politicizing Issues of Housing Poverty -- Dynamics of Alliances in the Politicization of Social Housing -- Politicization around Urban Regeneration Projects -- Dynamics of Alliances in the Politicization of the Low- to Middle-Income Groups' Housing Needs.

Translating between Multiscalar Processes and Political Demands -- Field Dynamics -- Explicit Alliances, Explicit Conflicts, and Parallelism between Movements -- The Structural Predominance of Political Silences -- Contradictions Not Reflected in the Politicization of Housing Tensions -- Transformations of the Field -- Resistance to Deprivation Versus Housing Access Activism for Low- to Middle-Income Groups: A Field-Level Division -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Conclusion -- References -- References -- Interviews (cited) -- Index.