Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings
What Is Happening to Housing?
Edited by Kelly Greenop and Johanna Brugman Alvarez
ISBN
978-1529243857Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529243864Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings
This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types.
Housing has been in crisis across the globe for decades. Precarious housing is defined as that which fails to provide an adequate standard of living to enable health and wellbeing for a person and their family. This book argues that, while causes are often structural, the forms of housing precarity need to be deeply and specifically understood in order to propose solutions.
Bringing together contributions from diverse academics across different geographies in the global north and south, chapters offer fresh insights into how housing affects wellbeing in terms of physical and mental health, identity and participation in communities.
Kelly Greenop is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Johanna Brugman Alvarez is Senior Lecturer in Social and Community Planning at the School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Introduction – Kelly Greenop and Johanna Brugman Alvarez
1. Aboriginal Social Housing in Remote Australia: Crowded, Unrepaired and Raising the Risk of Infectious Diseases – Paul Memmott, Nina Lansbury, Carroll Go-Sam, Daphne Nash, Andrew Martin Redmond, Samuel Barnes, Patrick (Pepy) Simpson, and Patricia Narr
- Reply to Memmott et al: It Is Time for Healthy Living Priorities to be Integrated Into Indigenous Housing Policy and Practice – Daphne Habibis
2. Informal Housing and Residents’ Well-Being in Caracas and Sydney: A Comparative Study of Residents’ Experiences – Gabriela Quintana Vigiola
- Reply to Gabriela Quintana Vigiola: Informal Housing Residents’ Well-Being in Cities of the Global North and South – Kazi Nazrul Fattah
3. Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums – Mark L.G. Jones
- Reply To Mark L.G. Jones: Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums – Vigya Sharma
4. COVID-19 and Precarious Housing: Paying Guest Accommodation in a Metropolitan Indian City – Sai Rama Raju Marella, Krishna Priya, and Pooja Vincia D’Souza
- Reply to Raju Marella, Priya and Vincia D’Souza: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tenants and Operators in Marginal Housing Forms – Zahra Nasreen
5. Empowerment Through Design? Housing Cooperatives for Women in Montreal – Ipek Turelli
6. Housing Temporalities: State Narratives and Precarity in the Global South – Ruchika Lall
- Reply to Lall: Foregrounding Livelihood and Mobility in the Struggle for Pro-Poor Urban Housing – Redento B. Recio
- Reply to Lall: Housing Temporalities of the Aspiring Global City – Banashree Banerjee
7. The Attributes of Social Resilience: Understanding Refugees’ Housing Choices – Francesca Perugia
- Reply to Perugia: Social Resilience and Refugee Housing: Questioning the Shift in Responsibility for Settlement – Iris Levin
