Abstract
The study of housing has a long history in sociology, but since the 1960s, it has been relatively hidden in a number of sociological subfields and scattered across a range of disciplines. The financial crisis of 2008 elevated housing issues to the level of national and international debate and protest, and it offers a framework for organizing the scholarship on housing into that which studies housing as a commodity, on one hand, and as a right, on the other. In the former category, I review the literature on mortgage financing; property values and wealth; and affordable rental housing, foreclosures, and evictions. In the latter category, I discuss the theoretical arguments for a right to housing and review the research on activist demands for that right. The tension between these two aspects of housing is discussed throughout. I conclude by proposing the actual home or apartment as a productive area for new sociological analysis.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 509-531 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Annual Review of Sociology |
| Volume | 39 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1 2013 |
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Keywords
- Affordable housing
- Mortgages
- Property values
- Public housing
- Tenant activism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
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Housing : Commodity versus right. / Pattillo, Mary E.
In: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 39, 01.07.2013, p. 509-531.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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