Importierter Kurs aus dem LSF
“Adequate Housing is a Human Right, not a privilege” according to the United Nations Human Rights conventions. Across many capital and large cities house prices and residential rents have been on the increase in recent years. This is the result of complex factors involving chronic shortages of housing stocks, strict planning regulations, continuous urbanisation, increasing gentrification, speculative property investment, shortages of construction workforce and reduction of affordable social housing, coupled with gradual ballooning of the private real estate sector. However, populist parties across Europe have seized the negative sentiment surrounding increasing estate and rental prices, attributing the housing shortage to migrant populations, thus fuelling anti-immigrant attitudes. For example, the recent rise of far-right parties in Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands, have been attributed partly to the housing crisis that is now affecting not only low-income households but also the “middle classes”, while service sector workers can no longer afford to buy or rent. However, housing shortages are hardly a “European issue”, as 2024 was a global election year with half the world’s population exercising their right to vote in an increasingly urbanised world, we observed a global shift to populist politics and an increase of parties with increasingly extremist agendas. Given the societal and policy implications the interaction between immigration attitudes, housing shortages and voting behaviours deserves further investigation (see How do you stop the rise of the far right? Build houses. Politico Europe, 2024 Link)
This seminar series will investigate the multiple factors leading to housing shortages, such as planning regulations restricting urban development, the older generations holding on to their family houses, the “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) attitudes of certain socio-economic groups, the treatment of housing stocks as speculative investments and retirement funds. The sessions will provide a pan-European, perspective on spatial inequality and socio-economic segregation resulting from lack of adequate housing and how these factors are likely to lead to social unrest and certain voting behaviours.
Leistungsnachweis
Type of examination: Term paper
In order to complete Module 3, a double seminar and two individual seminars must be successfully completed. On completion of the module, a total of 20 CP will be credited for Module 3.
“Adequate Housing is a Human Right, not a privilege” according to the United Nations Human Rights conventions. Across many capital and large cities house prices and residential rents have been on the increase in recent years. This is the result of complex factors involving chronic shortages of housing stocks, strict planning regulations, continuous urbanisation, increasing gentrification, speculative property investment, shortages of construction workforce and reduction of affordable social housing, coupled with gradual ballooning of the private real estate sector. However, populist parties across Europe have seized the negative sentiment surrounding increasing estate and rental prices, attributing the housing shortage to migrant populations, thus fuelling anti-immigrant attitudes. For example, the recent rise of far-right parties in Portugal, Germany and the Netherlands, have been attributed partly to the housing crisis that is now affecting not only low-income households but also the “middle classes”, while service sector workers can no longer afford to buy or rent. However, housing shortages are hardly a “European issue”, as 2024 was a global election year with half the world’s population exercising their right to vote in an increasingly urbanised world, we observed a global shift to populist politics and an increase of parties with increasingly extremist agendas. Given the societal and policy implications the interaction between immigration attitudes, housing shortages and voting behaviours deserves further investigation (see How do you stop the rise of the far right? Build houses. Politico Europe, 2024 Link)
This seminar series will investigate the multiple factors leading to housing shortages, such as planning regulations restricting urban development, the older generations holding on to their family houses, the “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) attitudes of certain socio-economic groups, the treatment of housing stocks as speculative investments and retirement funds. The sessions will provide a pan-European, perspective on spatial inequality and socio-economic segregation resulting from lack of adequate housing and how these factors are likely to lead to social unrest and certain voting behaviours.
Leistungsnachweis
Type of examination: Term paper
In order to complete Module 3, a double seminar and two individual seminars must be successfully completed. On completion of the module, a total of 20 CP will be credited for Module 3.
- Lehrende:r: Seraphim Alvanides