Housing ideology and urban residential change: the rise of co-living in the financialized city

White, Tim and Madden, David J. (2024) Housing ideology and urban residential change: the rise of co-living in the financialized city. Environment and Planning A. ISSN 0308-518X (In Press)

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Abstract

This article develops the concept of housing ideology in order to analyze the rise of co-living. Housing ideology refers to the dominant ideas and knowledge about housing that are used to justify and legitimize the housing system and its place within the broader political economy. Coliving is the term for privately operated, for-profit group rental housing. The article argues that the rise of co-living is supported by four key ideological elements—corporate futurism, technocratic urbanism, market populism and curated collectivism—which serve to legitimize co-living within the housing system and enable its profitability. The ideology of coliving appears to critique many elements of the contemporary urban housing system. But despite its critical self-image, co-living does not represent an alternative to today’s financialized urbanization. Ultimately, the article argues for the importance of understanding the role of housing ideologies in residential change.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2024 14:06
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2024 00:10
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/121418

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