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

White, Tim and Madden, David J. ORCID: 0000-0003-0669-7841 (2024) Housing ideology and urban residential change: the rise of co-living in the financialized city. Environment and Planning A, 56 (5). 1368 - 1384. ISSN 0308-518X

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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. Co-living is the term for privately operated, for-profit multiple occupancy 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 co-living 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
Official URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/home/EPN
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2024 14:06
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2025 21:19
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/121418

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