Housing in Turkey

Esma AKSOY KHURAMİ is currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, the Department of City and Regional Planning at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. She earned her bachelor’s (2014), MSc (2017), and PhD (2021) degrees from Middle East Technical University. She received several awards with her MSc thesis, including the Nathaniel Lichfield Award by Regional Studies Association in 2017. Her research interests focus on low-income households, housing affordability, homeownership, quantitative methods, and techniques in housing and planning studies. Ö. Burcu ÖZDEMIR SARI is Associate Professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. She earned her PhD in Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund, Germany. She conducted research projects about housing affordability, residential vacancy, and property rights. She is currently teaching urban economics and housing. Her research interests are urban studies, housing economics, housing policy, and residential reinvestment. She is the editor of the Housing Book Series launched by the Institute of Urban Studies (Turkey). Nil UZUN is a Professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Urban Geography at Utrecht University in 2001 with her dissertation on gentrification in İstanbul. She participated in and conducted research projects about urban transformation. Along with teaching urbanization and urban sociology, she is doing research mainly on gentrification and residential transformation.

1 Introduction

Ö. Burcu Özdemir Sarı, Esma Aksoy Khurami, Nil Uzun

PART I

Housing in Turkey: Framework of the Study

2 The Turkish Housing System: An Overview

Ö. Burcu Özdemir Sarı

3 Housing Policies in Turkey: Paving the Way for Urban Transformation

Nil Uzun

4 Housing and Living Conditions of Turkish Households: What Has Changed since 2000s?

Esma Aksoy Khurami

5 Limitations of Housing Research Data in Turkey and Proposals for a Better System

G. Pelin Sarıoğlu Erdoğdu

PART II

Housing, Economy, and Financialization

6 Housing Market Dynamics: Economic Climate and its Effect on Turkish Housing

Leyla Alkan Gökler

7 Varieties of Residential Capitalism in Turkey: State-Led Financialization of Housing

Zeynep Arslan Taç

8 Everyday Negotiations of Finance and Debts in State-led Mass Housing Estates for Low-income Households in Istanbul

Esra Alkim Karaagac

PART III

Housing Market Experiences

9 Understanding Residential Vacancy and its Dynamics in Turkish Cities

H. Kübra Kıvrak, Ö. Burcu Özdemir Sarı

10 Discussing Housing Submarkets in the Ankara Metropolitan Area

Tuğba Kütük, Tanyel Özelçi Eceral

11 Do Location Choices of Residents Matter? Comparative Analysis of Two Gated Communities in Bursa

Ebru Kamacı Karahan

12 The Repair, Maintenance, and Restoration of Traditional Housing and the Related Legal Framework: Antalya Kaleiçi

Aynur Uluç

PART IV

Housing Policy (or Lack Thereof) and Its Implications

13 Housing for Ageing Populations in Turkey

Yelda Kızıldağ Özdemirli

14 Housing and Transport Cost Burden: The Experience of Tenant Households in Turkey

Esma Aksoy Khurami, Ö. Burcu Özdemir Sarı

15 Urban Transformation Policies of the 21st Century: State-led Gentrification

Nil Uzun