Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World

Richard Ronald is Professor of Housing and Chair of Political and Economic Geographies at the University of Amsterdam. His research, focussing on housing in relation to social, economic and urban transformations in Europe and Asia Pacific, has been funded by various public bodies including the European Research Council, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has been Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, the University of Birmingham, UK, and Kyung Hee University, South Korea, and Distinguished Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He is the current Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Contemporary City’ book series and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy. Rowan Arundel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research focusses on dynamics of housing inequalities and interactions between housing, labour and welfare, although he has a broader interest in spatial analysis and macro and micro quantitative methods. He has been the recipient of both the European (ERC) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Veni Fellowship. His current project, ‘WEALTHSCAPES: the spatial inequality of housing wealth accumulation’, confronts the crucial role of both housing market spatial polarization and divided housing access in driving growing wealth inequalities in the Netherlands, the UK and Spain.

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. 1.Why Families, Housing and Property Wealth? 2.Welfare States, Housing Markets and Millennials: Inhibited Transitions into Adulthood. 3.Housing and inter-generational relations: family support and the mixed economy of housing in the UK. 4.Families and the Reproduction of Homeownership in a Post-Socialist Context. 5.Families and Housing Precarity in ‘Post-Crisis’ Ireland. 6.Families, Housing and Economic Security. 7.Family Debts and Intergenerational Giving Supporting Transitions to Homeownership in Europe. 8.Foreign Real Estate Investment and International Education as a Family Wealth Strategy. 9.Epilogue: Family Houses and Housing Families. Index.