TY - JOUR
T1 - The global pandemic is accelerating housing crises
AU - Rogers, Dallas
AU - Power, Emma
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Writing from home lockdown in Sydney, Australia, in our homes on the traditional lands of the Gadigal and Wiradjuri, Darug and Gundungurra people, we are reminded again of the central role of housing in this global pandemic (Rogers & Power, 2020). We have perhaps never needed rigorous housing journals and critically engaged housing scholars as much as we do right now. We are in the midst of a global pandemic wherein the house and home are both key actors and spaces through which to implement change (see Rogers & Power, 2020). Many housing systems around the world are in crisis across almost any analytical category you choose: socio-economics, class, race, gender, generational questions, and the list goes on. There are media reports of a ‘global boom in house prices’ (Curran, 2021, p. 1), with ‘runaway house prices’ and ‘winners and losers’ from the global pandemic (Strauss & Smith, 2021, p. 1). Millennials are reported to have FOMO (i.e., fear of missing out) in a ‘hot housing market’ in New Zealand (Laurent, 2021, p. 1). In the United Kingdom, housing prices have unexpectedly risen during the COVID period (Meen, 2021, p. 1) and in the United States ‘rising housing costs’ are said to ‘leave homebuyers struggling’ (Dougherty & Thrush, 2021, p. 1). Homelessness is predicted to be ‘the next crisis’ (Booker, 2021, p. 1) in both the United States and the United Kingdom (Jayanetti, 2021, p. 1). There is a growing sense that these crises are accelerating not despite the pandemic, but because of it.
AB - Writing from home lockdown in Sydney, Australia, in our homes on the traditional lands of the Gadigal and Wiradjuri, Darug and Gundungurra people, we are reminded again of the central role of housing in this global pandemic (Rogers & Power, 2020). We have perhaps never needed rigorous housing journals and critically engaged housing scholars as much as we do right now. We are in the midst of a global pandemic wherein the house and home are both key actors and spaces through which to implement change (see Rogers & Power, 2020). Many housing systems around the world are in crisis across almost any analytical category you choose: socio-economics, class, race, gender, generational questions, and the list goes on. There are media reports of a ‘global boom in house prices’ (Curran, 2021, p. 1), with ‘runaway house prices’ and ‘winners and losers’ from the global pandemic (Strauss & Smith, 2021, p. 1). Millennials are reported to have FOMO (i.e., fear of missing out) in a ‘hot housing market’ in New Zealand (Laurent, 2021, p. 1). In the United Kingdom, housing prices have unexpectedly risen during the COVID period (Meen, 2021, p. 1) and in the United States ‘rising housing costs’ are said to ‘leave homebuyers struggling’ (Dougherty & Thrush, 2021, p. 1). Homelessness is predicted to be ‘the next crisis’ (Booker, 2021, p. 1) in both the United States and the United Kingdom (Jayanetti, 2021, p. 1). There is a growing sense that these crises are accelerating not despite the pandemic, but because of it.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:74260
U2 - 10.1080/19491247.2021.1957564
DO - 10.1080/19491247.2021.1957564
M3 - Article
SN - 1949-1247
VL - 21
SP - 315
EP - 320
JO - International Journal of Housing Policy
JF - International Journal of Housing Policy
IS - 3
ER -