The global pandemic is accelerating housing crises

Dallas Rogers, Emma Power

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)315-320
Number of pages6
JournalInternational Journal of Housing Policy
Volume21
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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