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J Hous Built Environ ; : 1-17, 2023 Jan 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36624827

ABSTRACT

The housing affordability crisis is one of the most pressing issues in urban centres around the globe, affecting especially young adults. Some theorists have in response begun calling for the provision of more public housing or less housing financialisation (free market). The goal of our article is to demonstrate the housing attitudes of Czech millennials towards state interventions that are designed to address the decline in housing affordability, using a quantitative attitude survey and a series of qualitative interviews. The results of our study reveal that young Czechs are sceptical about increased public housing provision as a solution, and on the whole their views align more with the neoliberal ideas, the very ideas that are criticised by critical theorists. We show that there are contextual reasons that explain why young Czechs are not calling for radical policy change - reasons such as familialism, which facilitates the intergenerational transmission of norms, habitus, and resources within families; the legacy of socialism and society transformation; a belief that more redistribution of resources could be unfair; and stronger support for competition, individualism and right-wing politics. There is also, however, some inconsistency and uncertainty in their attitudes, especially between their general worldview and their suggestions for concrete action. This study contributes to the research in the field of youth studies that looks at young people's strategies for dealing with the problem of decreasing housing affordability, and to the discussions surrounding diverse housing policy responses to a common global challenge.

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Urban Stud ; 49(3): 489-504, 2012.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22500343

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This article examines whether housing tenure and regional differences in housing affordability have an impact on labour mobility. This relationship is important for understanding the sources of structural unemployment and impediments to economic growth. Using two sample surveys from the Czech Republic, this research reveals that at the individual level housing tenure is the most powerful factor determining willingness to change residence for employment reasons. A time-series regression analysis reveals that the impact of housing affordability on observed interregional migration patterns is relatively weak and that this effect is concentrated among the highly educated seeking employment in the capital, Prague. These results demonstrate that housing tenure has a significant impact on labour migration plans in case of unemployment and that the dynamic impact of regional differences in housing affordability on labour mobility is concentrated within the most highly skilled segment of the labour force.


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Housing , Population Dynamics , Social Mobility , Socioeconomic Factors , Czech Republic/ethnology , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Housing/economics , Housing/history , Housing/legislation & jurisprudence , Population Dynamics/history , Public Housing/history , Residence Characteristics/history , Social Mobility/economics , Social Mobility/history , Socioeconomic Factors/history , Transients and Migrants/education , Transients and Migrants/history , Transients and Migrants/legislation & jurisprudence , Transients and Migrants/psychology
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