Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe

Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe......Page 3
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
The Authors......Page 13
Scope of this book......Page 15
Some basic concepts......Page 17
Structure of this book......Page 24
Bibliography......Page 25
Tenure patterns in southern Europe......Page 29
Countries of home owners......Page 32
One home in two houses: high proportion of secondary homes......Page 46
Housing access, family cycles and residential mobility......Page 53
Production and promotion of housing......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 71
The articulation between urbanisation and industrialisation: the pivotal role of housing......Page 73
Demographic patterns, family and housing......Page 75
Similarity and difference in south European housing processes and urban patterns......Page 79
Welfare systems and institutional complexes......Page 83
Welfare regimes, welfare states and welfare activities......Page 85
Esping-Andersen and welfare regimes......Page 86
Welfare regimes: Groups of countries or ideal-typical construct?......Page 92
Applying the concept of welfare regimes to housing......Page 97
Castles and families of nations......Page 104
Setting the south in a European context......Page 107
Is there a separate southern welfare system?......Page 109
Civil administration, dualistic labour markets and familialism......Page 117
The southern European welfare system......Page 130
Family, tradition and culture......Page 133
Regional specificity in family, housing structures and practices......Page 135
The place of the family in the southern development model and welfare system......Page 141
Demographic parameters and trends......Page 143
Household cycles and housing......Page 145
Family solidarity contextualised or the circumstantial role of the family......Page 155
Family strategies for housing: northern and southern Europe......Page 158
Aggressive and defensive housing strategies......Page 160
New conditions and changing context for family solidarity......Page 165
Conclusion: Family solidarity, housing and social cohesion......Page 169
Concepts......Page 171
Ideologies, political systems and conception of public action in housing......Page 175
Distinctive features of public action in housing in southern Europe......Page 177
Conclusions: public action versus state action......Page 194
7 Conclusions......Page 201
The distinctiveness of southern European housing systems......Page 203
Theorising housing provision: lessons from southern Europe......Page 206
The future of southern housing systems......Page 208
References......Page 213
Index......Page 225