Housing ideology and urban residential change: The rise of co-living in the financialized city

White, Tim and Madden, David 2024. Housing ideology and urban residential change: The rise of co-living in the financialized city. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 10.1177/0308518X241230446

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Abstract

This article develops the concept of housing ideology in order to analyze the rise of co-living. Housing ideology refers to the dominant ideas and knowledge about housing that are used to justify and legitimize the housing system and its place within the broader political economy. Co-living is the term for privately operated, for-profit multiple occupancy rental housing. The article argues that the rise of co-living is supported by four key ideological elements—corporate futurism, technocratic urbanism, market populism and curated collectivism—which serve to legitimize co-living within the housing system and enable its profitability. The ideology of co-living appears to critique many elements of the contemporary urban housing system. But despite its critical self-image, co-living does not represent an alternative to today’s financialized urbanization. Ultimately, the article argues for the importance of understanding the role of housing ideologies in residential change.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1472-3409
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 January 2024
Date of Acceptance:	16 January 2024
Last Modified:	30 Apr 2024 14:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/165848

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