Wendy Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 389312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9816-4705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Relationality, risks, and workarounds in share-house tenants’ navigation of policy gaps in Australia
In shared housing in the private rental sector (known in Australia as ‘share-housing’), residents are legally and spatially tied together, although their social connections to each other can vary. Previous work has illustrated how housing policy is often not appropriate for share-housing, with rental regulation in particular leaving tenants exposed to a range of risks. However, research has not yet explored how relationships between share-house t…
Administering Australian housing policy
Better futures
Rethinking value
Current debates in housing research and policy often emphasise financial attributes, however housing systems also embody diverse social and environmental values. To advance a holistic understanding of economic and non-economic values, this study examines housing co-operatives, which are collectively managed forms of housing driven by coherent systems of principles. Using Arksey & O’Malley’s structured approach and PRISMA guidelines, 68 peer-revie…
Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing
The Collective Meaning of “Sense of Home
Housing and gardening
There is increasing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening. However, such benefits are not shared equally across groups in the community. It is important from a social justice perspective to understand the contextual factors that influence opportunities to garden, and how they are distributed in society, how well, and to whom. Despite being a primary site in which people garden, little is known about how characteristics of hou…
Housing policy and non-commercial shared housing in the private rental sector
Shared housing in the private rental sector (PRS) is becoming a globally significant household arrangement. However, research indicates that shared housing is associated with problems including financial and housing insecurity. Given the growth of shared housing in the PRS, it is necessary for policy solutions to appropriately address the needs of shared housing renters. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between housing policy and n…
Secure renting by living collectively? A relational exploration of home and homemaking in rental housing cooperatives
In many countries, rental housing is associated with insecure occupant rights and limited control for residents and homeownership is linked with ontological security. In the literature on homemaking, ontological security comprises a set of attributes, i.e., secure occupancy, autonomy and control, but these are often bundled, or treated jointly. In this paper we draw on the lived experiences of residents in Rental Housing Cooperatives (RHC) in Hon…
Diffuse informality
This paper sheds new light on informal-formal renting through the integration of paying rent to families within a ‘modes’ of renting typology framework. While private rental housing has long comprised a mix of informal and formal practices dualistic conceptions of informality and formality are being challenged as housing research explores emergent family and sharing economies alongside financialized and rentier economies. Well-used concepts of pr…
Private renters in shared housing
Lockdowns were the major policy response to COVID-19 containment in many countries, and subsequently many people spent abnormal amounts of time at home. Research has found that housing conditions affected more peoples' mental health during the COVID-19 crisis than prior to it, and vulnerable groups were especially affected. One group that may be particularly vulnerable is private renters in shared housing. Using a socio-economic lens, our researc…
Understanding after-housing disposable income effects on rising inequality
Wealth and income inequalities are rising globally since the 1970s, with detrimental social, economic and environmental effects. The contribution of housing costs to rising inequality is not well understood. In this paper we examine the intersection of tenure, income, generation and geographical factors compounding after-housing income inequality to understand how housing costs impacted on rising economic inequality in Australia since 1993. Analy…
Community response to Covid-19
Home motivations and lived experiences in housing cooperatives and cohousing communities
Research on housing cooperatives and cohousing stems largely from social democratic countries. Contexts with less empirical evidence like liberal economy countries (LEC), studies centre on housing design, governance and time use. Evidence in Hispanic American countries (HAC) is also limited, raising critical questions about our current understanding of housing commons in global south contexts. Furthermore, there is a scarcity of analyses investig…
Accessing green space in Melbourne
Heterogeneity in the subjective well-being impact of access to urban green space
Green space and subjective well-being in the Just City
Green gentrification or gentrified greening
Covid-19
Like the rest of the world, African countries are reeling from the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. The continent’s governments have responded by imposing rigorous lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus. The various lockdown measures are undermining food security, because stay at home orders have among others, threatened food production for a continent that relies heavily on agriculture as the bedrock of the economy. This arti…
Housing and Resilience – When, for Whom and for What? A Critical Agenda
As a concept resilience is proving remarkably...resilient. It has become a keyword used to describe the contemporary urban and environmental condition. However, unlike that other prolific keyword “sustainability”, it lacks both the ethical intent (if not practice) and international agreement of the Brundtland Report directive to seek to balance economic, social and environmental outcomes for the benefit of future generations. Resilience, like con…
The decline of ‘advantageous disadvantage’ in gateway suburbs in Australia
The spatial concentration of recently arrived immigrants in gateway cities and suburbs is usually seen as undesirable by urban academics and policy makers. This paper presents a counter-argument that the concentration of disadvantaged new immigrants in the form of humanitarian refugees and their families can, and does, result in positive outcomes for those groups. In part, our argument is based on making a distinction between people-based disadva…
Chinese migration, consumption, and housing in twenty-first century Australia
International migration has changed the demographics and dynamics of Australia's population since European settlement. It continues to be a principal driver in the growth of its cities, including a projected doubling of major city populations by mid-century. The influence of migrants on metropolitan housing markets-and urban consumption more generally-has been significant, and the socio-spatial influence of migration in Australia has been the foc…
House, home and society
In House, Home and Society, Atkinson and Jacobs deliver a characteristically well-theorized, critical and broad lens of scholarship as they present to readers a case for a sociology of housing. In
Private Rental Housing
Wendy Stone reviews the book 'Private rental housing: comparative perspectives', by Tony Crook & Peter A. Kemp (eds.), published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, 2014
Social Cohesion, Social Capital and Social Exclusion
Interest in the concept of social cohesion has waxed and waned since Durkheim's foundation studies at the end of the 19th century, with the greatest interest being in times of fundamental economic, social and political change. The term is used in at least two different ways: firstly, in a policy context, to indicate the aims of, and rationale for, certain public policy actions; and secondly, as an analytical construct to explain social, political…
Social Cohesion, Social Capital and Social Exclusion
Interest in the concept of social cohesion has waxed and waned since Durkheim's foundation studies at the end of the 19th century, with the greatest interest being in times of fundamental economic, social and political change. The term is used in at least two different ways: firstly, in a policy context, to indicate the aims of, and rationale for, certain public policy actions; and secondly, as an analytical construct to explain social, political…
Green gentrification or gentrified greening
The decline of ‘advantageous disadvantage’ in gateway suburbs in Australia
The spatial concentration of recently arrived immigrants in gateway cities and suburbs is usually seen as undesirable by urban academics and policy makers. This paper presents a counter-argument that the concentration of disadvantaged new immigrants in the form of humanitarian refugees and their families can, and does, result in positive outcomes for those groups. In part, our argument is based on making a distinction between people-based disadva…
Understanding after-housing disposable income effects on rising inequality
Wealth and income inequalities are rising globally since the 1970s, with detrimental social, economic and environmental effects. The contribution of housing costs to rising inequality is not well understood. In this paper we examine the intersection of tenure, income, generation and geographical factors compounding after-housing income inequality to understand how housing costs impacted on rising economic inequality in Australia since 1993. Analy…
Community response to Covid-19
Housing and Resilience – When, for Whom and for What? A Critical Agenda
As a concept resilience is proving remarkably...resilient. It has become a keyword used to describe the contemporary urban and environmental condition. However, unlike that other prolific keyword “sustainability”, it lacks both the ethical intent (if not practice) and international agreement of the Brundtland Report directive to seek to balance economic, social and environmental outcomes for the benefit of future generations. Resilience, like con…
The Collective Meaning of “Sense of Home
Secure renting by living collectively? A relational exploration of home and homemaking in rental housing cooperatives
In many countries, rental housing is associated with insecure occupant rights and limited control for residents and homeownership is linked with ontological security. In the literature on homemaking, ontological security comprises a set of attributes, i.e., secure occupancy, autonomy and control, but these are often bundled, or treated jointly. In this paper we draw on the lived experiences of residents in Rental Housing Cooperatives (RHC) in Hon…
Diffuse informality
This paper sheds new light on informal-formal renting through the integration of paying rent to families within a ‘modes’ of renting typology framework. While private rental housing has long comprised a mix of informal and formal practices dualistic conceptions of informality and formality are being challenged as housing research explores emergent family and sharing economies alongside financialized and rentier economies. Well-used concepts of pr…
Covid-19
Like the rest of the world, African countries are reeling from the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. The continent’s governments have responded by imposing rigorous lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus. The various lockdown measures are undermining food security, because stay at home orders have among others, threatened food production for a continent that relies heavily on agriculture as the bedrock of the economy. This arti…
Chinese migration, consumption, and housing in twenty-first century Australia
International migration has changed the demographics and dynamics of Australia's population since European settlement. It continues to be a principal driver in the growth of its cities, including a projected doubling of major city populations by mid-century. The influence of migrants on metropolitan housing markets-and urban consumption more generally-has been significant, and the socio-spatial influence of migration in Australia has been the foc…
Family change and community life
According to the decline thesis, the changes that have occurred within family life have undermined community life. Using data from a national random survey of Australian adults we explore this claim in the Australian context. We develop a series of hierarchical regression models to examine how non-traditional family forms and values relate to community life, measured through community group membership, trust and reciprocity. Our findings provide …
Fast-mapping in young children with autism spectrum disorders
A longitudinal correlational design was used to examine whether fast-mapping mediates the relationship between attention-following and vocabulary size in a group of 29 young children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Attention-following was measured at the initial visit. Fast-mapping as well as comprehension and production of noun vocabulary were measured six months later. Attention-following had a significant predictive association with …
Family change and community life
According to the decline thesis, the changes that have occurred within family life have undermined community life. Using data from a national random survey of Australian adults we explore this claim in the Australian context. We develop a series of hierarchical regression models to examine how non-traditional family forms and values relate to community life, measured through community group membership, trust and reciprocity. Our findings provide …
Social Cohesion, Social Capital and Social Exclusion
Interest in the concept of social cohesion has waxed and waned since Durkheim's foundation studies at the end of the 19th century, with the greatest interest being in times of fundamental economic, social and political change. The term is used in at least two different ways: firstly, in a policy context, to indicate the aims of, and rationale for, certain public policy actions; and secondly, as an analytical construct to explain social, political…
Private Rental Housing
Wendy Stone reviews the book 'Private rental housing: comparative perspectives', by Tony Crook & Peter A. Kemp (eds.), published by Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, MA, 2014
House, home and society
In House, Home and Society, Atkinson and Jacobs deliver a characteristically well-theorized, critical and broad lens of scholarship as they present to readers a case for a sociology of housing. In
Housing and Resilience – When, for Whom and for What? A Critical Agenda
As a concept resilience is proving remarkably...resilient. It has become a keyword used to describe the contemporary urban and environmental condition. However, unlike that other prolific keyword “sustainability”, it lacks both the ethical intent (if not practice) and international agreement of the Brundtland Report directive to seek to balance economic, social and environmental outcomes for the benefit of future generations. Resilience, like con…
The decline of ‘advantageous disadvantage’ in gateway suburbs in Australia
The spatial concentration of recently arrived immigrants in gateway cities and suburbs is usually seen as undesirable by urban academics and policy makers. This paper presents a counter-argument that the concentration of disadvantaged new immigrants in the form of humanitarian refugees and their families can, and does, result in positive outcomes for those groups. In part, our argument is based on making a distinction between people-based disadva…
Chinese migration, consumption, and housing in twenty-first century Australia
International migration has changed the demographics and dynamics of Australia's population since European settlement. It continues to be a principal driver in the growth of its cities, including a projected doubling of major city populations by mid-century. The influence of migrants on metropolitan housing markets-and urban consumption more generally-has been significant, and the socio-spatial influence of migration in Australia has been the foc…
Accessing green space in Melbourne
Heterogeneity in the subjective well-being impact of access to urban green space
Green space and subjective well-being in the Just City
Green gentrification or gentrified greening
Covid-19
Like the rest of the world, African countries are reeling from the health, economic and social effects of COVID-19. The continent’s governments have responded by imposing rigorous lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus. The various lockdown measures are undermining food security, because stay at home orders have among others, threatened food production for a continent that relies heavily on agriculture as the bedrock of the economy. This arti…
Home motivations and lived experiences in housing cooperatives and cohousing communities
Research on housing cooperatives and cohousing stems largely from social democratic countries. Contexts with less empirical evidence like liberal economy countries (LEC), studies centre on housing design, governance and time use. Evidence in Hispanic American countries (HAC) is also limited, raising critical questions about our current understanding of housing commons in global south contexts. Furthermore, there is a scarcity of analyses investig…
Private renters in shared housing
Lockdowns were the major policy response to COVID-19 containment in many countries, and subsequently many people spent abnormal amounts of time at home. Research has found that housing conditions affected more peoples' mental health during the COVID-19 crisis than prior to it, and vulnerable groups were especially affected. One group that may be particularly vulnerable is private renters in shared housing. Using a socio-economic lens, our researc…
Understanding after-housing disposable income effects on rising inequality
Wealth and income inequalities are rising globally since the 1970s, with detrimental social, economic and environmental effects. The contribution of housing costs to rising inequality is not well understood. In this paper we examine the intersection of tenure, income, generation and geographical factors compounding after-housing income inequality to understand how housing costs impacted on rising economic inequality in Australia since 1993. Analy…
Community response to Covid-19
Housing and gardening
There is increasing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening. However, such benefits are not shared equally across groups in the community. It is important from a social justice perspective to understand the contextual factors that influence opportunities to garden, and how they are distributed in society, how well, and to whom. Despite being a primary site in which people garden, little is known about how characteristics of hou…
Housing policy and non-commercial shared housing in the private rental sector
Shared housing in the private rental sector (PRS) is becoming a globally significant household arrangement. However, research indicates that shared housing is associated with problems including financial and housing insecurity. Given the growth of shared housing in the PRS, it is necessary for policy solutions to appropriately address the needs of shared housing renters. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between housing policy and n…
Secure renting by living collectively? A relational exploration of home and homemaking in rental housing cooperatives
In many countries, rental housing is associated with insecure occupant rights and limited control for residents and homeownership is linked with ontological security. In the literature on homemaking, ontological security comprises a set of attributes, i.e., secure occupancy, autonomy and control, but these are often bundled, or treated jointly. In this paper we draw on the lived experiences of residents in Rental Housing Cooperatives (RHC) in Hon…
Diffuse informality
This paper sheds new light on informal-formal renting through the integration of paying rent to families within a ‘modes’ of renting typology framework. While private rental housing has long comprised a mix of informal and formal practices dualistic conceptions of informality and formality are being challenged as housing research explores emergent family and sharing economies alongside financialized and rentier economies. Well-used concepts of pr…
Understanding Housing Justice in Shared Housing
The Collective Meaning of “Sense of Home
Relationality, risks, and workarounds in share-house tenants’ navigation of policy gaps in Australia
In shared housing in the private rental sector (known in Australia as ‘share-housing’), residents are legally and spatially tied together, although their social connections to each other can vary. Previous work has illustrated how housing policy is often not appropriate for share-housing, with rental regulation in particular leaving tenants exposed to a range of risks. However, research has not yet explored how relationships between share-house t…
Administering Australian housing policy
Economics (16 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives (6 works) · Law (6 works)