Mobilities of Disadvantage

The Housing Pathways of Low-income Australians

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10859494
AutoresIlan Wiesel (0000-0002-7244-1775, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume51
Fascículo2
Páginas319-334
Data de publicação2014-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098013489739
OpenAlexW2107656898
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas39
Referências citadas12

Mobility is often overlooked in debates about spatial disadvantage, which tend to focus on place. In this paper, the focus is on residential mobility and the ways in which it derives from, and contributes to, processes of social disadvantage. Building on David Clapham’s concept of ‘housing pathways’, mobility-based disadvantage is analysed with a focus on questions of housing quality, control over residential moves and accumulation of economic, social and cultural capital through such moves. These themes are considered in an empirical study of the housing pathways of sixty low-income households in Australia, through which four typical patterns are identified as ‘mobilities of disadvantage’: hectic private rental pathways; pathways of homelessness; pathways out of homeownership; and, repeat moves in and out of social housing. These pathways represent one neglected aspect of the ‘unfair structure’ of the Australian city, as a network of pathways rather than a mosaic of places

Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Economic geography · Economics · Focus (optics · Mobilities · Political science · Rental housing · Renting · Social science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies