Innovations in Gearing the Housing Market to Welfare Recipients in Osaka’s Inner City

A Resilient Strategy

Bibliographic Data

ID12633339
AuthorsJohannes Kiener (0000-0001-7203-8348, Urban-Culture Research Center, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, corresponding author), Geerhardt Kornatowski (0000-0002-3699-4655, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan), Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan)
Year2018
Pages1-22
Publication date2018-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHousing Theory and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14036096.2018.1481141
OpenAlexW2808227260
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited26

For this paper we apply the framework of resilience as an adaptive process to examine alternative practices that assist socially vulnerable populations into the urban fabrik. The recent direction of Osaka’s inner city rental housing market for public assistance recipients is used as case study. We look on systemic aspects such as changing tenant revenues and welfare policies, and analyze the innovative housing reuse practices of local landlords and real estate agents. Our results show that the resilience-producing systemic properties are co-produced by public assitance policies, the particular condition of Osaka’s inner city and individual stakeholders' actions. While these stakeholders have benefited immensely from the housing market’s resilient response, it is structured by uneven dependencies, which ultimately affects the housing opportunities and care services for current and future tenants

Business · Economic growth · Economics · General partnership · Inner city · Market economy · Process (computing · Psychological resilience · Public economics · Public housing · Real estate · Rental housing · Renting · Resilience (materials science · Socioeconomics · Welfare · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Regional resilience and development · Urbanization and City Planning · Finance

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