Housing Pathways of the “Missing People” of Public Housing and Resettlement Programs
Methodological Reflections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raffael Beier (0000-0001-9772-2293, TU Dortmund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v8i4.7058 |
| OpenAlex | W4386967934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
This article deals with methodological challenges and presents solutions for the study of people who depart from state-subsidized housing in Ethiopia, Morocco, and South Africa. Having sold or rented out their units, these people have left and now live at dispersed locations. Assuming that many “missing people” leave state housing because of project-related shortcomings, studying the reasons for their departure is crucial to understanding standardized housing programs. “Missing people” urge scholars to emphasize the afterlives of housing policy interventions as a necessary analytical dimension. However, such research is confronted with three major methodological challenges: How is it possible to approach and study people who have disappeared from the area of a housing intervention? How can one link exploratory, in-depth qualitative accounts, rooted in subjective perceptions of the everyday, to potential structural deficiencies of standardized housing interventions? What kind of methodologies may help take into account the temporalities of displacement and resettlement? In order to overcome these challenges, the article presents innovative forms of purposive sampling and discusses analytical strategies, which—based on Clapham’s framework of “housing pathways”—bridge relational and structural perspectives to housing programs
Economic growth · Economics · Nonprobability sampling · Political science · Population · Psychological intervention · Public housing · Public relations · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Après le bidonville
Formalization by the State, Re‐Informalization by the People
Rapid urban expansion and the challenge of pro-poor housing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Social Theory of Modern Societies
Marginalised formalisation’
Spanning the spectrum
Storytelling otherwise
Housing Pathways
Displaced but happy? Making sense of shantytown dwellers’ divergent views and experiences of resettlement in Casablanca
Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa
The risk of impoverishment in urban development-induced displacement and resettlement in Ahmedabad
Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective
Thinking cities through elsewhere
Not entirely displacement
The emergence of large-scale housing programs
The Politics of the Evicted
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
Housing in the Urban Age
La rénovation urbaine, entre délogement et relogement. Les effets sociaux de l’éviction
Metro Manila through the gentrification lens
Hybrid gentrification in South Africa
The Last Slum
Participation », accompagnement social et microcrédit logement pour la résorption des bidonvilles au Maroc
Livelihood impacts of displacement and resettlement on informal households - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda
From Visible Informality to Splintered Informalities
Moving up the Ladder or Stuck on the Bottom Rung? Homeownership as a Solution to Poverty in Urban South Africa
Respondent-Driven Sampling
Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in South Africa
Finding the Hidden Participant
(Re)making politics in a new urban Ethiopia
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |