Neoliberalism in Action
This ideology prioritizes markets, privatization, and deregulation in housing?
What is neoliberalism?
Potts challenges the idea that housing crises are limited to this part of the world.
What is the Global South?
Middle-class homeownership policies appeal to this political stakeholder group.
Who are voters?
If cities treated housing like public transit or water systems, this funding model would likely expand.
What is public investment?
UK policy redefined "affordable housing" as _______% of market price.
What is 80%?
Potts describes housing outcomes in GN and GS cities as increasingly doing this.
What is converging?
Help-to-buy schemes often increase housing __________ rather than affordability.
What are housing prices?
To address the wage–housing mismatch Potts identifies, policy might need to target this system, not just housing supply.
What is the labor market?
Office-to-housing conversions illustrate _________ housing as a consequence of deregulation.
What is indecent housing?
Trailer parks, backyard units, and subdivided flats are examples of __________ housing.
What is informal housing?
Cutting housing benefits while rents rise leads to ______________.
What is displacement?
To prevent overcrowding and unsafe conversions, cities would need to strengthen this instead of deregulating it.
What are building standards?
This condition increases when tenants fear eviction and lack protections.
What is housing insecurity?
Despite convergence, Potts notes that many GS cities are distinguished from GN cities by their scale of ______________.
What is the scale of deprivation?
Governments prioritize asset __________ over renter protections.
What is asset ownership?
An alternative to housing as an investment asset is organizing it around this principle.
What is "housing as a social right?"