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Precarious Housing in Europe (Projekt)
Dozent/in: Sybille Münch
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 12.10.2020 - 29.01.2021 | C 40.255 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Precarious and informal housing is a transnational phenomenon that takes on different forms and affects different target groups across the EU member states and beyond. While it is often discussed with a focus on developing countries, in the face of the housing crisis and growing social and economic polarisation it has become an observable phenomenon in Europe as well. In some Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern member states, governments have tried to variously ignore, prohibit, or legalise these precarious conditions for years, whereas in other regions such conditions are a more recent trend. Currently academics and practitioners observe an increase in precarious housing conditions across Europe. In this context, precarious housing refers to housing that is either unaffordable (high housing costs relative to income) and/or unsuitable (overcrowded and/or in poor dwelling condition), and/or unsafe and/or poorly located (Mallett et al. 2011). An increasing amount of people across Europe live in these undesirable conditions: the economic and financial crisis has led to wage cuts and mounting unemployment, the global banking crisis and bursting of the housing bubble has led to forced evictions in many regions (Barbero 2015), and ongoing austerity measures and the commodification of housing have diminished affordable housing options. The influx of refugees in many member states has aggravated the pressure on many local housing markets. In the face of a lack of short term policy solutions there is evidence that many affected people across Europe have turned to informal settlements, either where housing has been constructed without the requisite permits or legal title for use of the land (OSCE 2005: 2), or squatting, in makeshift tent cities, overcrowded flats or in the form of bed lodgers, when beds are rented out during the day, when the main user is at work. Very often, ethnic minorities, labour migrants from poorer EU member states, and refugees are affected in particular. Leuphana is the coordinator of the PusH – Precarious Housing in Europe Strategic Partnership funded under Erasmus+. There is going to be a summer school on Roma settlements in Bulgaria in summer 2021 and another one on refugee housing in Venice in 2022 that Leuphana students can attend on a scholarship. This „Lehrforschungsprojekt“ hopes to motivate people to engage with housing related issues and take part in the summer schools. Of course this is not meant as a prerequisite!