UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

ISA International Housing Conference
 

Conference theme: Housing and the Credit Crunch - International Experiences and Responses

The key theme of the conference is to engage with the current turbulence in the housing finance credit markets and ask what this means for housing outcomes, opportunities and policy-making at different spatial scales (the neighbourhood, city, nation and different international regions), both now and in the future. What does this mean for the role of housing within modern capitalist economies and societies? Does the sub-prime lending debacle and its repercussions imply that housing is now just another globalised commodity or does it in fact remain ineluctably local?

These and related questions will be addressed in plenary, panel and workshop sessions. Our goal is to provide a setting for inclusive, informed multidisciplinary and truly international academic exchange. The conference welcomes papers from all over the world and across the social sciences and will stream a series of thematic and disciplinary parallel sessions that will run throughout, as well as a doctoral session for research students.

The conference welcomes papers on the following themes:

  • Multi-disciplinary accounts of how the crisis came about.
  • The new sociology of housing markets.
  • Housing’s role in the macro-economy, housing wealth and prices.
  • Home ownership after the crunch.
  • Behavioural science, housing markets and policy for home ownership.
  • Housing supply responses: developers, land markets, the brown field agenda.
  • Planning system responses.
  • How is the crisis affecting housing in CEE countries?
  • Personal and household strategies in the housing downturn.
  • Implications of the crash for area regeneration.
  • The sustainability agenda – its pursuit in a housing recession.
  • Financial sector responses: lenders, institutions, insurance, regulation.
  • Housing, social inequalities and class reproduction.
  • The urban impacts of market and housing system restructuring
  • The effects on inequalities between places and neighbourhoods
  • Comparative analysis of housing crises over time and/or between countries
  • Comparative policy and practice innovations and lessons.
  • Different counter-cyclical funding mechanisms in a recession
  • Gentrification in the new market context

Last updated:  5 March 2009