SOC 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cathy Crowe, Housing Tenure, Housing First

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 402
• Professor: H E A T H E R R O L L W A G E N

Document Summary

Renting: affordability, precarity and discrimination, and the social experience. Housing: housing provides, private space that connects us socially and materially to an urban neighbourhood, experience of housing varies by tenure, built form, and neighbourhood. Renting: financial costs: average costs of private market rental housing (canadian real estate board) Renting: precarity and discrimination: protectors for renters, discrimination. They can only raise rent cost once a year, and there is a specified amount of how much it can increase it ranges every year. Rollwagen (2015): renters are constructed as irresponsible, transient: spatial isolation of rental properties. Access to education, public services, transportation, employment, etc: perceptions of (cid:498)renters(cid:499) lacking investment and even criminal this is the ideology of homeownership. Ideology of ownership patterns of thinking and cultural values that construct homeownership as a superior form of housing tenure (ronald, 2004 and. Supports socio-capitalist relations and binds individuals to wage labour.