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This paper considers how dominant narratives of the housing crisis, since the 2008 banking crisis in England, have been created, and what actions taken in its name. The paper deconstructs the term ‘crisis’, highlighting that its meaning has evolved from a critical moment to a protracted narrative which must be understood historically. Through discourse analysis into housing and party political policy, media and think tank reports, we argue that the employment of housing crisis by the government and others perceives it as an outcome of housing supply constraints and over-regulation – narratives that have justified subsequent policy actions aimed at propping up the housing and financial systems, opening new avenues for housing commodification, deregulation and financialisation andreproducing crisis anew. However, we note that these narratives can also breakdown and space can be created for the articulation of new narratives which refocus housing crises as emerging from inequality and class divisions.
Author(s): Heslop J, Ormerod E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Antipode
Year: 2020
Volume: 52
Issue: 1
Pages: 145-163
Print publication date: 01/01/2020
Online publication date: 03/11/2019
Acceptance date: 11/08/2019
Date deposited: 27/08/2019
ISSN (print): 0066-4812
ISSN (electronic): 1467-8330
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12585
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12585
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