Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings: What Is Happening to Housing?

doi:10.46692/9781529243871

Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings

What Is Happening to Housing?

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Edited by Kelly Greenop, University of Queensland, Johanna Brugman Alvarez, University of Auckland

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781529243871
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529243871

Subjects:: Art, Geography, Planning and Urban Geography, Architecture

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This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types. Chapters offer fresh insights into how housing affects wellbeing in terms of physical and mental health, identity and participation in communities.

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Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings

What Is Happening to Housing?

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures and Tables
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Introduction: What Is Happening to Housing? Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Well-being in Diverse Global Settings
pp 1-8

1 - Aboriginal Social Housing in Remote Australia: Crowded, Unrepaired and Raising the Risk of Infectious Diseases
pp 9-42

2 - Reply to Memmott et al: It is Time for Healthy Living Priorities to be Integrated into Indigenous Housing Policy and Practice
pp 43-47

3 - Informal Housing and Residents’ Well-being in Caracas and Sydney: A Comparative Study of Residents’ Experiences
pp 48-70

4 - Reply to Gabriela Quintana Vigiola: Informal Housing Residents’ Well-being in Cities of the Global North and South
pp 71-75

5 - Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums
pp 76-117

6 - Reply to Mark L.G. Jones: Tenure Security, Housing Quality and Energy (In)justice in Dhaka’s Slums
pp 118-121

7 - COVID-19 and Precarious Housing: Paying Guest Accommodation in a Metropolitan Indian City
pp 122-147

8 - Reply to Raju Marella et al: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tenants and Operators in Marginal Housing Forms
pp 148-151

9 - Empowerment Through Design? Housing Cooperatives for Women in Montreal
pp 152-184

10 - Housing Temporalities: State Narratives and Precarity in the Global South
pp 185-207

11 - Reply to Lall: Foregrounding Livelihood and Mobility in the Struggle for Pro-Poor Urban Housing
pp 208-211

12 - Reply to Lall: Housing Temporalities of the Aspiring Global City
pp 212-215

13 - The Attributes of Social Resilience: Understanding Refugees’ Housing Choices
pp 216-238

14 - Reply to Perugia: Social Resilience and Refugee Housing: Questioning the Shift in Responsibility for Settlement
pp 239-243

Index
pp 244-252

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