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HOUSING PRECARITY IN RUSSIA: MEASUREMENTS IN REGIONS AND FEDERAL DISTRICTS
2025-07-12 14:34 Housing precarity has become an increasingly prominent issue over the past two decades, attracting sustained attention from researchers across multiple disciplines. While much of the existing work has focused on labor market precarization and the emergence of the precariat as a new social class, similar patterns are also evident in the housing sector, contributing to growing feelings of instability and uncertainty about the future. As a multidimensional phenomenon, housing precarity affects both renters and homeowners in various ways, depending on social and institutional contexts. This article draws on international experience with index-based assessments of housing precarity, particularly ...
HOUSING PRECARITY AS A SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEM. REVIEW OF THE BOOK “PRECARIOUS HOUSING IN EUROPE: A CRITICAL GUIDE” EDITED BY S. MUENCH & A. ZIDE
2025-03-28 14:39 Housing precarity (precarity of housing) is a contemporary problem of insecure/unstable housing situation, which has only recently begun to be widely discussed in scientific circles. The first extensive experience and research results of this multidimensional phenomenon were obtained by European scientists representing various scientific fields. Instability in the labor market, financialization of housing, increased migration processes, the threat of eviction and/or displacement, the development of informal living practices and other factors contributed to the precarization of the housing sphere, the development of a domestic culture of precarity and the formation of the so-called housing pr...
HOUSING PRECARITY IN RUSSIA’S REGIONS AND ITS CONNECTION WITH HOUSING SATISFACTION AND INTENTIONS TO IMPROVE HOUSING CONDITIONS
2025-03-25 17:50 Precarious housing (also known as housing precarity) is a modern scientific concept that describes the instability and vulnerability of housing situations, both for individual households and entire regions. This concept was initially proposed by European scholars in the late 2010s. Measurement methods for assessing the level of precarity have become fundamental for studies in countries where people face challenges related to affordability, security, and quality of housing. This article applies existing methods of measuring housing precarities from Europe, the USA, and Australia in the Russian context. I develop a Regional Housing Precarities Index (RHPI) to evaluate and compare housing situa...
POSSIBILITIES OF THE INDEX METHOD IN MEASURING HOUSING PRECARITY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN APPROACHES
2025-02-05 18:06 The issue of housing affordability is not new for modern economic and sociological research, but in light of the latest global shocks (the spread of coronavirus infection, the growth of various armed conflicts, etc.) it is increasingly beginning to be rethought through the prism of the theory of precarity. However, if in studies of housing precarity, scientists generally agree on the interpretation of this phenomenon (instability, unreliability, uncertainty in the housing situation), then today there is no single approach directly to the methodology for measuring precarity of housing. This problem is brought to the fore within the framework of this article with the aim for the first time to ...
HOW IS A LEAN HOME POSSIBLE? THE ROLE OF FORMAL INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
2024-12-21 14:38 The article proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of the socio-cultural phenomenon of a lean home, notions about which date back to the ideas of Xenophon (“Domostroy”). In contrast to the purely economic approach to frugality, which emphasizes the financial aspect, the focus of this study is lean philosophy, the introduction of which into everyday household practices is possible through the 5S lean production system. At the same time, maintaining the order of things and cleanliness in the house are interpreted from the anthropological position of M. Douglas, while standardization and sustainability are considered within the framework of the institutional paradigm (habitualization of forma...