Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response |
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Authors: | David Ley Alison Mountz Pablo Mendez Loretta Lees Margaret Walton-Roberts Ilse Helbrecht |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia;2. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University;3. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University;4. School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester;5. Department of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin |
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Abstract: | The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re-examining a number of Ley's research projects over this period, three broader themes are explored: the continuity of the housing crisis, and its reconfiguration over the period under study; the contrast between innovative and interventionist housing policy in the 1970s, with the later withdrawal of the state from significant intervention while endorsing market solutions; and the new centrality of housing as an empirical and analytical category in current human geography. This period saw upscaling from the 1970s welfare state to neoliberal globalization, including wealth immigration and off-shore property investment that accelerated serious metropolitan affordability problems. Following this research paper, colleagues and former students respond to the paper and locate the contributions in David Ley's broader career. Their commentaries address Ley's key contributions to debates in human geography, including his work on gentrification, urbanism, urban activism, global migration, art, aesthetics, and ethnography. |
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Keywords: | welfare state gentrification affordability property investment wealth immigration état providence gentrification accès financier au logement investissement immobilier immigration de personnes riches |
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