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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071312-145611
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Housing: Commodity versus Right

Mary Pattillo

Commodity
Apartment
Renting
2013
The study of housing has a long history in sociology, but since the 1960s, it has been relatively hidden in a number of sociological subfields and scattered across a range of disciplines. The financial crisis of 2008 elevated housing issues to the level of national and international debate and protest, and it offers a framework for organizing the scholarship on housing into that which studies housing as a commodity, on one hand, and as a right, on the other. In the former category, I review the literature on mortgage financing; property values and wealth; and affordable rental housing, foreclosures, and evictions. In the latter category, I discuss the theoretical arguments for a right to housing and review the research on activist demands for that right. The tension between these two aspects of housing is discussed throughout. I conclude by proposing the actual home or apartment as a productive area for new sociological analysis.
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