ABSTRACT
The housing crisis that is evident in many parts of the world today is strongly associated with a neo-liberal market model. Moreover, neo-liberal state sponsorship of a dominant system of housing (owner occupation) ripples out in a myriad ways to lock the respective society into a homogenous material cultural landscape. Consequently, debates on ‘housing’ should also highlight the wider implications of inadequate supply and unaffordable demand to acknowledge implications for social justice, energy resilience and ecological sustainability (Seyfang 2010). This argument is similar to the way that transport scholars have begun to fundamentally critique the dominant system of ‘automobility’ and its negative toll on diverse aspects of life, including friendship, childhood, health, air quality and climate change (Jarvis, Kantor, and Cloke 2009, 157).
