Interpretation and the theoretical question

Since Jim Kemeny wrote Housing and Social Theory in 1992, the role of theory within housing research has become much more prominent. Kemeny sought to further the theoretical development of housing research (O’Neill 2008) and outlined two requirements: rst, ‘the need consciously to re-integrate housing into broader issues of social structure’, and second, ‘to develop a greater sense of re exivity, by examining more closely the epistemological grounds of what we are doing’ (Kemeny 1992: xvii).