ABSTRACT

This chapter utilizes housing as a lens to explore women's issues, especially issues emerging from their multiple roles of work, reproduction and care in the post-growth society. The aims of this chapter are two-fold: first, post-growth society is typically a divided society. Second, the chapter investigates to what extent policy rhetoric around housing in the post-growth context is effectively addressing the nation's fertility agenda in relation to reconciling family and work. It examines how post-growth social characteristics have produced new and differentiated processes and outcomes of women in housing situations. The chapter begins with locating women in the family and welfare systems in order to ascertain how the women's housing situations have derived. It explores the link between fertility and housing and how policy attempts to address fertility issues. The chapter concludes the analysis of alternative approaches to address gender issues in housing.