“Limits of the Kemeny’s Housing Regime Theory” A Comment to Stephens’ Paper

ABSTRACT

The comments to Stephens’ crucial overview of Kemeny’s regime theory, discuss two issues. Firstly, the embeddedness of housing in the political and economic system and its narrowed interpretation. Secondly, the analysis of the socialist and the housing systems of the new EU member states based on Kemeny’s approach, which I consider to have low explanatory power and inadequate interpretation of the facts.

KEYWORDS:

• Housing regime
• post-socialist housing systems
• housing privatization

This article refers to:

How Housing Systems are Changing and Why: A Critique of Kemeny’s Theory of Housing Regimes

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Towards a Multi-layered Housing Regime Framework: Responses to Commentators

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