The ongoing role of family in the provision of housing in Greece during the greek crisis

Title:

The ongoing role of family in the provision of housing in Greece during the greek crisis

Creator:

Dagkouli - Kyriakoglou, Myrto

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:fe1688c9-e62b-4bb9-9ba2-16d9f6910b85
uuid:fe1688c9-e62b-4bb9-9ba2-16d9f6910b85
doi:10.13060/23362839.2018.5.2.441

Subject:

Greece, crisis, housing strategies, and family

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

Description:

The importance of the institution of family in housing practices has deep historical roots in Greece, and families tend to follow certain housing strategies such as late emancipation from the parental home, intergenerational house transfers and financial support for housing. Providing and maintaining a housing solution for young members is one of the top worries in this geographical region, and it is relieved via intergenerational micro-solidarities. Moreover, today’s crisis and austerity are threatening, through indirect budgetary cuts and rising taxation, the housing well-being of the citizenry which is supported only by family welfare. Nonetheless, the family still constitutes the main shock absorber of social and economic turbulence, but at what price?

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Critical Housing Analysis | 2018 Volume:5 | Number:2

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CDK

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