Housing, family, and life-course in post-growth Japan

• Hirayama, Yosuke

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Housing, family, and life‐course in post‐growth Japan

Abstract

The state-guided housing system in Japan during the "post-war growth period" has consistently driven the expansion of the family-owned housing sector, in association with an increase in independent nuclear households. Nevertheless, Japan entered a "post-growth era" in the 1990s, characterized by a more precarious economy, aging population, and policy shifts toward a more neoliberal course. People's housing paths have since noticeably diverged, in relation to both individualization and familization in life-courses. However, government housing policy has remained directed toward family home ownership while excluding unmarried individuals, one-person households, and renter households. This is beginning to widen social inequalities. Using the case of post-growth Japan, this study focuses on the roles that individualization and familization play in reshaping housing paths, and examines the extent to which home-owning societies centered on conventional nuclear households are sustainable.

Journal

• Japan Architectural Review

  Japan Architectural Review 4 (2), 267-276, 2021-04

  Wiley

Keywords

• familization
• home ownership
• individualization
• life-course
• post-growth

Details

• CRID: 1050294045368441472
• NII Article ID: 120007052642
• DOI: 10.1002/2475-8876.12216
• ISSN: 24758876
• HANDLE: 20.500.14094/90008351
• Web Site: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2475-8876.12216
• Web Site: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/2475-8876.12216
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
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