More volatile, less equal : housing and welfare in 21st century France
(2025) In Housing Studies- Abstract
Contributing to analyses of housing welfare and inequality, this article examines how the territorial circumscription of asset-based welfare policies impact the pattern and trajectory of residential inequality in situ. We look to France, which since the 2000s has used asset-based welfare policies as a tool for rebalancing local territorial cohesion throughout the country. These policies, which once had broad nationwide eligibility, have progressively fragmented into a patchwork of geographically-defined benefits and incentives that seek to catalyze buying and selling in certain places over others. Drawing on aggregated datasets of individual housing transactions, we map how asset-based welfare policies have redrawn the geography of... (More)
Contributing to analyses of housing welfare and inequality, this article examines how the territorial circumscription of asset-based welfare policies impact the pattern and trajectory of residential inequality in situ. We look to France, which since the 2000s has used asset-based welfare policies as a tool for rebalancing local territorial cohesion throughout the country. These policies, which once had broad nationwide eligibility, have progressively fragmented into a patchwork of geographically-defined benefits and incentives that seek to catalyze buying and selling in certain places over others. Drawing on aggregated datasets of individual housing transactions, we map how asset-based welfare policies have redrawn the geography of residential inequality in recent decades. We find a growing bifurcation arising from the reforms: trending at once towards increasingly volatile and unequal outcomes. As this has happened amid explicit governmental efforts to reduce socio-spatial imbalances in the country, we question whether asset-based welfare can meaningfully provide the security and well-being it purports to realize.
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- Le Goix, Renaud ; Kutz, William LU and Ysebaert, Ronan
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- in press
- subject
- keywords
- asset-based welfare, homeownership, inequalities, public policy, vulnerability, wealth
- in
- Housing Studies
- pages
- 27 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105018817364
- ISSN
- 0267-3037
- DOI
- 10.1080/02673037.2025.2565248
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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abstract = {{<p>Contributing to analyses of housing welfare and inequality, this article examines how the territorial circumscription of asset-based welfare policies impact the pattern and trajectory of residential inequality in situ. We look to France, which since the 2000s has used asset-based welfare policies as a tool for rebalancing local territorial cohesion throughout the country. These policies, which once had broad nationwide eligibility, have progressively fragmented into a patchwork of geographically-defined benefits and incentives that seek to catalyze buying and selling in certain places over others. Drawing on aggregated datasets of individual housing transactions, we map how asset-based welfare policies have redrawn the geography of residential inequality in recent decades. We find a growing bifurcation arising from the reforms: trending at once towards increasingly volatile and unequal outcomes. As this has happened amid explicit governmental efforts to reduce socio-spatial imbalances in the country, we question whether asset-based welfare can meaningfully provide the security and well-being it purports to realize.</p>}},
author = {{Le Goix, Renaud and Kutz, William and Ysebaert, Ronan}},
issn = {{0267-3037}},
keywords = {{asset-based welfare; homeownership; inequalities; public policy; vulnerability; wealth}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Taylor & Francis}},
series = {{Housing Studies}},
title = {{More volatile, less equal : housing and welfare in 21st century France}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2025.2565248}},
doi = {{10.1080/02673037.2025.2565248}},
year = {{2025}},
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