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

• Authors: Myrto Dagkouli - Kyriakoglou
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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?

Keywords

EN

Greece; crisis; housing strategies; family

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Critical Housing Analysis
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 35-45
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Myrto  Dagkouli - Kyriakoglou

• Critical Housing Analysis, redakce,Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/23362839.2018.5.2.441