Individualisation and familisation in Japan’s home-owning democracy
Individualisation and familisation in Japan’s home-owning democracy
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日本拥有住房的民主中的个性化和家庭化
DOI:
10.1080/14616718.2015.1089730
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Yosuke Hirayama
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作者:
中川悠;徳永智春;佐々木勝寛;山本剛久;平山洋介;平山洋介;平山洋介;平山洋介;平山洋介;平山洋介;Yosuke Hirayama
Japan's post-war housing system has been dominated by family-owned housing. However, the centrality of family home ownership has declined since the 1990s. Housing careers and family formation patterns have diverged leading to the re-organisation of boundaries separating owning and renting. Using Japan as a focus, this paper explores the role of individualisation and familisation in transforming homeowner societies. On one hand, the individualisation of younger generations in Japan has encouraged a notable increase in one-person households living in private rented housing. On the other hand, a growing number of young households have purchased houses with assistance from their parents. This has been interpreted as an intergenerational familisation of access to home ownership. There is also an increasing number of unmarried adults living in their parents’ homes, which reflects the individualisation of younger cohorts and simultaneously the familisation of adult children's early housing careers. Moreover, it has recently been pointed out that Japan's system of extended family households and the related practice of transferring family properties across generations, has not declined. This paper argues that individualisation and familisation are combining to reorganise the ‘edges’ of home ownership, by helping determine who can enter owner-occupied housing sectors, and who is excluded.