Urban hostels and other precarious housing: The case of the parallel precarious sector in the UK's housing crisis

良好的住房对于繁荣的人类生活至关重要，但住房选择不可避免地受到社会经济条件的推动和限制。在英国，过去十年见证了大约800万人的不稳定和不安全住房的增长（Tunstall 2013, Minton 2017）。学术界对这种所谓的“英国住房危机”的回应涵盖了社会住房供应（Robertson 2016）和负担不起和不合标准的私人住房（Danewid 2019）等问题。然而，最近的评论表明，在报告诸如“酒店化”或“平行”社会住房（Birch 2019； Nowicki和Brickell 2019）和多重占用或“压制”住房（Bramley 2018, 2019）等现象时，研究的新重点。然而，仍然缺乏与这些不稳定住房类型的人的经历进行实质性的定性研究（Heslop和Ormerod 2020； cf Ferreri 2016）。这项研究将关闭上述研究差距不稳定的住房和建立在英国“住房危机”的详细定性案例研究不稳定的住房当前的知识。在此过程中，我使用人种学、访谈和创新的文献分析来研究一种潜在的新型不稳定住房，它以伦敦两家“旅游”旅馆的形式出现，同时为人们提供了半永久性的“租金”。此外，我还探讨了英国社会住房系统和大型国家补贴/私人房东经营的住房设施的住宿加早餐招聘。

Good housing is essential for flourishing human lives but housing options areinevitably enabled and constrained by socio-economic conditions. In the UK thelast decade has witnessed a growth in precarious and insecure housing toaround 8 million people (Tunstall 2013, Minton 2017). The academic responseto this so called 'UK housing crisis' has ranged across issues of social housingprovision (Robertson 2016) and unaffordable and substandard private housing(Danewid 2019). Recent commentary, however, indicates new priorities forresearch in reporting phenomena such as 'hotelised' or 'parallel' social housing(Birch 2019; Nowicki and Brickell 2019) and multiply occupied or 'suppressed'housing (Bramley 2018, 2019). Nevertheless, there remains a lack of qualitativeresearch that engages substantially with the experiences of those in theseprecarious housing types (Heslop and Ormerod 2020; cf Ferreri 2016). Thisresearch will close the aforementioned research gap on precarious housing andbuild on current knowledge of the UK 'housing crisis' in a detailed qualitativecase study of precarious housing. In doing so I use ethnography, interviews andinnovative documentary analysis to examine a potentially new type ofprecarious housing in the shape of two 'tourist' hostels in London that havespontaneously offered sub-market 'rent' for people to live semi-permanently. Inaddition I explore bed and breakfast recruitment by the UK's social housingsystem and a large state subsidised/private landlord run housing facility.