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**FINAL CfP - deadline Friday 12th February** Reframing the Housing Question as Crisis? RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31st August - 2nd September 2016 Planning and Environmental Research Group (PERG) Sponsored Session CFP Convenors: Emma Ormerod and Julia Heslop (University of Durham) This session seeks to explore different conceptualisations of the current ‘housing crisis’ and its relationship to the ever present ‘housing question’ (Engels, 1872 [1970]) by critically questioning how crisis is produced, framed and used by different actors. According to Harvey (1978) crises are the ‘irrational rationalizers’ within the capitalist mode of production, called into being by financial institutions and the state; crisis therefore becomes a tool for state intervention as well as a mechanism to “unblock and expand the market” (Hodkinson and Robbins, 2012:59). The framing of the housing crisis has been constituted by different groups for different ends: one the one hand, crisis is used as an active tool to further advance homeownership and ‘predatory’ (Glynn, 2009:33) processes of capital accumulation, and on the other hand, it is perceived in terms of growing precarity and inequality (for example unequal distribution, poor conditions and unaffordability) (Dorling, 2014). There is also an acceptance that the housing market is so tightly bound to national economic stability, as well as to personal finance that the preservation of it has become a big political concern. These conditions raise a number of questions which we seek to consider in this session: - How does the on-going 'housing question' relate to the current 'housing crisis'? - A crisis for who? What groups does it encompass and what are the lived experiences of this? - How has the housing crisis been produced, named and framed by specific groups (for example, the state, the third/charitable sector, housing providers, developers, the media, the political class)? - How does the housing crisis relate to a broader transition of the state under a neoliberal austerity agenda? - What solutions to housing crisis are being offered? What are their effects? - How is the housing crisis mitigated or exacerbated through housing policy (for example the 2015/16 Housing and Planning Bill)? - How does the housing crisis relate to broader questions of housing inequality and exclusion? - How might we combine theories of crisis and those of housing? We invite papers that explore these questions, but may not be limited to them. Please email abstracts of 250 words maximum to Julia Heslop [log in to unmask]<https://owa.dur.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=CmMVFTGzQhG43x2Fkj4nGX1xDdGN4qe0vy8qXYs-vRf7lbTJJjLTCAFodHRwczovL293YS5kdXIuYWMudWsvb3dhL3JlZGlyLmFzcHg_UkVGPVczWGRZQXRCeFVfS0NRMS1uZTFuQlFyaG1qZzJHN1JRcHY4ak9CaFBNTXdfdVY5dzV5clRDQUZvZEhSd2N6b3ZMMjkzWVM1a2RYSXVZV011ZFdzdmIzZGhMM0psWkdseUxtRnpjSGdfVWtWR1BXYzNaMUZ5U25kR016RXhUR1EyVGs5TU1tUkdWVzAxTFd0SlpFUm9Nazl1UjBJNGVGTnpZa0Z1WDBkeVYzSlJXRGxDWDFSRFFVWjBXVmRzYzJSSE9EWmhhVFZ2VEcxb2JHTXllSFpqUlVKclpGaEtiMWxYTUhWWlYwMTFaRmR6TGcuLg..> and Emma Ormerod [log in to unmask]<https://owa.dur.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=Yz5-J2P19_DzjNW1_ItOzN9VW2B_bj8cxUs6lfTmBwP7lbTJJjLTCAFodHRwczovL293YS5kdXIuYWMudWsvb3dhL3JlZGlyLmFzcHg_UkVGPTNKaGNRdy11NHNxRVUzU2R4TS1CaUtKN1pDWDlZUjBLT1FfMjFjdnJvQ0lfdVY5dzV5clRDQUZvZEhSd2N6b3ZMMjkzWVM1a2RYSXVZV011ZFdzdmIzZGhMM0psWkdseUxtRnpjSGdfVWtWR1BVbGpRbVptYmprNWMwNURSRWwzY1dGNVZWVkpaRjlXTlhaTFpIVXdaVGRMY0ZKeU4xOXJXRTFSZERaeVYzSlJXRGxDWDFSRFFVWjBXVmRzYzJSSE9EWmFWekYwV1ZNMWRtTnRNV3hqYlRsclVVZFNNV050YUdoaVV6Vm9XWGsxTVdGM0xpNC4.> by Friday 12th February, 5pm References Dorling, D. (2014) All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster, St Ives: Penguin Books Engels, F. (1872) The Housing Question, Reprint, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970. Glynn, S. (2009) Where the other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World, London: Pluto Press Harvey, D. (1978) ‘The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 2(1): 101-131 Emma Ormerod PhD Researcher Department of Geography Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE