Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness

Hastings, C; Craig, L

Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness

Hastings, C

Craig, L

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Publisher:: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Housing, Theory and Society, 2023, 40, (3), pp. 356-376
Issue Date:: 2023-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hastings, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-8118
dc.contributor.author	Craig, L
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-22T00:52:14Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-22T00:52:14Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Housing, Theory and Society, 2023, 40, (3), pp. 356-376
dc.identifier.issn	1403-6096
dc.identifier.issn	1651-2278
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/177004
dc.description.abstract	In rich-economy countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand women are increasingly experiencing first-time homelessness in older age. Focusing on the specific case of Australia, this article develops a theoretical critical realist causal account of how a gendered role in care and social reproduction has increased contemporary homelessness risk by constraining women’s capacity to build financial security. We show how gender, capitalism and age have intersected as social structures to explain gendered economic outcomes for women over the life course; and how life events, individual women’s experiences, agency, and decision-making interact with these structures to explain homelessness. Women’s gendered financial vulnerability, accumulated whilst living conventional lives, sits at the heart of older women’s susceptibility to housing loss. Limited resources reduce their capacity to respond to crises challenging their housing security within the contemporary context of Australia’s unaffordable housing market.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
dc.relation.ispartof	Housing, Theory and Society
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/14036096.2022.2163513
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1205 Urban and Regional Planning, 1604 Human Geography, 1608 Sociology
dc.subject.classification	Urban & Regional Planning
dc.subject.classification	3304 Urban and regional planning
dc.subject.classification	4407 Policy and administration
dc.subject.classification	4410 Sociology
dc.title	Accumulating Financial Vulnerability, Not Financial Security: Social Reproduction and Older Women’s Homelessness
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	40
utslib.for	1205 Urban and Regional Planning
utslib.for	1604 Human Geography
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pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Professional Practice and Leadership
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dc.date.updated	2024-03-22T00:52:13Z
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Abstract:

In rich-economy countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand women are increasingly experiencing first-time homelessness in older age. Focusing on the specific case of Australia, this article develops a theoretical critical realist causal account of how a gendered role in care and social reproduction has increased contemporary homelessness risk by constraining women’s capacity to build financial security. We show how gender, capitalism and age have intersected as social structures to explain gendered economic outcomes for women over the life course; and how life events, individual women’s experiences, agency, and decision-making interact with these structures to explain homelessness. Women’s gendered financial vulnerability, accumulated whilst living conventional lives, sits at the heart of older women’s susceptibility to housing loss. Limited resources reduce their capacity to respond to crises challenging their housing security within the contemporary context of Australia’s unaffordable housing market.

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