Description
The ongoing crisis of housing has had manifold effects across different European countries, leading to a shortage of affordable housing, changes in social housing systems and more evictions in specific countries after the financial crisis post 2008. This paper will analyze the changes in the housing market in Austria, looking at the degree of (increasing) financialization and the household situation particularly in the current recession. The effects this has on lone parents, mostly women, and how individual households develop coping strategies regarding social reproduction of the household against rising rent and costs of living due to rising energy and food prices will be analyzed from a feminist political economy perspective of the everyday. The research question focuses on how an intersectional perspective of the everyday can grasp the different living conditions in a changing economic environment and what would be needed to safeguard households from income, food and energy poverty.
