Public housing and neoliberal policy in Japan

Abstract

In many developed countries, postwar housing systems have included measures to provide social rented housing, playing an important role in improving the housing conditions of low-income groups. Over the past three decades, however, within the context of pervasive neoliberalism, governments have increasingly reoriented housing policies towards facilitating the production and consumption of market-based housing. This has led to the expansion of home ownership with reductions in the availability of social rented housing. Various societies are now beginning to experience new phases of housing situations with a decline in low-income housing.