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TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative Housing Communities Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - Rethinking governance and mutuality
AU - Izuhara, Misa
AU - Hudson, Jim
AU - Fernandez Arrigoitia, Melissa
AU - West, Karen
AU - Scanlon, Kath
PY - 2023/1/31
Y1 - 2023/1/31
N2 - The national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the prevalence and importance of informal mutual support in neighbourhoods and social networks. Mutual support structures and functions are strong in collaborative housing, in which people often intentionally form resident communities to enhance support practices. Using qualitative methods, this article examines how lockdown restrictions have impacted on practices of mutual support in collaborative housing, when the infrastructures of shared facilities and proximate neighbourliness were challenged. There were ambiguous definitions of ‘households’ associated with collaborative housing communities when interpreting the lockdown rules to provide mutual aid and support. Shared values, commitments and length of time of establishment mattered when operationalising such support. Moreover, the lockdown helped some communities re-evaluate their governance structures, decision-making and the limits of mutual support as they experienced what changing care needs of individual members meant to their communities. It resulted in a more realistic appraisal of their local social capital.
AB - The national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the prevalence and importance of informal mutual support in neighbourhoods and social networks. Mutual support structures and functions are strong in collaborative housing, in which people often intentionally form resident communities to enhance support practices. Using qualitative methods, this article examines how lockdown restrictions have impacted on practices of mutual support in collaborative housing, when the infrastructures of shared facilities and proximate neighbourliness were challenged. There were ambiguous definitions of ‘households’ associated with collaborative housing communities when interpreting the lockdown rules to provide mutual aid and support. Shared values, commitments and length of time of establishment mattered when operationalising such support. Moreover, the lockdown helped some communities re-evaluate their governance structures, decision-making and the limits of mutual support as they experienced what changing care needs of individual members meant to their communities. It resulted in a more realistic appraisal of their local social capital.
KW - Collaborative housing communities
KW - Cohousing
KW - Mutual support
KW - Care
KW - Social capital
KW - Governance
KW - COVID-19
U2 - 10.1080/02673037.2022.2077919
DO - 10.1080/02673037.2022.2077919
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 65
EP - 83
JO - Housing Studies
JF - Housing Studies
SN - 0267-3037
IS - 1
ER -