Vacancy, access to housing and micro‑segregation

Abstract

The paper contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between housing oversupply and patterns of socio-spatial inequality. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted between 2016–2019 focused on a central district of Athens, the analysis addresses two entangled issues: the contextual factors that give rise to diverse spatial and temporal patterns of vacancy and their link to existing patterns of segregation, and the reshaping of both in the years following the 2008 crisis. By looking at the micro-geographies of inhabitation, the analysis shows how housing practices built‑in in the local housing regime, growing housing precarity, and emerging reuse dynamics shape the fragmented patterns of vacancy present in central Athens. The paper concludes that the ways in which housing and property regimes are practiced crucially shape access modalities of vacancy and segregation in place. Thereby, stressing the need to place vacancy in broader debates around access to housing and exclusion in cities.

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