JS-63
Housing and School Choices in the Unequal City: Uneasy Trade-Offs, New Combinations and Socio-Spatial Consequences

Abstract Submissions Closed

Wednesday, 28 June 2023: 10:30-12:20
Location: 106 (Melbourne Convention Centre)

RC21 Regional and Urban Development (host committee)
RC04 Sociology of Education

Language: English

Session Type: Oral

In many large cities, access to the housing market and to high-quality schools has become increasingly unequal across socioeconomic groups and urban spaces. Low- and middle-income households are facing growing challenges to access high-performing schools that are concentrated in expensive neighbourhoods. In this context, this joint session explores how housing and school choices are intertwined as well as their broader implications for social inequality in the city. We are especially looking for contributions that address one or more of the following issues. First, we are interested in the nature and the intensity of the trade-offs faced by families with children between housing and schooling. Second, we aim to examine how new patterns of housing and school choices emerge among families to deal with growing affordability constraints on the housing market and school competition. Third, we seek to understand the consequences of housing and school choices in terms of life opportunities, intergenerational mobility, residential trajectories, urban segregation and the transformation of school systems (e.g., privatization, pedagogical practices, governance). Research that discusses how choices and constraints in the housing and educational fields play out differently among different socioeconomic groups and operate at different spatial scales are welcome. We also invite research with strong policy implications that reflects on the contextual and institutional mechanisms that shape the links between housing and school choices (e.g., the configuration of the local housing market, school policies, welfare state arrangements, social stratification). Presentations should focus on large metropolitan areas and can use both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Session Organizers:
Quentin RAMOND, Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies, Pontific Catholic University of Chile, France, quentin.ramond@sciencespo.fr
Marco OBERTI, Observatoire sociologique du changement, Sciences Po, France, marco.oberti@sciences-po.fr