TY - JOUR

T1 - Does Sharing with Neighbours Work? Accounts of Success and Failure from Two German Housing Experimentations

AU - Huber, Andreas

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 IBF, The Institute for Housing and Urban Research.

PY - 2022/10/20

Y1 - 2022/10/20

N2 - This paper analyses the normalization of everyday sharing practices in two exemplary German neighbourhoods, which both provide numerous opportunities for sharing spaces, stuff, food and mobility carriers, but differ regarding their “philosophy”. The first case belongs to the increasingly popular “collaborative housing” model, the second one is a developer-driven, service-based project. Inspired by core ideas from Social Practice Theory, the guiding questions of this research are then 1) to which extent have sharing practices become a normal part of residents’ lives in these neighbourhoods and 2) what may explain observed differences? Evidence shows that residents in the collaborative housing case share more frequently, more regularly and over longer timespans than their counterparts in the developer-driven neighbourhood. I argue that this is due to a higher share of fitting practice configurations and a better integration of sharing practices into tenants’ typical patterns of everyday life.

AB - This paper analyses the normalization of everyday sharing practices in two exemplary German neighbourhoods, which both provide numerous opportunities for sharing spaces, stuff, food and mobility carriers, but differ regarding their “philosophy”. The first case belongs to the increasingly popular “collaborative housing” model, the second one is a developer-driven, service-based project. Inspired by core ideas from Social Practice Theory, the guiding questions of this research are then 1) to which extent have sharing practices become a normal part of residents’ lives in these neighbourhoods and 2) what may explain observed differences? Evidence shows that residents in the collaborative housing case share more frequently, more regularly and over longer timespans than their counterparts in the developer-driven neighbourhood. I argue that this is due to a higher share of fitting practice configurations and a better integration of sharing practices into tenants’ typical patterns of everyday life.

KW - co-living

KW - collaborative housing

KW - Germany

KW - neighbourhood

KW - Sharing

KW - social practice theory

KW - Sustainability Governance

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/50468edb-6884-3662-bd0a-368eb14fd270/

U2 - 10.1080/14036096.2022.2039286

DO - 10.1080/14036096.2022.2039286

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85125287200

VL - 39

SP - 524

EP - 554

JO - Housing, Theory and Society

JF - Housing, Theory and Society

SN - 1403-6096

IS - 5

ER -