I-SPHERE and CHIH seminar with Dr Nadia Ayed and Dr Andrew Clark
The importance of stable housing in social capital development and utilisation: how homelessness undermines reciprocity, recognition, and autonomy.
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 9:00 am - 10:15 am
This seminar, led by I-SPHERE’s Dr Nadia Ayed along with Dr Andrew Clark from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, will explore the notion of social capital in the context of homelessness. Nadia says “We make a case for stable housing being considered a precondition for utilising social capital to ameliorate, rather than exacerbate vulnerability for people experiencing homelessness. We will discuss our framework for conceptualising the relationship between stable housing and social capital. Specifically, we will highlight the crucial role of stable housing in facilitating both the accumulation but also effective use of social capital. Herein we’ll touch upon people’s ability to practice reciprocity, achieve recognition and exercising autonomy (or lack thereof when in the absence of stable housing).”
You can read the article it is based on here – Full article: The importance of stable housing in social capital development and utilisation: how homelessness undermines reciprocity, recognition, and autonomy
