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Health, Morality and Housing: The Politics of Working Class Housing in Turkey, 1945-1960

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Bariş Alp Özden
Bariş Alp Özden*
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Research Assistant, Yıldız Technical University, Department of Political Science and International Relations, barisozden@gmail.com
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Abstract

Drawing on the insights of the growing critical literature on urban governance and housing policy, this article seeks to analyze the specific field of social reform in Turkey in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, in which housing shortages for working class families were depicted as constituting a new social and moral question. Housing policy was born in the early 1950s, as links were established between external sanitary and moral conditions and the homes of the poor, and as rival parties competed to attract the votes of the growing laboring masses. However, neither the middle class reformers nor the political elite supported direct state intervention to provide social housing for low-income citizens. T h e chosen solution was encouraging home ownership through minimum public subsidies to workers' cooperatives. Yet, cooperatives continued to build largely middle class housing during the period, which was far too costly for workers, while unauthorized land appropriations and squatting became the primary mechanism through which the working poor could be incorporated into the urban fabric.

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Classhousing policyurban governancemoralitysocial reform
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 49 , Fall 2013 , pp. 91 - 120
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2013

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