Housing Policy in the UK (Public Policy and Politics)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Housing policies and housing tenures......Page 14
Modernization and change......Page 16
Differences within the UK......Page 20
Policy structures and networks......Page 23
2 The Origins of Housing Policy......Page 26
Housing policy prior to 1915......Page 27
An evolving housing policy: 1915–45......Page 32
A mature housing policy: 1945–79......Page 40
Conclusion......Page 49
3 Housing under the Conservatives, 1979–97......Page 51
The evolution of Conservative housing policies......Page 53
The structure of the housing market......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 75
A new housing policy?......Page 79
Alternatives to housing policy?......Page 86
The return of housing policy......Page 89
A new comprehensive housing policy?......Page 94
Conclusion......Page 98
5 Home Ownership in Transition......Page 100
From renting to owning......Page 101
The role of taxation policies......Page 105
The sale of council houses......Page 106
Affordable housing......Page 115
Conclusions......Page 123
6 Deregulating the Private Rented Sector......Page 125
The policy history......Page 126
Deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s......Page 128
Liverpool: long-term change and the impact of student housing......Page 134
Birmingham: immigration and differentiation......Page 139
Conclusions......Page 140
Governance relationships and ideas......Page 142
New public management, managerialism and modernization......Page 144
Impacts of management reform on social housing......Page 151
Changing role of local authorities......Page 156
Regulation and audit......Page 158
Understanding regulation......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 169
Consumer and producer subsidies: the principles......Page 171
Producer subsidies for council housing......Page 173
Producer subsidies for housing associations......Page 176
Rents and restructuring: harmonizing the local authority and housing association sectors?......Page 181
Housing Benefit: problems and proposals......Page 186
9 Incorporating the Non-Profit Sector......Page 191
Origins and growth of the non-profit sector......Page 192
State, market or third sector?......Page 200
Housing associations in Northern Ireland – voluntary action and state steering......Page 214
The impact of devolution on housing associations in the UK......Page 217
Sector restructuring in England......Page 220
Conclusion: changing relations with the state, market and civil society......Page 223
10 Choice and Control: Social Housing Management and Access to Social Housing......Page 225
Origins and development of housing management......Page 226
The changing tenant profile......Page 230
Consumerism and choice......Page 233
Involving hard to reach groups......Page 240
Choice-based lettings......Page 243
Conclusion......Page 246
Changes in social welfare policies......Page 248
Institutional change and impacts......Page 254
Supporting People......Page 257
Conclusions......Page 263
12 Social Exclusion, Housing and Neighbourhood Renewal......Page 266
Social exclusion and housing......Page 267
Housing tenure and social exclusion......Page 271
New Labour\'s responses to social exclusion......Page 274
Sustainable communities......Page 280
Conclusion......Page 282
13 Private Sector Housing Renewal......Page 285
History of housing renewal in the UK......Page 286
Implementing the regulatory reform order......Page 288
Measures to stimulate borrowing......Page 289
Dealing with private landlords......Page 290
Low and changing demand......Page 291
Changing standards......Page 292
Conclusion......Page 294
Fragmentation and coordination......Page 296
Complexity and change......Page 299
Places, markets and communities......Page 302
Differences within society......Page 304
What next? Complexity and future change......Page 306
References......Page 309
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