Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209935
P. Watt
Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents (Watt, 2021) emerged out of over a decade of research undertaken in the politically charged, often bewildering world of public/social housing regeneration in london. The book focusses upon estate regeneration schemes that began during the late 1990s to mid-2010s and which involved either partial or complete demolition of existing estates, and their replacement with mixed-tenure neighbourhoods including large numbers of market homes for sale or rent. The book outlines and explains the housing policy and urban policy contexts within which estate regeneration has taken place. However, the book’s central aim is to put residents’ voices centre-stage in terms of understanding how the lengthy regeneration process impacted upon them and their communities over the years and even decades that regeneration unfolded. The main themes that dominate the book occurred routinely at each estate that I researched: resident ambivalence regarding pre-regeneration estates (valuing many aspects of their homes and neighbourhoods, but seeing these same places devalued by factors such as landlord neglect and disinvestment); resident distrust of, and frustration with, the confusing and obfuscatory consultation process; displacement anxiety as residents worried over where and when they would be rehoused; and the morphing of regeneration into physical, social, psychosocial and symbolic ‘degeneration’, including a numbing sense that they were living in a never-ending limbo-land. The estates that I studied were also characterised by several residents actively campaigning against demolition, and such resistance is reflective of the multiple discontents that estate regeneration has given rise to in london. In twenty first century neoliberal academia where competitiveness and the mantra of ‘sorry, no time’ are increasingly the norm, it’s an increasingly https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2209935
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209934
K. Jacobs
In this thoughtful and scholarly book, Paul Watt offers an account of London’s local authority housing policies that is informed mainly by the experiences of council tenants who have been subjected to ‘regeneration’ policies over the period 2007–2019. This period is significant as it included the aftermath of the global financial crisis when local authorities in London struggled to manage government-imposed austerity spending cuts and deliver essential services in housing, education, and aged care. Estate Regeneration and its Discontents consists of three parts: policy analysis and the research context, which critiques longstanding sociological interpretations and the history of regeneration; estates before regeneration which considers the significance of place for residents; and living through regeneration, where Watt explores the views of tenants during the implementation and aftermath of interventions. Watt is in favour of estate regeneration to address the years of under-investment, but he argues that it needs to maintain or increase the public housing stock and preserve neighbourhood sociality. So, for Watt, though the ostensible rationale for estate-based regeneration was to improve the quality of the residualised housing, it also included an architectural design component the estates were deemed not to meet environmental standards and were poorly integrated into the neighbourhood (p. 80). In practice, what eventuated in London was deeply problematic as many of the regeneration interventions were undermined by privatisation policies, austerity spending cuts and restrictive allocation policies. And yet, as Watt explains, when compared to the private rental market, public housing is valued by many tenants, as it is secure and of better quality. As he explains, public housing provided ‘genuinely affordable and secure homes for over a century to an unusual extent by the standards of most major Western cities’ (p. 4). And in the early 1980s almost one in three of all London’s households − 770,000 − lived in public housing. Yet by 2016, the number of households in public housing was only 444,000. In my review I consider Watt’s analysis under three headings: structures of power and inequality; tenant and activist perceptions; and critical research.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2209933
E. Goetz
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.2002660
A. Alexiou, K. Mason, K. Fahy, D. Taylor-Robinson, B. Barr
Abstract Since 2010 there have been large reductions in funding for local government services in England. This has led to reduced income to fund services, such as housing services, that potentially promote health. Housing services expenditure includes spending on housing advice services, homelessness relief and provision of temporary accommodation. During the same period there has been an increase in homelessness and drug related mortality. We carried out an ecological study by linking data on housing services expenditure to deaths from drug and alcohol abuse by local authority in England between 2013 and 2018, to assess whether those areas that experienced a greater decline in spending, also experienced more adverse trends in mortality rates. Our results demonstrate that spending cuts were associated with increased mortality rates due to drug misuse, however, we found no strong evidence of an association with alcohol-specific mortality. This study suggests that reduced fiscal support alongside the introduction of policies that changed how funds are distributed between areas may in part explain the recent adverse trends in drug-related mortality. Since housing expenditure decreased more in the most deprived areas of England compared to less deprived areas, such spending cuts may have contributed to the widening of health inequalities. KEYWORDS Housing services; spending; drug; alcohol; mortality
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2182622
S. Winters, K. van den Broeck
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2023.2178819
Yinxin Su, Mingzhi Hu, Xiaofen Yu
{"title":"Moving up the social ladder: homeownership and expected socioeconomic status among migrant young adults in China","authors":"Yinxin Su, Mingzhi Hu, Xiaofen Yu","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2023.2178819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2178819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90585535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-05DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2153983
Galyna Sukhomud, Vita Shnaider
Abstract The article analyses the war-imbued housing crisis in Ukraine and emergency response to it in the first four months of the full scale Russian invasion as embedded in the wider context of Ukrainian housing politics. As in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe after 1989/91, the Ukrainian housing sphere has been shaped by mass giveaway privatisation, which created a super homeownership regime that is characterised by high expectations towards the state in the support of homeownership. Despite the mass destruction of the war and scale of the displacement, housing politics continues to be shaped by institutional inertia and attempts to resolve the current housing crisis with existing instruments and the support of homeownership. Such an ad-hoc policy approach leaves displaced households without coherent assistance in finding shelter. Only rather sporadic and insufficient options provided by communities at local level and international aid organisations are available. However, while lacking institutional and policy adjustment in the first months of war, the Ukrainian housing sector is changing. Growing importance of renting in the tenure structure and the pressing need to shelter those who lost access to homeownership as a result of war call for the development of a new, more comprehensive, housing strategy.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2147352
Karla Jaques, F. Haigh, Siggi Zapart, M. Beer, Genene Peisley, C. Calalang, M. Thornell, S. Conaty, P. Harris
Abstract The evidence linking human health and housing is overwhelming. However, less focus has been on collaborative action between the sectors to improve health. Focussing on social housing adds an important equity lens to the housing and health partnership literature. Since 2009, a unique formal partnership between a State Health Service, State Social Housing Organisation and a research organisation has existed. The partnership aims to realise potential benefits of integrating health considerations into asset and social planning within the housing sector and to empower residents to lead on outcomes they identify for the community and themselves individually. The partnership has a shared vision of working together to improve the health and wellbeing of social housing communities in one of Australia’s most disadvantaged regions. This paper presents an analysis of over a decade of the partnership work. We present the history of the partnership, overview outcomes to date, and describe key mechanisms and contextual factors that have enabled action. We present our findings using two frameworks, one a practice focussed partnership toolkit and the other a theory informed approach to health focussed governance. Both frameworks enable us to present findings linking the practical successes and challenges of this partnership work with deeper insights from theory.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2164398
K. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl
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Pub Date : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2022.2155339
Louise Crabtree-Hayes
{"title":"Establishing a glossary of community-led housing","authors":"Louise Crabtree-Hayes","doi":"10.1080/19491247.2022.2155339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2022.2155339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47119,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Housing Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88098705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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