scholarly journals Non-financial goals of municipal Social Housing Associations in managing the communal housing system

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Michał Dziadkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Communal Housing

Private Sector Criteria and the Radical Change in Provision of Social Housing in England

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Pryke ◽  
C Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Private Finance ◽  
Sector Funds ◽  
Selection Of

The 1988 Housing Act signalled substantial changes in the provision of social housing in England. The act places housing associations at the centre of social housing provision. Moreover, their role as the main providers of social housing depends, in line with government intentions, on the greater use of private finance, as the proportion of public sector funds declines. The introduction of what amounts to a new regime for social housing provision in England has effectively changed the agenda of provision from one informed by public sector thinking to one established around private sector criteria. Housing associations have thus had to readjust quickly to an environment in which they are now exposed to a variety of interrelated risks. In order to manage such risks, associations have had to reorganise internally and to reevaluate their priorities. Against this background, this paper is aimed, first, at reporting on how a selection of case-study associations active across the main regions of England have faced up to the challenges that the new environment presents, and, second, at presenting the views of a selection of private sector financial institutions about their perceptions of social housing as an investment medium, the types of risk they view as characteristic of this sector, and their response to the efforts made by associations to manage the risks of social housing provision. The paper is concluded by setting out the likely shape that social housing provision will take in the immediate future.

The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation

Housing Shock ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Rory Hearne
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Rental Sector ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Housing Assistance ◽  
Main Form ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Lost Decade ◽  
Housing Benefit

This chapter outlines the ‘lost decade’ of social housing provision in Ireland: the austerity and marketisation policies that resulted in the collapse of social housing building from 2009 to 2019. It shows how austerity measures involved an intensification of the ongoing neoliberal shift from the direct building of social housing by local authorities to the marketisation of social housing provision through the private sector. The forms of marketisation are detailed including the increased use of the private rental sector for social housing (via subsidies and leasing), but also the purchasing of units from the private market. It details how from 2010 onwards, the provision of social housing via subsidies to the private rental sector almost entirely replaced direct building of social housing. This includes the Governments housing plan, Rebuilding Ireland which embedded marketisation and austerity, by using the housing benefit - the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) as the main form of housing provision. It details how HAP and other private market forms of social housing provision worsens the housing supply crisis, is poor value for money, results in tenant insecurity and discrimination, and facilitates the financialisation of housing. And how this is one of the main reasons the Irish housing system suffered such a major shock with the emergence of a new homelessness crisis in 2013.

Bending the ‘Third Arm’: politicians and housing associations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Lund
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right To Buy

This chapter examines political attitudes to housing associations, regarded in the 1970s as housing’s third arm. It explores the politics involved in the changing fortunes of housing associations from the preferred mechanism for producing social housing in the late 19th and early 20th century to a niche role in the 1950s and 1960s followed by a leading role in social housing supply from the 1970s, with housing association diversity appealing to different parties for different reasons. Internal housing association politics, stock transfer from local government and the changing nature of housing associations are reviewed culminating in an exploration of the politics entailed in the Conservative Party’s 2015 manifesto commitment to extend the Right to Buy to housing association tenants.

scholarly journals Affordability for Housing Association Tenants. A Key Issue for British Social Housing Policy

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ade Kearns
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The Political ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Expenditure Patterns ◽  
Standards Of Living

ABSTRACTAs a result of changes to the financial regime for housing associations, affordability has become a major issue of debate in social rented housing in Britain. This paper assesses the implications of trying to construct a finance system for housing associations based on a regime of ‘affordable rents’ and the ‘safety net’ of Housing Benefits but with the state declining to define the central concept of affordability. Using examples of a number of Western countries, and empirical evidence from the sector in Scotland, the present position is criticised, and a route out of the policy vacuum is suggested. This is founded on the premise that housing is a means rather than an end, within a broader social policy. Given the political constraints, one solution lies in studies of the expenditure patterns and standards of living of different groups of housing association tenants, and in the creation of a sector-specific organisational subsidy to be available in addition to the usual producer- and consumer-subsidies.

scholarly journals Living with Quality: Strategies for Transferring Social Housing Development to After-war Syria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatice Kalfaoğlu Hatipoğlu ◽  
◽  
Shurouk Mohammad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Comparative Evaluation ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Housing System ◽  
General Context ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Strategic Goal

Obtaining a home in Syria has been an equivalent to a strategic goal around which the life of the Syrian citizen revolves. Housing was one of the problematic crises before the war, which accelerated due to the war. Moreover, this turned into a humanitarian disaster, and the situation has become more urgent and requires immediate treatment. The solution of this demolition is not limited to an easy rebuilding and needs a more sustainable and qualified policy in order to prevent to turn back to the existing crisis before the war. This paper focuses on finding an appropriate strategy to respond to the housing crisis in Syria in the light of successful implementations of social housing. In order to achieve that, after a literature review of the general context of social housing, the Singapore social housing experience has been analyzed. Considering the housing problems and implementations in Syria (before and after the war) in a comparative evaluation with the Singapore experience, some strategies have been suggested, along with discussing the transfer of this experience to the Syrian context. Although applying a social housing system in a country that has had a failed experiment is not an easy task, the study proposes a list of recommendations for developing a social housing strategy based on a clear legal framework which also provides a base for social housing. In addition to defining all the criteria related to social housing, such as the target groups, the type of housing, the available financing methods, and focusing on urban planning and architecture for the importance of their role in creating a peaceful coexistence in the conflicting societies.

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