Social Housing Systems: Perspective of Ghana, Nigeria, United Kingdom, and Netherland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Gyimah
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing Systems ◽  
Systems Perspective

scholarly journals Central heating settings and heating energy demand in low energy social housing in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 3658-3663
Author(s):  
Adorkor Bruce-Konuah ◽  
Rory V. Jones ◽  
Alba Fuertes ◽  
Pieter de Wilde
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Central Heating ◽  
Heating Energy Demand

scholarly journals Housing systems in the Global South: The relevance of the ‘social housing’ approach in meeting housing needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Vaziri Zadeh ◽  
Frank Moulaert ◽  
Stuart Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Global South ◽  
Housing Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Housing Rights ◽  
Global North ◽  
Housing Needs

This paper addresses the problem of accessing decent and affordable housing in the Global South, where the housing need is, in general, more problematic than in the Global North. The paper first identifies five distinctive characteristics of housing systems in the Global South as compared to those in the Global North. These include: (a) the diverse facets of global financialization; (b) the role of the developmentalist state; (c) the importance of informality; (d) the decisive role of the family; and (e) the rudimentary welfare systems. Given these features, the paper reflects on the concept and practices of social housing, particularly their appropriateness to deal with the housing problem in the Global South. The paper then addresses the question of whether the social housing approach is relevant for solving the contemporary housing needs in the Global South. It argues that social housing, redefined to better encompass the distinctive characteristics of housing systems in the Global South, is indeed a useful policy approach and can play a decisive role in satisfying unmet housing needs. Such an approach needs to take into account the great role of informality and family support systems and develop appropriate funding instruments and modes of institutionalization protecting housing rights and the quality of life.

Introduction: a new housing crisis

Housing Shock ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rory Hearne
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Housing Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Rental Markets ◽  
New Generation

This Chapter details how the Irish housing systems, and housing systems across the world, are experiencing a structural ‘shock’. We are in the midst of an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis. This details the dramatic increase in housing inequalities and exclusion, from the rise in homelessness, mortgage arrears and foreclosures, to the collapse in home-ownership rates and, in particular, the emergence of ‘Generation Rent’ and ‘Generation Stuck at Home’. This new Generation Rent is being locked out of traditional routes to affordable secure housing such as home ownership, social housing and secure low-rent housing. They are being pushed into private rental markets with unaffordable high rents and insecurity of tenure, or forced into hidden homelessness, couchsurfing, sleeping in cars, or pushed back to live with their parents. Ireland has had the largest fall in home ownership rates among European Union (EU) countries in the past three decades. This chapter shows that the current housing situation and crisis is not a temporary blip, but a deep and profound structural crisis that is in danger of becoming a permanent crisis. Our national and global housing systems are in crisis and this is a key juncture.

A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all

Housing Shock ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Rory Hearne
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Housing Systems ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Unitary Model ◽  
The Right

This chapter sets out why the connection between housing and the environment urgently needs to be moved centre stage in both the housing and climate debates. It links climate change and housing together conceptually through the centrality of home to the human existence. It sets out a new housing plan: a Green New Deal for Housing in Ireland which details the key solutions for transforming our housing systems to provide affordable, sustainable homes for all. This includes a new housing plan, A Green New Deal for Housing in Ireland: Affordable Sustainable Homes and Communities for All, including mixed income public housing for all, a dedicated Affordable Sustainable Homes Building Agency, reimagining public housing, transforming social housing from being treated as a stigmatized form of accommodation restricted to very low-income households to becoming a model of desirable housing available and attractive to a much broader range of low- and middle-income households, using public land for public and not-for-profit affordable sustainable homes, how the new housing model can be financed, and why a new housing model should be underpinned by the right to housing as foundation of housing policy and law. It develops indicators for assessing housing models: and compares the market (dualist) model and public, affordable, sustainable, human rights (unitary) model.

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