Housing Policy Analysis British Housing in

Taking a policy analysis approach to housing and drawing from the burgeoning comparative literature, this textbook provides a systematic re-evaluation of the nature of British housing that challenges the orthodox "home-owning society" view whereby Britain is seen as marking a norm. Building up from basic concepts in policy analysis, the book reinterprets the UK housing system in a manner which is sensitive to the specific historical and cultural origins and development of British policy and society. As such, the text offers both an important and cutting-edge evaluation of British housing and a case study in applied social policy analysis.

Stuart Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York.

List of Figures and Tables

viii

Preface and Acknowledgements

x

1 Housing Policy Analysis

1

(33)

Introduction

1

(2)

Themes and leitmotifs

3

(4)

The structure of the book

7

(3)

The policy analysis approach

10

(6)

The boundaries of policy

16

(11)

Policy networks and implementation analysis

27

(5)

Conclusion

32

(1)

Further reading

33

(1)

2 The New Governance of Housing

34

(32)

Introduction

34

(1)

The origins of new governance

35

(6)

The new governance of housing

41

(18)

Other governance issues

59

(5)

Conclusion

64

(1)

Further reading

65

(1)

3 Housing, Home and Society

66

(25)

Introduction

66

(1)

Home and self-identity

67

(6)

Home and domestic culture

73

(6)

The twentieth-century experience of home

79

(9)

Conclusion

88

(2)

Further reading

90

(1)

4 Housing Need

91

(29)

Introduction

91

(3)

The definition of housing need

94

(6)

Measuring housing need

100

(5)

The national housing needs models

105

(7)

Delivery of the housing programme

112

(6)

Conclusion

118

(1)

Further reading

119

(1)

5 Housing and Social Exclusion

120

(36)

Introduction

120

(1)

Agenda control and social exclusion

121

(3)

Case study 1: low demand

124

(10)

Case study 2: homelessness

134

(19)

Conclusion

153

(2)

Further reading

155

(1)

6 Tenure Re-Structuring

156

(31)

Introduction

156

(5)

The origins of housing policy

161

(6)

The inter-war years

167

(8)

The consequences of the Second World War

175

(10)

Conclusion

185

(1)

Further reading

186

(1)

7 The Sustainability of Home Ownership

187

(30)

Introduction

187

(1)

The sustainability of home ownership

188

(8)

Low-income homeowners

196

(3)

New patterns of insecurity

199

(5)

Home ownership as a source of wealth

204

(7)

Home owning and welfare state re-structuring

211

(3)

Conclusion

214

(2)

Further reading

216

(1)

8 The Residualization of Rental Housing

217

(29)

Introduction

217

(2)

The changing face of the private rented sector

219

(19)

The social housing sector

238

(6)

Conclusion

244

(1)

Further reading

245

(1)

9 Comparative Housing

246

(33)

Introduction

246

(1)

Schools of comparative housing

247

(6)

Tenure re-structuring in the OECD nations

253

(13)

Communist and post-communist European housing

266

(11)

Conclusion

277

(1)

Further reading

278

(1)

10 The Significance of Housing

279

(21)

Introduction

279

(1)

Schools of institutionalist thought

280

(11)

The significance of housing policy

291

(6)

The future for Britain

297

(2)

Further reading

299

(1)

Bibliography

300

(16)

Index

316

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Housing Policy Analysis British Housing in Culture and Comparative Context

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