Home, Meaning and Identity: Learning from the English Model of Shared Ownership

Bright, Susan; Hopkins, Nicholas

doi:10.1080/14036096.2010.527119

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“…In the housing literature, the complex and layered nature of security has been highlighted in work on the meaning of 'home', which identifies the interrelationships between the physical dimensions of housing (such as basic safety and security) and the psycho-social dimensions of home such as privacy, emotional security and identity (Easthope, 2004;Gurney, 1997;Somerville, 1992). The literature on owner occupation also recognises different layers of security including financial security in respect of wealth and income over the life course (Bright & Hopkins, 2011), and the psycho-social dimensions of security, deploying concepts such as ontological security (Saunders, 1990), referring to satisfaction of a deep psychological need for a sense of security and constancy. The psycho-social aspects of security associated with owner occupation have been much debated with some empirical research also highlighting financial risks that can undermine psycho-social security (e.g.…”

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Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing

2014

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Unlike debates about security for owner occupiers which recognise that security is complex and multi-layered, security for renters is often presented as single dimensional and conflated with de jure security of tenure, deriving from a property rights perspective. This article proposes a broader concept of 'secure occupancy' to enable a more nuanced understanding of security for tenants. A new framework is developed to enable investigation of the dynamic interactions between legislation/regulation, housing market conditions, public policies and cultural norms around renting, which shape security of occupancy for tenants. The paper illustrates this approach, drawing on a study of the rental systems of nine developed countries, identifying key factors that appear to have a strong bearing on strengthening, and weakening, of security of occupancy for renter households. The article concludes that this approach has the potential to deepen understanding of security for renters and to stimulate new avenues for research.

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2014

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“…67 Much of this writing questions the ideals of shared ownership, critiques the lease, and, as Susan Bright and Nick Hopkins have put it, the product is akin to the Emperor's New Clothes. 68 However, that critique of the label is to miss the point. The label shared ownership has particular power precisely because it conveys the idea that the buyer`owns' their share and that the buyer is on the ladder not to home ownership but of home ownership.…”

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Producing the Product: A Case Study of Law and Its Absence

Carr

Cowan

Wallace

2017

Journal of Law and Society

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In this article, we seek to develop socio-legal studies through a rupturing of the ideas behind the social and the legal, ideas that are most often presumed to exist and are used to explain that which is already there. The ubiquity of law and the omniscience of society have become givens. We use a product called shared ownership as a case study, arguing that the product was given life by a legal document (the lease) which itself represented the translation of a range of different perspectives and audiences (albeit not the consumer), and which, itself, has been translated, most notably in a 2008 High Court decision. That decision counterintuitively found that the lease had created an assured shorthold tenancy (albeit a long one) but, despite its threat to the product, has been largely ignored. We discuss the processes of, and reasons for, the translation through which that ignorance has been induced.

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“…More recently, Fox O'Mahony has used three housing paradigms as a tool for analysis: the house as home, as inheritance and as investment. While the extent to which the x‐factor values of ‘housing as home’ are enhanced by home‐ownership remains contested, the owned‐home alone confers the financial stake that lies at the heart of the paradigms of housing as an investment or inheritance; the home as an asset to be drawn upon by the owner or preserved and passed on. In the context of these paradigms, asset‐based welfare connects directly with housing as an investment to be drawn upon by the owner.…”

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Social Citizenship, Housing Wealth and the Cost of Social Care: Is theCareAct 2014 ‘Fair'?

Hopkins¹,

Laurie²

2015

Modern Law Review

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This article assesses the extent to which it is ‘fair’ for the government to require owner‐occupiers to draw on the equity accumulated in their home to fund their social care costs. The question is stimulated by the report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support, Fairer Care Funding (the Dilnot Commission) and the subsequent Care Act 2014. The enquiry is located within the framework of social citizenship and the new social contract. It argues that the individualistic, contractarian approach, exemplified by the Dilnot Commission and reflected in the Act, raises questions when considered from the perspective of intergenerational fairness. We argue that our concerns with the Act could be addressed by inculcating an expectation of drawing on housing wealth to fund older age: a policy of asset‐based welfare.

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Home, Meaning and Identity: Learning from the English Model of Shared Ownership

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing

Secure Occupancy: A New Framework for Analysing Security in Rental Housing

Producing the Product: A Case Study of Law and Its Absence

Social Citizenship, Housing Wealth and the Cost of Social Care: Is theCareAct 2014 ‘Fair'?

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