Housing Market Renewal and Social Class

Allen, Christopher

doi:10.4324/9780203932742

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“…The Right saw it as expensive, ineffective, interventionist and, above all, an assault on individual property rights. The Left saw it as top-down, corrupt, targeting the wrong problem and, worst of all, imposing middle-class values on working-class residents (Allen, 2008). Middle-class aesthetes were incensed by the apparent sacrifice of Britain's built heritage to the modernising bulldozer.…”

Section: Housing Market Differentialsmentioning

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The Social Value of Housing in Straitened Times: The View from England

Ferrari

2014

Housing Studies

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This paper provides a commentary on the contemporary housing crisis in England and links it to broader questions of role of housing in capitalist economies and societies. It starts with the assumptions that housing and community development issues are linked to the wider housing market and that the housing crisis is not new but has long-run antecedents. The paper begins by reviewing the contemporary terrain of housing markets and policies in the UK. It then discusses several aspects of 'crisis': market volatility, rates of new supply, affordability, state welfare subsidies and sociospatial inequalities. Policy responses to these are examined through a discussion of efforts to expand the role of the private rented sector, sell-off 'expensive' public housing and curtail market renewal investments. The paper concludes that current conceptualisations of the value of housing are often partial and insufficiently integrative and that policies must explicitly recognise housing as a social and economic asset.

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Section: Housing Market Differentialsmentioning

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The Social Value of Housing in Straitened Times: The View from England

Ferrari

2014

Housing Studies

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“…It should also be emphasised that these 'pockets' of marginality in cities can encompass private tenants, public tenants and home owners (see, for example, Allen, 2008). Public rental housing has not been exclusively affected by these demographic, social and economic changes but it has been at the sharp endparticularly in those countries where there was extensive development of state housing after the Second World War.…”

Section: Public Rental Housing Stigma and Reputationmentioning

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People like us? Social status, social inequality and perceptions of public rental housing

Forrest

2013

J. Soc. Pol.

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“…During the life of the initiative £333 million was spent on targeted intervention in local housing markets. The emptying and demolition of properties as part of this proved controversial and as in some other places in the north and midlands of England covered by the HMR initiative, there was strong resistance to clearance proposals from local residents and heritage groups (Allen, 2008;Allen and Crookes, 2009;Brown, 2005;Hines, 2010). In 2011 the programme was terminated half way through by a new national government leaving large areas of cleared land with no immediate prospects for redevelopment, something which campaigners against demolition had feared.…”

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Defining and Managing the Historic Urban Landscape: Reflections on the English Experience and Some Stories from Liverpool

Sykes

Ludwig

2015

ESR&P

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The period since the 1960s has been characterised by growing societal concern with urban heritage protection and the development of legislative, fiscal and urban planning instruments that seek to ensure the protection and enhancement of historic buildings and environments. International organisations such as UNESCO and European level documents such as the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) have stressed the cultural and economic value of the ‘wise management of natural and cultural heritage’. Since the 1970s many cities have sought to redefine and regenerate themselves through a revalorisation of their past and the protection and enhancement of their historic urban landscapes. Urban heritage has thus often come to be seen as a component of the territorial capital of places, and often had a symbiotic relationship with the objective of urban regeneration. However, urban heritage is not a static concept and ideas about what constitutes heritage, the value of different historic urban environments, and the contribution they can make to city development and regeneration continue to evolve. This paper reflects on this evolution in the context of the English planning system and illustrates some key trends and issues surrounding urban heritage through a consideration of recent and ongoing heritage related planning episodes in the northern English city of Liverpool.

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Housing Market Renewal and Social Class

Cited by 224 publications

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The Social Value of Housing in Straitened Times: The View from England

The Social Value of Housing in Straitened Times: The View from England

People like us? Social status, social inequality and perceptions of public rental housing

Defining and Managing the Historic Urban Landscape: Reflections on the English Experience and Some Stories from Liverpool

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