Housing Problems and Social Work Advocacy in a Home-Owning Society

Ng, Kok-Hoe; Neo, Yu-Wei

doi:10.1080/01488376.2019.1622624

“…The dynamics of social workers in dealing with the problem of housing assistance have a long and diverse tradition (Ng & Neo, 2019), such as the basic needs of food, clothing, and health in supporting housing social assistance programs (Quintiliani et al, 2021;Reamer, 1989;Rymill & Hart, 1992), social housing for the homeless (Cordoba, 2015;Early, 2004;Sahlin, 1995;Thompson et al, 2006;Zufferey, 2008), refugee problems (Aigner, 2019), housing ownership and social capital (Donoghue & Tranter, 2012).…”

Section: Self-help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program (Shsa)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In many countries, social housing assistance policy for LIC has increased in recent decades (Colburn, 2019;Hungerford, 1996;Olsen et al, 2005). Two factors related to this increase are a lack of housing affordability and threats to the financing of new housing (Average, 2019;Beer et al, 2011;Monkkonen, 2018;Ng & Neo, 2019;Reamer, 1989;Zou, 2014). This phenomenon suggests that social housing is an important aspect of past and future housing policies and is an important dimension of social welfare policy and the provision of affordable housing (Clapham et al, 1990;OECD, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2023

Int J SW Values and Ethics

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Like all of us, I have been deeply concerned about ethical issues regarding social work scholarship and publications. As you might have noticed, the International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics instituted a manuscript submission policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence [see https://jswve.org/manuscript-policy/]. Dr. Dawn Apgar is the author of the artificial intelligence section of our manuscript policy. In addition, Dr. Apgar submitted a forum article entitled "Incorporating the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models into Publication Standards: A Call for Editorial Policy Based on Social Work Values" which is included in this issue. We also have Dr. Reamer's article entitled "Artificial Intelligence in Social Work: Emerging Ethical Issues." I hope you have time to read both of these critically important articles. For now, I want to share my personal experience with artificial intelligence.Last March, I had a conversation with Dr. Dawn Apgar regarding artificial intelligence and the ethical issues related to social work scholarship and social work education. At that time, we negotiated a forum article for IJS-WVE. Since that time, I have been literally playing with artificial intelligence. I wanted to get a feel for how it worked. It was like doing a google search but more personal. I heartily admit that I had fun playing with it.

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“…The dynamics of social workers in dealing with the problem of housing assistance have a long and diverse tradition (Ng & Neo, 2019), such as the basic needs of food, clothing, and health in supporting housing social assistance programs (Quintiliani et al, 2021;Reamer, 1989;Rymill & Hart, 1992), social housing for the homeless (Cordoba, 2015;Early, 2004;Sahlin, 1995;Thompson et al, 2006;Zufferey, 2008), refugee problems (Aigner, 2019), housing ownership and social capital (Donoghue & Tranter, 2012).…”

Section: Self-help Housing Stimulant Assistance Program (Shsa)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In many countries, social housing assistance policy for LIC has increased in recent decades (Colburn, 2019;Hungerford, 1996;Olsen et al, 2005). Two factors related to this increase are a lack of housing affordability and threats to the financing of new housing (Average, 2019;Beer et al, 2011;Monkkonen, 2018;Ng & Neo, 2019;Reamer, 1989;Zou, 2014). This phenomenon suggests that social housing is an important aspect of past and future housing policies and is an important dimension of social welfare policy and the provision of affordable housing (Clapham et al, 1990;OECD, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Workers in the Social Housing Assistance Sector: Building the Ideal Housing Policy Principles

Sururi

2023

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Indonesia has established a Self-Help Stimulant Assistance (SHSA) to help develop affordable housing in Low-Income Communities (LIC). SHSA funding is provided to selected LIC to independently build new housing and renovate uninhabitable residential houses to bring them up to habitable standards and social workers have been key to the implementation of this program. This study uses two theoretical frameworks for effective housing policy (Schill & Wachter 2001, Hannigan & Wagner 2003 to explore the extent to which the SHSA was perceived by social workers to exhibit these qualities. To explore the role of social workers in the implementation of the SHSA, 25 qualitative interviews were completed with social workers working in LICs in Indonesia. Six themes from the theoretical framework were found to be important to the effective implementation of SHSA, including: 1. links to other social policies; 2. using production subsidies to overcome obstacles, 3. not adopting a one-size-fits-all model, 4. provides permanent affordability housing, 5. is comfortable, and 6. accessible and flexible service provision. The findings also highlight the importance of

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