Introduction: Neoliberal housing policy – time for a critical re-appraisal

Hodkinson, Stuart; Watt, Paul; Mooney, Gerry

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“…8 See http://www.nrsch.gov.au. 9 For reviews of the development of housing associations in the United Kingdom, see Malpass (2000), and Pawson & Mullins (2010); and for a more critical perspective, see the recent special issue of Critical Social Policy on housing policy (Hodkinson, Watt & Mooney 2013). 10 Milligan et al (2013:19) report a growth of 217 per cent in the total assets of 34 'leading' not-for-profit housing associations between 2008-09 and 2010-11.…”

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A price worth paying? Accountability, red tape and the regulation of affordable housing

Travers¹

2014

Aust J Social Issues

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Although it is not a pressing social problem in the same way as, for example, poverty, child abuse, or climate change, red tape causes frustrations for many working in public and private sector organisations, perhaps even more than for the ordinary citizen dealing with large government agencies. This paper will explore some dimensions of this contentious issue. It will consider the positive view of regulation advanced by regulation theorists, and some qualitative researchers associated with this tradition. Drawing on a qualitative research study concerning the regulation of affordable housing in Australia, it examines the nature of administrative burdens. It is suggested that three factors lead to the perception of red tape: whether regulation is seen as making a difference to services beyond accountability; whether the measures used are meaningful; and the resources available for compliance. Qualitative researchers can help those in government seeking to reduce administrative burdens by supplying realistic accounts that address the views and experiences of those subject to regulation.

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A price worth paying? Accountability, red tape and the regulation of affordable housing

Travers¹

2014

Aust J Social Issues

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“…The discourse is deeply inscribed in housing culture in the UK and its policy-making, as manifest in old and new 'Right-tobuy' in social housing and the continuation and expansion of other mortgage incentives such as 'Help-to-buy' and 'Shared Ownership'. 46 Based on our interviews, it appeared that any money saved by guardians for housing purposes was more likely to go towards raising a deposit in the private rented sector, rather than a mortgage on a home.…”

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Self-precarization and the spatial imaginaries of property guardianship

Ferreri

Dawson

2017

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Property guardianship, a form of short-term building security through temporary dwelling, has emerged in several European countries over the last twenty years. Despite being characterised by tenure insecurity and often substandard conditions, 'living as a guardian' has become a composite and polyvalent mode of inhabiting cities, rooted in the production and dissemination of distinctive spatial imaginaries of 'nomadic' urban dwelling. In the United Kingdom, where guardianship is relatively novel and marginal, the establishment of several intermediary companies has contributed to the rapid diffusion of the scheme as precarious 'adventurous' housing, particularly in metropolitan areas where guardianship schemes largely attract mobile and universityeducated individuals. Drawing on debates about the complexities of 'self-precarization' (Lorey, 2006), this article examines imaginaries of property guardianship and their ambivalent significance in relation to lived processes of precarization. Through the analysis of media representations and in-depth interviews with current and former guardians in London, it explores how guardians mobilise narratives of adaptability, flexibility and nomadism, between resignation to existing housing conditions and a sense of critical and autonomous agency. The article proposes and develops a nuanced qualitative approach to analyse how precarious dwelling through guardianship is reshaping spatial imaginaries of acceptable and desirable urban dwelling, and contributing to significant processes of individual and collective subjectification. At a moment of extensive governmentality through insecurity, it concludes that examining imaginaries and practices of self-precarization offers a critical entry point for understanding and rethinking, theoretically and politically, housing precarity and its geographies.

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“…Under conditions of neoliberalism, the housing sector in general, and HAs in particular, have therefore experienced increasing levels of marketisation, exposure to risk; processes underpinned by the predominance of the financial sector (Hodkinson et al, 2013). In broad terms, housing organisations have been compelled to retreat from the traditional provision of subsidised rental housing, towards market renting and promoting varieties of homeownership.…”

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Risk, commercialism and social purpose: Repositioning the English housing association sector

Manzi

Morrison

2017

Urban Studies

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Please supply a further 5 relevant keywords in the fields below::not-for-profit organisations, exposure to risk, not-for-profit, housing organisations, G15 Making use of institutional theory, this paper considers this paradigm shift and examines the organisational responses to an increasingly challenging operating environment. By focusing, in particular, on large London housing associations, the paper analyses their strategic decision-making to address the opportunities and threats presented. The paper argues that in facing an era of minimal subsidy, low security and high risk, the 2015 reforms represent a critical juncture for the sector. Housing organisations face a stark dilemma about whether to continue a strategy of 'profit for purpose' or to embrace an unambiguously commercial ethos. The article contends that the trajectory of decision-making (although not unidirectional) leads ultimately towards an increased exposure to risk and vulnerability to changes in the housing market. More fundamentally, the attempt to reconcile social and commercial logics is likely to have wider consequences for the legitimacy of the sector.

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Introduction: Neoliberal housing policy – time for a critical re-appraisal

Cited by 71 publications

References 39 publications

A price worth paying? Accountability, red tape and the regulation of affordable housing

A price worth paying? Accountability, red tape and the regulation of affordable housing

Self-precarization and the spatial imaginaries of property guardianship

Risk, commercialism and social purpose: Repositioning the English housing association sector

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