Social Housing Agencies and the Governance of Anti-social Behaviour

Flint, John

doi:10.1080/02673030220144376

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“…This twin-track approach to challenging dependency and promoting individual responsibility is well established within social housing policy in England (Flint, 2006;Ravetz, 2001;Robinson, 2008). Revisionist voices have argued that greater urgency needs to be injected into this agenda.…”

Section: Social Housing: the Charge Sheetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Housing in England: Testing the Logics of Reform

Robinson¹

2012

Urban Studies

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The role and function of social housing in England are being recast. A radical programme of reform is being pursued in response to the apparent failure of the sector to serve as an effective welfare service, promoting dependency rather than social mobility. This paper examines the underlying logics and considers some of the potential consequences of this reform agenda, through an exploration of the relationship between social housing and worklessness. Drawing on evidence from qualitative interviews with over 150 tenants, questions are raised regarding the veracity of the charge sheet levelled against social housing. Risks associated with on-going efforts to reconstitute the role and function of social housing in England are also highlighted. These findings contribute to a growing body of evidence challenging the pathologising and problematising of social housing through the detailed analysis of the perspectives and experiences of social tenants.

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Section: Social Housing: the Charge Sheetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Housing in England: Testing the Logics of Reform

Robinson¹

2012

Urban Studies

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“…Individuals therefore need not be assigned to either powerful or powerless groups (Thompson, 2007), rather they simultaneously undergo and exercise power (Foucault, 1980). Empowerment work with families may consequently necessitate a detailed consideration of networks of power within the family (Tew and Nixon, 2010), and an awareness that "empowerment cannot be shared equally across a family with multiple difficulties" (Adams, 2008: 105), but also surrounding the family, as communities become part of the broader governmental project of developing autonomous and self-regulating citizens (Flint, 2006). Rowlands (1997) advocates the consideration of gendered power relations within any model of empowerment, combining critical social theory and social psychological perspectives to explore the ways in which internalised oppression creates barriers to women's exercise of power.…”

Section: Thinking About Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dimensions of Family Empowerment in Work with So-Called ‘Troubled’ Families

Bond-Taylor¹

2014

Social Policy & Society

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The Troubled Families Programme has provided an impetus for interventions with families with multiple disadvantages. This article identifies the prevalence of a government discourse of 'empowerment' around such interventions, which fails to reflect the contested nature of the term.Qualitative interviews with families supported by the programme and their keyworkers offer an insight into their experiences and a valuable alternative to government rhetoric. It is argued that government discourses equate 'family empowerment' with responsibilisation, seeking to reduce the resources deployed in supporting families whilst strengthening state power to define acceptable forms of family life. By contrast, family and keyworker discourses of 'empowerment' are founded in the redistribution of resources towards such families, advocacy strategies, psychological support and an understanding of power relations within and beyond families, which enable families to resist specific attempts at the exercise of professional power, albeit remaining subject to a more general exercise of state control.

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“…Although applied by different people in different ways, it has nonetheless been embraced as a valuable theoretical perspective for understanding power and rule across diverse fields such as crime (see for example, Garland 1997;Stenson 1998Stenson , 2005; education (see for example , Ball 1990;Morgan 2005); housing (see for example, Flint 2002Flint , 2003Cowan and McDermont 2006;Author 2007Author , 2008Author and Cooper 2008); local government and public service reform (see for example, Newman 2001; Raco and Flint 2001;Clarke et al 2007); social welfare (see for example, Dean 1995Dean , 1999Cruikshank 1994Cruikshank , 1999McDonald and Marston 2005); and social work (see for example, Baistow 1994/5;Lewis 2000). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%