‘The party’s over’: critical junctures, crises and the politics of housing policy

Jacobs, Keith; Manzi, Tony

doi:10.1080/02673037.2016.1171829

Cited by 21 publications

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“…They can therefore be better understood as correctives to housing markets (Bengtsson and Ruonavaara, 2011). From a methodological viewpoint, historical and comparative forms of investigation are necessary if we are to better comprehend the ambitions and scope of contemporary housing interventions (Jacobs and Manzi, 2017). Austin et al (2014) show how path-dependent policy and policy transfer converge in national contexts.…”

Section: Anchoring the Crisis In Key Academic Debates: Five Entry Pointsmentioning

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The global urban housing affordability crisis

2017

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This critical commentary confronts and explores the – so far under-recognised and under-researched – emergent global crisis of urban housing affordability and affordable housing provision. This crisis results from the fact that housing-related household expenses are rising faster than salary and wage increases in many urban centres around the world; a situation triggered by at least three global post-Global Financial Crisis megatrends of accelerated (re)urbanisation of capital and people, the provision of cheap credit and the rise of intra-society inequality. Reflecting on the recent findings of extensive comparative ethnographic research across Western countries, and analytically approaching housing affordability and affordable housing issues from a broadly understood intersection of political and economic spheres (e.g. issues of state and market, governance and regulation, policy and investment), the paper pursues four key objectives: raising awareness of the crisis, showing its extent and context-specificity but also the severe social as well as problematic spatial implications, linking current developments to key academic debates in housing studies and urban studies, and importantly, developing a research agenda that can help to redress the currently detectable ‘policy–outcome’ gap in policy making by asking fresh and urgent questions from empirical, theoretical and political viewpoints. This intervention ultimately calls for more dedicated and politicised knowledge production towards achieving affordable urban futures for all.

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Section: Anchoring the Crisis In Key Academic Debates: Five Entry Pointsmentioning

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The global urban housing affordability crisis

2017

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“…26 26 For overviews of shifts in housing policy through this time, see Bochel and Powell (2016), and Jacobs and Manzi (2017). …”

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The local political economy of the regulatory state: Governing affordable housing in England

Clegg

Farstad²

2019

Regulation & Governance

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Regulatory governance involves the use of heterogeneous mechanisms to extract welfare gains from market-based processes. While often viewed as a depoliticization mechanism, here, we explore a distinctly political manifestation of regulatory governance. Our study focuses on the governance of affordable housing in England, specifically on local authorities' use of 'Section 106 0 (S106) powers to compel private developers to include affordable housing in new developments. We show that, following the financial crisis, the governance of affordable housing shifted from a partisan to a valence issue. As the crisis increased the issue salience of affordable housing, left-wing authorities' hitherto higher tendency to intervene was eroded in the midst of a broad-based increase in S106 deployment. In addition to extending insights into the political economy of regulatory state intervention, our findings shed valuable light on the undersupply of affordable housing in England.

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“…Ironically, and maybe paradoxically, Powell (2015) points out that many LHA tenants end up in ex-council houses bought as a result of the Right to Buy where the landlords benefit from a lack of social housing. Looking at the goals of neoliberalism in relation to housing, at the core lies a commitment to reducing public spending, restructuring welfare and increasing market competition (Jacobs and Manzi, 2017).…”

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Displaced and vulnerable: a case study of “out of area” housing

Iafrati

2020

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Purpose The purpose of study is to explore how structural problems within housing supply and the marketisation of housing for the poorest and most vulnerable households affect households and can lead to negative outcomes for some households. The research highlights the experiences of out of area (OOA) households that can be below the radar in debates regarding housing crisis. Design/methodology/approach The research features a case study approach focusing on the experiences of a single household, which is supplemented with an interview with the household’s local authority housing manager. Additionally, freedom of information data is used to analyse the local authority placing the household OOA. The case study is transferable and the additional evidence validates the household’s experiences. Findings The research finds that OOA housing can be disruptive for households and negatively affect well-being as well as facilitate social cleansing. The case study, while examining the lived experience of OOA housing, also recognises structural causes of the housing crisis within neoliberal housing policy. Furthermore, the case study recognises the positions of local authorities placing households OOA and receiving these households. Originality/value The research is original in using a case study to explore OOA housing. OOA housing is an under-researched area where households are not homeless but are housed in a manner detrimental to their well-being. The case study brings together interviews and freedom of information data to highlight findings currently missing in housing research.

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‘The party’s over’: critical junctures, crises and the politics of housing policy

Cited by 21 publications

References 30 publications

The global urban housing affordability crisis

The global urban housing affordability crisis

The local political economy of the regulatory state: Governing affordable housing in England

Displaced and vulnerable: a case study of “out of area” housing

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