Social Housing in UK Law
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Uses of Macro Social Theory: A Social Housing Case Study
This article reflects on the use of macro social theoretical perspectives to explain micro social issues, using social housing allocations as a case study. In contrast to a number of social theoret...
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Trust, Distrust and Betrayal: A Social Housing Case Study
This paper discusses the importance of trust, distrust and betrayal in the context of relational contracts in the modern welfare state. We use a specific case study of the allocation of social hous...
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Jurisdiction and Scale: Rent Arrears, Social Housing, and Human Rights
This article draws on the recent work of Mariana Valverde on jurisdiction and scale to frame a study of the interaction between mandatory possession proceedings brought by one particular type of so...
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Social Housing as Crime Control: An Examination of the Role of Housing Management in Policing Sex Offenders
This article considers the ways in which social housing has in recent years become inextricably linked with the process of crime control. Drawing on case study research into the rehousing of sex of...
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Modernization and Change in Social Housing: The Case for an Organizational Perspective
It is argued that past approaches to the research of housing policy and housing organizations are now inadequate and unable to provide a clear explanation of modernization and change. The moderniza...
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AUTONOMY AND REREGULATION: EXPLAINING DYNAMICS IN THE FLEMISH SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR
The autonomy of implementing agencies often seems to trigger reregulation of those agencies. Reregulation has two dimensions: the layering of different control mechanisms and the growth of the rule...
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Explaining reforms: post-New Public Management myths or political realities? Social housing delivery in England and France1
This article examines the assumption that recent reforms in social and public services can be understood as a transition from New Public Management to post-New Public Management. English and French...
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A NEW POLITICS OF GOVERNANCE OR AN OLD POLITICS OF CENTRAL–LOCAL RELATIONS? LABOUR'S REFORM OF SOCIAL HOUSING TENANCIES IN ENGLAND
This article questions the orthoxody that government has been eclipsed by governance and uses the reform of English social housing tenancies as a critical test of governance theory. The preconditio...
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Finance: driving change in social housing: helping UK housing associations to perform a delicate balancing act.
...In the UK, housing associations are private, non-profit making organisations that provide low-cost social housing for people in need of a home. There is massive change under way in the sector as government spending cuts come into force. This articl......
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COMBINING HIERARCHICAL AND NETWORK STRATEGIES: SUCCESSFUL CHANGES IN DUTCH SOCIAL HOUSING
In the current times of economic turmoil, many sectors are thought to be in need of structural reform or system overhauls, which call for political leadership, decisiveness and vision. These kinds ...
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