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ENDS AND MEANS: THE FUTURE ROLES OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN ENGLAND

Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This report was commissioned to help the Secretary of State for Communities and LocalGovernment “stand back and ask what role social housing can play in 21st Century housingpolicy”. Its aim is to provide the background and analytical framework against which theimplications of different...

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Tackling Difficult Estates

Richardson, Liz - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

Based on practitioners’ experience of making things work on the ground, severalcommon themes emerged. These themes prompted questions about how success can bereplicated, how to overcome obstacles, and what role government can play.The themes were:• scaling down and linking up;• cutting...

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Tenants and their communities: summary Report to the Department for Communities and Local Government on the consultation with tenants at Trafford Hall on the Future Roles of Social...

Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Communities and Local Government identified four key questions that they wanted tenants’ ideas on. They also wanted to sound out proposals. The core questions were:•How could social landlords involve tenants more in improving the social housing stock?•How could social landlords, working...

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Report on the consultation with tenants on the future ofsocial housing at Trafford Hall

Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Trafford Hall offers training, support and pump-priming grants to residents andvolunteers in low income communities to help them tackle local problems within theircommunities. Since 1994 when the Centre opened, around 70,000 participants have beenon residential courses leading to action plans...

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Using the British Household Panel Survey to explorechanges in housing tenure in England

Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Very little information exists about households’ longer-term movements betweentenures. Some cross-section datasets include information on length of stay in anyresidence but we have no systematic study of movement over time. This study usesthe British Household Panel Study to examine movements...

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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

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The Divorced and Who Divorces?

Kiernan, Kathleen; Mueller, Ganka - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

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Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employmentafter Childbirth: Evidence from the United States,Britain, and Japan

Waldfogel, Jane; Higuchi, Yoshio; Abe, Masahiro - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on … women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United … States had no national family leave legislationprior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, but …

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East Enders: Family and community in East London

Mumford, Katharine; Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

East Enders tells the story of a hundred families who live in two of the lowestincome areas in the East End of London, Hackney and Newham. The East Endhas the biggest concentration of poverty in the capital. It lies at the heart of theThames Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the...

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Understanding Social Exclusion

Hills, John; Le Grand, Julian; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

, intergenerational and family links indisadvantage, the labour market, deprived neighbourhoods, and the impact ofwelfare policy … - individual, family, community, national and global.[...] …

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