ERES:conference

Social housing policy in the UK mirrors wider processes associated with shifts in broad welfare regimes. Social housing has moved from dominance by council housing provision to the funding of new investment through voluntary sector housing associations to a greater focus on the regulation and...

ERES:conference

ERES:conference

ERES:conference

Since the late 1980s, the UK has been a testing bed for new models of socal housing. Policies to reshape and reduce the council housing sector have followed objectives to do with refinancing but also quasi-market goals, including stronger tenant responsiveness and performance efficiency...

ERES:conference

Social housing in the UK is under increasing pressure to reform its archaic pricing systems that provide tenants with below market rents but in an incoherent and often ad hoc and unsystematic manner. English social housing is now well into a long term experiment to provide both convergence and a...

[abstract missing - contribution appeared in the programme]

Policymakers and practitioners have specific research needs that can be at odds with the academic model. Housing market analysis is readily caught up in theoretical, econometric and other minutiae when what is often required is a clear explanation of market drivers, or the influence of new...