In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving awayfrom the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behindconcentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power’spaper focuses on the British situation. As Britain comes to terms with theimplications of...

Area-based polices have become a significant part of the new LabourGovernment’s approach to tackling social exclusion. This paper reviewsthe long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make asignificant impact on poverty and social exclusion. There is a strongtradition of...

Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census data from 1971, localadministrative data from 1998 onwards, and over 400 interviews conducted in 1999 and2001.The neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three...

Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in Leeds. Kirkside East is a large,mainly white, council estate in Leeds. The Valley is a mixed tenure, mixedincome, ethnically diverse area, stretching out of Sheffield city...

Homes that have already built account for 99% of our total housing stock. We estimate that86% of the current stock will still be in use in 2050. Building new homes is carbon intensiveand implies many wider environmental impacts. But the existing stock can be made moreefficient, at a reasonable...

Housing and neighbourhoodConditions have changed radically since the Sustainable Communities Plan proposed “large-scaleclearance” as a central part of the regeneration and renewal of old streets of terraced housing andmore recently built council estates. One thing has not changed: community...

The two areas in which this study is based are located in Northern cities. The first area, KirksideEast, is a large council estate four miles from the centre of Leeds. It is predominantly councilrented, housing low-income, mainly white residents, many of whom have strong local connectionsand at...