Regulating Social Housing

Governing Decline
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-904385-40-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Drawing upon Foucauldian analyzes of governmentality, the authors contend that social housing must be understood according to a range of political rationalities that saturate current practice and policy. They critically address the practice of dividing social from private tenure; situating subjects such as the purpose and financing of social housing, the regulation of its providers and occupiers and its relationship to changing perceptions of private renting and owner-occupation, within the context of an argument that all housing tenures form part of an understanding of social housing. They also take up the ways in which social housing is regulated through the invocation and manipulation of obscure notions of housing ‘need’ and ‘affordability’, and finally, they consider how social housing has provided a focus for debates about sustainable communities and for concerns about anti-social behaviour.

Regulating Social Housing provides a rich and insightful analysis that will be of value to legal scholars, criminologists and other social scientists with interests in housing, urban studies and contemporary forms of regulation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cowan, David

Mcdermont, Morag

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

On Social Housing, Decline, Regulation and Government. Constructing the Domain. Needing Need. On Money. Regulatory Truths. The 'Social' Contract. Private Renting. Owner-Occupation. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

David Cowan is Professor of Law and Policy, and Morag McDermont is Lecturer in Law, both at the School of Law, University of Bristol.