Two steps forward : : Housing policy into the new millennium / / ed. by Dave Cowan, Alex Marsh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Blandy, Sarah,; Card, Pauline,; Carr, Helen,; Cowan, Dave,; Gibb, Kenneth,; Goodlad, Robina,; Hunter, Caroline,; Leather, Philip,; Marsh, Alex,; Mauthe, Barbara,; Mullen, Tom,; Murie, Alan,; Nevin, Brendan,; Robson, Peter,; Sefton-Green, Dorothy,; Somerville, Peter,; Tissier, Damien,; Vincent–Jones, Peter,; Walker, Bruce,
• HerausgeberIn: Cowan, Dave,; Marsh, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 p.)

While the future shape and direction of housing policy is uncertain, the process of transformation looks set to continue. A wide range of housing policy initiatives emerged during the first term of the New Labour government and 2000 saw the publication of the first major policy statement on housing for over 10 years - the government's much anticipated Housing Green Paper. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the debate. Bringing together leading scholars from the fields of housing law and housing policy, it aims to engage with the central concerns of policy and to demonstrate that the parallel debates of housing studies and socio-legal studies can be strengthened by a fuller exchange of ideas. Each chapter examines a key theme in contemporary housing policy and seeks to locate policy in relation to broader theoretical debates about the provision of social welfare. Two steps forward is essential reading for academics, students and policy makers with an interest in housing policy and law, as well as students on wider social policy, public administration, policy and management courses.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Analysing New Labour housing policy -- New Labour transfers -- Stock transfer -- Housing standards in the private rented sector and the three Rs: regulation, responsibility and rights -- Housing standards in the private sector -- Allocating housing – or ‘letting’ people choose? -- From allocations to lettings: sea change or more of the same? -- Two steps forward for tenants? -- Developments in tenant participation: accounting for growth -- Managing anti-social behaviour – inclusion or exclusion? -- Anti-social behaviour and housing – can law be the answer? -- From housing management to the management of housing: the challenge of Best Value -- Registered Social Landlords, Best Value and the changing organisation and provision of social housing: a perspective from housing studies -- Restructuring social housing rents -- The politicalisation of social rents -- Housing Benefit -- Helping with housing costs? Unravelling the political economy of personal subsidy -- Making connections -- Index