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THE MODERNISATION OF HOUSING IN ENGLAND
Author(s) -
MURIE ALAN
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00557.x
Subject(s) - modernization theory , deregulation , neighbourhood (mathematics) , public housing , subdivision , government (linguistics) , housing tenure , context (archaeology) , social stratification , economic geography , economic growth , economics , sociology , geography , market economy , labour economics , social science , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , archaeology
This paper considers changes in the housing market and housing policy following the major deregulation and privatisation of housing in England in the 1980s and 1990s. It highlights developments that were not anticipated, the continuing importance of social rented housing and the renewed interest of government in housing and refers to these in the context of previous accounts of the modernisation of housing tenure. The paper also considers emerging social and spatial divisions within urban England and suggests that while there is considerable continuity in these patterns, tenure has become a less effective indicator of neighbourhood difference. A more complex pattern of social and spatial division is associated with stratification, market stretch and new patterns of differentiation.