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NO CHOICE: REFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING IN ENGLAND
Author(s) -
King Peter
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2008.00821.x
Subject(s) - public housing , government (linguistics) , housing tenure , low income housing , control (management) , economics , public economics , business , key (lock) , labour economics , economic growth , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , management , biology
This paper considers the current and future prospects for social housing. It looks at the key issues of choice and affordability that dominate housing policy, how this links social housing to the dominant tenure of owner‐occupation and how government has sought to control social housing allowing for a managed decline of the sector. The final part of the paper proposes some reforms which will introduce real choice into rented housing and empower low‐income households. This, however, will necessitate the end of social housing as a distinct tenure.