After Council Housing

Britain's New Social Landlords

By: Hal Pawson, David Mullins, Tony Gilmour

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Hardcover | 3 June 2010 | Edition Number 1

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256 Pages

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Few policies have had a more profound impact on the modern British housing system than the wholesale transfer of public housing to new social landlords. In the past two decades over a million homes have passed from council ownership to housing associations, and the management of another million has been outsourced by local authorities. After Council Housing provides a compelling account of its causes, methods and consequences. Rejecting the claim that the process of stock transfer is a simple case of damaging privatization, the authors argue instead that Britain's new social landlords have contributed to a more business-like, consumer-focused and tenant-influenced social housing sector.

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'This detailed and comprehensive book ... traces the origins, evolution and impacts of [stock transfer], with particular attention to geographical differences, and policy divergence and convergence across the UK jurisdictions ... [A]n important and must-have publication for academics, policy makers, practitioners and students with an interest in stock transfer and social housing more generally' - Kim McKee, Housing Studies 'Written by leading experts in the field ... The book is scholarly, well informed by research ... [and] very clear and well-written ... [E]ssential reading for anyone wishing to understand the extent of change and the direction of travel for social housing [it also] raises an important and pertinent set of questions about the future of UK social housing' - Tony Manzi, Housing, Theory and Society 'After Council Housing is a really welcome addition to any housing studies library... essential reading' - Blair Badock, Urban Policy and Research '[T]his excellent book may well become a standard reference ... It is balanced and reaches reasonable conclusions based on evidence and considerable research experience' - Kenneth Gibb, Urban Studies '[I]nvaluable to housing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level ... an important contribution to contemporary housing scholarship.' Morag McDermont, Journal of Social Policy '...a comprehensive overview...' - Social Policy

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