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Hodkinson, Stuart; Watt, Paul and Mooney, Gerry
(2013).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018312457862
Abstract
This paper introduces the themed section of Critical Social Policy on social housing, privatization and neoliberalism. In tracing the key elements in the development of privatization and residualization since 1979, it argues that these can only be fully understood as part of a wider neoliberalizing agenda, an agenda that is driven by a particular class project. The paper also seeks to re-assert the importance of a critical approach to successive decades of social housing policies in the devolved UK, arguing that the classed basis of housing privatization policies has been largely overlooked by academics in favour of an evolutionary and ‘modernizing’ framework which isolates developments in social housing provision from other wider shifts in social welfare and in labour markets. Understanding such processes, it is claimed, is a necessary step in the development of a more socially just and sustainable form of housing provision.
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- Item ORO ID
- 36723
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0261-0183
- Keywords
- class; housing; neoliberalism; privatization; stock transfer
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
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Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC)
International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR)
OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) - Copyright Holders
- © 2012 The Authors
- Depositing User
- Gerry Mooney