Beyond bricks and mortar : building homes, communities, and neighbourhoods /
Social housing continues to decline as existing tenanted homes are sold to their occupiers and run-down council estates are demolished. Demonstrating the value of the 'Housing Plus' approach -investment beyond "bricks and mortar" - this book outlines the role social landlords can...
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2025.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18323823 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Front Cover
- Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Building Homes, Communities, and Neighbourhoods
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Community, people, and place
- 2 The meaning of shelter
- What makes shelter a basic need?
- What does even the most rudimentary shelter provide?
- Part I Our (UK) Housing History
- 3 Early reform
- Robert Owen and the birth of cooperatives
- Voluntary efforts at reform
- Octavia Hill: housing reformer and inventor of housing management
- Women's role in housing
- Five per cent philanthropy
- Slum demolition as a consequence of building new homes
- The role of local government
- Public infrastructure displaces slum housing
- The Boundary Estate: an example of early council rebuilding
- Quaker villages and garden cities as models of new communities
- Quaker villages: Rowntree and Cadbury
- Garden cities: Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City
- Wider action follows reform
- 4 Homes fit for heroes: playing the numbers game
- Slum clearance
- Problems on new estates
- Slums persist alongside growing council landlord problems
- The spread of 'suburban semis'
- Disastrous consequences of World War II
- Modest responses to major challenges
- The mass housing vision
- New Towns
- Part II The Dream Unravels: New Ways to Tackle Old Problems
- 5 Rebuilding communities: putting people first
- A bad turn
- Old slums revived
- Tenants matter
- Renovations take off
- The power of community
- The threat of gentrification and the re-.emergence of housing associations
- Tenant-.led management organisations
- 'Hard-to-let' and experiments in estate rescue: the Priority Estates Project
- Decentralisation: bureaucracy or delivery?
- Glasgow's unique housing experiment
- Conclusion
- 6 Race and housing
- Policing disorder
- The impact of housing management on race
- A misguided policy goes wrong
- Why social landlords must do more
- The importance of residents and representing the whole community
- Targeted initiatives help integrate minority ethnic households
- Race and Housing Plus
- Conclusion
- 7 Breaking up council control: the regrowth of smaller, more community-based landlords
- Transformative change
- Beyond bricks and mortar, and the spread of 'breakaways'
- Reshaping communities
- Area-.based housing initiatives
- Right to Manage
- Favouring owner occupation
- Urban abandonment
- Gentrification can transform semi-.abandoned areas
- Applying upgrading lessons more widely
- The transfer of council housing to housing associations
- Conclusion
- Part III Targeting the Poorest Areas
- 8 New Labour
- Facing major welfare problems
- Unforeseen problems with the Right to Buy
- Social exclusion and inclusion
- A national strategy for neighbourhood renewal
- Sure Start: targeted support for families with small children
- Decent Homes programme