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Martin Lux - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Housing in transition countries
2013Co-Authors: Jozsef Hegedus, Martin Lux, Nora TellerAbstract:Section I 1. The Transformation of the Social Housing Sector in Eastern Europe: A Conceptual Framework Jozsef Hegedus Section II: Critical Issues in the Transition Process 2. Housing Privatization and Restitution Jozsef Hegedus 3. Financing Social Housing Wolfgang Amman, Jozsef Hegedus, Martin Lux and Elisabeth Springler 4. Rent Regulation and Housing Allowances Martin Lux and Alexandr Puzanov 5. Social Landlords and Social Housing Management Jozsef Hegedus and Nora Teller 6. Housing Exclusion of the Roma: Living on the Edge Catalin Berescu, Mina Petrovic and Nora Teller Section III: Country Case Studies 7. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Limits of the Human Rights Approach to Social Housing Jozsef Hegedus, Gorana Stjepanovic and Nora Teller 8. Croatia: The Social Housing Search Delayed by Post-War Reconstruction Gojko Bezovan 9. The Czech Republic: Locked Between Municipal and Social Housing Martin Lux 10. Estonia: Residualization Without Social Tensions? Anneli Kahrik and Juri Kore 11. Hungary: Ideas and Plans Without Political Will Jozsef Hegedus 12. Poland: Old Problems and New Dilemmas Alina Muziol-Weclawowicz 13. Romania: The National Housing Agency: A Key Stakeholder in Housing Policy Wolfgang Amann, Ioan Bejan and Alexis Mundt 14. Russia: The Persistence of the Socialist Legacy? Alexandr Puzanov 15. Serbia: A Patchwork of Local Options Mina Petrovic 16. Slovakia: On the Way to the Stable Social Housing Concept Marek Hojsik 17. Slovenia: The Social Housing Sector in Search of an Identity Andreja Cirman and Srna Mandic 18. The Ukraine: Waiting Lists Without Housing Irina Zapatrina Section IV 19. New Social Housing Strategies in Post-Socialist States: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Sustainability Martin Lux and Petr Sunega
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Social Housing Landlords: Post-Socialist
International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 2012Co-Authors: Martin LuxAbstract:It is difficult to generalise on the issue of Social Housing landlords in developed countries, and it is even more difficult to make such generalisations for the post-Socialist transition countries. In the latter case, the definitional uncertainty stems mainly from the fact that Social Housing was not defined during the Socialist period, and merely designating all public rental Housing built between 1945 and 1990 as Social Housing would not be appropriate. Another reason lies in divergent development of Housing systems and policies after the Socialism collapsed. Finally, many governments in transition countries, probably thanks to the temporal effects of one-time economic subsidies, were not motivated to work on the concept of Social Housing and to date have not adopted any official definition of Social (means-targeted, affordable) Housing. There are a number of potential Social landlords in transition countries – municipalities, not-for-profit NGOs, and Housing cooperatives. As part of the process of decentralisation of power, the former mass public rental Housing was at the beginning of the transition often transferred into the ownership of municipalities, but the disposal rights of new public landlords were restricted by the right-to-buy or rental policies of national governments. Because of right-to-buy policies, the share of public Housing was slashed to a marginal proportion. Although it is impossible to equate municipal Housing with Social Housing, the municipalities managing residual (non-privatised) public rental Housing became the main Social Housing landlords in the region. Social Housing tenure can also be linked to not-for-profit Housing owned by NGOs, but the number of such Social dwellings is – except in Poland – low. After the change of regime, the cooperative Housing built during Socialism essentially became a part of owner-occupied Housing. Consequently, in all the transition countries, only a very small portion of the rental Housing stock explicitly serves those in Housing and Social need. The role of Social Housing landlords thus still remains an open challenge.
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Social Housing IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND AND SLOVAKIA
European Journal of Housing Policy, 2001Co-Authors: Martin LuxAbstract:This article provides a comparative description of the development of the Social Housing sector in three transitional countries during the 1990s. Several features of Social Housing in the EU countries are mentioned to establish the indicators used as the methodological base for a critical evaluation of the development of Social Housing in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. The indicators mainly reflect the targeting of supply- and demand-side Housing subsidies, and the existence or quality of new legislation governing the operation of Social Housing in these countries. A brief description of Housing reforms, changes in tenure structure and the Social consequences of slow process of the transformation of rental Housing is added. Though many problems remain unsolved the situation in Poland seems to be the most promising of the three countries studied because the new legislation allows for new Social Housing construction, and old Housing policy measures were adopted to be targeted at households in real...
Dave Dickens - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Data quality challenges in the UK Social Housing sector
International Journal of Information Management, 2018Co-Authors: Caroline Duvier, Daniel Neagu, Crina Oltean-dumbrava, Dave DickensAbstract:The Social Housing sector has yet to realise the potential of high data quality. While other businesses, mainly in the private sector, reap the benefits of data quality, the Social Housing sector seems paralysed, as it is still struggling with recent government regulations and steep revenue reduction. This paper offers a succinct review of relevant literature on data quality and how it relates to Social Housing. The Housing and Development Board in Singapore offers a great example on how to integrate data quality initiatives in the Social Housing sector. Taking this example, the research presented in this paper is extrapolating cross-disciplinarily recommendations on how to implement data quality initiatives in Social Housing providers in the UK.
Paul Watt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Housing and urban renewal: conclusion
Social Housing and Urban Renewal, 2017Co-Authors: Peer Smets, Paul WattAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to Social rental Housing. Social Housing estates – as developed either by governments (public Housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new urban renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of Social Housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other Social problems. This latest phase of urban renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of Social Housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure Housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and Social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical urbanists, as well as Housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on Social Housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of Social Housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited Social Housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective - Social Housing and urban renewal: A cross-national perspective
2017Co-Authors: Paul Watt, Peer SmetsAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to Social rental Housing. Social Housing estates – as developed either by governments (public Housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new urban renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of Social Housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other Social problems. This latest phase of urban renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of Social Housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure Housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and Social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical urbanists, as well as Housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on Social Housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of Social Housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited Social Housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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Social Housing and Urban Renewal: An Introduction
Social Housing and Urban Renewal, 2017Co-Authors: Paul WattAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to Social rental Housing. Social Housing estates – as developed either by governments (public Housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new urban renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of Social Housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other Social problems. This latest phase of urban renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of Social Housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure Housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and Social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical urbanists, as well as Housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on Social Housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of Social Housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited Social Housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
Peer Smets - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Housing and urban renewal: conclusion
Social Housing and Urban Renewal, 2017Co-Authors: Peer Smets, Paul WattAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to Social rental Housing. Social Housing estates – as developed either by governments (public Housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new urban renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of Social Housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other Social problems. This latest phase of urban renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of Social Housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure Housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and Social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical urbanists, as well as Housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on Social Housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of Social Housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited Social Housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
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Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective - Social Housing and urban renewal: A cross-national perspective
2017Co-Authors: Paul Watt, Peer SmetsAbstract:Book synopsis: This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to Social rental Housing. Social Housing estates – as developed either by governments (public Housing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially in the post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new urban renewal’ programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of Social Housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other Social problems. This latest phase of urban renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition of Social Housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure Housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and Social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical urbanists, as well as Housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on Social Housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of Social Housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited Social Housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
Michelle Norris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Procyclical Social Housing and the Crisis of Irish Housing Policy: Marketization, Social Housing, and the Property Boom and Bust
Housing Policy Debate, 2017Co-Authors: Michael D. Byrne, Michelle NorrisAbstract:AbstractThis article analyzes the role of Social Housing in Ireland’s property bubble and its experience of the global financial crisis. The article argues that over recent decades Social Housing has been transformed from a countercyclical measure which counterbalances the market into a procyclical measure which fuelled Ireland’s Housing boom. The reform of Social Housing financing and acquisition mechanisms has embedded Social Housing in the boom/bust dynamics of the private Housing system. Analyzing the shifting relationship between Social and private Housing is crucial to understanding the role of Housing policy in Ireland’s property bubble as well as the current Housing crisis. Despite being caused by problems in the private Housing and financial systems, the crisis has had very negative consequences for Social Housing, thus producing a crisis across the Housing system as a whole.
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Social Housing, Disadvantage, and Neighbourhood Liveability : Ten Years of Change in Social Housing Neighbourhoods
2013Co-Authors: Michelle NorrisAbstract:Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Changing Disadvantage in Social Housing: a multi level analysis Chapter Three: Liveability and the Lifeworld of the Social Housing Neighbourhood Chapter Four: Reforming Social Housing Management Chapter Five: Why Target Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods? Rationales for Area Based Interventions Chapter Six: A National Level View of Area-based Interventions Chapter Seven: A Neighbourhood Level View of Area-Based Interventions Chapter Eight: Drug Use, Drug Markets and Area-based Policy Responses Chapter Nine: Social (dis)Order and Community Safety Chapter Ten: Media Representations, Stigma and Neighbourhood Identity Chapter Eleven: Conclusions
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Social Housing Landlords: Europe
International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 2012Co-Authors: Michelle NorrisAbstract:Compared to the rest of the developed world, Western Europe is distinguished by relatively large Social Housing sectors. However, the number of Social rented dwellings and the institutional structures used to provide and manage them varies between Western European countries. In Ireland, most Social Housing is provided directly by the government; in Sweden and France, Social Housing is provided by Social landlords, who are not directly a part of the public sector but operate under its control; in Denmark and the Netherlands, Social Housing is provided by nongovernmental, non-profit-making organisations; and in Germany, private profit-making organisations provide most new Social Housing. In most European countries, these institutional structures have remained largely unchanged since the Social Housing sector was first established. However, institutional arrangements for the management, financing, and regulation of Social Housing have been commonly reformed since the 1970s. Object subsidies for the construction of new Social Housing have been cut and replaced by subject subsidies for tenants such as income-related Housing allowances. As a result, new Social Housing construction has declined and the Social profile of tenants has generally become more disadvantaged. In response, Social landlords have devoted more attention to the Social aspects of Housing management and the regeneration of estates.
