How Has Policy for Social Rented Housing Developed Since 1979?
9. How has policy for social rented housing developed since 1979?
10. Discuss the intentions and impact of policies for home ownership since 1979.
11: HOUSING
• Up to the 1970s housing policy was an integral part of the classic welfare state
• With the triumph of private homeownership, government housing policy has all but disappeared,
• broken up into a series of separate measures concerned with
privatisation
‘affordability’ (rents, mortgages and house prices)
regeneration (raising quality)
homelessness
Governments in 70s got complacent about housing needs because of
• popularity of home ownership
• success in clearing slums and
• achieving social minimum standards for the majority
But today:
• 600,000 households are overcrowded
• housing wealth more polarised than ever
• councils accepted over 57,000 families as homeless in 2008
• 67,000 families in temporary accommodation at the end of 2008
• estimated need for 240,000 new homes a year, but only 80,000 starts this year
• shortage of supply pushes up rents and house prices
Tenure - socio-legal relations involved in housing consumption; major tenures are: • home ownership, owner occupation (oo)
• private rental (pr)
• social rental: non-profit, public subsidy
council (ch)
housing association (ha)
% UK oo ch ha pr
1900 10 1 89
1953 32 18 50
1981 58 29 2 11
1992 66 21 3 10
2006 70 10 8 11
see Lloyd (2009) Figure 4 % oo’s falling since 2005 for first time ever The idea of ‘housing policy ' now problematic
– ‘wobbly pillar’ of the welfare state:
• Over 80% of housing in Britain is financed and consumed in the ‘private ' sectors (owner occupation or private renting) and almost all house construction and maintenance is carried out privately
• housing policy is secondary to the power of markets and private interests in the housing system, and this has always
10. Discuss the intentions and impact of policies for home ownership since 1979.
11: HOUSING
• Up to the 1970s housing policy was an integral part of the classic welfare state
• With the triumph of private homeownership, government housing policy has all but disappeared,
• broken up into a series of separate measures concerned with
privatisation
‘affordability’ (rents, mortgages and house prices)
regeneration (raising quality)
homelessness
Governments in 70s got complacent about housing needs because of
• popularity of home ownership
• success in clearing slums and
• achieving social minimum standards for the majority
But today:
• 600,000 households are overcrowded
• housing wealth more polarised than ever
• councils accepted over 57,000 families as homeless in 2008
• 67,000 families in temporary accommodation at the end of 2008
• estimated need for 240,000 new homes a year, but only 80,000 starts this year
• shortage of supply pushes up rents and house prices
Tenure - socio-legal relations involved in housing consumption; major tenures are: • home ownership, owner occupation (oo)
• private rental (pr)
• social rental: non-profit, public subsidy
council (ch)
housing association (ha)
% UK oo ch ha pr
1900 10 1 89
1953 32 18 50
1981 58 29 2 11
1992 66 21 3 10
2006 70 10 8 11
see Lloyd (2009) Figure 4 % oo’s falling since 2005 for first time ever The idea of ‘housing policy ' now problematic
– ‘wobbly pillar’ of the welfare state:
• Over 80% of housing in Britain is financed and consumed in the ‘private ' sectors (owner occupation or private renting) and almost all house construction and maintenance is carried out privately
• housing policy is secondary to the power of markets and private interests in the housing system, and this has always