 From asset based welfare to welfare housing? The changing function of social housing in IrelandMichelle Norris and Tony Fahey Open Access publications from Research Repository, University College Dublin Abstract: This article examines a distinctive and significant aspect of social housing in Ireland – its change in function from an asset-based role in welfare support to a more standard model of welfare housing. It outlines the nationalist and agrarian drivers which expanded the initial role of social housing beyond the goal of improving housing conditions for the poor towards the goal of extending home ownership and assesses whether this focus made it more similar to the ‘asset based welfare’ approach to housing found in south-east Asia than to social housing in western Europe. From the mid-1980s, the role of Irish social housing changed as the sector contracted and evolved towards the model of welfare housing now found in many other western countries. Policy makers have struggled to address the implications of this transition and vestiges of social housing’s traditional function are still evident, consequently the boundaries between social housing, private renting and home ownership in Ireland have grown increasingly nebulous. Keywords: Ireland; Social housing; Home ownership; Privatisation; Welfare recipients--Housing--Ireland; Low-income housing--Ireland (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in: Housing Studies, 26(3) 2011 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rru:oapubs:10197/2971 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Open Access publications from Research Repository, University College Dublin |
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