Back to basics: Is it time for a housing-first approach to community regeneration?

Matthew Dicks

Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 2017, vol. 11, issue 2, 143-147

Abstract: Why did voters in West Wales and the Valleys vote for Brexit despite £4bn of European Structural Funding being pumped into the region to regenerate the economy, housing and communities? Many must have walked past the brand new bypasses on their way to the polling station. They now act as metaphor — with a perception that the regeneration has quite simply passed them by. Despite the housing sector’s best efforts to improve the quality of ageing housing stock and regenerating communities, poverty remains well-entrenched. Regeneration, as a discipline, needs to reflect on this and we need to think differently about our approach.

Keywords: housing; communities; valleys; Grenfell Tower; human-right; homelessness; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 Z33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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