Marginalised Voices: Resisting the Privatisation of Council Housing in Glasgow

Gerry Mooney and Lynne Poole
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Gerry Mooney: Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Edinburgh, UK
Lynne Poole: School of Social Sciences, University of Paisley, UK

Local Economy, 2005, vol. 20, issue 1, 27-39

Abstract: This paper explores the opposition to housing stock transfer in Glasgow in the early 1990s. Taking the position of anti-transfer campaigners, it argues that transfer can be interpreted as a form of ‘privatisation’ involving a profound restructuring in the role of the state in a key heartland area of welfare provision. Using interviews from housing campaigners in Glasgow, the paper argues that the much-heralded rhetoric about housing stock transfer as promoting tenant choice is highly contentious and misleading. The paper includes by highlighting that dispite the move to transfer in Glasgow, there remains a significant campaign against transfer in other parts of the UK.

Keywords: Housing stock transfer; Scotland; Glasgow; community participation; privatisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1080/0269094042000313593

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