Housing Benefit and Tenant Coping Strategies in the Private Rental Housing Market

P McLaverty and P A Kemp
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P McLaverty: Department of Polities and Public Policy, University of Luton, Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU, UK
P A Kemp: Centre for Mousing Research and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RS, UK

Environment and Planning A, 1998, vol. 30, issue 2, 355-366

Abstract: In this paper we report findings of interviews with housing benefit claimants whose eligible rent for housing benefit was less than the contractual rent ‘agreed’ with their landlord. Linking into debates about the usefulness of the concept of ‘strategy’ in social analysis, we consider whether the claimants interviewed pursued strategies in coping with the shortfalls in their eligible rent for housing benefit. Though claimants often had difficulty in pursuing ‘strategies' successfully, the research shows that most of those interviewed did try to act strategically. They were not simply the passive victims of circumstances beyond their control.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1068/a300355

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