New housing association development and its potential to reduce concentrations of deprivation: An English case study

Tony Crook, Peter Bibby, Ed Ferrari, Sarah Monk, Connie Tang and Christine Whitehead
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Tony Crook: University of Sheffield, UK
Peter Bibby: University of Sheffield, UK
Ed Ferrari: University of Sheffield, UK
Sarah Monk: University of Cambridge, UK
Connie Tang: University of Cambridge, UK
Christine Whitehead: London School of Economics, UK

Urban Studies, 2016, vol. 53, issue 16, 3388-3404

Abstract: Social housing across Western Europe has become significantly more residualised as governments concentrate on helping vulnerable households. Many countries are trying to reduce the concentrations of deprivation by building for a wider range of households and tenures. In England this policy has two main strands: (1) including other tenures when regenerating areas originally built as mono-tenure social housing estates and (2) introducing social rented and low-cost homeownership into new private market developments through planning obligations. By examining where new social housing and low-cost home ownership homes have been built and who moves into them, this paper examines whether these policies achieve social mix and reduce spatial concentrations of deprivation. The evidence suggests that new housing association development has enabled some vulnerable households to live in areas which are not deprived, while some better-off households have moved into more deprived areas. But these trends have not been sufficient to stem increases in deprivation in the most deprived areas.

Keywords: deprivation; housing association development; low-cost home ownership; social housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098015613044

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