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Housing, housing assistance and social cohesion

2006
In recent years, policy makers in Australia and other countries, such as Canada, the UK and certain European countries, and in supranational organisations such as the European Union and the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development (OECD) have expressed interest in social cohesion, an old concept which has been revived and recast in the light ...
Hulse, Kathleen, Stone, Wendy
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Housing and Social Fragmentation in the Netherlands

Housing Studies, 2000
The role of housing policy has been largely ignored in the debate on social fragmentation in Western societies. Only in Great Britain has this aspect attained prominence on the research agenda. Investigations there have shown that the mode of housing provision mitigates the effects of social fragmentation.
van Kempen, R., Schutjens, V.A.J.M., van Weesep, J.   +2 more
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Competition and Social Rented Housing

Housing, Theory and Society, 2010
Abstract This paper aims to make a contribution to the debate about the meaning of competition as applied to social housing and the usefulness of a competitive paradigm as a comparative analytical tool. Social housing providers have been asked to become more competitive and more market orientated in Europe. But what exactly do these terms mean and what
Oxley, Michael, Elsinga, M., Haffner, Marietta, van der Heijden, Harry   +3 more
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Social Housing

2007
This chapter sketches the most significant trends in the development of the social housing provision in this country from the mid 1800s, until the contemporary period. The opening part of the chapter examines the early housing legislation; explains how it shaped the system of social housing provision and assesses the contribution which social housing ...
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Social Housing

2012
S. Kromhout, M. van Ham
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Social change and transformations in housing

International Social Science Journal, 2009
This study aims to illustrate how residential morphology and home-use patterns reflect the transition from semi-nomadism to an urban lifestyle undergone by the Bedouin of the Negev (Israel). Thirty houses and 300 building plans were studied while planners, builders and residents were interviewed.
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Actors, Agents and Attendants: Social Housing — Housing the Social

2012
Social Housing—Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice examines ongoing transformations in social housing and asks how these transformations are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists. Housing provides essential shelter, but also gives form to the social. It represents and embodies the materiality of civic politics and thus
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Social housing in the Irish housing market

2018
This working paper traces the evolution of social supports for housing since 2004, including local authority (LA) housing, housing provided by Approved Housing Bodies (AHB) and support for renting in the private sector through schemes administered by the local government sector (Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) and the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP))
Corrigan, Eoin, Watson, Dorothy
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Housing market financialization, neoliberalism and everyday retrenchment of social housing

Environment and Planning A, 2022
Michelle Norris, Michael Byrne
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Social Aspects of Housing

Royal Society of Health Journal, 1973
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