Choice and the End of Social Housing
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Peter King proposes radical reform of the system of support for housing costs and the abolition of social housing.
The provision of housing for the less well off has been dominated by the state for over sixty years. Despite some moves to increase choice for tenants in the 1980s, policy in the UK has been characterised by a desire to control the suppliers of housing, without ever giving tenants true autonomy or providing them with decent housing. The current government is using the language of choice whilst pursuing an agenda of increasing centralised control.
In this monograph, Peter King analyses current policy and alternatives. He demonstrates that there is an overwhelming case for subsidising only the consumers of housing and for removing controls and subsidises from the providers. This would empower tenants, provide them with genuine choice and prevent housing policy from being controlled by supply-side interests.
The author shows how a new system of housing benefit can be introduced to achieve the objectives of housing policy and how this approach should relate to wider reforms of the social security system. In short, argues King, the government should promote choice and thus abolish social housing.
2006, Hobart Papers 155, ISBN 978 0 255 36568 0, 137pp, PB
See Also:
Liberating the Land by Mark Pennington
The Land Use Planning System by John Corkindale
The New Rural Economy edited by Berkeley Hill
In this monograph, Peter King analyses current policy and alternatives. He demonstrates that there is an overwhelming case for subsidising only the consumers of housing and for removing controls and subsidises from the providers. This would empower tenants, provide them with genuine choice and prevent housing policy from being controlled by supply-side interests.
The author shows how a new system of housing benefit can be introduced to achieve the objectives of housing policy and how this approach should relate to wider reforms of the social security system. In short, argues King, the government should promote choice and thus abolish social housing.
2006, Hobart Papers 155, ISBN 978 0 255 36568 0, 137pp, PB
See Also:
Liberating the Land by Mark Pennington
The Land Use Planning System by John Corkindale
The New Rural Economy edited by Berkeley Hill
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