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For decades, social housing has been defunded and ignored. The system is now broken, and it needs to be fixed.
Housing policy needs to prioritise housing’s function as a home, rather than an asset.
More homes, more homes, more homes. What about less elbow room instead?
The symptoms are clear, but the cure will remain elusive until we recognise the many sources of the problem.
It is 2016 but, when it comes to housing, in many ways it could actually be 1891.
Thatcher’s right to buy scheme had some unexpected consequences for society’s most disadvantaged citizens.
Rocketing rents? Fierce protests against housing policies against the interests of the poor? Cereal Killer attacks have many predecessors - particularly Glasgow in 1915.
The budget contained some major housing reforms, but the chancellor had no answer to the sector’s number-one problem.
Cameron’s pledge may help some in social housing, but it offers no hope for everyone else who’s locked out of the market.
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University
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Researcher, National Centre for Social Research
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Professor of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Criminology, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Economics | Freelance Consultant, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor (Housing Policy), Adelaide University, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
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Chancellor's Fellow in Sustainable Design, University of Strathclyde
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield