Tenants' Movement: a hidden history
A conference organised by Leeds Tenants Federation and Ad Ed Knowledge Company spotlighting research into housing struggles and the history of the tenants’ movement.
On Saturday 17 October 2009 at the Thackray Museum, Beckett Street Leeds LS9 7LN.
Speakers confirmed to date:
• Kim Singleton: Kirby Rent Strikes of 1971
• Paul Burnham: London Squatters in 1946
• Stewart Smyth: How accountable is social housing?
• John Grayson: Tenants in South Yorkshire
• Tony Cox: Problems and Potential: Scottish Housing Campaigns 2004-2009
• Quintin Bradley: Leeds Rent Strikes 1914 & 1934: the formation of a tenants’ movement
Short presentations are invited for an Open House session or to contribute to other workshops (for example, rent strikes of the 1970s, anti-transfer campaigns).
If you wish to contribute a paper, please contact: q.bradley@leedstenants.org.uk or j.grayson@phonecoop.coop
The conference costs £20 (or free to members of tenants and residents organisations and community organisations). To register, please fill in the attached form and send it with a cheque made payable to ‘Leeds Tenants Federation’ to Leeds Tenants Federation, Freepost NEA14248, Leeds LS2 3YY.
Thursday 13 August 2009
Tuesday 4 August 2009
PRIZE AWARDED TO UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW ACADEMIC
Gwilym Pryce's paper "Social Segmentation, Housing Submarkets and Dwelling Substitutability" won the The Hypoteční Banka Award for the best European Network of Housing Research 2009 Conference Paper.
NEWS FROM CLG
New publications from CLG include:
Attitudes to Housing: Findings from Ipsos MORI Public Affairs Monitor Omnibus Survey
Attitudes to Housing: Findings from Focus Groups
Exploring local authority policy and practice on housing allocations
The research can be accessed at:
www.communities.gov.uk/publications/housing/housingoptionsattitudes
Attitudes to Housing: Findings from Ipsos MORI Public Affairs Monitor Omnibus Survey
Attitudes to Housing: Findings from Focus Groups
Exploring local authority policy and practice on housing allocations
The research can be accessed at:
www.communities.gov.uk/publications/housing/housingoptionsattitudes
NEW PUBLICATION FROM CIH
Homelessness in the UK: problems and solutions
Editors: Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Deborah Quilgars and Nicholas Pleace
Homelessness is one of the most distressing and visible of social problems, and the treatment of homeless people is often viewed as emblematic of a society’s commitment to social justice. Homelessness has been central to successive Labour governments’ ‘social exclusion’ agendas since they first took office in 1997, with street homelessness in particular given a very high policy profile. While devolution since 1999 has brought about significant divergence in homelessness policies across the UK, its prominence in public policy debates is shared across all four UK jurisdictions.
This book examines the contemporary nature of homelessness in the UK and responses to it, focusing on developments since 1997, but placing these in their broader historical context. It is research-based but policy-focused – emphasising those issues which are most relevant to housing students, policy-makers, and practitioners. It considers not only the ‘problems’ associated with homelessness, but also the ‘solutions’ that have been identified as effective means to prevent and/or address homelessness.
See the full publications list online at www.cih.org/publications
Order no: 129
Price: CIH member price £28.00 Non-member price £35.00
Editors: Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Deborah Quilgars and Nicholas Pleace
Homelessness is one of the most distressing and visible of social problems, and the treatment of homeless people is often viewed as emblematic of a society’s commitment to social justice. Homelessness has been central to successive Labour governments’ ‘social exclusion’ agendas since they first took office in 1997, with street homelessness in particular given a very high policy profile. While devolution since 1999 has brought about significant divergence in homelessness policies across the UK, its prominence in public policy debates is shared across all four UK jurisdictions.
This book examines the contemporary nature of homelessness in the UK and responses to it, focusing on developments since 1997, but placing these in their broader historical context. It is research-based but policy-focused – emphasising those issues which are most relevant to housing students, policy-makers, and practitioners. It considers not only the ‘problems’ associated with homelessness, but also the ‘solutions’ that have been identified as effective means to prevent and/or address homelessness.
See the full publications list online at www.cih.org/publications
Order no: 129
Price: CIH member price £28.00 Non-member price £35.00
NEWS FROM PLANNING DEPARTMENT, QUB
New research funding
Dr Michael Murray has won funding from the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland, to establish a cross-border research network that will explore healthy ageing in rural communities. The network will draw on interdisciplinary expertise in the areas of gerontology, spatial planning, rural geography, economics, social care, and public health. The other partners are the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the Geography Department at the National University of Ireland Galway, The Centre for Clinical and Population Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast, and the Rural Community Network.
Dr Michael Murray has won funding from the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland, to establish a cross-border research network that will explore healthy ageing in rural communities. The network will draw on interdisciplinary expertise in the areas of gerontology, spatial planning, rural geography, economics, social care, and public health. The other partners are the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the Geography Department at the National University of Ireland Galway, The Centre for Clinical and Population Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast, and the Rural Community Network.
NEWS FROM CRESR
A Process Evaluation of 'Celtic Against Drugs' and 'Rangers Positive Choices' Programmes
A team of researchers from CRESR and the HPPU at the University of Stirling have been commissioned by the Scottish Government to evaluate two government-funded education and diversionary projects for young people delivered by Celtic and Rangers football clubs. The schemes work with primary school age children from deprived neighbourhoods in Glasgow and combine football coaching and other activities with education about drugs, alcohol, health and diet, sectarianism and racism. The evaluation will assess the management, monitoring, referral and delivery of the two projects and their initial outcomes. A final report will be produced in December 2009.
For information about this study please contact John Flint: j.f.flint@shu.ac.uk
A team of researchers from CRESR and the HPPU at the University of Stirling have been commissioned by the Scottish Government to evaluate two government-funded education and diversionary projects for young people delivered by Celtic and Rangers football clubs. The schemes work with primary school age children from deprived neighbourhoods in Glasgow and combine football coaching and other activities with education about drugs, alcohol, health and diet, sectarianism and racism. The evaluation will assess the management, monitoring, referral and delivery of the two projects and their initial outcomes. A final report will be produced in December 2009.
For information about this study please contact John Flint: j.f.flint@shu.ac.uk
NEW ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Flint, J. (2009) 'Migrant Information Packs and the Colonisation of Civility in the UK', Space and Polity 13(2): 127-140.
Flint, J. (2009) 'Cultures, Ghettos and Camps: Sites of Exception and Antagonism in the City', Housing Studies 24(4): 417- 431.
Flint, J. (2009) 'Subversive Subjects and Conditional, Earned and Denied Citizenship', In M. Barnes and D. Prior (Eds.) Subversive Citizens: Power, Agency and Resistance in Public Services (Bristol: Policy Press), pp. 83-98.
Flint, J. (2009) On the Governance of Social Housing, in D. Czischke (Ed.) Urban Regeneration in Europe: The Place of Housing in Integrated Urban Policies- Current Perspectives (Brussels: CECODHAS European Social Housing Observatory), pp. 35- 44.
Flint, J. and Powell, R. (2009) 'Civilising Offensives: Education, Football and "Eradicating" Sectarianism in Scotland', In A. Millie (Ed.) Securing Respect: Behavioural Expectations and Anti-social Behaviour in the UK (Bristol: Policy Press), pp. 219-238
Levin, E. and Pryce, G. (2009) A regional house price model of excess demand for housing, RICS Research Report May 2009, ISBN: 978-1-84219-510-9.
McKee, K. (2009) 'Empowering Glasgow's Tenants through Community Ownership?' Local Economy 24(4): 299-309.
Murray , M, Houston , D, Keaveney, K, McKay, S, and Murtagh, B, (2009) 'Economic Diversification in the Countryside', Town Planning Review 80(2): 201-226.
Parr, S. and Nixon, J. (2009) 'Family Intervention Projects: Sites of Subversion and Resilience', In M. Barnes and D. Prior (Eds.) Subversive Citizens: Power, agency and resistance in public services (Bristol: Policy Press)
Pryce, G. and Sprigings, N. (2009) Outlook for UK housing and the implications for policy: Are we reaping what we have sown?, International Journal of Housing Market Analysis, 2(2): 145-166.
Pryce, G. (2009) Responding to the Impending Repossessions Crisis, Housing Analysis and Surveys Expert Panel Papers, 7, Communities and Local Government.
Flint, J. (2009) 'Cultures, Ghettos and Camps: Sites of Exception and Antagonism in the City', Housing Studies 24(4): 417- 431.
Flint, J. (2009) 'Subversive Subjects and Conditional, Earned and Denied Citizenship', In M. Barnes and D. Prior (Eds.) Subversive Citizens: Power, Agency and Resistance in Public Services (Bristol: Policy Press), pp. 83-98.
Flint, J. (2009) On the Governance of Social Housing, in D. Czischke (Ed.) Urban Regeneration in Europe: The Place of Housing in Integrated Urban Policies- Current Perspectives (Brussels: CECODHAS European Social Housing Observatory), pp. 35- 44.
Flint, J. and Powell, R. (2009) 'Civilising Offensives: Education, Football and "Eradicating" Sectarianism in Scotland', In A. Millie (Ed.) Securing Respect: Behavioural Expectations and Anti-social Behaviour in the UK (Bristol: Policy Press), pp. 219-238
Levin, E. and Pryce, G. (2009) A regional house price model of excess demand for housing, RICS Research Report May 2009, ISBN: 978-1-84219-510-9.
McKee, K. (2009) 'Empowering Glasgow's Tenants through Community Ownership?' Local Economy 24(4): 299-309.
Murray , M, Houston , D, Keaveney, K, McKay, S, and Murtagh, B, (2009) 'Economic Diversification in the Countryside', Town Planning Review 80(2): 201-226.
Parr, S. and Nixon, J. (2009) 'Family Intervention Projects: Sites of Subversion and Resilience', In M. Barnes and D. Prior (Eds.) Subversive Citizens: Power, agency and resistance in public services (Bristol: Policy Press)
Pryce, G. and Sprigings, N. (2009) Outlook for UK housing and the implications for policy: Are we reaping what we have sown?, International Journal of Housing Market Analysis, 2(2): 145-166.
Pryce, G. (2009) Responding to the Impending Repossessions Crisis, Housing Analysis and Surveys Expert Panel Papers, 7, Communities and Local Government.
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