Housing Privatisation Conference, University of Leeds, July 2010
Parallel Session: Alternatives to the Market
Beginning with the Conservative government’s Right to Buy policy in 1980, UK social housing has been subject to a range of policy initiatives designed to modernise the sector via market mechanisms. However, a parallel set of processes have also been occurring. As public sector housing has declined, housing that is controlled and owned by the local community has been increasingly promoted by government. These models of community housing provision, which include tenant-management co-operatives, housing co-operatives, and more recently, community-land trusts, represent important and significant alternatives to the market. In doing so, they shift the emphasis from the public to the voluntary sector through an emphasis on community empowerment and asset-ownership. They have at their core the values of self-help and volunteerism, and play an important role in encouraging active, responsible citizenship.
This parallel session aims to build and develop our critical understanding of community housing provision as a valuable ‘alternative to the market’. Papers are welcome from all sections of the housing community.
For further information, please contact the session organisers:
Kim McKee (University of Glasgow)
kim.mckee@ges.gla.ac.uk
Tom Moore (Sheffield Hallam University)
Tom.Moore@student.shu.ac.uk
Monday 1 February 2010
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