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Governing Independence and Expertise - The Business of Housing Associations (Paperback)
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Governing Independence and Expertise - The Business of Housing Associations (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2011
Governing, Independence and Expertise tells the story of the
not-for-profit housing sector in England, focusing on its
representative body, the National Housing Federation. The story
tells of how the Federation and associations influenced their own
space of governing through deploying discourses of independence and
expertise; how being governed, and governing, become, at times, one
and the same. The National Federation of Housing Societies was born
in 1935 out of the apparent failure of housing societies,
associations and charitable trusts to tackle the 'problem of the
slums'. Its story was a familiar one - organisations have often set
up collective structures to facilitate intervention in government.
Viewed historically the success of the project is, nevertheless,
remarkable, given that the housing association sector is now a
major force in social housing provision. Moreover housing
associations have pioneered many programmes which are central to
our 'modernised' welfare state - such as private finance,
independence and entrepreneurialism. Through the story of the
Federation, the book examines the role of non-governmental actors
in mechanisms of governing, engaging contemporary debates about
public services and the nature of the 'social' - the limits of the
role of the not-for-profit sector; the impact of private funders;
and the disappearance of the notion of 'public'.
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