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The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime
mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts
as new bonds. Austerity programmes are designed to reduce the
borrowing that governments undertook to stabilise failing banking
systems but the UK's Coalition government is using 'austerity' as a
cover to dismantle the welfare state. Housing is at the forefront
of these changes. Mortgages and rental costs are rising as 'the
market' dictates them, while people with low incomes now receive
substantially less financial help from the welfare state. In this
much-needed text by an experienced author with a policy background,
current housing finance issues (and their history) are linked with
broader social policy and political themes. It covers the finance
of building and refurbishment, managing and maintaining property
for all the different tenures (owner occupation, council housing,
housing association and private renting), and discusses whether
current arrangements are sustainable. Written for housing, social
policy and politics students and staff, it is also accessible to
anyone concerned about housing in Britain today.
The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime
mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts
as new bonds. Austerity programmes are designed to reduce the
borrowing that governments undertook to stabilise failing banking
systems but the UK's Coalition government is using 'austerity' as a
cover to dismantle the welfare state. Housing is at the forefront
of these changes. Mortgages and rental costs are rising as 'the
market' dictates them, while people with low incomes now receive
substantially less financial help from the welfare state. In this
much-needed text by an experienced author with a policy background,
current housing finance issues (and their history) are linked with
broader social policy and political themes. It covers the finance
of building and refurbishment, managing and maintaining property
for all the different tenures (owner occupation, council housing,
housing association and private renting), and discusses whether
current arrangements are sustainable. Written for housing, social
policy and politics students and staff, it is also accessible to
anyone concerned about housing in Britain today.
Issues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social
sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy
fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its
institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This book
provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of
housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing
needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this
broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated in housing.
It deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective which is
applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the
agency/structure divide. Housing, social policy and difference:
brings disability, ethnicity and gender into the centre of an
analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach
to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency,
structure and diversity; develops the ideas of 'difference within
difference' and 'social regulation'; looks beyond the concerns of
postmodernism to create an original account of difference and
structure within the welfare state. The book will be an important
text for students and researchers in housing, social policy,
planning, urban studies, sociology, disability studies, gender
studies and ethnic relations. It will also interest practitioners
committed to greater equalities of opportunities and a fairer
society.
Cathysweightlossdiary.co.uk was a popular website running from 2001
through to 2012 following the ups and downs (literally) of one
woman's battle with weight, husband, children and life in general.
Written with candour and humour it had people connecting in each
week to see not only how the weightloss was going, but how Cathy's
life in general was going. At times sad, often funny, it was
nothing more than the truth and one that many people could identify
with. Every page of the website was created from scratch by Cathy
and eventually this just became too time consuming. The lure of
Facebook and Wordpress drew her away and in 2012 the website was
closed down. Because of the number of words written and the number
of photographs taken, to do the website justice the book has been
broken down into several volumes. This is Volume 1 and deals with
the years 2001 - 2003.
Housing associations are central to the government's strategy to
improve social housing yet have no direct statutory responsibility
for rehousing homeless people. This study critically examines the
role of housing associations in responding to the needs of women
who have become homeless due to domestic violence. Housing
associations - rehousing women leaving domestic violence will fill
a gap in the literature for academic staff and students interested
in housing studies, social policy, sociology, women's studies,
political studies and organisation/management studies; provide
valuable guidance to staff in housing associations and local
authorities working in "general needs" housing, supported housing
and homeless services; and provide policy makers with a useful
introduction to key issues.
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