Drawing upon Foucauldian analyzes of governmentality, the authors contend that social housing must be understood according to a range of political rationalities that saturate current practice and policy. They critically address the practice of dividing social from private tenure; situating subjects such as the purpose and financing of social housing, the regulation of its providers and occupiers and its relationship to changing perceptions of private renting and owner-occupation, within the context of an argument that all housing tenures form part of an understanding of social housing....
Drawing upon Foucauldian analyzes of governmentality, the authors contend that social housing must be understood according to a range of political ...
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 by 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...
Governing Independence and Expertise tells the story of the not-for-profit housing sector in England, focusing on its representative body, the Nationa...
