Housing affordability problems are exacerbating poverty, particularly for working age households ... more Housing affordability problems are exacerbating poverty, particularly for working age households increasingly reliant on private renting, and housing needs have increased, reversing long-standing trends. UK housing still partially insulates the poor from bad housing experience but this tendency is weakening. Fuel poverty has significantly worsened and the poor are 6-10 times more likely to experience its adverse impacts. The poor are also more likely to experience neighbourhood social and other problems.
This chapter explores the ways in which Ireland’s planning process enabled oversupply in rural ar... more This chapter explores the ways in which Ireland’s planning process enabled oversupply in rural areas, coupled with undersupply in the largest city of Dublin, by enabling extreme rural over-zoning and facilitating the dominance of local political voices at the expense of national government policy. It traces the ways in which the liberal planning regime of Ireland facilitated a very responsive housing market in the context of high demand for housing investment, but neglected fundamental considerations about underlying population growth, the environmental and heritage impacts of zoning decisions and of planning proposals, and the suitability of particular sites for housing development. The first section of the chapter outlines patterns of housing demand and supply in Ireland, focussing particularly on the boom and bust cycle between 1996 and 2006, but contextualising this period with reference to previous and subsequent periods. The analysis also highlights sharp variations in the geography of new housing supply. Secondly, the chapter sketches the main characteristics of the Irish planning system and recent changes to the system which may have facilitated the excessive supply response. The third section of the chapter examines these characteristics in greater detail along with other potential drivers of Ireland’s unbalanced housing supply. Finally, we also consider developments in planning’s role in the delivery of affordable and inclusionary housing.
reviews existing evidence about destitution in the UK; analyses expert definitions of destituti... more reviews existing evidence about destitution in the UK; analyses expert definitions of destitution; provides new evidence on the general public's views on destitution; summarises early results from a statistical analysis of households in severe poverty and potentially at risk of destitution. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on destitution, which aims to help explain the causes of destitution and identify ways to reduce it. ISBN 978 1 90958 685 7
ABSTRACT There is a longstanding concern about middle-class capture of the benefits of public ser... more ABSTRACT There is a longstanding concern about middle-class capture of the benefits of public service provision, although relatively little evidence exists on the exact nature of any advantage or on the processes by which this comes about. Using a framework developed from Gal (J. Gal, 1998. Formulating the Matthew Principle: on the role of the middle-classes in the welfare state. Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7, 42–55), and via two case studies of street cleansing services in the UK, the article explores the ways in which middle-class service users assert influence in relation to service design, resource allocation and practice on the ground. It explores how urban managers respond to middle-class influence, revealing the ways in which influence is accommodated and the benefits of this to middle-class service users. It also evidences how urban managers attempt to resist aspects of middle-class advantage, and the challenges such resistance presents. The article concludes that the need to ‘manage’ middle-class influence permeates the routine institutional policies and practices of this key public service.
‘Destitution’ has re-entered the lexicon of UK social policy in the 2010s, highlighted by the rap... more ‘Destitution’ has re-entered the lexicon of UK social policy in the 2010s, highlighted by the rapid growth of food banks and rough sleeping in a context of controversial welfare reforms and austerity policies, yet theoretical literature on this remains limited. Specialist surveys have been developed to measure and profile these phenomena, but these remain separate from the mainstream statistical approach to poverty, which relies heavily on large-scale household surveys. Evidence from recent work in this area, including qualitative evidence, is very suggestive of risk and driving factors, but it is difficult to weigh the relative importance of different factors or to predict the effects of policy measures. A composite survey approach is developed, linking a specialised survey targeting households at risk of destitution with a major national household panel dataset, to enable predictive models to be fitted to data including significant representation of hard-to-reach and non-household populations. Models predicting destitution and food bank usage are developed and compared, highlighting the roles of key factors. Vignettes are used to show how the risks vary dramatically between households in different situations. The potential role of such models in micro-simulation or prediction of impacts of different scenarios is discussed.
To estimate the scale of destitution in the UK in 2019 (pre-COVID-19) • To identify any emerging ... more To estimate the scale of destitution in the UK in 2019 (pre-COVID-19) • To identify any emerging trends in destitution (pre-COVID-19) • To identify the early impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on people who were destitute when surveyed in autumn 2019 • To deepen the quantitative and qualitative analysis of London
Baseline estimates of core homelessness in 2018-19 6 3 Recent changes in core homelessness number... more Baseline estimates of core homelessness in 2018-19 6 3 Recent changes in core homelessness numbers 4 Developing core homelessness projections 5 The Baseline Projections and Covid 6 Variant policy and contextual scenarios in the medium term 7 Conclusions and implications References Appendix A Details of data sources used to estimate core homelessness B Data Sources for Models C Summary of predictive models for elements of core homelessness: variables by model D Further details of predictive models.
How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are thos... more How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places? Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of these problems. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of disadvantage as well as poverty - access to local services or employment, social relations or civic participation, health and well-being. The book also explores relationships between these in the first truly multi-dimensional analysis of exclusion. Written by leading academics, this is an authoritative account of welfare outcomes achieved across the UK. A companion volume Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Volume 1 focuses on specific groups such as children or older people, and different geographical areas.
This project was undertaken as a collaboration between researchers at Heriot-Watt University and ... more This project was undertaken as a collaboration between researchers at Heriot-Watt University and DMSS Research. DMSS led a series of consultations with a range of severely disadvantaged women-in order that this work would be informed by their lived experiences and their perspectives on gender and multiple disadvantage-and produced a conceptual report which has helped shape the analysis (McNeish and Scott, 2017). In addition we are grateful for the assistance of NatCen Social Research who ran specific analyses under their Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) data use agreement with NHS Digital. The authors would like to acknowledge the support and advice of Di McNeish, Sara Scott and Sally McManus in the production of the report. Particular thanks are due to the advisory group members, and to the six groups of women around the country who shared their varied experience of multiple disadvantage with us and whose perspectives and advice have been so important in shaping this study.
... Prix indicatif 78,72 Ajouter au panier le livre de BRAMLEY Glen, MUNRO Moira, PAWSON Hal. D... more ... Prix indicatif 78,72 Ajouter au panier le livre de BRAMLEY Glen, MUNRO Moira, PAWSON Hal. Date de parution : 09-2004 Langue : ANGLAIS 256p. 23.4x15.6 Hardback Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 14 jours). ... Médicaments - les règles du jeu. ...
The concluding chapter of Urban Planning and the Housing Market draws together the different pers... more The concluding chapter of Urban Planning and the Housing Market draws together the different perspectives and experiences presented in the book to highlight a series of common issues and emerging lessons. The case for governments to take housing problems seriously is restated, while acknowledging the role of distinctive, historically evolved political forces in mediating particular responses to the common challenges of poverty and inequality, demographic change, environmental and climate uncertainty and the complexities of urban life. The chapter also examines how fundamental differences in planning system ‘regimes’ (systems of development control, land ownership and the scale of urban governance) might influence the overall delivery of new and affordable housing supply while contributing to wider social and environmentally sustainable communities.
Abstract The housing system in England has experienced unprecedented stress and instability over ... more Abstract The housing system in England has experienced unprecedented stress and instability over the last decade, absorbing the impact of demographic pressure, a credit-fuelled boom, financial crisis, recession and policy change. A failing supply system and unexpected tenure changes now confront austerity and welfare cutback. How have these conditions impacted on traditional and contemporary indicators of housing need and what does this tell us about the drivers and dynamics of housing need outcomes? Drawing mainly on analysis of large-scale longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys, linked to subregional market data, this paper describes and models the changes in housing need outcomes over two decades. It explores the impact of demography, market affordability, labour markets, tenure change and supply on these outcomes. Particular attention is paid to the persistence or recurrence of need in the context of different housing pathways and different market contexts, including the relationship with poverty.
International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, 2015
Being the primate city of Bangladesh, higher population growth and inward migration from rural ar... more Being the primate city of Bangladesh, higher population growth and inward migration from rural areas is making Dhaka to experience an unprecedented level of urbanisation. This has brought twofold implications-pushing it high up the mega-city size ladder while also posing the planners and city managers with more complex spatial and socioeconomic challenges to deal with the rapidly expanding urban footprint. Updating the knowledge and evidence-base of Dhaka's urban growth dynamics becomes increasingly crucial for better functioning of its strategic urban planning and management. Therefore, this research seeks to broaden our knowledge of understanding spatial urban growth patterns and processes of Dhaka over the period of 1988-2005. Hybrid spatial modelling frameworks, incorporating statistical models (in the form of weight-of-evidence approach) along with cellular automata functions, therefore, have been used to comprehend the dynamism of rapid urban growth from 1988 to 2005. As expected, the local version of the transition probabilities (where Dhaka was divided into 18 Spatial Planning Zones), produced improved results compared to the global version (i.e. the whole of the Dhaka metropolitan area). The modelling framework has further been tested as a planner's 'what-if' simulation box to generate near-future scenario using future policy dataset. It appears to have sufficient experimental potential to implement more extensive spatio-temporal land-use modelling process even in sparse data environment such as Dhaka.
Aims and Objectives 1.2 Research Questions 1.3 Structure of the Report 2. RESEARCH APPROACH AND M... more Aims and Objectives 1.2 Research Questions 1.3 Structure of the Report 2. RESEARCH APPROACH AND METHODS 2.1 Research Design 2.2 National Survey of Planning Officers 2.3 Case Study Approach and Selection 2.4 In-depth Interviews with Elected Members and National Stakeholders 3. KEY FINDINGS 3.1 Understanding of the New Homes Bonus 3.2. The Impact of the New Homes Bonus on Attitudes 3.3 The Impact of the New Homes Bonus on Behaviour 3.4 Implementation and Use of Receipts 4. CONCLUSIONS
Housing affordability problems are exacerbating poverty, particularly for working age households ... more Housing affordability problems are exacerbating poverty, particularly for working age households increasingly reliant on private renting, and housing needs have increased, reversing long-standing trends. UK housing still partially insulates the poor from bad housing experience but this tendency is weakening. Fuel poverty has significantly worsened and the poor are 6-10 times more likely to experience its adverse impacts. The poor are also more likely to experience neighbourhood social and other problems.
This chapter explores the ways in which Ireland’s planning process enabled oversupply in rural ar... more This chapter explores the ways in which Ireland’s planning process enabled oversupply in rural areas, coupled with undersupply in the largest city of Dublin, by enabling extreme rural over-zoning and facilitating the dominance of local political voices at the expense of national government policy. It traces the ways in which the liberal planning regime of Ireland facilitated a very responsive housing market in the context of high demand for housing investment, but neglected fundamental considerations about underlying population growth, the environmental and heritage impacts of zoning decisions and of planning proposals, and the suitability of particular sites for housing development. The first section of the chapter outlines patterns of housing demand and supply in Ireland, focussing particularly on the boom and bust cycle between 1996 and 2006, but contextualising this period with reference to previous and subsequent periods. The analysis also highlights sharp variations in the geography of new housing supply. Secondly, the chapter sketches the main characteristics of the Irish planning system and recent changes to the system which may have facilitated the excessive supply response. The third section of the chapter examines these characteristics in greater detail along with other potential drivers of Ireland’s unbalanced housing supply. Finally, we also consider developments in planning’s role in the delivery of affordable and inclusionary housing.
reviews existing evidence about destitution in the UK; analyses expert definitions of destituti... more reviews existing evidence about destitution in the UK; analyses expert definitions of destitution; provides new evidence on the general public's views on destitution; summarises early results from a statistical analysis of households in severe poverty and potentially at risk of destitution. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on destitution, which aims to help explain the causes of destitution and identify ways to reduce it. ISBN 978 1 90958 685 7
ABSTRACT There is a longstanding concern about middle-class capture of the benefits of public ser... more ABSTRACT There is a longstanding concern about middle-class capture of the benefits of public service provision, although relatively little evidence exists on the exact nature of any advantage or on the processes by which this comes about. Using a framework developed from Gal (J. Gal, 1998. Formulating the Matthew Principle: on the role of the middle-classes in the welfare state. Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7, 42–55), and via two case studies of street cleansing services in the UK, the article explores the ways in which middle-class service users assert influence in relation to service design, resource allocation and practice on the ground. It explores how urban managers respond to middle-class influence, revealing the ways in which influence is accommodated and the benefits of this to middle-class service users. It also evidences how urban managers attempt to resist aspects of middle-class advantage, and the challenges such resistance presents. The article concludes that the need to ‘manage’ middle-class influence permeates the routine institutional policies and practices of this key public service.
‘Destitution’ has re-entered the lexicon of UK social policy in the 2010s, highlighted by the rap... more ‘Destitution’ has re-entered the lexicon of UK social policy in the 2010s, highlighted by the rapid growth of food banks and rough sleeping in a context of controversial welfare reforms and austerity policies, yet theoretical literature on this remains limited. Specialist surveys have been developed to measure and profile these phenomena, but these remain separate from the mainstream statistical approach to poverty, which relies heavily on large-scale household surveys. Evidence from recent work in this area, including qualitative evidence, is very suggestive of risk and driving factors, but it is difficult to weigh the relative importance of different factors or to predict the effects of policy measures. A composite survey approach is developed, linking a specialised survey targeting households at risk of destitution with a major national household panel dataset, to enable predictive models to be fitted to data including significant representation of hard-to-reach and non-household populations. Models predicting destitution and food bank usage are developed and compared, highlighting the roles of key factors. Vignettes are used to show how the risks vary dramatically between households in different situations. The potential role of such models in micro-simulation or prediction of impacts of different scenarios is discussed.
To estimate the scale of destitution in the UK in 2019 (pre-COVID-19) • To identify any emerging ... more To estimate the scale of destitution in the UK in 2019 (pre-COVID-19) • To identify any emerging trends in destitution (pre-COVID-19) • To identify the early impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on people who were destitute when surveyed in autumn 2019 • To deepen the quantitative and qualitative analysis of London
Baseline estimates of core homelessness in 2018-19 6 3 Recent changes in core homelessness number... more Baseline estimates of core homelessness in 2018-19 6 3 Recent changes in core homelessness numbers 4 Developing core homelessness projections 5 The Baseline Projections and Covid 6 Variant policy and contextual scenarios in the medium term 7 Conclusions and implications References Appendix A Details of data sources used to estimate core homelessness B Data Sources for Models C Summary of predictive models for elements of core homelessness: variables by model D Further details of predictive models.
How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are thos... more How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places? Based on the largest UK study of its kind ever commissioned, this fascinating book provides the most detailed national picture of these problems. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of disadvantage as well as poverty - access to local services or employment, social relations or civic participation, health and well-being. The book also explores relationships between these in the first truly multi-dimensional analysis of exclusion. Written by leading academics, this is an authoritative account of welfare outcomes achieved across the UK. A companion volume Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Volume 1 focuses on specific groups such as children or older people, and different geographical areas.
This project was undertaken as a collaboration between researchers at Heriot-Watt University and ... more This project was undertaken as a collaboration between researchers at Heriot-Watt University and DMSS Research. DMSS led a series of consultations with a range of severely disadvantaged women-in order that this work would be informed by their lived experiences and their perspectives on gender and multiple disadvantage-and produced a conceptual report which has helped shape the analysis (McNeish and Scott, 2017). In addition we are grateful for the assistance of NatCen Social Research who ran specific analyses under their Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) data use agreement with NHS Digital. The authors would like to acknowledge the support and advice of Di McNeish, Sara Scott and Sally McManus in the production of the report. Particular thanks are due to the advisory group members, and to the six groups of women around the country who shared their varied experience of multiple disadvantage with us and whose perspectives and advice have been so important in shaping this study.
... Prix indicatif 78,72 Ajouter au panier le livre de BRAMLEY Glen, MUNRO Moira, PAWSON Hal. D... more ... Prix indicatif 78,72 Ajouter au panier le livre de BRAMLEY Glen, MUNRO Moira, PAWSON Hal. Date de parution : 09-2004 Langue : ANGLAIS 256p. 23.4x15.6 Hardback Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 14 jours). ... Médicaments - les règles du jeu. ...
The concluding chapter of Urban Planning and the Housing Market draws together the different pers... more The concluding chapter of Urban Planning and the Housing Market draws together the different perspectives and experiences presented in the book to highlight a series of common issues and emerging lessons. The case for governments to take housing problems seriously is restated, while acknowledging the role of distinctive, historically evolved political forces in mediating particular responses to the common challenges of poverty and inequality, demographic change, environmental and climate uncertainty and the complexities of urban life. The chapter also examines how fundamental differences in planning system ‘regimes’ (systems of development control, land ownership and the scale of urban governance) might influence the overall delivery of new and affordable housing supply while contributing to wider social and environmentally sustainable communities.
Abstract The housing system in England has experienced unprecedented stress and instability over ... more Abstract The housing system in England has experienced unprecedented stress and instability over the last decade, absorbing the impact of demographic pressure, a credit-fuelled boom, financial crisis, recession and policy change. A failing supply system and unexpected tenure changes now confront austerity and welfare cutback. How have these conditions impacted on traditional and contemporary indicators of housing need and what does this tell us about the drivers and dynamics of housing need outcomes? Drawing mainly on analysis of large-scale longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys, linked to subregional market data, this paper describes and models the changes in housing need outcomes over two decades. It explores the impact of demography, market affordability, labour markets, tenure change and supply on these outcomes. Particular attention is paid to the persistence or recurrence of need in the context of different housing pathways and different market contexts, including the relationship with poverty.
International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, 2015
Being the primate city of Bangladesh, higher population growth and inward migration from rural ar... more Being the primate city of Bangladesh, higher population growth and inward migration from rural areas is making Dhaka to experience an unprecedented level of urbanisation. This has brought twofold implications-pushing it high up the mega-city size ladder while also posing the planners and city managers with more complex spatial and socioeconomic challenges to deal with the rapidly expanding urban footprint. Updating the knowledge and evidence-base of Dhaka's urban growth dynamics becomes increasingly crucial for better functioning of its strategic urban planning and management. Therefore, this research seeks to broaden our knowledge of understanding spatial urban growth patterns and processes of Dhaka over the period of 1988-2005. Hybrid spatial modelling frameworks, incorporating statistical models (in the form of weight-of-evidence approach) along with cellular automata functions, therefore, have been used to comprehend the dynamism of rapid urban growth from 1988 to 2005. As expected, the local version of the transition probabilities (where Dhaka was divided into 18 Spatial Planning Zones), produced improved results compared to the global version (i.e. the whole of the Dhaka metropolitan area). The modelling framework has further been tested as a planner's 'what-if' simulation box to generate near-future scenario using future policy dataset. It appears to have sufficient experimental potential to implement more extensive spatio-temporal land-use modelling process even in sparse data environment such as Dhaka.
Aims and Objectives 1.2 Research Questions 1.3 Structure of the Report 2. RESEARCH APPROACH AND M... more Aims and Objectives 1.2 Research Questions 1.3 Structure of the Report 2. RESEARCH APPROACH AND METHODS 2.1 Research Design 2.2 National Survey of Planning Officers 2.3 Case Study Approach and Selection 2.4 In-depth Interviews with Elected Members and National Stakeholders 3. KEY FINDINGS 3.1 Understanding of the New Homes Bonus 3.2. The Impact of the New Homes Bonus on Attitudes 3.3 The Impact of the New Homes Bonus on Behaviour 3.4 Implementation and Use of Receipts 4. CONCLUSIONS
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