Is gentrification unjust?
Casey Dawkins, University of Maryland As capital travels the globe, it often lands in historically disinvested urban neighbourhoods, and when conditions are ripe, fuels
11 July 2023
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How are tenants in private renting faring? A new continuous national survey
As the private rented sector has grown and developed, concerns about the need to improve standards in it have come into sharper focus within policy
11 July 2023
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Non-compliance and non-enforcement: An unexpected policy outcome in the Netherlands
Densification has become an important policy objective in many countries to combat urban sprawl, writes Josje Bouwmeester from the University of Bern, Switzerland. The division
11 July 2023
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Understanding attitudes to residential space standards in the UK
Much of public policy aims to diminish or eradicate social evils or harms, but one of the problems with such policy aims is that it’s
13 April 2023
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The right to the city and housing policies in Ecuador
Ecuador was the first country in the world to recognise the right to housing in its constitution. Researchers Vanessa Pinto Valencia, Marco Córdova Montúfar and
13 April 2023
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Global knowledge exchange for local community-led housing
Community-led housing approaches have grown in global importance and prominence, writes Dr Tom Moore. Around the world, citizens are collaborating to tackle problems of housing
13 April 2023
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Housing professionals’ roles in tackling social housing stigma
Mercy Denedo and Amanze Ejiogu report on the findings of their latest research. In July 2021, we published our report “Stigma and Social
23 November 2022
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Rising pressures in the private housing market
In this extract from UK Housing Review, Peter Williams says rising pressures from supply shortages, higher interest rates, Covid, war in Ukraine and more have
23 November 2022
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Does the return of in-work sanctions on welfare benefits make any sense?
Janis Bright outlines the history of this controversial aspect of universal credit now being revived. While the debate on uprating or cutting welfare benefits
23 November 2022
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The cost-of-living crisis and social sector rents
September’s mini-budget gave little extra help to poorer families apart from its pre-announced support for fuel bills, writes John Perry in this edited extract from
23 November 2022
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