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- Title
Marginalisation, Grenfell Tower and the voice of the social-housing resident: a critical juncture in housing law and policy?
- Authors
Carr, Helen; Cowan, Dave; Kirton-Darling, Ed
- Abstract
This paper draws on historical institutionalism to consider the impact of housing-policy responses following the Grenfell fire on the marginalisation of the social-housing resident. We consider three specific policy responses: reform focused on conditions of rented properties; the social-housing White Paper; and building regulation and building-safety reforms. We suggest that, in historical institutionalist terms, each is part of a matrix of reform in which understandings of the social-housing resident play a critical role. We argue that rather than the fire provoking a paradigm shift in the recognition that government accords to the ignored and stigmatised citizens who live in social housing, the policy initiatives to date indicate a much more limited adjustment of policy within a normal frame. We suggest that this is because housing policy is dominated by a consumerist ideology that is self-reinforcing and ignores the social, economic and political complexity of tenure.
- Subjects
HOUSING laws; CONSTRUCTION safety measures; HISTORICAL institutionalism (Sociology); INDIVIDUALISM; HOME ownership
- Publication
International Journal of Law in Context, 2022, Vol 18, Issue 1, p10
- ISSN
1744-5523
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1744552322000088