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Three Housing policy: coming in and out of the cold?
Abstract
This chapter reviews New Labour’s housing policy, in which three phases can be identified. In the first phase the dearth of specific housing commitments in New Labour’s 1997 manifesto produced a vacuum in housing policy until the publication in 2000 of the housing Green Paper Quality and choice: A decent home for all, with its emphasis on supply diversity and choice and the application of ‘new public sector management’. In stage three, a new emphasis on supply culminated in Homes for the future: More affordable, more sustainable, with its promise to boost housing supply in both the market and the social sectors.
Abstract
This chapter reviews New Labour’s housing policy, in which three phases can be identified. In the first phase the dearth of specific housing commitments in New Labour’s 1997 manifesto produced a vacuum in housing policy until the publication in 2000 of the housing Green Paper Quality and choice: A decent home for all, with its emphasis on supply diversity and choice and the application of ‘new public sector management’. In stage three, a new emphasis on supply culminated in Homes for the future: More affordable, more sustainable, with its promise to boost housing supply in both the market and the social sectors.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Introduction: modernising the welfare state 1
- The NHS after 10 years of New Labour 17
- Housing policy: coming in and out of the cold? 35
- Social security and welfare reform 53
- Social care under Blair: are social care services more modern? 73
- Education: from the comprehensive to the individual 91
- Controlling crime and disorder: the Labour legacy 105
- Social investment: the discourse and the dimensions of change 125
- Risk and the Blair legacy 143
- Going private? 161
- Choice in public services: ‘no choice but to choose’ 179
- The conditional welfare state 199
- The stages of New Labour 219
- Social Democratic reforms of the welfare state: Germany and the UK compared 235
- Conclusion: the Blair legacy 255
- Index 275
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Introduction: modernising the welfare state 1
- The NHS after 10 years of New Labour 17
- Housing policy: coming in and out of the cold? 35
- Social security and welfare reform 53
- Social care under Blair: are social care services more modern? 73
- Education: from the comprehensive to the individual 91
- Controlling crime and disorder: the Labour legacy 105
- Social investment: the discourse and the dimensions of change 125
- Risk and the Blair legacy 143
- Going private? 161
- Choice in public services: ‘no choice but to choose’ 179
- The conditional welfare state 199
- The stages of New Labour 219
- Social Democratic reforms of the welfare state: Germany and the UK compared 235
- Conclusion: the Blair legacy 255
- Index 275
