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2018
The United Kingdom has been facing a housing crisis since 2008, contributing to the record levels of working families living in debt. In spite of this, the number of affordable houses being constructed has dropped to its minimum level for nearly 25 years (RTPI, 2017). Housing prices continue to rise whilst demand for social and affordable housing far exceeds supply, the typical response to this by developers is to focus on quantity at the expense of design quality. This dissertation has the objective of addressing the housing shortage by finding ways to simultaneously increase the quantity but also the quality of social and affordable housing by taking the inhabitants and their environment into consideration. The methodology is to first identify the main limitations on the supply of both social and affordable housing, and then to determine possible solutions based on successful case studies that have been analysed to demonstrate how they have achieved the goal of producing quantity and quality. The investigation reveals that the housing crisis is a complicated matter and involves many actors including landowners, local authorities, planners, architects, developers, housebuilders, buyers, etc. Therefore, the solutions are multifaceted and consider economics, planning, design, and policy. The outcome of the study provides a comprehensive understanding of the housing crisis and offers recommendations to everyone involved in the housing sector to help them achieve better living places and thus better communities.
Recent history of planning for housing in the UK
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This paper reviews the application of economic housing market models to planning in the UK context. It reviews the evolution of planning policy and practice in relation to new housing supply numbers, and shows how since 2000 a new economic paradigm has contended for attention. The main economic model-based contributions are examined, including both academic studies and models actually used in the planning and policy process. A number of issues which arise in such applications are reviewed, and the paper concludes with reflections on why it is difficult to get economic perspectives to be fully accepted and utilised within a localised and politicised planning system.
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN REGENERATION
The Regeneration Handbook: from Urban regeneration to sustainable communities, 2017
Housing and where we live plays a central part in the quality of our lives. The neighbourhoods where we live can shape our fortunes and the amenity provided by our homes is decisive in determining our overall welfare. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that housing is a right necessary for health and wellbeing. Article 12 identifies home as a private sanctuary. In regeneration, housing continues to play an important role. Housing has shaped by the recent austerity measures in England and Wales, which has reduced its relative policy significance, but continues to occupy the national psyche with concerns about the unprecedented rises in house prices, the consequent lack of affordable housing, and tackling issues of housing market failure, as discussed in this chapter as: • The relationship between housing and the welfare state • Changing urban and regional housing markets • Planning for the supply of affordable housing. The chapter mainly focuses on developments in England but are intended to provide a useful context in relation to the UK as a whole.
‘The party’s over’: critical junctures, crises and the politics of housing policy
Housing Studies, 2016
The key argument set out in this article is that historical and comparative forms of investigation are necessary if we are to better understand the ambitions and scope of contemporary housing interventions. To demonstrate the veracity of our claim we have set out an analysis of UK housing polices enacted in the mid 1970s as a basis for comparison with those pursued forty years later. The article begins with a critical summary of some of the methodological approaches adopted by researchers used to interpret housing policy. In the main section we present our critical analysis of housing policy reforms (implemented by the Labour government between 1974 and 1979) noting both their achievements and limitations. In the concluding section, we use our interpretation of this period as a basis to judge contemporary housing policy and reflect on the methodological issues that arise from our analysis.
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