Radical solutions to the housing supply crisis / / Duncan Bowie [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910156432603321
• Autore: Bowie Duncan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, UK : , : Policy Press, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-4473-3668-2; 1-4473-3666-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 185 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Policy Press shorts. Policy & practice.
• Disciplina: 363.50942
• Soggetti: Housing - England; Housing policy - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Apr 2022).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The basic principles for a new housing strategy; Some basic principles for a new approach to planning for housing supply; Key policy options; Summary of the required reform programme; Conclusion. The four key issues; Land, ownership, money and power; References; Index.; Built form and densityThe size of new homes; 7. The inefficient use of the existing stock; 8. The failure of the English planning system; Planning reform; Localism; Planning for growth; Development viability; Section Three; Section Three. There is an alternative; 9. A radical programme for reform; Forms of investment: bricks or benefits?; Socialising the private rented sector; Homeownership is not always the solution; Rebalancing the relationship between the public and the private sector; Resources and powers; Localism and spatial justice; The need for a new strategic approach.; The fetishisation of homeownershipThe failure of the market; The positive functions of social housing; 3. The failure of governments since 1979 and the ideological continuities; Section two. The crisis of housing supply; 4. The housing deficit; Economic and political factors; Financing the development sector, land-banking and housing output; The cost of land; Government subsidy; Planning obligations and the Community Infrastructure Levy; Location and form of new development; Infrastructure; Preconditions for new sustainable communities; 5. Affordable by whom?; 6. The wrong kind of homes.; RADICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE HOUSING SUPPLY CRISIS; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section One. The context; 1. Conservative government policy and the Housing and Planning Act 2016; Introduction; Starter homes; Right to Buy; Forced sale of vacant higher-value council homes; Pay to stay; Flexible tenancies; 'In principle' planning consent; Weakening of local authority planning; The overall impact of the 2016 Act; 2. Critiques of the current direction of government policy; Scapegoating social housing.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book analyses the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviewing the development of policy under successive UK governments and presenting a specific critique of the current Conservative government's housing and planning reforms.