Governing independence and expertise : the business of housing associations / / Morag McDermont

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785128003321
• Autore: McDermont Morag
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-4725-6505-3; 1-282-80651-3; 9786612806513; 1-84731-577-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 349.42
• Soggetti: Housing policy - Great Britain; Public housing - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-181) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Housing, Governing and History -- Introduction -- On Housing -- On Governing -- On History -- The Rest of the Book -- 2 The Story of the National Housing Federation: An Overview -- Beginnings: The Problem of the Slums -- 'A New Start': The Federation after the Second World War -- Transformations 1: The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s -- Transformations 2: Private Finance and Voluntary Transfer -- Conclusion -- 3 Unacceptable Boundaries of Charity Regulation -- Introduction -- Charity Law and the Housing Association Sector: A Historical Introduction -- Housing Associations Challenged -- The Housing Association Model and Third Sector Transformation -- Conclusion -- 4 Governing Locally: Housing Associations and Local Government -- Introduction -- The Technicalities of Governing Locally -- Nomination Agreements: Contestation and Partnership -- Stock Transfer; Coercive Practices and the Recurring Problematic of Nominations -- Conclusion -- 5 Territorialising Regulation: Creating a National Regulatory Community -- Introduction -- Regulatory Space, Regulatory Territory -- Making the Housing Act 1974: Defining Territory -- A New Territory of Regulation -- Conclusion -- 6 Money -- Introduction -- Structuring Relations through the Language of Finance ; -- The Federation Intervenes -- The Impact of the Housing Act 1988: Reshaping Housing Associations -- Conclusion: Into the Future? -- 7 Shelter, the Federation and Social Movements -- Introduction -- The Formation of Shelter -- Challenging Homelessness: Housing Aid and the Homeless Persons Act 1977 -- Shelter and Housing Associations: A 'Movement' Moving Apart? -- Conclusion: Some Reflections on Being a 'Movement' -- 8 'Independent Spirit' -- Introduction -- Securing Independence -- States of Dependence -- Conclusion
• Sommario/riassunto: "Shortlisted for the SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2011 Governing, Independence and Expertise tells the story of the not-for-profit housing sector in England, focusing on its representative body, the National Housing Federation. The story tells of how the Federation and associations influenced their own space of governing through deploying discourses of independence and expertise; how being governed, and governing, become, at times, one and the same. The National Federation of Housing Societies was born in 1935 out of the apparent failure of housing societies, associations and charitable trusts to tackle the 'problem of the slums'. Its story was a familiar one - organisations have often set up collective structures to facilitate intervention in government. Viewed historically the success of the project is, nevertheless, remarkable, given that the housing association sector is now a major force in social housing provision. Moreover housing associations have pioneered many programmes which are central to our 'modernised' welfare state - such as private finance, independence and entrepreneurialism. Through the story of the Federation, the book examines the role of non-governmental actors in mechanisms of governing, engaging contemporary debates about public services and the nature of the 'social' - the limits of the role of the not-for-profit sector; the impact of private funders; and the disappearance of the notion of 'public'"--Bloomsbury Publishing.