Laura Hemingway
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847428066
- eISBN:
- 9781447302094
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428066.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This book provides an investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to housing options ...
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This book provides an investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to housing options and meanings of ‘home’. Such a review is crucial to understanding the varying housing needs and desires of disabled people, particularly in the current economic climate.Less
This book provides an investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to housing options and meanings of ‘home’. Such a review is crucial to understanding the varying housing needs and desires of disabled people, particularly in the current economic climate.
Laura Hemingway
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847428066
- eISBN:
- 9781447302094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428066.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This book examines housing issues, policies and practices relating to disabled people, and explores available choices, opportunities and barriers in the field. The focus is on disabled people's ...
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This book examines housing issues, policies and practices relating to disabled people, and explores available choices, opportunities and barriers in the field. The focus is on disabled people's acquisition of, or access to, accommodation, and how individuals experience housing. These include aspects of housing design and construction, the availability and presentation of information on housing options, the economic factors that affect access to housing and the role of ‘actors’ involved in the process of building, selling and allocating housing. This chapter begins by highlighting the current knowledge about the housing circumstances of disabled people, as indicated in the available data. This is followed by an outline of the intentions of the text, some brief notes on terminology and details of the book's contents.Less
This book examines housing issues, policies and practices relating to disabled people, and explores available choices, opportunities and barriers in the field. The focus is on disabled people's acquisition of, or access to, accommodation, and how individuals experience housing. These include aspects of housing design and construction, the availability and presentation of information on housing options, the economic factors that affect access to housing and the role of ‘actors’ involved in the process of building, selling and allocating housing. This chapter begins by highlighting the current knowledge about the housing circumstances of disabled people, as indicated in the available data. This is followed by an outline of the intentions of the text, some brief notes on terminology and details of the book's contents.
Peter King
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422132
- eISBN:
- 9781447302513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422132.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter discusses the lessons that can be learnt from the RTB in terms of general policy making and issues that are specific to housing. It considers why the policy worked and what the essence ...
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This chapter discusses the lessons that can be learnt from the RTB in terms of general policy making and issues that are specific to housing. It considers why the policy worked and what the essence of the RTB is. The chapter mentions some of the core principles that are important to the RTB and then summarises some of the main points. It also suggests what was so special about the RTB.Less
This chapter discusses the lessons that can be learnt from the RTB in terms of general policy making and issues that are specific to housing. It considers why the policy worked and what the essence of the RTB is. The chapter mentions some of the core principles that are important to the RTB and then summarises some of the main points. It also suggests what was so special about the RTB.
Christoph Sorg
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447359517
- eISBN:
- 9781447359548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447359517.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Austerity measures have faced one of the biggest and most dynamic waves of protest in recent decades. While a pluralism of issues converged in the occupied squares of 2011, such as stagnating wages, ...
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Austerity measures have faced one of the biggest and most dynamic waves of protest in recent decades. While a pluralism of issues converged in the occupied squares of 2011, such as stagnating wages, housing rights, political corruption etc., debt constituted one of the pivotal themes of claim-making. From the sudden contraction of financial markets precipitating household debt traps, bankruptcies and evictions, to the devastating effects of austerity justified by sovereign debt crises, the issue of debt reflected larger questions of democratic decision-making and economic life. This brief contribution aims to situate debt-centered movements and the issue of debt within more and less recent anti-austerity struggles. These movements challenge the neoliberal notion that all “debts have to be paid” and additionally blame creditors as well as rules privileging creditors for existing debt burden instead of supposed failures by debtors. By way of observing actually existing movements and their practices we can also get a better view of existing alternatives to austerity and neoliberal debt politics in different countries.Less
Austerity measures have faced one of the biggest and most dynamic waves of protest in recent decades. While a pluralism of issues converged in the occupied squares of 2011, such as stagnating wages, housing rights, political corruption etc., debt constituted one of the pivotal themes of claim-making. From the sudden contraction of financial markets precipitating household debt traps, bankruptcies and evictions, to the devastating effects of austerity justified by sovereign debt crises, the issue of debt reflected larger questions of democratic decision-making and economic life. This brief contribution aims to situate debt-centered movements and the issue of debt within more and less recent anti-austerity struggles. These movements challenge the neoliberal notion that all “debts have to be paid” and additionally blame creditors as well as rules privileging creditors for existing debt burden instead of supposed failures by debtors. By way of observing actually existing movements and their practices we can also get a better view of existing alternatives to austerity and neoliberal debt politics in different countries.
