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Offers a unique people-centred approach to the provision and management of social housing.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reeves, Paul (Paul F.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Public housing > Great Britain.
Housing policy > Great Britain.
Logement social > Grande-Bretagne.
Logement > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Housing policy.
Public housing.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • An Introduction to Social Housing
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of figures and tables
  • Introduction
  • 1 Supply and demand
  • What has supply and demand got to do with housing?
  • What is affordable housing?
  • Demand and need
  • Acute housing need
  • The management of housing need
  • Supply issues
  • Areas of oversupply
  • Postscript to Chapter 1: Can regional planning solve the problems of supply and demand?
  • References
  • Bibliography and reading advice
  • Websites
  • 2 Housing management
  • General needs housing management
  • Forms of social housing tenancy
  • Managing the patch
  • There goes the neighbourhood
  • Special needs housing management
  • Special consideration groups
  • Households who suffer economic and social discrimination and disadvantage through racial, ethnic or cultural status
  • Unfavourable medical or related condition
  • Possession of other characteristic(s) meeting with social disapproval and marginalisation
  • Street sleepers
  • Other victims of societal prejudice
  • Others
  • Victims of domestic violence
  • The management of temporary accommodation
  • Involving the customer
  • Self-management
  • Repairs and maintenance
  • Quality matters
  • A repairs service for the future
  • Some organisational management issues
  • Recruitment, job design and business planning
  • Legal matters
  • Staff retention
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Websites
  • 3 Housing finance
  • Introduction
  • Housing finance in context
  • Government macro-economic controls
  • Housing balances
  • Integrative overview
  • capital and revenue finance
  • Differences between the sectors
  • Capital operations in the social housing sector
  • Local authority housing capital finance
  • Annual Capital Guideline and Credit Approval
  • Capital receipts
  • The prudential borrowing regime
  • Scope for reform
  • Housing association capital finance
  • Scope for reform in the housing association capital area
  • Revenue operations in the social housing sector
  • Council housing revenue operations
  • HRA Subsidy (Item 3 Credit, or Item 5 Debit)
  • Scope for HRA subsidy reform
  • Rent restructuring
  • Which subsidy
  • capital grant or revenue?
  • No subsidy
  • Income subsidy only
  • Capital subsidy only
  • Housing support
  • When should housing benefit kick in?
  • Types of housing benefit
  • Rent rebates
  • Other options for reform
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Websites
  • 4 Housing development
  • Introduction
  • The enabling and production of new build development for rent and for sale
  • The strategic planning process
  • How many homes are needed?
  • Affordable housing requirement
  • The affordable housing requirement quantum
  • Planning policy implications
  • Who can produce affordable housing? Why not councils?
  • The privatisation of development?
  • The importance of sustainability
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Economic sustainability
  • the property its.

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