The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates

by Becky Tunstall

Overview

Drawing on a unique archive spanning the lifetime of twenty council estate projects in the UK and using hundreds of resident voices, this book reveals the secrets of council housing’s failures and successes, and the reasons for them. Bringing to light the complex variety of the lived experiences of residents, it shows how estate pathways were predetermined by factors such as location, design and date, as well as by their local and national social, economic and political contexts. The book highlights what can be learned from some of the successes of less successful housing projects and provides lessons for building sustainable communities in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447351382
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	02/12/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Becky Tunstall is the Joseph Rowntree Emerita Professor of Housing Policy and past Director of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations vii

Note on the author xiii

Acknowledgements xiv

Part I Introduction

1 Learning from 100 years on 20 less successful estates 3

2 The debatable rise and fall of social housing 13

3 How neighbourhoods and estates change over time 23

4 The 20 estates 37

5 The scope of the book 53

Part II The falls and rises of the 20 estates

6 The fall in housing quality 65

7 The rise in housing quality 93

8 The fall and rise in safety and order 115

9 The fall and rise in popularity 135

10 Changes in the mix of residents 145

11 The estates' social environments 173

12 Residents' access to opportunities 193

13 The survival of the 20 estates 209

14 The fall of council housing tenure 227

Part III Explaining the changes over 100 years in 20 estates

15 Summarising the changes over 100 years in 20 estates 239

16 National and local factors influencing estates' housing quality 247

17 National and estate factors influencing safety and order in estates 257

18 National and local factors influencing demand for estates, popularity and resident mix 267

19 Conclusions: 100 years on 20 estates and the implications for all social housing 289

Appendix 1 Data and methods 301

Appendix 2 Summary tables 303

References 309

Index 337

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This scholarly and fascinating book combines rigorous statistics and the lived experiences of council estate residents over time to underpin a framework for future solutions to providing affordable and social housing for all who need it." Kate Pickett, University of York

"A wonderful book." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford

Editorial Reviews

‘’This is a wonderful book…It demonstrates that those who disparage social housing today are often peddling outdated myths that they do not even know are myths.’’ The Times Higher Education

The Times Higher Education - Danny Dorling