Social Housing, Wellbeing and Welfare

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4791-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and impact.

Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose of social housing in today’s welfare state. The closing arguments of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing, designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households, with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the same equality of social status.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregory, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: housing, wellbeing and welfare

PART I Meaning and purpose: discourses of social housing

2. Wellbeing: meaning and measurement

3. Discourses of dependency: social housing, welfare, and political debate

4. Counter-narratives: dependency, culture, and the myth of worklessness

PART II Social housing, wellbeing, and experiences of the home

5. Experiences of the home: place, identity, and security

6. Mental health, happiness, and satisfaction with life

PART III Rethinking the ‘social’ in social housing: common needs, shared identities

7. Social housing and welfare spheres

8. Rethinking the ‘social’ in social housing: common needs, shared identities

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory, James
Dr James Gregory, Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management at the University of Birmingham James was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Fabian Society, where he first worked on housing policy, and prior to that completed a PhD (political philosophy) at the London School of Economics. He is currently conducting empirical work on housing and wellbeing and contribute to teaching (housing studies) in the School of Social Policy.

James Gregory is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham.