Risking housing need

Journal of Law and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 403-426

  Cowan, Dave ^a   Gilroy, Rose ^b   Pantazis, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042137144     PISSN: 0263323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6478.00134     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. For the purposes of this article, the term social housing refers to housing provided by councils, registered social landlords (hereafter 'RSLs'), and other housing associations. RSLs register with the Housing Corporation, a quango which is responsible both for regulating RSLs and distributing central government's capital finance to RSLs, which must usually also be matched with private finance. RSLs were the Thatcher/Major/Blair governments chosen organizations for the provision of new units of 'social' housing (for discussion, see A. Stewart, Rethinking Housing Law (1996); D. Cowan, Housing Law and Policy (1999) chs. 5, 9, 13, 18).
2. For the purposes of this article, the term social housing refers to housing provided by councils, registered social landlords (hereafter 'RSLs'), and other housing associations. RSLs register with the Housing Corporation, a quango which is responsible both for regulating RSLs and distributing central government's capital finance to RSLs, which must usually also be matched with private finance. RSLs were the Thatcher/Major/Blair governments chosen organizations for the provision of new units of 'social' housing (for discussion, see A. Stewart, Rethinking Housing Law (1996); D. Cowan, Housing Law and Policy (1999) chs. 5, 9, 13, 18).
3. As was shown by the apparent consensus over the 1996 redrafting of the categories given reasonable preference on the waiting list (s. 169, Housing Act 1996). For a critique of this process, see D. Cowan, 'Reforming the homelessness legislation' (1998) 18 Critical Social Policy 435; M. Carter and N. Ginsburg, 'New government housing policies' (1994) 41 Critical Social Policy 100; I. Loveland, 'Cathy sod off! The end of the homelessness legislation' (1994) 16 J. of Social Welfare and Family Law 367.
4. As was shown by the apparent consensus over the 1996 redrafting of the categories given reasonable preference on the waiting list (s. 169, Housing Act 1996). For a critique of this process, see D. Cowan, 'Reforming the homelessness legislation' (1998) 18 Critical Social Policy 435; M. Carter and N. Ginsburg, 'New government housing policies' (1994) 41 Critical Social Policy 100; I. Loveland, 'Cathy sod off! The end of the homelessness legislation' (1994) 16 J. of Social Welfare and Family Law 367.
5. As was shown by the apparent consensus over the 1996 redrafting of the categories given reasonable preference on the waiting list (s. 169, Housing Act 1996). For a critique of this process, see D. Cowan, 'Reforming the homelessness legislation' (1998) 18 Critical Social Policy 435; M. Carter and N. Ginsburg, 'New government housing policies' (1994) 41 Critical Social Policy 100; I. Loveland, 'Cathy sod off! The end of the homelessness legislation' (1994) 16 J. of Social Welfare and Family Law 367.