Housing Benefit Reform and the Private Rented Sector in the UK: On the Deleterious Effects of Short-term, Ideological “Knowledge”

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 320-345

  Powell, Ryan ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Housing figurations; Housing policy; Neoliberal state crafting; Norbert Elias; Power relations; Social processes; Welfare reform

Indexed keywords

HOUSING POLICY; KNOWLEDGE; POWER RELATIONS; PRIVATE SECTOR; WELFARE REFORM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84938553250     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2015.1027830     Document Type: Article

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