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Where Are We Going? Economic, Political, Demographic and Social Influences in Social Housing in the UK
Abstract
This article takes a historical view of the development of the social housing sector up to the 21st century. It focuses on the period after World War II and the transition from the welfare state to a state where neoliberalism is the dominant political and economic ideology. Links are drawn to the wider economic change from what has been characterised by many researchers as an era of Fordism to post-Fordism. The political programme of change that introduced marketisation to public services under New Public Management is explored together with the impact that it has had on the social housing sector. The changes brought about by the politics of devolution within the UK are briefly reviewed and the demographics of an ageing population are examined. A relevant thread that runs through the 20th and 21st centuries is the ideological conflict between the free-market approach to political, economic and social development against the interventionist approach, which seeks to mitigate the adverse effects of free-market capitalism through the state by mediation, regulation and control. By exploring the influences that have shaped the evolution of the social housing sector, there is the opportunity to contextualise the sector when examining it to identify the direction in which it is travelling.
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