Worlds Apart? Lower-income Households and Private Renting in Australia and the UK

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kath Hulse ◽  
Hal Pawson
Keyword(s):  
Lower Income ◽  
Private Renting ◽  
The Uk

Subsidizing the Housing Costs of Lower-Income Tenants

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Meen ◽  
Christine Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Private Renting ◽  
Housing Subsidies ◽  
Housing Costs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk

Chapter 12 turns to tenant subsidies. Since the introduction of income-related housing subsidies to tenants in the early 1970s there has been continuing debate about the relative weight to be given to demand side and supply side subsidies. The numbers helped by the second is limited by available supply while in the UK the first provides an as of right benefit to all eligible households in both the social and private rented sectors. Other issues relate to the efficiency and capacity to target assistance, the relative public expenditure costs to achieve government objectives, and their impact on the allocation of affordable housing and on work incentives. One of the most important and unpredicted changes in housing has been the growth of private renting which now accommodates around 20 per cent of households in the UK. The chapter discusses these tenure shifts and examines how austerity, regulation and changes to welfare policy have impacted on households and affordability.

scholarly journals Assembling a ‘kind of’ home in the UK private renting sector

Geoforum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 148-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Mihaela Soaita ◽  
Kim McKee
Keyword(s):  
Private Renting ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Perceptions of and attitudes to alcohol use among Pakistani medical students

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 82-83
Author(s):  
Nazish Imran ◽  
Imran Ijaz Haider ◽  
Atif Sohail ◽  
Mohsan Zafar ◽  
Muhammad Riaz Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Alcohol Misuse ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Excessive Alcohol ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Lower Income Countries ◽  
Harmful Effects

Studies worldwide have reported alarming rates of alcohol misuse among medical students (Webb et al, 1996; Kuo et al, 2002; Akvadar et al, 2004). These reports are surprising as well as of extreme concern, as medical professionals are supposedly more educated on the harmful effects of excessive alcohol consumption. The majority of studies exploring the knowledge and attitudes of medical students regarding alcohol have been from the USA and the UK, with only few from lower-income countries and the Islamic world (Kumar & Basu, 2000; Akvadar et al, 2004).

Sooner rather than later? Younger and middle-aged adults preparing for retirement

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL ANDERSON ◽  
YAOJUN LI ◽  
FRANK BECHHOFER ◽  
DAVID McCRONE ◽  
ROBERT STEWART
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Financial Preparation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Middle Aged Adults ◽  
Very High

During the 1990s, the British population has been urged by government and financial institutions to make more personal preparation for retirement and to begin doing so while they are still relatively young. This paper, set within a wider analysis of people's long-term planning behaviour, investigates the extent to which a sample of the general population of Kirkcaldy in Scotland, mostly aged between 30 and 49, has given thought to the question of retirement, feels they have made financial preparation for it, and also how comfortable they expect retirement to be. While it seems likely that early planning for retirement is more common today than 20 years ago, there remain substantial sections of the population, including – but going well beyond – many in lower income groups, who appear not to be preparing, for varying combinations of reasons (including family responsibilities, personal history, cultural and general orientation to life). The study concludes that planning for retirement must be seen as part of planning as a whole, and that the propensity to plan is the outcome of a complex web of material, social, cultural and psychological factors. This suggests that even very high profile urging from politicians and financial institutions is unlikely to deliver adequate pensions for significant sections of the UK population.

scholarly journals Neoliberal Nomads: Housing Insecurity and the Revival of Private Renting in the UK

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bone
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Major Contributor ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Private Renting ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Rented Sector

This paper offers a critical analysis, including insights from the fledgling sub-discipline of neurosociology, with the aim of challenging some of the key assumptions informing the state supported revival of the UK private rented sector (PRS) as a mainstream form of housing tenure. As is widely recognised, the PRS's expansion has occurred in tandem with the long running decline of social housing and the more recent reversal in the longstanding trend towards increasing owner occupation. This paper asserts that the policies supporting this overall trend are misconceived on a number of fronts, as the loosely regulated UK private rented sector is not only a major contributor to the country's ongoing housing crisis but carries with it a range of unacknowledged economic and social problems including profound effects on personal well-being, some fairly evident and others less so. With respect to the latter, it is argued that coming to an understanding of the negative implications of private renting in the UK under current arrangements, in addition to the more evident issues associated with poor condition and high cost accommodation, also requires an appreciation of the deeper psycho-social effects of involuntary mobility, insecurity and socio-spatial dislocation.

scholarly journals The emergence and conceptualisation of community stadia in the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 026909422110030
Author(s):  
Alexander John McTier
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Complex Phenomena

New professional sports stadia have been widely advanced as flagship developments that can generate jobs and wealth, support place branding and culture-led strategies, and host mega-events. Public funding for new stadia has been secured on these bases but also challenged as stadia costs are under-estimated and the benefits, particularly for lower income communities, exaggerated. Emerging in this context, community stadia are an intriguing phenomenon as they offer the potential for professional sports stadia to deliver on community aims alongside their sporting, commercial and economic development aims. Public funding has followed with a number of community stadia built or planned in the UK, yet with limited critical analysis of the stadium type and its impact. This paper helps to fill the literature gap by learning from two community stadia case studies: The Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster and The Falkirk Stadium, Falkirk. It finds that community stadia have the potential to deliver across the four aims, with stadia’s association with the world of professional sport facilitating engagement with multiple, diverse and ‘hard to reach’ communities. However, they are also complex phenomena leading the paper to construct a 12-feature conceptualisation of community stadia that can advance practitioner and academic understanding of the phenomenon.

scholarly journals Poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK, 1994-2018

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e0228273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Private Renting ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Do health partnerships with organisations in lower income countries benefit the UK partner? A review of the literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity AE Jones ◽  
Daniel PH Knights ◽  
Vita FE Sinclair ◽  
Paula Baraitser
Keyword(s):  
Lower Income ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Health Partnerships ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Lower Income Countries

Hesitancy to share vaccine IP will increase inequality

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Developing Nation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Production Constraints ◽  
Special Drawing ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Special Drawing Rights ◽  
Lower Income Countries

Significance Although eight vaccines have been developed and approved for use against COVID-19, production constraints leave many lower-income countries facing a lengthy wait. They are backing an initiative to waive intellectual property (IP) rights on treatments to facilitate transfers of vaccine manufacturing capability. Impacts Low-income nations may opt to issue compulsory licences, allowing governments to waive IP rights without the licence owners’ consent. The IMF backed a USD650bn round of special drawing rights at the spring meeting, in part to help vaccinate developing nation populations. A YouGov poll recently found that 74% of the UK public think governments should ensure vaccine expertise is shared globally.

scholarly journals Inequality, poverty and the privatization of essential services: A ‘systems of provision’ study of water, energy and local buses in the UK

2020 ◽  
pp. 102452942096493
Author(s):  
Kate Bayliss ◽  
Giulio Mattioli ◽  
Julia Steinberger
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
End Users ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
The Public ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Bus Transport

This paper is concerned with the distributional effects of the deregulation and privatization of essential services in Britain since the 1980s, based on a cross-sector study of water, energy and local bus transport. Our approach locates end users within the structures and processes, and prevailing narratives that underpin both production and consumption. This framework highlights the ways that the provisioning of these vital services is contested, contradictory and underpinned by power relations. We show that, at one end, investors in these sectors have made generous returns on their investments but their methods of profit maximization are often not in the public interest. Meanwhile these profits are financed by end users’ payments of bills and fares. Many lower-income households face challenges in terms of affording, and even accessing, these essential services. Regulation has failed to provide adequate social protection. We argue that adverse social outcomes emerge from systemic factors embedded in these modes of provision. A narrative of politically-neutral, technocratic solutions belies the underlying contested nature of privatized monopolistic shared essential services. Moreover, a policy preoccupation with markets and competition obscures the inequality embedded in the underlying structures and processes and undermines more collective and equitable forms of provisioning.

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