scholarly journals LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE ACTIVITY OF SOCIAL BUILDING SOCIETIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HOUSING POLICY

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Iga Lalak
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Vague Term ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Proper Functioning ◽  
Building Societies

Participation in the creation of a social housing association in its proper functioning is a very important part in the implementation of housing policy. In spite of this, the institution of the society is still insufficiently clarified, since determininga flat which in 30% is financed by a citizen as a social one seems to be a vague term. The aim of the publication is to analyze the issue of social housing associations, but first of all to show the advantages and disadvantages of this system andthe indeterminate scope of the state’s responsibilities in the area of supporting housing construction.

scholarly journals Mieszkalnictwo społeczne w Polsce - wyzwania i ograniczenia

Studia BAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (66) ◽  
pp. 83-112
Author(s):  
Alina Muzioł-Węcławowicz
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Intensive Development

This article explores the need for more intensive development of social rental housing in Poland, especially communal rental housing and social rental housing provided by Social Housing Associations (TBSs). The first section briefly examines the terminology and addresses the main challenges in Polish housing in accordance with the goals of the housing policy programmes. The second section reports on the recent trends in social rental housing. The third section presents selected issues of the recent development of Polish social rental housing. Further, the author tries to evaluate the need for new housing construction by local authorities and by TBSs. Due to the lack of reliable information, the required amount of new housing can only be approximated indirectly. In the next section, she presents legislative initiatives regulating and supporting social rental housing, especially in terms of modifying financial instruments. The final section contains an assessment of progress in social rental housing and proposals for further reforms in Polish housing policy.

State Housing Policy: European Funding Practices and Realities of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Kostiantyn V. Illiashenko ◽  
Tetiana O. Illiashenko ◽  
Olexander V. Tovstukha
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
The State ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Housing Cooperatives ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The Cost

The problem of citizen housing providing as a key prerequisite for sustainable development of Ukrainian cities has become especially relevant in the last decade, given a number of factors and objective circumstances. Such circumstances include both the global trend of urbanization and the challenges of today, which are the result of military aggression in the east of the country and the COVID-19 pandemic. All this raises the question of the need to intensify the state housing policy and finding non-standard models and additional reserves and funding sources for housing construction in Ukraine. The authors analysed the main approaches of European countries in the field of social housing. The existence of national peculiarities of the implementation of the state housing policy has been established, as well as the common features of the relevant public service provision by the governments of the EU member states to their citizens have been determined. The authors found that European countries, as a result of a long evolutionary path of development, mostly rely on the model of social housing sector support, which provides subsidies to both the developer during the construction of such housing and the citizens who find themselves in difficult circumstances. At the same time, social housing for the needy is not sold, but rented on preferential terms. The authors of the article on the basis of the Ukraine legislation analysis, according to the results of the proposed funding schemes effect assessment of social housing construction identified the main areas of optimization and further research. It is clearly illustrated that one of the ways to ensure the availability of such housing for those who need it is to reduce the cost of construction through the use of tax privilege for housing cooperatives, the benefits of small business taxation preferences and innovative methods of combining original organizational legal forms of doing business in combination with the use of modern financial instruments, such as derivatives.

Bending the ‘Third Arm’: politicians and housing associations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Lund
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right To Buy

This chapter examines political attitudes to housing associations, regarded in the 1970s as housing’s third arm. It explores the politics involved in the changing fortunes of housing associations from the preferred mechanism for producing social housing in the late 19th and early 20th century to a niche role in the 1950s and 1960s followed by a leading role in social housing supply from the 1970s, with housing association diversity appealing to different parties for different reasons. Internal housing association politics, stock transfer from local government and the changing nature of housing associations are reviewed culminating in an exploration of the politics entailed in the Conservative Party’s 2015 manifesto commitment to extend the Right to Buy to housing association tenants.

scholarly journals Affordability for Housing Association Tenants. A Key Issue for British Social Housing Policy

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ade Kearns
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The Political ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Expenditure Patterns ◽  
Standards Of Living

ABSTRACTAs a result of changes to the financial regime for housing associations, affordability has become a major issue of debate in social rented housing in Britain. This paper assesses the implications of trying to construct a finance system for housing associations based on a regime of ‘affordable rents’ and the ‘safety net’ of Housing Benefits but with the state declining to define the central concept of affordability. Using examples of a number of Western countries, and empirical evidence from the sector in Scotland, the present position is criticised, and a route out of the policy vacuum is suggested. This is founded on the premise that housing is a means rather than an end, within a broader social policy. Given the political constraints, one solution lies in studies of the expenditure patterns and standards of living of different groups of housing association tenants, and in the creation of a sector-specific organisational subsidy to be available in addition to the usual producer- and consumer-subsidies.

A Study on the Availability of Taipei Social Rented Housing Policy - Examining the Taipei Social Rented Housing Policy from the Public Housing Policy in Taiwan

2013 ◽  
Vol 831 ◽  
pp. 241-244
Author(s):  
Ying Mei Chou ◽  
Chu Tsen Liao
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
City Government ◽  
High Price ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Oil Crisis

The legislation of public housing policy in Taiwan was in the 1949 after the Nationalist Government moved to Taiwan from China. Since 1949, Taiwan faced several difficult situations, for example the oil crisis period and the real estate economy took off. In 2000, government decided to stop this policy, and didn't offer any appropriate social housing policy. However, Taipei is the most densely-populated city in Taiwan. People could not buy their own private house for the high price. Its showed us a great deal of the need of housing rental. With this matter, Taipei City Government began to offer the public housing in 2012. This syudy compares the Taiwan national public housing policy and the Taipei local social housing overall policy planning. The purpose of this study is to examine if the Taipei social housing policy suits the rent market or not. We discussed the advantages and disadvantages of Taipei policy planning, analyzed the need of improvement on Taipei social housing policy.

scholarly journals Profits and votes: Entrepreneurs and the government in Brazilian housing policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDNEY CIELICI DIAS
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Housing Program ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
The Government

ABSTRACTAfter more than twenty years of low housing construction output, the housing policy recovered its momentum in the country with the ascent of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party, PT) to the seat of the federal government. This article demonstrates - through the analysis of documents, interviews and research conducted with businessmen - that the impetus of such a state policy is a part of the PT electoral strategy, which is based on economic growth and the expansion of social programs. The research analyses the dovetailing of interests between the Lula (the Brazilian President from 2003 to 2010) administration and the civil construction business - the latter concerned with expanding its business, and the former with increasing the supply of jobs and the level of economic activity. This process culminated in the launching of the largest social housing program to be implemented in the country. Minha Casa, Minha Vida (My House, My Life), is a project in whose planning building companies played a key role, performing feasibility studies and carrying out social housing projects.

scholarly journals Performance agreements to ensure societal legitimacy in the social housing sector; an embedded case study of implementation in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. J. Plettenburg ◽  
T. Hoppe ◽  
H. M. H. van der Heijden ◽  
M. G. Elsinga
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
The Social

AbstractIn 2015 the Housing Act was revised in order to further regulate the social housing sector in the Netherlands and thereby improve the steering possibilities for the central government to coordinate housing associations. This included local performance agreements for social housing policy obtaining a legal status. By introducing this policy instrument central government seeks to facilitate and ensure the tri-partite cooperation between municipalities, housing associations and tenants’ organisations in order to release funds by housing associations for social benefit. This should improve the position of municipalities and tenants’ organisations in social housing, and improve legitimate policy making. In this paper the main research question is: How are local performance agreements implemented targeting increased societal legitimacy in local social housing policy making, and what are its strengths and weaknesses in three selected cases in the Netherlands? A case study research design was used involving three local embedded case studies. As a theoretical framework the Contextual Interaction Theory was used. Data collection involved expert interviews and review of policy documents. Results reveal several weaknesses that impede the implementation of performance agreements, including issues in the broader governance regime and context, as well as issues with the inter-organisational structure and stakeholder interaction regarding the tri-partite cooperation between the key actors. This has to do with the precarious role of the tenants’ organisations in the process, and the local housing policy as the basis of local performance agreements. Results also show that implementation of performance agreements is more difficult in cities with dense urban areas.

scholarly journals OS GRANDES EVENTOS ESPORTIVOS E A DINÂMICA IMOBILIÁRIA E HABITACIONAL: A NATUREZA E AS CONTRADIÇÕES DO PROGRAMA MINHA CASA MINHA VIDA (PMCMV) EM SÃO LOURENÇO DA MATA-PE / The Great Events Sports and Real Estate Dynamics and Housing: the Nature and Contradictions in the Program Minha Casa Minha Vida (Pmcmv) in São Lourenço da Mata-PE

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Cleiton Ferreira Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
The West ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The World

Este trabalho debate a natureza e as contradições da política nacional de habitação popular, a partir de um viés histórico no Brasil, perpassando por mudanças recentes, desencadeando mais recentemente, no programa de construção de moradias denominado Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV). Para isso, analisamos empiricamente o município de São Lourenço da Mata, localizado na Zona Oeste da Região Metropolitana do Recife (RMR), cujos investimentos para receber jogos da Copa das Confederações e do Mundo, impulsionaram o crescimento imobiliário e a atuação das construtoras, com a anuência das três esferas governamentais (municipal, estadual e federal). Diante disso e a partir do levantamento em órgãos públicos e privados, entre os anos de 2008 e 2015, juntamente com o trabalho de campo, retratamos os empreendimentos subsidiados pelo PMCMV, suas principais características e as respectivas contradições no que concerne ao espaço geográfico local.AbstractThis paper discusses the nature and contradictions of national social housing policy from a historical bias in Brazil, passing by recent changes, triggering more recently, the housing construction program known as Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV). For this, empirically analyze the São Lourenço da Mata, located in the West Zone of the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR), whose investments to host matches of the Confederations Cup and the World, boosted the real estate growth and the performance of the construction, with the concurrence of the three levels of government (municipal, state and federal). Therefore, and from the survey of public and private agencies, between the years 2008 and 2015, along with the field work, we depict the projects subsidized by PMCMV, its main characteristics and their contradictions with respect to the local geographical area.Keywords:Public Policy; Housing; Urban Projects

Model Dwellings for Working People: How British Co-operators Built Houses in the 1860s

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9 (107)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Irina Novichenko
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Working People ◽  
Building Societies

The article attempts to analyze the first steps of “co-operative social housing” in Great Britain, the peculiarities of the emergence of the idea and the mechanisms of its implementation during ten years, from 1860 to 1870. On the basis of publications in the newspaper “The Co-operator” (1860—1870), the question of organizing the activities of co-operative building societies and the process of forming ideas about a “healthy house for working people” under the influence of the educational activities of Edward Thomas Craig and Florence Nightingale. Co-operators approached the issue of housing construction in a utilitarian manner, adhered to the latest methods of organizing a healthy house, created their own culture of living in cities, and ennobled the urban space around them.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of Interventions for Improving Pro-Environmental Waste Behaviour in Social Housing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7272
Author(s):  
Ryan Woodard ◽  
Anthea Rossouw
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
The Impact

Recycling levels have been stagnating for a decade in England. Over the last 2 years, 39% of local authorities have seen a reduction in their recycling rates. Social housing has historically been neglected in waste service provision and literature. Housing associations own 2.5 million dwellings, representing 10% of all housing stock in England. Improvements to waste services and increased resident engagement in social housing could address stalling recycling levels and contribute to the aim of the national waste strategy of moving towards a circular economy. This paper presents the results of engagement with housing association residents across 24 sites in England. Following community engagement workshops, a range of resident-led interventions were implemented, including improvements to recycling services and installation of onsite food waste composters. An inclusive resident engagement programme bespoke to each site was pioneered, including regular feedback on waste reduction and recycling performance. The impact of the project was evaluated using mixed methods, including monitoring of recycling levels and resident and stakeholder surveys. The interventions stimulated behaviour changes, leading to increased recycling rates (+10.4% per site compared to baseline), waste reduction (0.4 kg per flat per week compared to baseline), increased recycling quality, and social cohesion. The research outcomes provide a model for improving waste management in social housing globally.

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