In Scotland, Glasgow has the highest proportion of social housing. The larger estates include Drumchapel, Easterhouse, Castlemilk and Pollok. Edinburgh has several small outlying estates such as Craigmillar, Wester Hailes and Sighthill. Major community estates in Wales include Caia Park in Wrexham, Bettws in Newport and Ely in Cardiff. Donations to entities other than registered social landlords 61. Power of the local housing authority to provide furniture to tenants of housing associations. The key idea of social housing is that it is more affordable than private renting and generally offers a safer long-term rental. This gives social tenants better rights, more control over their homes and the ability to put down roots. Rents for social housing are significantly lower than for private housing. Rent increases are also limited by the government, meaning housing should remain affordable in the long run so that people are not driven out of their communities by rising rents. Social economists such as Culyer and Barr have criticized the role social housing plays in helping the poor. A major criticism is that it affects the mobility of workers with its system of allocating housing to the inhabitants of the region. Working-class people are therefore discouraged from moving across county lines, where they would be lower on the waiting list for public housing in the new districts.
[ref. needed] The Housing Acts of 1985 and 1988 facilitated the transfer of social housing to non-profit housing associations. The 1988 law redefined housing associations as non-public bodies and provided access to private finance, which was a strong incentive for the transfer, as public sector borrowing was severely restricted. These housing associations were also the providers of most new social housing. In 2003, housing associations held 36.5% of the social rental housing stock. [50] In some municipalities, referendums on changes in ownership have been won by opponents of government policy, preventing transfers to housing associations. [51] The history of social housing is the history of housing for the poor. Even this statement is controversial because the state was not involved in housing policy until 1890.
Social housing was needed in 1919 to create «heroic houses»,[4][5] and then to allow for the elimination of slums. Standards have been set to ensure high quality housing. Aneurin Bevan, a Labour politician, passionately believed that social housing should be provided for all, while Conservative politician Harold Macmillan saw social housing «as a stepping stone to home ownership». [6] Margaret Thatcher`s Conservative government introduced the right to purchase in 1979, with the millionth townhouse sold in seven years. Over time, the transfer of social housing stock to the private sector reached the point where councils had to re-rent their own homes to house the homeless. [7] While the way social rents are set is not perfect, we believe they should always be affordable for local people, including low-income people. We believe that quality social housing should be available to all who need it, including families and homeless individuals, struggling private tenants and others who cannot find suitable housing. Becontree in Dagenham is the largest social housing area in the UK with over 100,000 inhabitants. It forms the bulk of a city. It was built in the 1920s and early 1930s. Otherwise, the largest estates are Wythenshawe south of Manchester and Bransholme northeast of Hull.
34. Performance Standards – Living in England. For many working-class people, this housing model offered their first experiences with private indoor toilets, private bathrooms and hot running water, as well as gardens and electric lighting. For tenants in England and Wales, this was also usually their first experience with a private garden space (usually front and back). The quality of these houses, and in particular the existence of small gardens in England and Wales, is very favourable compared to the social housing built on the European continent during this period. After its election in 2015, the Conservative government announced proposals to extend the right to purchase tenants of housing associations. [44] [46] 32. Authority to transfer land directly to another housing association or entity. Social housing refers to low-cost rental housing and low-cost condominium housing as defined in sections 68 to 70 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008. 213B.
Obligation of the public authority to refer matters in England to the local housing authority The truth is that social housing is a living grave. You dare not abandon the house because you may never have another, but to stay is to be trapped in a ghetto of place and spirit. The people who live there need better education and more incentives to work. And municipal assets must be less cut off from the rest of the economy and society. (Will Hutton, 2007) [68] [65] The Housing, Urban Planning, &c. Act 1919 (also known as the Addison Act after the Secretary of Health, Dr. Christopher Addison, then Minister of Housing), and the resulting mass housing wave in the early 1920s were among the first generation of homes in the country to have electricity, running water, bathrooms, indoor toilets, and front/back gardens. However, some social housing continued to be built until the 1930s with an outhouse attached to the house. Some of the early churches did not have proper bathrooms; The bathroom was often in the kitchen with a design that allowed it to be doubled as a work surface. These new houses had two, three, four or five bedrooms and extensive back gardens for market gardening. At best, they were built with a density of 12 per acre (30/ha). Later in the 20th century, however, these houses were modernized to have modern bathrooms and indoor toilets.
[60] The first Labour government was re-elected in 1924. The Wheatley Act of 1924 reinstated subsidies for municipal housing, but at lower levels it did not provide for lower wages who lived in worse conditions and could not afford to pay the higher rents for new homes or drive to work. They continued in substandard dwellings that surrounded the city centre; In Manchester, for example, this «belt of slums» was about half a mile wide. [24] 137.