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From asset based welfare to welfare housing? The changing function of social housing in Ireland
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Date Issued
2011
Date Available
2011-06-08T16:16:34Z
Abstract
This article examines a distinctive and significant aspect of social housing in Ireland – its change in function from an asset-based role in welfare support to a more standard model of welfare housing. It outlines the nationalist and agrarian drivers which expanded the initial role of social housing beyond the goal of improving housing conditions for the poor towards the goal of extending home ownership and assesses whether this focus made it more similar to the ‘asset based welfare’ approach to housing found in south-east Asia than to social housing in western Europe. From the mid-1980s, the role of Irish social housing changed as the sector contracted and evolved towards the model of welfare housing now found in many other western countries. Policy makers have struggled to address the implications of this transition and vestiges of social housing’s traditional function are still evident, consequently the boundaries between social housing, private renting and home ownership in Ireland have grown increasingly nebulous.
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Not applicable
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Routledge
Journal
Housing Studies
Volume
26
Issue
3
Start Page
495
End Page
464
Subject – LCSH
Welfare recipients--Housing--Ireland
Low-income housing--Ireland
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Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1466-1810 (electronic)
0267-3037 (paper)
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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Norris and Fahey Housing Studies 2010.doc
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