Public-sector housing: rethinking policies and approaches to estate renewal

摘要

For the first time in decades the numbers of properties in the private rented sector exceed those in the social rented sector in England. Commentators have declared the end of public-sector housing and regeneration has fallen off the agenda. Recent headline themes in the housing press include: 1. local authorities to take on ￡30 billion of debt from April 2012; 2. Nottingham and Birmingham Councils to demolish 1500 homes; 3. 454 homes built by social housing landlords in the first 6 months of 2011; 4. household benefits to be capped at ￡500 per week (￡26,000 per annum) from 2013.