Ethnic minorities and housing in Britain

Housing, place and community

“…Findings developed from EVENS thus imply that the availability of housing stock to match the spatial needs of different ethnic groups is lacking, due in part to limited access to the larger accommodation required for multigenerational living. This relates to the exclusion of ethnic minorities from housing planning and provision (Phillips and Harrison, 2010;Shankley and Finney, 2020) and the positioning of the White, nuclear family as normative in institutional imaginaries (Alexander and Byrne, 2020;Fortier, 2021).…”

“…The outcomes of institutional racism can be seen in the greater likelihood of ethnic minority people to have more negative pathways through care, poorer access to effective services and interventions, and poorer outcomes. This is present in education (Alexander and Shankley, 2020), health and social care (Chouhan and Nazroo, 2020;Kapadia et al, 2022), housing (Shankley and Finney, 2020), arts and culture (Malik and Shankley, 2020), and politics (Sobolewska and Shankley, 2020). It is most striking in those institutions that have a regulatory or disciplinary function, such as criminal justice (Shankley and Williams, 2020) and mental health .…”

Political participation and Black Lives Matter

“…The outcomes of institutional racism can be seen in the greater likelihood of ethnic minority people to have more negative pathways through care, poorer access to effective services and interventions, and poorer outcomes. This is present in education (Alexander and Shankley, 2020), health and social care (Chouhan and Nazroo, 2020;Kapadia et al, 2022), housing (Shankley and Finney, 2020), arts and culture (Malik and Shankley, 2020), and politics (Sobolewska and Shankley, 2020). It is most striking in those institutions that have a regulatory or disciplinary function, such as criminal justice (Shankley and Williams, 2020) and mental health .…”

Political participation and Black Lives Matter

“…The outcomes of institutional racism can be seen in the greater likelihood of ethnic minority people to have more negative pathways through care, poorer access to effective services and interventions, and poorer outcomes. This is present in education (Alexander and Shankley, 2020), health and social care (Chouhan and Nazroo, 2020;Kapadia et al, 2022), housing (Shankley and Finney, 2020), arts and culture (Malik and Shankley, 2020), and politics (Sobolewska and Shankley, 2020). It is most striking in those institutions that have a regulatory or disciplinary function, such as criminal justice (Shankley and Williams, 2020) and mental health .…”

“…Experiences of, and access to, housing provisions are shaped by the power relations within wider society, including racial, gender, class and generational dynamics (Ahmed, 1999;Brun and Fábos, 2015). Despite the persistent ethnic inequalities in experience in Britain (Finney and Harries, 2015;Shankley and Finney, 2020;Haycox, 2022), considerations of relationships between ethnicity and housing are often limited in broader debates (Bloch et al, 2013). Minority groups were evidenced by Finney and Harries (2015) to be at greater risk of overcrowding compared to White British people, with overcrowding defined as a situation where there are too few bedrooms to meet household needs.…”