Housing Governance and Ethopolitics in a Postcolonial City: Constructing Responsible Community and Consumer Identity in Hong Kong

Lee, James

doi:10.1068/c08142

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“…• Third, tenant participation programs can be compromised by structural power issues between tenants and housing providers, which can limit tenant autonomy and also lead to conflict (Kruythoff 2008;Lee 2010).…”

Section: Tenant Participation In Social Housing: An International Reviewmentioning

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Social housing pathways by policy co-design: opportunities for tenant participation in system innovation in Australia

Stone,

Veeroja,

Goodall

et al. 2024

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This AHURI research examines the participation of social housing tenants in developing social housing policy. With tenants increasingly presenting with more complex health, housing and social care needs, developing ways they can participate in social housing policy can lead to a range of positive benefits: from improving the way housing and associated essential social services are provided to giving tenants a heightened sense of autonomy and a stronger sense of belonging within their communities.The guiding principle for tenant participation is that those most affected by a policy or organisational decision ought to be involved in the decision making process. Internationally there is a relatively well-established understanding that complex systems, such as social housing systems, require the viewpoints of multiple stakeholders and that evidence-based policy making is best supported by including diverse voices such as lived experience experts and advocates.Successful tenant programs include understanding that tenants and housing providers can have different ideas of what participation should look like and what it should achieve; programs can be compromised by power imbalances between tenants and housing providers, which can limit tenant autonomy and also lead to conflict.For policy co-design to work well, there must be respect and recognition of the expertise of all participants involved in the policy making process, which may require workforce training and changing cultural norms.The research proposes sharing of best-practice examples of tenant participation and program practice guidelines between housing organisations and across sectors through a new Australian Housing Clearinghouse model.

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Section: Tenant Participation In Social Housing: An International Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social housing pathways by policy co-design: opportunities for tenant participation in system innovation in Australia

Stone,

Veeroja,

Goodall

et al. 2024

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“…These education programs provide a good example of how federal noise regulation works to connect biopolitical forms of control with systems of governmentality. What the biopolitics of NCA aims to produce is "responsible citizens" (Lee, 2010;McCann, 2017) who are able to regulate their own noises. The embodiment of sonic risk thus results in a kind of sensible citizenship, defined by scientifically "objective" limits on what constitutes dangerous noise.…”

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Governing the noisy sphere: Geographies of noise regulation in the US

MacFarlane

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Over the last 10 years there has been considerable growth in the range of geographical work on sound, particularly on how sound shapes everyday life. One area that is beginning to receive attention is how noise is formalized in law and policy. This paper contributes to that literature by developing a geographic theory of modern noise regulation. Two policies are examined: the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Noise Control Act of 1972 and Seattle’s Noise Ordinance of 1977. Combining Foucauldian and Marxian frameworks, I argue that these documents trace a biopolitics of “sensible citizenship” that emerges within, as a means of managing, a changing regime of capitalist accumulation, as global attention began to shift from production to the “noisy sphere” of exchange in the 1960s and 1970s. Noise, I claim here, has come to physically embody capitalism’s inner contradictions—between needing to promote commercial activities and needing to control the noisy externalities those activities create. Such an analysis addresses recent calls for a more historically and materially grounded approach to the study of sound in human geography, while also adding a critical legal perspective to recent debates on the relations between citizenship, the body, and governance.

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Power, Ethopolitics and Community Relations: Complexities of Living in Multi-owned Properties

Reid

Lloyd

O’Brien

et al. 2017

Housing, Theory and Society

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Multi-owned properties (MOPs) continue to proliferate as governments seek to reduce urban sprawl, revitalize inner cities and meet the housing need of a growing population. Yet limited research has focused on the privatization of urban governance and liveability implications arising in these developments. The way power mechanisms are exercised in strata title communities and the resultant effects on unit residents and owners is a key issue. With owner committees playing a central role in governing and regulating common property, as well as resident conduct, the pervasive power relations found in strata titled complexes have the potential to trigger multiple strands of conflict. The way that governance plays out in MOPs is key to understanding their embedded power relations. This study explores the exercise of power in MOPs and how community is evoked as a way to govern relations. We also consider what occurs when notions of community are subverted, and the expected "lifestyle" is held hostage to ongoing conflicts and issues of exclusion.

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Housing Governance and Ethopolitics in a Postcolonial City: Constructing Responsible Community and Consumer Identity in Hong Kong

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Social housing pathways by policy co-design: opportunities for tenant participation in system innovation in Australia

Social housing pathways by policy co-design: opportunities for tenant participation in system innovation in Australia

Governing the noisy sphere: Geographies of noise regulation in the US

Power, Ethopolitics and Community Relations: Complexities of Living in Multi-owned Properties

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