Housing policy implementation: The role of mediation

Somerville, Peter; Steele, A.

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“…Simmie also points out that sympathetic organisations at central government level can also make a huge difference (Simmie, 1990, p. 194). The general conclusion to be drawn from the literature is that the outcomes of the interaction between 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' processes will depend primarily on how the interaction is mediated, and this is the subject of a separate paper (Somerville & Steele, 1996). In general, the transfer of power to TMOs, whether they be PVCs, TMCs or EMBs, represents a radical approach to tenant empowerment.…”

Section: Empowerment Through Agreement and Power Transfermentioning

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“…In a separate paper (Somerville & Steele, 1996), I have argued that ''in certain circumstances residence can form the basis for a more holistic mediation of social interaction''. For example, local housing offices could operate as 'one-stop shops' for all services to the local area, and these offices could be controlled by tenant majority boards, or could be run by partnerships between tenants and their landlord.…”

Section: Conclusion: the Empowerment Of Communitiesmentioning

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“…For example, the Conservative government tended to empower tenants only with a view to weakening local authorities (Somerville & Steele, 1996), while local authorities themselves have generally wanted to retain their monopoly position and avoid any form of power sharing with resident groups. All too often, national and local policy has tended to favour the cultivation of an elite of well-informed, skilled residents, who will act on behalf of all the other inhabitants of an area.…”

Section: Conclusion: the Empowerment Of Communitiesmentioning

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Empowerment through Residence

Somerville¹

1998

Housing Studies

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What does it mean to empower people through the housing in which they live, and how is this empowerment to be achieved? These are the questions which are examined in this paper. Typologies of empowerment processes are devised in an attempt to make sense of the conceptual and empirical variety involved. The distinction between 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' empowerment The Meaning of EmpowermentThe concept of power has been strongly contested since Lukes (1974). As an abstract general concept, it has suffered from a high degree of vagueness and ambiguity, which has severely limited its theoretical utility (Barnes, 1988;Clegg, 1989). As a practical concept, however, it remains extremely popular, because of its emotive content, and consequently plays a major role in political debate and policy making. The concept of empowerment is generally intended in the more practical sense, as involving a process by which people who are disadvantaged or excluded acquire something of the character of citizens (Harrison, 1995, p. 22). At the same time, however, the concept of empowerment retains a necessary element of vagueness, associated with the abstract general meaning of power, from which it is derived. It is possible, therefore, that the concept of empowerment is not amenable to a precise general definition. Provisionally, however, it is suggested that empowerment could be described as any process by which people's control over their lives is increased. The exact meaning of increasing control can then be spelled out only in specific contexts such as employment, housing or education, although the general theme in each of these contexts will be one of increasing choice and freedom of action for the people affected. Empowerment in a Housing ContextThis paper is concerned speci® cally with housing-related empowerment, and this can be defined as any process by which people gain increased control over their housing situation. Such control can be individual or collective, over production or consumption, over investment or management. The paper is concerned mainly with collective control over housing consumption and management, but this should not be taken to imply any collectivist, consumptionist or managerial bias in the treatment of housing empowerment. It should also be noted from the outset that it may not be possible to draw any precise distinction between a process which gives people more control over their housing and one which gives them more control over their residential environment (encompassing roads, schools, shops, parks, leisure centres, and so on, and including the regulation of behaviour within that environment). The paper starts by distinguishing empowerment from participation, and makes a number of comments relating to the recent literature on tenant participation in particular. It is argued that there is a need for a more rigorous examination of empowerment processes, and in the following section an attempt is made to devise a typology of such processes which is completely different from any typology of...

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Section: Empowerment Through Agreement and Power Transfermentioning

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Section: Conclusion: the Empowerment Of Communitiesmentioning

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Section: Conclusion: the Empowerment Of Communitiesmentioning

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Housing policy implementation: The role of mediation

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