2005
DOI: 10.1080/14616710500342234
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Housing Stock Transfer in Birmingham and Glasgow: The Contrasting Experiences of Two UK Cities

Abstract: Housing stock transfer is arguably one of the more controversial aspects of New Labour's housing policy. It was a policy originally pursued under the Conservative governments from the 1980s into the early 1990s and has gained pace under New Labour since 1997. Across Britain, the Westminster government, along with the devolved Scottish and Welsh administrations in Edinburgh and Cardiff, have all demonstrated a commitment of late to the use of stock transfer to reshape and reconfigure social housing provision. T… Show more

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“…Given Glasgow's well-documented legacy of poor housing, urban decay and socialeconomic deprivation (Gibb, 2003), it was deemed by the Scottish Executive that if this flagship policy of community ownership could not succeed there, it could not succeed anywhere (Kintrea, 2006). Following a successful tenant ballot, the entirety of Glasgow's council housing was transferred to the newly created Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) in 2003 (Daly et al, 2005). As the size of the Glasgow transfer was significantly larger than traditional community ownership transfers, and the issues inevitably more complex, a two-tier stock transfer process was proposed.…”
Section: Community Ownership In Glasgow: the Policy Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Given Glasgow's well-documented legacy of poor housing, urban decay and socialeconomic deprivation (Gibb, 2003), it was deemed by the Scottish Executive that if this flagship policy of community ownership could not succeed there, it could not succeed anywhere (Kintrea, 2006). Following a successful tenant ballot, the entirety of Glasgow's council housing was transferred to the newly created Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) in 2003 (Daly et al, 2005). As the size of the Glasgow transfer was significantly larger than traditional community ownership transfers, and the issues inevitably more complex, a two-tier stock transfer process was proposed.…”
Section: Community Ownership In Glasgow: the Policy Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 2003 Glasgow City Council transferred its entire stock of council housing to the newly created Glasgow Housing Association -now Britain's largest social landlord (Daly, Mooney, Poole & Davis 2005, Gibb 2003. That whole stock transfer was proposed as the solution to Glasgow's housing problems is perhaps not a surprise: firstly, an estimated £3 billion was needed to modernize the city's housing stock over 30 years, but the Council were prevented from raising the necessary resources because of public sector borrowing restrictions; and secondly, the Council had an estimated housing debt of £900 million, which the UK treasury promised to write off if transfer went ahead (Glasgow City Council 2001).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…However, as previous research has commented, the lack of investment in council housing pre-transfer was as much a product of the financial and political constraints facing local authority landlords, as it was indicative of the Council's organisational culture and approach to tenant involvement (Daly et al 2005;McKee 2007).…”
Section: Tenant Empowerment: a Key Priority?mentioning
confidence: 99%