Transferring Glasgow’s council housing: financial, urban and housing policy implications

Gibb, Kenneth

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“…The current phase of area regeneration in the city of Glasgow developed following the transfer of the city's social housing stock from the City Council to the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) in 2003 (see Gibb, 2003). By 2005/2006, GHA had determined how it was going to deliver on the promises made to tenants at transfer and meet its business plan objectives.…”

Section: Regeneration and Clearance In Glasgowmentioning

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Defining and Measuring Displacement: Is Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods Always Unwelcome and Disruptive?

Kearns

Mason

2013

Housing Studies

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Current regeneration policy has been described as 'state-led gentrification', with comparisons made with the 'social disruption' caused by slum clearance of the 1950s and 1960s. This article takes issue with this approach in relation to the study of the restructuring of social housing areas. The terms 'forced relocation' and 'displacement' are often too crude to describe what actually happens within processes of restructuring and the effects upon residents. Displacement in particular has important dimensions other than the physical one of moving. Evidence from a recent study of people who have moved out of restructured areas shows that although there is some evidence of physical displacement, there is little evidence of social or psychosocial displacement after relocation. Prior attitudes to moving and aspects of the process of relocation-the degree of choice and distance involved-are important moderators of the outcomes. Issues of time and context are insufficiently taken into consideration in studies and accounts of restructuring, relocation and displacement.

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Section: Regeneration and Clearance In Glasgowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining and Measuring Displacement: Is Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods Always Unwelcome and Disruptive?

Kearns

Mason

2013

Housing Studies

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“…Given the tradition of small-scale, neighbourhood-level stock transfers within Scotland, this is a policy that has been labelled 'community ownership' (Clapham et al, 1996;Clapham and Kintrea, 2000;McKee, 2007McKee, , 2008Paddison et al, 2008). 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).…”

Section: Community Ownership In Glasgow: the Policy Contextmentioning

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The ‘Responsible’ Tenant and the Problem of Apathy

McKee¹

2009

Social Policy & Society

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In the last decade, the UK New Labour government has emphasised tenant participation in housing policy. Consequently, those individuals who decide to opt out of participation processes have been problematised as ‘apathetic’, and identified as needing to be ‘empowered’ through professional interventions. Drawing on research about community ownership in Glasgow, this paper argues that tenants' reasons for not getting involved are more than simply lack of interest. Tenants articulated an instrumental approach to participation, and rejected the conflation of tenant participation with tenant management. Practical barriers also obstructed their latent motivation.

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“…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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The Paradox of Tenant Empowerment: Regulatory and Liberatory Possibilities

McKee

Cooper

2008

Housing, Theory and Society

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Tenant empowerment has traditionally been regarded as a means of realising democratic ideals: a quantitative increase in influence and control, which thereby enables ''subjects'' to acquire the fundamental properties of ''citizens''. By contrast governmentality, as derived from the work of Michel Foucault, offers a more critical appraisal of the concept of empowerment by highlighting how it is itself a mode of subjection and means of regulating human conduct towards particular ends. Drawing on empirical data about how housing governance has changed in Glasgow following its 2003 stock transfer, this paper adopts the insights of governmentality to illustrate how the political ambition of ''community ownership'' has been realized through the mobilization and shaping of active tenant involvement in the local decisionmaking process. In addition, it also traces the tensions and conflict inherent in the reconfiguration of power relations post-transfer for ''subjects'' do not necessarily conform to the plans of those that seek to govern them.

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Transferring Glasgow’s council housing: financial, urban and housing policy implications

Cited by 37 publications

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Defining and Measuring Displacement: Is Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods Always Unwelcome and Disruptive?

Defining and Measuring Displacement: Is Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods Always Unwelcome and Disruptive?

The ‘Responsible’ Tenant and the Problem of Apathy

The Paradox of Tenant Empowerment: Regulatory and Liberatory Possibilities

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