The Housing and Planning Act 2016
The Housing and Planning Act 2016
In May 2016, the Housing and Planning Act 2016 became law and reflects the first purely Conservative Government intervention on housing in England since the 1990s. This article examines the key provisions of the Act as they pertain to social housing and the government’s stated aim of increasing rates of homeownership in Britain. The Act, through the Starter Homes Scheme, extension of the Right to Buy to Housing Association tenants and changes to security of tenure in the social sector, has been heralded as a ‘landmark’ piece of legislation. This article scrutinises these policy measures and assesses their effectiveness and likely impact. In so doing, it is contended that the 2016 Act exposes the government’s promotion of homeownership above all other housing tenures. This article further explores the deep moralisation at the heart of the homeownership narrative and the intensification in the residualisation of social housing in England which, it is argued, is the inevitable consequence of the reforms.
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Bevan, Chris
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Laurie, Emma
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July 2017
Bevan, Chris
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Laurie, Emma
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Abstract
In May 2016, the Housing and Planning Act 2016 became law and reflects the first purely Conservative Government intervention on housing in England since the 1990s. This article examines the key provisions of the Act as they pertain to social housing and the government’s stated aim of increasing rates of homeownership in Britain. The Act, through the Starter Homes Scheme, extension of the Right to Buy to Housing Association tenants and changes to security of tenure in the social sector, has been heralded as a ‘landmark’ piece of legislation. This article scrutinises these policy measures and assesses their effectiveness and likely impact. In so doing, it is contended that the 2016 Act exposes the government’s promotion of homeownership above all other housing tenures. This article further explores the deep moralisation at the heart of the homeownership narrative and the intensification in the residualisation of social housing in England which, it is argued, is the inevitable consequence of the reforms.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 April 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 July 2017
Published date: July 2017
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Local EPrints ID: 411817
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411817
ISSN: 0026-7961
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