Housing and social care : changing ideologies and the role of housing associations
Housing and social care : changing ideologies and the role of housing associations
The discrediting of large residential institutions and the search for alternative forms of social care have led to the increasing involvement of housing associations in providing accommodation for people in need of extra support. The study investigates the historical relationship between housing policy and policies on community care, the development and use of the concept of special needs in housing and the kinds of accommodation developed by housing associations over the past twenty years.
The sphere of housing has expanded steadily as housing associations have increasingly made provision for people with high support needs. This expansion accords with a shift in thinking about special care, whereby ideas of deviancy and dependency have been to some extent replaced by notions of marginality and exclusion. However, the growth in supported housing has come about through the emergence of a distinct special needs sector located within the volunteer housing movement, rather than through co-ordinated policy initiatives or developments in general housing policy. Special needs housing, being marginal, could thrive only as long as housing associations themselves played a supplementary role as housing providers.
The study reveals increasing diversification of housing type and forms of support. There are trends both towards self-contained housing and towards large shared accommodation. Despite the range of types, the findings indicate that supported housing is based on a distinctive set of ideas. These ideas are rooted in a culture of housing which seeks to promote housing rights and to stress goals of independent living and social integration. However, the policy focus on care/support needs obscures this culture of housing and prevents supported housing being fully legitimated as a demand on public housing resources.
University of Southampton
1993
Watson, Lynn Beverley
(1993)
Housing and social care : changing ideologies and the role of housing associations.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The discrediting of large residential institutions and the search for alternative forms of social care have led to the increasing involvement of housing associations in providing accommodation for people in need of extra support. The study investigates the historical relationship between housing policy and policies on community care, the development and use of the concept of special needs in housing and the kinds of accommodation developed by housing associations over the past twenty years.
The sphere of housing has expanded steadily as housing associations have increasingly made provision for people with high support needs. This expansion accords with a shift in thinking about special care, whereby ideas of deviancy and dependency have been to some extent replaced by notions of marginality and exclusion. However, the growth in supported housing has come about through the emergence of a distinct special needs sector located within the volunteer housing movement, rather than through co-ordinated policy initiatives or developments in general housing policy. Special needs housing, being marginal, could thrive only as long as housing associations themselves played a supplementary role as housing providers.
The study reveals increasing diversification of housing type and forms of support. There are trends both towards self-contained housing and towards large shared accommodation. Despite the range of types, the findings indicate that supported housing is based on a distinctive set of ideas. These ideas are rooted in a culture of housing which seeks to promote housing rights and to stress goals of independent living and social integration. However, the policy focus on care/support needs obscures this culture of housing and prevents supported housing being fully legitimated as a demand on public housing resources.
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Lynn Beverley Watson
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