'Mixed tenure' policy in the UK: privatisation, pluralism or euphemism?
Titel:
'Mixed tenure' policy in the UK: privatisation, pluralism or euphemism?
Auteur:
Tunstall, Rebecca
Verschenen in:
Housing, theory and society
Paginering:
Jaargang 20 (2003) nr. 3 pagina's 153-159
Jaar:
2003-09
Inhoud:
'Mixed tenure' within neighbourhoods, and policies to promote it, have been advocated in many developed countries, particularly those with tenure systems dominated by home ownership at the national level. UK governments have pursued mixed tenure policy since the 1980s, initially as a 'privatisation' policy directed at council estates, but latterly with more diverse aims and methods. This article aims to determine whether the UK has ever seen any genuine 'mixed tenure' policy in the UK, or whether non-strategy, privatisation or other terms are more appropriate. It uses criteria including the ultimate goals and rationales, tools and targets of policy. Policy targets and tools suggest plural elements to tenure policy. However, ultimate goals are not clear, rationales are dominated by arguments for 'privatisation', and there is little supporting evidence for neighbourhood tenure mix effects. 'Tenure mix' appears to have been used as a euphemism, initially for privatisation and latterly, for social mix.
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