Titlebook: Social Housing Management; A Critical Appraisal Martyn Pearl Textbook 1997Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997 control.health.m

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The Role of Tenants in Managing Housing,the management of social housing. Its motivation has been derived partly from the objective of loosening local authorities’ grip on social housing, and linked partly to the growth in the power of citizens and consumers. It has also mirrored a policy progression within many social housing organisatio

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Community Care and Housing Management, within recent years. Although not primarily a housing policy, it has had the effect of redefining the parameters of housing management almost by default. The process has involved the relocation of the treatment and support of frail and vulnerable individuals and households away from longstay instit

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Privatising Housing Management, been one in a raft of policies (see Chapter 1) designed to shift the locus of control for social housing away from local authorities. The main, but not exclusive vehicle for implementing such change is CCT, the effects of which have been felt from April 1996, as authorities have systematically tend

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The Changing Structures of Housing Organisations,ntral government policy has been geared towards extending choice in rented housing through competition. This has involved introducing CCT for local authorities (see Chapter 7) and promoting a range of alternative landlords, thus breaking up a perceived local authority monopoly in the process. As a r

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Housing Professionalism,een in response to government policies promoting market competition and financial stringency alongside a greater emphasis on partnership, performance cultures, and a more influential role for the consumer. It has been difficult for any social housing organisation to avoid being affected and altered

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Introduction, elsewhere within the recent past. Instead, the perspective of the book is that of the practitioner. Whether employed as a front-line housing officer or a director of housing, the role of individual housing staff is often as critical to the manner in which services are delivered as the policy framework within which they operate.

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The Role of Tenants in Managing Housing, to improve run-down and unpopular estates have depended on empowerment and partnerships with local communities (see Chapter 4). However, despite the establishment of a framework for tenant participation implementation has proved patchy, practical difficulties having emerged both for professionals and tenants themselves alike.

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Housing Professionalism,have also felt the effects. Individual practice has increasingly come under the microscope in the drive for increased cost-effectiveness and customer care. The result has been the emergence of a new set of skills, approaches and expectations which have challenged many traditional practices and attitudes.