Property Before People - The Management of Twentieth-Century Council Housing

Originally published in 1987 this book examines attempts by successive individuals and governments to overcome slum conditions and homelessness, to reform landlord-tenant relations and to provide sound modern dwellings with full amenities for those who need them. Its focus is on how those responsible for public housing concentrated their energies on buildings rather than management, on property rather than people, in sharp distinction to the women who played such an innovative and humanizing role in the early days of housing reform. Efforts to resolve public housing problems are examined in a study of twenty housing estates, and of the initiatives that local authorities have taken to reverse the sometimes overwhelming decay.

Sommario

Part 1: The Origins of the Housing Service 1. Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Landlord Tradition 2. The Interwar Years 3. Post-war Mass Housing 4. Post-war Housing Departments 5. Housing for All or Housing of Last Resort? Part 2: A Survey of New Housing Problems 6. The Worst Estates 7. The Design of Unpopular Estates 8. The Management of Unpopular Estates: Allocations and Empty Property 9. Repairs, Rents, Cleansing and Caretaking Part 3: Changing the Landlord Tradition: Findings of the Survey 10. Local Offices on Unpopular Estates 11. Social Change 12. Summary of Main Themes and Conclusions: A Way Forward

Riassunto

Originally published in 1987 this book examines attempts by successive individuals and governments to overcome slum conditions and homelessness, to reform landlord-tenant relations and to provide sound modern dwellings with full amenities for those who need them.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anne Power, Power Anne
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367684594
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68459-4
• Pagine: 296
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, LAW / Land Use, Social Work, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness