460 research outputs found
Improving performance in UK public services (PVC-R Visiting Professor Lecture Series)
No full textProfessor Hal Pawson (Heriot-Watt University, UK) discusses approaches to measuring public service performance and investigates whether there is credible trend-over-time evidence of UK public service performance improvement over the past decade. He then goes on to examine the measures adopted by the UK's New Labour administration with the aim of improving local government services, including the roles of external inspection and quasi markets. Professor Pawson was invited to Swinburne under the Board of Research Visiting Professor Grant Scheme, and this lecture was presented as part of the PVC(R) Visiting Professor Lecture Series
Localism and homelessness: a decade of disaster in England
No full textSuzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, and Beth Watts use the example of rising homelessness in England to illustrate the argument that localist policymaking has an intrinsic tendency to disadvantage socially marginalised groups
Social housing strategies, financing mechanisms and outcomes
No full textThis review provides a brief update of developments in social housing policies and national strategies in a cross‐section of developed countries since 2007. The countries included in the review are: Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden (described collectively as European countries) and the United States of America. The time‐frame for this exercise is largely influenced by timing of the global economic downturn and credit crisis which has, in many countries, prompted fundamental policy shifts. With this in mind, the next part of this introductory chapter highlights some of the key features of the post‐2007 economic context for housing policy.
In selecting countries for inclusion in the review we have aimed to encompass a diversity of national social housing systems in countries with broadly similar economic and social profiles to Australia. Jurisdictions included are those where one or more of the contributing authors have direct knowledge of the social housing system and have recently conducted research on aspects of housing policy.
The review has been commissioned by Housing NSW to provide background information for the ongoing development of The Housing Strategy for New South Wales. It builds on and extends research funded by the City Futures Research Centre (UNSW), the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and OTB TU Delft which is published in the following conference papers and reports: Lawson, Gilmour and Milligan (2010); Lawson (2009); Lawson and Milligan (2007); Milligan and Lawson (2008); Lawson and Nieboer (2009); Lawson, Berry, Yates and Milligan (2009); Milligan, Gurran, Lawson, Phibbs and Phillips (2009); and Hulse, Milligan and Easthope (2011). The report also draws on the UK Housing Review (Pawson & Wilcox, 2011 and forthcoming 2012) and on recently published material available online compiled by various research and sector organisations in a range of countries.
The report was prepared for Housing NSW, Department of Families and Communities, NSW Government in December 2011 and has been recently release
Pensamiento y arquitectura en John Pawson
No full text[ES] El siguiente trabajo consiste en una disertación sobre los fundamentos y la obra del arquitecto John Pawson, en ella se obtendrán las ideas fundamentales a través de los escritos y entrevistas del autor para después comparar en su obra construida mediante el análisis de tres de sus obras mas significativas. Las tres obras analizadas corresponden a una representación de los campos de actuación en los que Pawson más ha trabajado, como son el de la arquitectura doméstica, la religiosa y el interiorismo para retail. La identificación del pensamiento se realiza analizando sus escritos y entrevistas los cuales serán citados para mejor comprensión de las ideas del arquitecto, haciendo una valoración y poniendo en contexto las palabras de Pawson.[EN] The following work is a dissertation on the basics and work of architect John Pawson, through writings and interviews of the author will be obtained the fundamental ideas and then will be compared to his built work by analyzing three of his more significant works. The three works analyzed correspond to a representation of the fields of action in which more Pawson has worked, such as the domestic architecture, religious and interior design for retail. The identification of thought is done analyzing his writings and interviews which will be cited for better understanding of the ideas of the architect, making an assessment and putting into context the words of Pawson.Orero Tarazaga, A. (2016). Pensamiento y arquitectura en John Pawson. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/98324TFG
Perpetuating polarized neighbourhoods? Analysing rehousing outcomes in the English housing association sector
No full textSocial housing allocation systems have often been identified as contributing to the socio-economic polarization of neighbourhoods. Part of this argument has rested on a contention that - notwithstanding the impartial operation of 'needs-based' approaches - there is an inevitable tendency for the most disadvantaged households to be filtered into the least desirable housing. However, the empirical basis for this belief rests largely on a body of research dating from the mid-1980s and few studies have revisited the issue over the past decade. Drawing on a recently completed review of housing associations' allocation policies and practices, this paper presents important new evidence on that vital social policy question - who gets what? Broadly speaking, the analysis finds no evidence of any systematic tendency for potentially disadvantaged groups - e.g. single parents, black and minority ethnic households, low-income households, statutory homeless - to be rehoused in less desirable housing. Indeed, at the national scale some of these groups are somewhat more likely than other households to be rehoused in the best housing. However, because some of the likely explanations for these findings are specific to the housing association sector, it cannot be assumed that the conclusions can be read across to council housing. Further research would be required to explore this question.Social housing, housing allocations, discrimination,
Social landlords and the regulation of conduct in urban spaces in the United Kingdom
No full textSocial landlords in the United Kingdom are embedded in governance regimes that regulate citizens' conduct, including addressing antisocial behaviour. This article seeks to contribute to the literature on the geography of regulating conduct through examining the spatial dimensions of social landlords' attempts to influence behaviour, and to map the range of technologies and measures utilized by social landlords on to particular urban spaces. Two spaces are identified: the property and its vicinity, and the wider neighbourhood. The article argues that social landlords have been engaging in increasingly intensive regulation of the private and domestic arena of the home as well as expanding their role in the regulation of spaces and populations within and beyond residential neighbourhoods. © The Author(s), 2009.</p
Next moves? Expanding affordable rental housing in Australia through institutional investment
No full textEfforts to engage institutional investment in rental housing provision were badly damaged by the 2014 termination of the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS); yet lessons can be learned from the NRAS initiative and these should inform a successor program.
Building on our major 2013 study, a newly-published City Futures report reviews the NRAS experience and other emerging developments around the institutional financing of rental housing.
With contributions from (CFRC Visiting Fellow) Judy Yates and Prof Peter Williams (Cambridge University), the report focuses mainly on the Australian context. However, it also references rapidly unfolding UK developments involving both government- and industry-led initiatives that have made major advances in this space over the past two years and which have possible implications for Australia.
Drawing on interviews with finance experts and senior policymakers, as well as a review of recent Australian and UK publications, the report details 10 recommendations to government for action to re-start progress towards this widely-shared policy objective
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