Social market or safety net?: British social rented housing in a European context

by Mark Stephens, Nicky Burns, and Lisa MacKay

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Social rented housing in Britain is undergoing radical reform - often inspired by European experiences. This timely report provides a comparative analysis of the social rented sector in seven European countries. Combined with analysis of labour market and social security systems, it challenges the assumptions behind the British reform agenda.
Social market or safety net?:


analyses the ownership, allocation, pricing and financing of the social rented sector in seven European countries;
presents the first comparative data on the social composition of the main tenures;
highlights the comparative poverty of tenants of social rented housing in the UK compared with their European counterparts;
links housing to social security systems;
provides a critique of the current reform agenda in the UK
  • ISBN13 9781861343871
  • Publish Date 20 February 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Policy Press