Hitting Home: Single People, Housing Benefit Reform & Equalities Law
击中要害:单身人士、住房福利改革
基本信息
- 批准号:ES/L010569/1
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 30.1万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:英国
- 项目类别:Research Grant
- 财政年份:2015
- 资助国家:英国
- 起止时间:2015 至 无数据
- 项目状态:已结题
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- 关键词:
项目摘要
This project considers the ways that single people without dependents have been affected by the recent cuts to UK housing benefit. It asks: what new hardships and vulnerabilities have been created by changes to housing welfare? The research focuses upon a specific policy that solely impacts on the lives of single people: the changed age threshold regarding eligibility for Local Housing Allowance (LHA). This is a form of housing benefit (HB) for people who are living in the private rental sector and who cannot afford their rental payments. From 2012 onwards single people (without dependents) aged between 25 and 34 were only entitled to a Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR) of LHA - whereas previously they could claim for a 1-bedroom property. This meant that single people under 35 could only claim enough support to cover the cost of a single room in a shared property. The change to LHA has become one of the most severe cuts in HB, resulting in making certain areas of the country entirely unaffordable. In some areas, these changes mark a extremely significant reduction in the amount of support to which a person is entitled- e.g. in central London the SAR is £126 per week, whereas the 1 bedroom rate is £255 (Valuation Office Agency, 2013), marking an over 50% reduction in benefit. Increasing the SAR rate to the age of 35 is seen to have increased demand for an already limited pool of available shared properties (Rugg et al, 2011). While existing research (Beatty et al 2012; Rugg et al, 2011) has provided important insights into the impact these changes to LHA have had on claimants, my research will be the first to look at these changes specifically through the lens of equalities legislation. In the Equality Impact Assessment (DWP, 2011: 14), the government noted the need for further quantitative and qualitative research to assess the unintended adverse impact that these changes may have had on protected groups. Accordingly, the aim of the research is to assess what impact these changes to LHA have had on groups who are protected under the 2010 Equality Act (women, ethnic minorities, LGBT people and disabled people). This research asks: what housing options do these people now have, and at what risk? Have these changes to LHA led to a lack of safe and secure housing options for protected groups? Above all the research is concerned with people's lived experiences of these changes to LHA - and the research sets out to explore what impact this change in policy has had on their everyday lives.The first stage of the research involves a quantitative survey of 500 people who have been affected by these changes. The survey will provide a large-scale dataset that will enable identification of the effects of these changes on protected groups. The second stage of the research involves in-depth interviews with a purposive sample of 50 people. The interviews will ask participants to talk about their housing biographies, and to discuss what impact these changes in housing benefit have had upon their everyday lives. The interviews will discuss people's experiences of trying to find affordable housing, in particular looking at the availability and appropriateness of shared housing for protected groups. Ultimately, this research will produce important new quantitative and qualitative data about people's experiences of these changes to LHA. The project will integrate and illuminate key debates, adding new empirical material and new theoretical insights. The rich empirical data will then be used to feed into existing policy debates, and the research is designed to have direct policy impact. The findings will be important to a number of non-academic groups, such as housing charities, equalities groups, public sector workers, and policy makers concerned with the disproportionate effect of welfare reform on protected groups.
这个项目考虑了没有受抚养人的单身人士受到最近英国住房福利削减的影响。它问:住房福利的变化造成了哪些新的困难和脆弱性?这项研究的重点是一项只影响单身人士生活的具体政策:关于当地住房津贴资格的年龄门槛的变化。这是一种住房补贴形式(HB),提供给居住在私人租房部门且无力支付房租的人。从2012年起,年龄在25岁至34岁之间的单身人士(无受抚养人)仅有权享受LHA的共享住宿率(SAR)-而以前他们可以申请一间卧室的房产。这意味着35岁以下的单身人士只能要求足够的支持来支付共用房产中一个房间的费用。LHA的变化已成为HB最严重的削减之一,导致该国某些地区完全负担不起。在某些地区,这些变化标志着一个人有权获得的支助金额大幅减少-例如,在伦敦市中心,SAR为每周126英镑,而一间卧室的费率为255英镑(估价办公室机构,2013年),标志着福利减少了50%以上。将SAR率提高到35岁被认为增加了对已经有限的可用共享财产的需求(Rugg等人,2011)。虽然现有的研究(Beatty et al 2012; Rugg et al 2011)已经为LHA的这些变化对索赔人的影响提供了重要的见解,但我的研究将是第一个专门通过平等立法的透镜来研究这些变化的研究。在《平等影响评估》(DWP,2011:14)中,政府指出,需要进一步开展定量和定性研究,以评估这些变化可能对受保护群体产生的意外不利影响。因此,研究的目的是评估《法律和住房法》的这些变化对受2010年《平等法》保护的群体(妇女、少数民族、男女同性恋、双性恋和变性者以及残疾人)产生了什么影响。这项研究的问题是:这些人现在有什么住房选择,风险有多大?LHA的这些变化是否导致受保护群体缺乏安全可靠的住房选择?最重要的是,这项研究关注的是人们对LHA这些变化的生活体验,并着手探讨这种政策变化对他们的日常生活产生了什么影响。研究的第一阶段包括对500名受到这些变化影响的人进行定量调查。这项调查将提供一个大规模的数据集,从而能够确定这些变化对受保护群体的影响。研究的第二阶段是对50人进行有目的的深入访谈。访谈将要求参与者谈论他们的住房经历,并讨论住房福利的这些变化对他们日常生活的影响。访谈将讨论人们试图寻找负担得起的住房的经历,特别是研究受保护群体共享住房的可用性和适当性。最终,这项研究将产生重要的新的定量和定性数据的人的经验,这些变化的LHA。该项目将整合和阐明关键辩论,增加新的经验材料和新的理论见解。然后,丰富的经验数据将被用于为现有的政策辩论提供信息,研究旨在产生直接的政策影响。这些发现对一些非学术团体很重要,如住房慈善机构、平等团体、公共部门工作人员和关注福利改革对受保护群体不成比例影响的政策制定者。
项目成果
期刊论文数量(6)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
Housing benefit and age discrimination: Young women living in shared accommodation in the private rental sector
住房福利和年龄歧视:住在私人租赁部门合租住房的年轻女性
- DOI:
- 发表时间:2019
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Ortega-Alcázar I
- 通讯作者:Ortega-Alcázar I
Stranger danger? The intersectional impacts of shared housing on young people's health & wellbeing.
陌生人的危险?
- DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102191
- 发表时间:2019
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:4.8
- 作者:Wilkinson E
- 通讯作者:Wilkinson E
The right to be weary? Endurance and exhaustion in austere times
疲倦的权利?
- DOI:10.1111/tran.12266
- 发表时间:2018
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:3.3
- 作者:Wilkinson E
- 通讯作者:Wilkinson E
Just a room in s shared house: The impact of housing benefit cuts on single parents with non-resident children
只是共享房屋中的一个房间:住房福利削减对有非居民子女的单亲父母的影响
- DOI:
- 发表时间:2017
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Ortega-Alcázar I
- 通讯作者:Ortega-Alcázar I
'I felt trapped': young women's experiences of shared housing in austerity Britain
- DOI:10.1080/14649365.2020.1829688
- 发表时间:2020-10-05
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:2.5
- 作者:Ortega-Alcazar, Iliana;Wilkinson, Eleanor
- 通讯作者:Wilkinson, Eleanor
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Eleanor Wilkinson其他文献
Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise
邂逅 Berlant 第 1 部分:其他概念
- DOI:
10.1111/geoj.12494 - 发表时间:
2022 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
Ben Anderson;S. Aitken;J. Bacevic;F. Callard;Kwang Dae (Mitsy) Chung;Kathryn S. Coleman;Robert F. Hayden;S. Healy;R. Irwin;T. Jellis;Joe Jukes;Salman Khan;Steven T. Marotta;David K. Seitz;K. Snepvangers;Adam Staples;C. Turner;Justin Tse;Marthy Watson;Eleanor Wilkinson - 通讯作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson
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大区块规模区块基因组区块分析区块显示区块无区块证据区块重复区块
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- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
P. Hubbard;Eleanor Wilkinson - 通讯作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson
Learning to love again: ‘Broken families’, citizenship and the state promotion of coupledom
再次学会爱:“破碎的家庭”、公民身份和国家对夫妻关系的促进
- DOI:
10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.02.012 - 发表时间:
2013 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:3.5
- 作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson - 通讯作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson
The diverse economies of online pornography: From paranoid readings to post-capitalist futures
网络色情的多样化经济:从偏执的阅读到后资本主义的未来
- DOI:
10.1177/1363460716675141 - 发表时间:
2017 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:1.5
- 作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson - 通讯作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson
On love as an (im)properly political concept
论爱作为一种(不)恰当的政治概念
- DOI:
10.1177/0263775816658887 - 发表时间:
2017 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson - 通讯作者:
Eleanor Wilkinson
Eleanor Wilkinson的其他文献
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