Tenant-led policy solutions to the UK housing crisis

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This project will examine the impacts of resident participation in social housing governance upon localcommunities past and present, and will record and track impacts of such resident involvement onpolicymaking. The research will be designed to examine whether involvement of residents from minorityand vulnerable groups in housing governance can challenge the stigmatisation of social housing whichbegan in the 1970s and 1980s, of particular importance if affordable rented housing is to become ahousing policy solution for the UK housing crisis.Qualitative research methods comprising focus groups and oral histories will be used to understandindividual and collective experiences of participation, and to investigate whether marginalised groupsface barriers to participation in social housing and its democratic spaces. Data will be examined usingLaclau and Mouffe's (1985) discourse analysis, enabling the consideration of a diversity of emergingnarratives, and the ways in which individual experiences feed into democratic social movements.The project will interrogate the interrelationship between cultures of tenant participation in socialhousing, with the development of economically sustainable communities in two case study locations,Brighton & Hove and Portsmouth. Particular focus will be placed on scalability: of innovations in tenantdemocracy for a large social democratic programme of council house building, and the unique challengesfor expansion of affordable rented housing in two coastal locations limited by topography.