Tenant-led policy solutions to the UK housing crisis

该项目将研究居民参与社会住房治理对当地社区过去和现在的影响，并记录和跟踪这种居民参与决策的影响。这项研究旨在检验少数群体和弱势群体居民参与住房治理是否可以挑战始于20世纪70年代和80年代的社会住房的污名，如果负担得起的租赁住房要成为英国住房危机的住房政策解决方案，这一点尤其重要。由焦点小组和口述历史组成的定性研究方法将被用来了解个人和集体参与的经验，并调查被边缘化的群体在参与社会住房及其民主空间方面是否面临障碍。数据将使用Laclau和Mouffe(1985)的话语分析进行研究，从而能够考虑各种新兴叙事，以及个人经验如何融入民主社会运动。该项目将询问租户参与社会住房的文化之间的相互关系，以及在两个案例研究地点--布莱顿和霍夫和朴茨茅斯--经济可持续社区的发展。将特别注重可伸缩性：在租户民主制度方面的创新，用于议会住房建设的大型社会民主方案，以及在受地形限制的两个沿海地区扩大负担得起的租赁住房所面临的独特挑战。

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.