Has the Northern Ireland Executive's Shared Housing Programme been able to create sustainable mixed communities through new build social housing?

提供社会住房可以帮助确保有需要的人，特别是低收入的人有足够的低成本住房（Power, 1999）。但是，社会住房在建立社区关系方面也有作用吗？《耶稣受难日协定》包括一项具体承诺，即促进北爱尔兰的“混合住房”，使宗派分歧双方的人共同居住。O’leary和McGarry认为，“一段持续的自愿性群体间合作应该会减少社区间的分裂”（2004:36）。在《耶稣受难日协议》之后的几十年里，作为北爱尔兰行政部门2016 - 2021年政府计划草案一部分的“共享住房”的交付成功与否，可以被视为对这一理论的检验。北爱尔兰住房管理局（NIHE）承诺在共享社区提供800套新住房（NIHE， 2020年）。但目前还没有对这些项目的进展进行深入研究。通过采用半结构化访谈和参与性观察的定性研究，我想从居民的角度来研究这些新社区是如何成功和可持续发展的。我特别想评估为引导这些项目走上正确轨道而制定的长期“良好关系计划”是否成功，以及这些计划是否符合居民的期望和生活经验。这一建议为当代社会住房研究与更广泛的种族、民族和社区隔离研究之间提供了一座潜在的桥梁。此外，作为社区关系案例研究的一个“极端”例子，该项目可以为解决其他地区其他困难的社区关系问题提供特别有用的想法。

The provision of social housing can help to ensure that enough low-cost homes are available for those in need, particularly those on low incomes (Power, 1999). But does social housing also have a role to play in building community relations? The Good Friday Agreement includes a specific commitment to the promotion of 'mixed housing' in Northern Ireland where people from both sides of the sectarian divide reside together. O'Leary and McGarry contend that 'a sustained period of voluntary inter-group cooperation should reduce inter-community divisions' (2004: 36). In the decades that have followed the Good Friday Agreement, the success or otherwise of the delivery of 'Shared Housing,' which forms part of the Northern Ireland Executive's Draft Programme for Government 2016 - 2021, can be seen as a test of this theory. The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) has committed to delivering 800 new homes in shared communities (NIHE, 2020). But there has yet to be an in-depth study of the progress of these projects. Engaging in a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and participant observation, I want to examine how successful and sustainable these new communities have become from the point of view of the residents themselves. In particular, I want to evaluate the success of the long-term Good Relations Plans that have been drawn up to steer these projects on the right course, and how they match up to the expectations and lived experience of residents. This proposal offers a potential bridge between contemporary research on social housing and wider research on race, ethnicity and community segregation. Furthermore, as an 'extreme' example of a case study of community relations, this project could offer a particularly useful contribution to ideas about tackling other difficult community relations issues in other regions.