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Kevin Gulliver, Chris Handy & John Morris Foreword by Ian Austin MP, Former Housing Minister & Minister for the West Midlands Introduction by James Tickell, Campbell Tickell & Former Deputy-Chief Executive of the NHF |
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The Historic Role of Housing Associations Tackling Poverty, Disadvantage & Inequality by Kevin Gulliver, Chris Handy & John Morris Foreword by Ian Austin MP, Former Housing Minister & Minister for the West Midlands
Introduction by James Tickell, Campbell Tickell & Former Deputy-Chief Executive of the NHF
Housing associations have been formed in various historical eras over the last 100 years in response to the effects of previous ‘ages of austerity’ or periods when concern about poverty, disadvantage and inequality were ‘rediscovered’.
The ‘Beacons of Hope’ report illustrates this historical activity against the backdrop of current debates about the role of housing associations, interrogating the claim that poverty, disadvantage and inequality are spatially concentrated primarily because of housing associations’ lettings policies. Rather, the report confirms, housing associations were founded specifically to tackle these problems; not to perpetuate them. The report concludes that housing associations may now need to re-claim and re-configure their historical role as innovative, ‘front-line’ agencies in tackling poverty, disadvantage and inequality, as campaigners on behalf of the homeless and poorly housed, and demonstrating their transformative abilities, honed in many cases over a century or more. Housing associations may need once again to become ‘Beacons of Hope’ in those disadvantaged communities they did not create, but were founded to improve.
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