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The impact of devolution: housing and homelessness
- Authors:
- WILCOX Steve, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 73p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report on low-income housing and homelessness is from a series on the impact of the first decade of devolved government in the United Kingdom and details, over five sections, the priority of housing within budgets, supply of social housing, reforms within ‘right-to-buy’, homelessness and housing allocation regimes and the quality of social and private housing across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England. The executive summary, sections 1 and 2 list key facts with relation to devolution, the 1999 settlement, the differing experiences of each devolved country and economic and social trends. How each country promotes housing quality, supply, access, affordability, and addresses homelessness is detailed in sections 3, 4 and 5. The key legislative, devolved and central government documents outlining housing policies in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England are listed in the introduction. A plethora of tables and figures of data support each section. The authors conclude with some final observations and notes which allude to the differences in definitions, data collection methods and devolution experiences in each country which limited the comparisons which could be made between them. Other reports, in the series, detail area based regeneration, indicators of poverty and social exclusion, employment and employability and long-term care provision.
Can work: can't buy; local measures of the ability of working households to become home owners
- Author:
- WILCOX Steve
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 54p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- York
The costs, and difficulties, of accessing home ownership vary sharply from one location to another, and that these difficulties are most acute in London and the south of England. However, routinely available data sets do not provide either accurate or consistent measures of those variations in costs and accessibility. In that context this report sets out the results of a range of modelling exercises designed to provide current measures of home ownership costs and accessibility, on a consistent basis for every local authority in England.
Housing review 1996/97
- Author:
- WILCOX Steve
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 205p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- York
Presents a wide range of statistical and other information on housing issues, including: the relationship between housing and the wider economy; the impact of government policy on housing; the demand and need for housing and plans for provision; the characteristics of each tenure in terms of both the stock of housing and the people who live in them; trends and prospects for the private housing market; cost and affordability issues; private renting; housing expenditure plans in the United Kingdom; homelessness and the supply of lettings to meet housing need; and mortgage interest tax relief, housing cost across all tenures.
Housing finance review 1995/96
- Author:
- WILCOX Steve
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 191p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- York
Annual compilation of statistical information, drawing together key current financial data about both private and public housing in the UK. Includes sections on: economic prospects and public expenditure; dwellings and households; private housing; UK housing expenditure plans; housing needs and homelessness; and help with housing costs.
Housing finance review 1994/95
- Author:
- WILCOX Steve
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 203p.,tables,diags.
- Place of publication:
- York
Draws together financial data about both public and private housing, and assembles it in an accessible format.
Housing finance review 1993
- Authors:
- WILCOX Steve, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 180p.,tables,diags.
- Place of publication:
- York
Draws together key financial detail about both public and private housing and provides data on the overall economic and political context. Examines specific housing issues, including housing expenditure plans, housing needs, homelessness and help with housing costs in the form of benefits or tax relief.
Local housing companies: new opportunities for council housing
- Authors:
- WILCOX Steve, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 91p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report developing and evaluating new ideas in the search for arrangements for a viable future for council housing that would place it beyond public expenditure constraints and controls, while retaining a strong element of local control.
Time for mortgage benefits
- Authors:
- WEBB Steven, WILCOX Steve
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 44p.,tables,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Sets out in detail the case for a mortgage benefit scheme to assist low income home owners.
Home-ownership, taxation and the economy: the economic and social effects of the abolition of mortgage interest tax relief
- Authors:
- PEARCE Brian, WILCOX Steve
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 48p.,tables,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Housing benefit reform: next steps
- Authors:
- KEMP Peter, WILCOX Steve, RHODES David
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 54p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
An exploration of the options for restructuring and simplifying the current Housing Benefit scheme. Among all social security benefits, it is widely accepted that housing benefit suffers from some of the greatest problems. The Government has declared its intention of tackling this longstanding issue. Tax and pension proposals due to come into effect in 2003 have brought added urgency. This book considers the rules restricting the amount of rent taken into account when housing benefit is assessed and the relationship between housing benefit and the new tax credits. It also suggests how to reduce the poverty trap which the current system of overlapping benefits and tapers has created. The report outlines the position of low income owner-occupiers who are not eligible for benefit, and who can be worse off in work than out of it. The authors argue that a reformed housing benefit system incorporating a flat rate element could offer significant advantages, would be more transparent and easier to manage. They suggest that a properly integrated tax credit system should help reduce those poverty traps and that including owners within the system would help break down the tenure divide and end the unemployment trap.