Social Mix and the `Balanced Community' in British housing policy – a tale of two epochs

In Britain, concepts of `social mix' and the `balanced community' provide an example of how policy discourses have adapted to changing conceptions of the role of the state in public provision, forms of social division and inequality, and housing market transformations. The recent development of a policy agenda by the Labour government in Britain devised to promote more socially balanced neighbourhoods is not new, and its lineage may be traced back to the origins of housing and urban policy. However, the manner in which this objective has been framed and the intervention it has provoked have varied considerably over time. One is struck more by the episodic and discontinuous nature of the application of mix and balance in British policy than any sense of a coherent set of strategies pursued through changing times. This paper contrasts the place of social mix and balance in the discourses of the immediate post-war period in Britain with the renewed emphasis on such ideas in the policies of the New Labour government elected in 1997. In the first period, the claims of social mix were infused with the language of national reconstruction and the post-war settlement and the development of universal state provision. More recently, interest in social balance has arisen partly as a response to increased management difficulties and the process of `residualisation' in social housing and partly in response to new concepts of the underclass, social exclusion and social capital. The promotion of social mix and balance in contemporary policy has been shaped by notions of the underclass, social exclusion and the development of social capital in poorer communities. Policy intervention is overtly premised on the assumption that more mixed communities will promote more positive social interaction for residents, despite the lack of evidence for this claim. In practice, much of the discourse has now taken on a stronger sense of discipline and control in order to manage social housing estates. The meaning of social balance remains confused, however, and the achievement of this objective through policy intervention is likely to remain fraught with problems.     

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利用社会-人口统计学研究方法,以问卷调查结果为基础,从自置房和租赁房、资助房和商品房两个层面,分析住房产权分异影响因素,研究发现社会经济特征变量与组织变量对住房产权分异都有显著影响,尤其是组织变量对资助房与商品房产权分异的影响更显著.家庭社会经济特征,如户主年龄、婚姻状况、家庭规模和家庭收入对产权分异的影响基本与西方类似.国有单位和工龄长的职工,享受资助房的机会相对较多.目前的住房制度改革集中在住房的私有化和大规模的商品房开发建设上,应更加关注新形势下住房分配的不平等.     

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广州市三类社区居住满意度与迁居意愿研究

通过问卷调查了解广州三种不同类型居住区即传统老城区、城中村、商品房小区居民的迁居情况,利用线性回归和多元Logistic回归,对不同类型居住区居民迁居后居住满意度的决定因素和居民迁居意愿产生的影响因素进行了研究。研究发现:不同类型居住区居民迁居后居住满意度的影响因素不同,总体上受社区归属感、住房所有权、设施完善程度影响较大,且与在本居住区居住时间呈负相关关系;迁居意愿的产生受很多因素的综合影响,不同类型居住区迁居意愿的影响因素有所差异。传统老城区家庭总月收入越低,居民对现住房越满意,越不可能产生迁居意愿,男性比女性更容易产生迁居意愿,高学历者更容易产生迁居意愿;城中村居民迁居意愿的产生是多种因素的复杂作用结果,其中社区归属感越强烈,越不可能产生迁居意愿;商品房小区居民的迁居意愿受户主年龄和婚姻状况的影响较大。研究结果表明西方的迁居理论,如生命周期理论并未能完全适用于中国,这与转型期中国城市复杂的住房构成和住房市场机制相关。     

土地制度改革与城镇化健康发展——2013年海峡两岸土地学术交流会综述

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西安市住宅价格空间结构和分异规律分析

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我国大多数破坏性地震都发生在农村,通过分析我国农村房屋建筑的主要结构形式、震害特征及其建造特点,发现缺乏设防意识、缺乏抗震技术和经济条件差是农房“小震致灾、大震大灾”的主要原因.通过对既有的结构抗震、鉴定、加固、隔震技术的综述,发现目前我国仍比较缺乏适合农村房屋的抗震及加固技术.最后对农村房屋抗震与加固方法提出建议,展...     

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