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Political Acquiescence, Privatisation and Residualisation in British Housing Policy*

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Rob Flynn
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Abstract

This paper examines some of the social and political implications of retrenchment and privatisation in British housing policy. It reviews arguments and evidence about residualisation in the housing market, the effects of consumption sectoral cleavages, and attitudinal ambivalence to welfare, in an attempt to understand the apparent absence of discontent about inequalities in housing. It is argued that recent trends have exacerbated social fragmentation and reinforced tendencies to political acquiescence.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 289 - 312
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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