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This book is the first major study of how welfare reform may affect the ability of families to maintain their housing.It presents newresearch on the projected impacts of welfare reform on assisted and unassisted housing, distills the most important lessons learned about the role of housing in moving recipients to economic self-sufficiency, identifies the special challenges welfare reform presentsfor low-income housing practitioners and researchers, and offers promising approaches to addressing these challenges.

Contributors include Neil Bania, Amy S. Bogdon, Claudia J. Coulton, Joseph Harkness,Pamela M. Jones, G. Thomas Kingsley, Laura Leete, James Riccio, Peter A. Tatian, Craig Thornton, and Robert G. Wood. ... Read more

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Title: The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy.(Brief Article)
Author: Bonnie Braun
Publication: Journal of Consumer Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: American Council on Consumer Interests
Volume: 34Issue: 1Page: 134

Article Type: Brief Article, Book Review

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There has been widespread criticism of social housing services, both those of local authorities and housing associations. This text is concerned with ways in which tenants can respond to and influence the housing service they receive. ... Read more

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This study examines the relationship between income and housing assistance programs. The welfare system, through the explicit and implicit shelter allowances that welfare recipients receive as part of their public assistance benefits, spends at least $10 billion a year on housing assistance-roughly the same as the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Yet the two streams of government financing for low income housing are uncoordinated and frequently overlapping. ... Read more

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This collection highlights such issues as rehabilitation, private initiatives, housing quality, welfare requirements, and home ownership. The contributions in this book are from active researchers in the eastern bloc who analyze the latest reforms, and academics from Western Europe who apply broader housing issues. The contributions examine the external factors that have influenced the reforms and assess the outlook for the future. ... Read more

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It is widely accepted that the housing benefit scheme is poorly structured in relation to the Government's social security and housing policy objectives, highly complex, poorly administered and confusing to claimants and therefore in need of major reform. The Housing Policy Green Paper, published in 2000, acknowledged that housing benefit has serious deficiencies. Since then a number of modest but important modifications to the scheme have been introduced or are planned. However, New Labour included a commitment to more radical reform of housing benefit for private tenants in its 2001 election manifesto. Meanwhile, proposals for a second generation of tax credits to be introduced in 2003 have renewed concerns about their relationship with housing benefit for people in low paid employment.Based on previous studies of housing benefit reform sponsored by the Foundation and undertaken separately by the authors, this report focuses on two key issues: the rules which restrict the amount of rent that is taken into account when assessing housing benefit entitlement (referred to as "rent restrictions") and how they might be reformed; and the relationship between housing benefit and the new generation of tax credits. It also explores options for reforms to restructure and simplify the current housing benefit scheme. ... Read more

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The book provides unique insights into the process of housing reforms in post-socialist Europe during its transition to markets and democracy. It explores the relationships between housing policy and housing system performance in nine countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro. The research captures important housing policy and market dynamics producing tangible outcomes of the transition processes. Using a comparative framework for analysis and evaluation, the book provides an enduring and sound illustration of the post-socialialist experience highlighting patterns of diversity, complexity and institutional transformation in the new path-dependent housing systems in the region. The research is driven by the premise that housing policy matters and that better policies lead to more efficient housing system performance.

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Unhealthy Housing presents an analysis of the research into the health implications of housing and the significance for legal regulation of housing conditions. Key experts present short papers, together with an overview to give an evaluation of the significance of housing on the health of occupiers. ... Read more