The demand for social housing has grown recently more than its supply,
particularly in the United Kingdom (UK). The existing literature addresses the
lack of a sustainability policy and its contribution to the lack of political intent
to support the achievement of social housing homeownership predominantly
under the Right-to-Buy. This research highlights that several government
projects have failed in the past to deliver satisfying outcomes for the public;
thus, their value to social housing tenants and public value has been largely
neglected. The main aim of this research project is to evaluate social housing
policies through the lens of public value that drives the decision-making
process and to construct a conceptual framework to enhance the
accountability and efficiency of social housing tenants in the context of local
government. This has been achieved through key research objectives and the
key citizens, barriers and recommendations have been explored to enlighten
social housing sustainability policy. This conceptual framework was tested in
UK local government authorities and with local citizens who had recently
started to address diverse sustainability factors in terms of social housing
policy. The result was a qualitative case study enquiry based on the use of
focus group-interviews, the vignettes approach and documentary evidence to
explore the validity of the conceptual framework as a tool for supporting the
decision-making process in this field. The findings obtained from the in-depth
case study provided an insight into the social housing evaluation criteria and
the influences of a sustainability policy from both a practical background and
an internal organisational perspective. The findings addressed the poor
affordability of a whole-life value of a property, insufficient funding due to
austerity, poor legal frameworks, poor governance, a lack of suitable designs
for social cohesion, poverty, the well-organized use of resources and
environmental protection.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17444 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Sadiqi, Jawed |
| Contributors | Irani, Zahir, Kamal, M.M. |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, University of Bradford, Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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