Full Description
This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery.
Capturing this moment within its live context, the authors examine the ways that local authorities are moving towards increased financial independence based on their own activities to implement new forms and means of housebuilding activity. They assess these changes in the context of the long-term relationship between local and central government and argue that contemporary local authority housing initiatives represent a critical turning point, whilst also providing new ways of thinking about meting housing need.
Contents
Introduction: local government in England and the twin crises of austerity and housing;
Local government, housing and planning in the UK: a history;
Challenging austerity? Why have local authorities been taking their own action?
Overcoming austerity effects through local authority direct action?
Austerity's legacy? Risk, opportunity and a new form of central-local relations?
