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Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government

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In 1979, local authorities provided 32 per cent of the total number of dwellings in Great Britain. In 1995, they provided just 18.9 per cent (Wilcox, 1997, Table 16d). These percentages represent a crude loss of around two million dwellings in this tenure. Over the same period, central government subsidy to local authority housing has been slashed by more than 50 per cent and capital investment by around 70 per cent. These various cuts have brought about a repositioning of the sector in line with central government policy. Local government, in other words, increasingly became controlled by central government through regulatory processes which have specified with ever-increasing precision what was required (see, generally, Loughlin, 1996).

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Cowan, D. (1999). Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government. In: Housing Law and Policy. Macmillan Law Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14643-7_6

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