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The distribution of houses, unlike health and education, is largely determined by the market. Most people buy or rent their dwellings privately, and the arrangements they make are only indirectly and occasionally affected by government policy. The minority who rent their houses from the public authorities have in the past had their rent subsidised, mainly by government subsidies payable to local authorities in respect of the houses they build, in some cases by local rates and in some cases through differential rent or rebate schemes. Government intervention has taken the form of a succession of largely unco-ordinated activities designed to control or regulate the free market and to encourage public authorities to build houses, and the outcome is frequently confusion and muddle in people’s minds about their housing prospects and rights.1
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Lucy Syson and Michael Young, ‘Poverty in Bethnal Green’, in Poverty Report 1974, ed. Michael Young (Temple Smith, 1974).
See such different authorities as Edwin Chadwick, The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Papulation of Great Britain 1842, ed. M. W. Flinn (Edinburgh University Press, 1965), and Alvin Schorr, Slums and Social Insecurity (Nelson, 1964) on the physical and moral dangers of bad housing.
Central Statistical Office, Social Trends, no. 2 (H.M.S.O., 1971).
Adela Adam Nevitt, Housing, Taxation and Subsidies (Nelson, 1966). Miss Nevitt gives a useful analysis of the decline of the private landlord.
P. A. Stone, Urban Development in Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1970) chap. 15.
Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Council Housing Purposes, Procedures and Priorities (H.M.S.O., 1969) para. 165.
J. A. G. Griffith, Central Departments and Local Authorities (Allen & Unwin, 1966) p. 244.
R. A. Parker, The Rents of Council Houses (Bell, 1967).
See Malcolm Joel Barnett, The Politics of Legislation (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969) for an analysis of the developments leading to the Rent Act of 1957. The author is particularly critical of the failure to carry out any adequate research into the housing situation and the likely effects of de-control.
Nevitt, Housing, Taxation and Subsidies; J. B. Cullingworth, English Housing Trends (Bell, 1965).
Audrey Harvey, in Social Services for All?, Part 3, Fabian Tract 384 (1968). C.P.A.G., Poverty, no. 22 (Spring 1972).
John Greve et al., Homelessness in London (Scottish Academic Press, 1971) p. 57.
Norman Dennis, People and Planning (Faber, 1970).
See also J. G. Davies, The Evangelistic Bureaucrat (Tavistock, 1972).
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Parker, J. (1975). The Distribution of Housing. In: Social Policy and Citizenship. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15583-5_7
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