The End of Majority Home-ownership: The logic of continuing decline in a post-crash economy

an article by Nigel Sprigings (University of Glasgow, UK) published in People, Place & Policy Online Volume 7 Number 1 (2013)

Summary

There is a long tradition in the UK of using area based initiatives (ABIs) to attack problems of urban deprivation.

In 1998 the government launched an especially ambitious ABI: New Deal for Communities.

In 39 areas local Partnerships are driving forward ten-year programmes to narrow the gaps between these neighbourhoods and the rest of the country in relation to crime, education, jobs and so on.

Change data indicates that there has been continuing progress in NDC areas. But change has been more evident in relation to place based indicators, such as fear of crime, rather than people based outcomes such as fewer jobs, better health and do on.

The Programme confirms that regenerating deprived areas is a complex process not least because of continuing demographic 'churn' in these neighbourhoods.

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