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TY - JOUR
T1 - Supply-side review of the UK specialist housing market and why it is failing older people
AU - Harding, Andrew
AU - Parker, Jonathan
AU - Hean, Sarah
AU - Hemingway, Ann
N1 - This article is (c) Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here. Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Purpose - This article provides a supply-side review of policies and practices that impact on the shortage of supply in the contemporary specialist housing market for older people in the UK.Design/methodology/approach - The review is based on a review of academic literature, policy documents, reports and other sources.Findings – There is a critical conflict between the key social purpose of specialist housing (i.e. living independent of socially provided care) and the values that underpin and ultimately limit the quantity of units in both the social and private sector. In the social sector, government policies prohibit rather than encourage local authorities and housing associations from increasing specialist housing stock. The nature of leasehold tenures in the private sector tends to commodify not only housing stock but also those who use it and therefore acts to instrumentalise housing supply in favour of the profit motive and the focus on the person and her or his needs is largely ignored.Originality/value – While the shortage of specialist housing is well known, this article is unique in that it provides a comprehensive and critical supply-side review of the factors that have created such conditions.
AB - Purpose - This article provides a supply-side review of policies and practices that impact on the shortage of supply in the contemporary specialist housing market for older people in the UK.Design/methodology/approach - The review is based on a review of academic literature, policy documents, reports and other sources.Findings – There is a critical conflict between the key social purpose of specialist housing (i.e. living independent of socially provided care) and the values that underpin and ultimately limit the quantity of units in both the social and private sector. In the social sector, government policies prohibit rather than encourage local authorities and housing associations from increasing specialist housing stock. The nature of leasehold tenures in the private sector tends to commodify not only housing stock but also those who use it and therefore acts to instrumentalise housing supply in favour of the profit motive and the focus on the person and her or his needs is largely ignored.Originality/value – While the shortage of specialist housing is well known, this article is unique in that it provides a comprehensive and critical supply-side review of the factors that have created such conditions.
KW - Older people
KW - Sheltered housing
KW - Extra care housing
KW - Specialist housing
KW - Supply-side review
U2 - 10.1108/HCS-05-2018-0006
DO - 10.1108/HCS-05-2018-0006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 41
EP - 50
JO - Housing, Care and Support
JF - Housing, Care and Support
SN - 1460-8790
IS - 2
ER -