Poverty in the United Kingdom

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Aggression and violent behavior

Relationality is a persistent concern of socio-spatial theory, increasingly invoked in geographical scholarship. We bring geographical scholarship on relationality to bear on relational poverty stu...

Geographical relational poverty studies

Household water insecurity is a global threat to human health and development, yet existing metrics lack a systematic consideration of geographic inequality and spatial variation. In this article, ...

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Plumbing Poverty: Mapping Hot Spots of Racial and Geographic Inequality in U.S. Household Water Insecurity

Making the connection: The relationship between fuel poverty, electricity disconnection, and prepayment metering

This article aims to improve understanding of the nexus between poverty and homelessness, with a particular focus on families with children It draws on relational poverty analysis which analyses the processes, structures and social relations which create and sustain poverty The article is based on a longitudinal and qualitative study of Australian families with children during and after periods of homelessness, which found that the families experienced not only a lack of material resources but also the social and other processes that impoverish, exclude and disempower, including exposure to violence, lack of family and institutional support, and pressure to relinquish children The participants had a strong social identity as families and actively resisted the marginalization and individuation processes they encountered The article argues that conceptualizing homelessness as a process of “destitution” can provide a theoretical basis for understanding the relationship between poverty and homeles

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Understanding the Nexus between Poverty and Homelessness: Relational Poverty Analysis of Families Experiencing Homelessness in Australia

This report presents findings from an AHURI study on sustaining private rental tenancies. The study looked at whether targeted or integrated housing support for low to moderate-income private rental tenants at key transition points was likely to enhance their capacity to sustain tenancies and deter entry or re-entry to social housing or homelessness.

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Accessing and sustaining private rental tenancies: critical life events, housing shocks and insurances

Housing price inflation is a national concern given the serious decline in the number of low and middle income households able to purchase housing. In addition housing supply lags well behind demand. In Melbourne, urban consolidation policies explicitly seek intensification to
promote housing supply but planning regulation is often criticised for being a significant cost driver for medium density housing. It is assumed that easing supply constraints will improve affordability. We suggest that laissez-faire planning exacerbates affordability issues because this approach fails to address the basic economic problem: the current inability of the market to efficiently match supply and demand in order to progress an orderly and de-risked development process. The role of “exchange” one of the four housing market sub-systems identified by Burke
(2012) has until recently generally been ignored but our examination reveals significant economic transaction costs that manifest as development risks that impact on affordability. Fortunately these can be mitigated, but only if there is a more consumer driven supply response.

De-risking development of medium density housing to improve housing affordability and boost supply

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Going it alone: single, low needs women and hidden homelessness

Housing price inflation is a national concern given the serious decline in the number of low- and middle-income households able to purchase housing. In addition housing supply lags well behind demand. In Melbourne, urban consolidation policies explicitly seek intensification to promote housing supply but planning regulation is often criticised for being a significant cost driver for medium density housing. It is assumed that easing supply constraints will improve affordability. We suggest that laissez-faire planning exacerbates affordability issues because this approach fails to address the basic economic problem: the current inability of the market to efficiently match supply and demand in order to progress an orderly and de-risked development process. The role of ‘exchange’ one of the four housing market sub-systems identified by Burke has until recently generally been ignored but our examination reveals significant economic transaction costs that manifest as development risks that impact on affordabili...

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Andrea Sharam

Papers

Understanding the Nexus between Poverty and Homelessness: Relational Poverty Analysis of Families Experiencing Homelessness in Australia

Accessing and sustaining private rental tenancies: critical life events, housing shocks and insurances

De-risking development of medium density housing to improve housing affordability and boost supply

Going it alone: single, low needs women and hidden homelessness

De-risking development of medium density housing to improve housing affordability and boost supply