1st Edition

Housing, Neoliberalism and the Archive Reinterpreting the Rise and Fall of Public Housing

By Kathleen Flanagan Copyright 2020
210 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

From the mid-1940s, state housing authorities in Australia built large housing estates to enable home ownership by working-class families, but the public housing system they created is now regarded as broken. Contemporary problems with the sustainability, effectiveness and reputation of the Australian public housing system are usually attributed to the influence of neoliberalism. Housing,... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction: ‘The System is Broken': Defining the Problem, The Archive, My Argument Chapter 2. The Tenant: Before Public Housing, The Applicant, The ‘Problem’ Tenant, Intervention, The Tenant Reconfigured Chapter 3. The Tenancy: The Foundations of the Tenancy, Maintaining the Contract 1: Rent, Maintaining the Contract 2: Improvement, A Different Discursive Program, The Contract Changes, The Tenancy Reconfigured Chapter 4. The Estate: Building Homes, Building Places, Building Communities, Retreat and Reconfiguration, Delivering Services Chapter 5. Reconfiguration: Discontinuity, ‘Before’ and ‘After,’ Reconfiguration, Conclusion Afterword

Biography

Kathleen Flanagan is Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Her research is concerned with questioning the ‘taken-for-granted’ of contemporary housing policy, and includes detailed analysis of policy history and discourse. Prior to joining the University of Tasmania, Kathleen worked in the Tasmanian community sector, particularly with Anglicare’s highly-regarded Social Action and Research Centre. She was appointed by the Premier of Tasmania to the Cost of Living Expert Advisory Panel in 2010, which provided expert input into the development of the Tasmanian Cost of Living Strategy 2011, and is a past Chair of Volunteering Tasmania. She is currently working on a number of projects funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute directed at improving the sustainability and efficacy of the Australian housing system.