Reviving Local Authority Housing Delivery: Challenging Austerity Through Municipal Entrepreneurialism

This book explores how local authorities are fighting back against austerity by implementing new forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery. It assesses these changes in the context of the long-term relationship between local and central government and argues that they represent a critical turning point in meeting housing need.

Format: Hardback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2020
Publisher: Bristol University Press

This book offers invaluable insights into the resistance against austerity measures taken by local authorities through the emergence of innovative municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery. By providing a snapshot of this dynamic era, the authors delve into the strategies employed by local authorities to gain greater financial independence by actively engaging in new forms and methods of housebuilding activities. They assess these developments in the broader context of the long-term relationship between local and central governments, highlighting the significance of contemporary local authority housing initiatives as a pivotal moment in this relationship. Moreover, the book presents fresh perspectives on addressing housing needs, challenging traditional approaches and offering alternative strategies for meeting the growing demand for affordable and sustainable housing.

This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery.

Capturing this moment within its live context, the authors examine the ways that local authorities are moving towards increased financial independence based on their own activities to implement new forms and means of housebuilding activity.

They assess these changes in the context of the long-term relationship between local and central government and argue that contemporary local authority housing initiatives represent a critical turning point, while also providing new ways of thinking about meeting housing need.

This book offers invaluable insights into the resistance against austerity measures taken by local authorities through the emergence of innovative municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery.

By providing a snapshot of this dynamic era, the authors delve into the strategies employed by local authorities to gain greater financial independence by actively engaging in new forms and methods of housebuilding activities.

They assess these developments in the broader context of the long-term relationship between local and central governments, highlighting the significance of contemporary local authority housing initiatives as a pivotal moment in this relationship.

Moreover, the book presents fresh perspectives on addressing housing needs, challenging traditional approaches and offering alternative strategies for meeting the growing demand for affordable and sustainable housing.

Weight: 310g
Dimension: 135 x 209 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447355748