IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/eurjhp/v7y2007i1p45-62.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Government Regulation and Market Orientation in the Management of Social Housing Assets: Limitations and Opportunities for European and Australian Landlords

Author

Listed:
  • Vincent Gruis
  • Nico Nieboer

Abstract

In the past ten to 20 years, governments in various countries have introduced or reinforced market principles in their housing systems. As a consequence, social landlords should have increased opportunities to adopt a more market-oriented approach towards the management of their housing stock. Nevertheless, in many countries governments still have a substantial influence on the social rented housing sector. In this paper we analyse the influence of statutory regulations on the management of the social rented housing stock in four European countries and in Australia, in order to assess to what extent these regulations help or impede the development of a market-oriented asset management. It is concluded that the social landlords in most of the countries studied have some autonomy which enables a more market-oriented asset management. Nevertheless, the assumption that giving greater freedom to market forces and reducing government influence and support lead to a more market-oriented asset management by itself does not hold for all countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Vincent Gruis & Nico Nieboer, 2007. "Government Regulation and Market Orientation in the Management of Social Housing Assets: Limitations and Opportunities for European and Australian Landlords," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 45-62.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjhp:v:7:y:2007:i:1:p:45-62
    DOI: 10.1080/14616710601132542
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14616710601132542
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14616710601132542?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sharam, Andrea & McNelis, Sean & Cho, Hyunbum & Logan, Callum & Burke, Terry & Rossini, Peter, 2021. "Towards an Australian social housing best practice asset management framework," SocArXiv 48a2r, Center for Open Science.
    2. Tony Manzi & Nicky Morrison, 2018. "Risk, commercialism and social purpose: Repositioning the English housing association sector," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(9), pages 1924-1942, July.
    3. Nicola Morrison, 2013. "Meeting the Decent Homes Standard: London Housing Associations’ Asset Management Strategies," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(12), pages 2569-2587, September.
    4. Muczyński, Andrzej, 2020. "Financial flow models in municipal housing stock management in Poland," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    5. Tony Fahey & Michelle Norris & Desmond McCafferty & Eileen Humphreys, 2011. "Combating social disadvantage in social housing estates: the policy implications of a ten year follow up study," Open Access publications 10197/5561, Research Repository, University College Dublin.
    6. Robert A.W. Kok & Paul H. Driessen, 2011. "Antecedents of market orientation in semi-public service organizations: a study of Dutch housing associations," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(12), pages 1901-1921, February.
    7. Sheng-Hau Lin & Chia-Tsong Chen, 2020. "Pricing Rent for Social Housing Under Uncertainty," Advances in Management and Applied Economics, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 10(4), pages 1-4.
    8. Bogataj, Marija & Bogataj, David & Drobne, Samo, 2023. "Planning and managing public housing stock in the silver economy," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 260(C).
    9. Nicola Morrison, 2017. "Selling the family silver? Institutional entrepreneurship and asset disposal in the English housing association sector," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(12), pages 2856-2873, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:eurjhp:v:7:y:2007:i:1:p:45-62. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/REUJ20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.