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Transferring Glasgow’s council housing: financial, urban and housing policy implications

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Glasgow has a large council sector characterized by a range of problems associated with low-income tenants, disrepair, insufficient resources and high levels of housing debt. Reluctantly, the council has come to the view that stock transfer, ultimately to local community-based housing organizations, is the preferred way to address its housing problems. Stock transfer concerns the privately funded sale of social housing as a going concern from one social landlord to another. This has been an important way of re-financing existing social housing in the UK for more than a decade. However, the Glasgow transfer is complex, large (with more than 80,000 units transferring) and politically controversial. The success or otherwise of Glasgow’s transfer has implications for the future of the stock owned by other councils in Scotland. The paper, therefore, is concerned with the wider context of transfer, the financial and economic arguments to do with Glasgow’s stock transfer, and the wider implications of the transfer.

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  • Kenneth Gibb, 2003. "Transferring Glasgow’s council housing: financial, urban and housing policy implications," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 3(1), pages 89-114.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjhp:v:3:y:2003:i:1:p:89-114
    DOI: 10.1080/1461671032000071146
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    1. Hal Pawson & Moira Munro, 2010. "Explaining Tenancy Sustainment Rates in British Social Rented Housing: The Roles of Management, Vulnerability and Choice," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(1), pages 145-168, January.
    2. Tony Prosser & Pat O'Malley & Colin Scott & Morag McDermont & Peter Vincent-Jones & Mike Feintuck & Dave Cowan, 2005. "Law, Economic Incentives and Public Service Culture," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 05/129, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
    3. Guy Daly & Gerry Mooney & Lynne Poole & Howard Davis, 2005. "Housing Stock Transfer in Birmingham and Glasgow: The Contrasting Experiences of Two UK Cities," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 5(3), pages 327-341, December.
    4. Gerry Mooney & Lynne Poole, 2005. "Marginalised Voices: Resisting the Privatisation of Council Housing in Glasgow," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 20(1), pages 27-39, February.
    5. Louise Lawson & Ade Kearns, 2010. "‘Community Empowerment’ in the Context of the Glasgow Housing Stock Transfer," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(7), pages 1459-1478, June.
    6. Kearns, Ade & Whitley, Elise & Curl, Angela, 2019. "Occupant behaviour as a fourth driver of fuel poverty (aka warmth & energy deprivation)," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 1143-1155.
    7. Alex Marsh, 2004. "The Inexorable Rise Of The Rational Consumer? The Blair Government And The Reshaping Of Social Housing," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 4(2), pages 185-207.

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