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Meeting commercial and social goals: institutional investment in the housing association sector

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  • Connie P. Y. Tang
  • Michael Oxley
  • Daniel Mekic

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Analyses of the impacts of the use of private finance by housing associations (HAs) across Europe regularly align with the hybridity in the social housing sector, linking private finance to a range of negative consequences related to the loss of social purposes by HAs. This article examines some of the implications of institutional investment for HAs in Britain to meet their economic and social goals. Using a combination of interviews with HAs and institutional investors and a round table discussion, the study shows how such investment has facilitated HAs as hybrid organisations which adopt a pragmatically ‘fit-for-purpose’ approach that combines social benefit with profitability. For institutional investors, investing in social housing is a profit-oriented business as well as a corporate social activity that creates public relations benefits. Importantly, the study shows how government regulations can affect the form of institutional investment (bond finance rather than equity investment) in social housing and help HAs balance the opportunities and risks in combining business and social orientations.

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  • Connie P. Y. Tang & Michael Oxley & Daniel Mekic, 2017. "Meeting commercial and social goals: institutional investment in the housing association sector," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(4), pages 411-427, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:32:y:2017:i:4:p:411-427
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1210098
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    1. Scanlon, Kathleen & Whitehead, Christine M E & Williams, Peter & Gibb, Kenneth, 2013. "Building the rented sector in Scotland: attracting new sources of funding to expand a growing market," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 56077, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. Liam Clegg, 2019. "Economic geography and the regulatory state: Asymmetric marketization of social housing in England," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 51(7), pages 1479-1498, October.
    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.

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