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Embedding financialization: a policy review of the English Affordable Homes Programme

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Decent, affordable housing continues to be a major concern for policy-makers, providers and society at large. This paper contributes to the debate over the future of social housing in England by reviewing the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP). The AHP (2011–2015) saw the level of grant funding reduced dramatically; with the shortfall to be filled from housing associations own resources, increased rents and borrowing. To understand the implications of the AHP, this paper utilizes the concept of financialization. Financialization is a multifaceted process that seeks to explain the increased role and power of the financial markets in society. Specifically, the paper shows that the AHP leads to increased debt levels in the social housing sector, is predicated on short-termism and accumulation by dispossession. Finally, by employing financialization the paper also addresses debates about the nature of housing policy and how it can best be conceptualized.

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  • Stewart Smyth, 2019. "Embedding financialization: a policy review of the English Affordable Homes Programme," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(1), pages 142-161, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:34:y:2019:i:1:p:142-161
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1442561
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    1. Benedict, Richard & Gurran, Nicole & Gilbert, Catherine & Hamilton, Carrie & Rowley, Steven & Liu, Sha, 2022. "Private sector involvement in social and affordable housing," SocArXiv 9h6qj, Center for Open Science.
    2. Yi Feng & Fulong Wu & Fangzhu Zhang, 2024. "Building state centrality through state selective financialization: Reconfiguring the land reserve system in China," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 56(3), pages 766-783, May.
    3. Smyth, Stewart & Cole, Ian & Fields, Desiree, 2020. "From gatekeepers to gateway constructors: Credit rating agencies and the financialisation of housing associations," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    4. Harvie, David & Lightfoot, Geoff & Lilley, Simon & Weir, Kenneth, 2021. "Social investment innovation and the ‘social turn’ of neoliberal finance," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).

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