Race, Housing and Community (PDF)

This book provides an important new contribution to debates
around housing policy and its impact on community cohesion.

There has never been a more prescient time to discuss these
concepts: the book provides an interpretation of housing, race and
community cohesion in a highly politicized and fluid policy
context. It is designed to initiate discussion and debate but this
should not be esoteric and limited to a group of academics. Rather
the objective is to bridge academic and policy audiences in the
hope that this fusion provides a basis for a new agenda to discuss
these topics.

Race and community have been key features of social housing
policy over the last 20 years with many high-profile interventions,
from the proactive approach by the Housing Corporation to support
black and minority ethnic housing associations, to the influential
Cantle Report documenting segregation in towns and cities following
riots, and the National Housing Federation led Race & Housing
Inquiry leading to sector wide recommendations to achieve
equality.

However, volume of policy interventions and reports has not been
matched by academic outputs that co-ordinate, integrate and
critically analyse 'race', housing and community.

Housing, Race & Community Cohesion is the first
systematic overview of 'race', housing and community during this
tumultuous period. The material presented is robust and research
based but also directly engages with issues around policy and
delivery. It is designed to reflect the interests both of the
academic research community and policy makers on both sides of the
Atlantic. It is not rooted to specific policy interventions that
could quickly date but instead focuses on developing new ways to
analyse difficult issues that will help both students and
practitioners now and in the future.