The Housing Studies Association invites calls for papers and expressions of
interests for its Autumn Conference in Glasgow. Taking place on the 14th
and 15th of September, the main theme will explore ‘The New Institutional
Architecture of Housing: Power, Governance and Markets’.
Breaking from HSA ‘tradition’ and responding to popular demand, the 2006
Autumn conference (non-residential) is not being held at a University but
in a conference centre in the centre of the city of Glasgow. The conference
dinner will be held at Café Mao, a restaurant situated in the lively
Merchant City area of Glasgow and well-known for its excellent Asian-fusion
food, the infectious energy of its staff and its stylish surroundings.
The conference aims to document the changes in the shape of the housing
sector in the UK in the last five years at many levels and, most
importantly, to tease out their implications. What perspectives – from
economics, political science or other fields – are useful in analysing
them? Are the new structures ones that are ‘working’ for the delivery of
policy? To what extent do they give rise to inequalities and inequities?
What do the new institutional relationships mean for the exercise and
transfer of power? What new forms of collaboration and opposition are
there? To what extent is the new architecture a stable basis for a better
housing system or does it engender a complex set of uncertainties in which
effectiveness is sacrificed to the management of uncertainty?
For more information visit:
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/hsa/autumn06/hsaconfsept06.pdf
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