eprintid: 10199485 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/94/85 datestamp: 2024-11-05 15:44:44 lastmod: 2024-11-06 15:53:48 status_changed: 2024-11-05 15:44:44 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Pagani, Anna creators_name: Walker, Alexander creators_name: Macmillan, Alexandra creators_name: Nita, Arfenia creators_name: Davies, Michael creators_name: Zimmermann, Nici title: Leverage Points Towards Degrowth: Insights from an Exploratory Study with Four Large Housing Associations in London ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F34 keywords: social housing, leverage points, organisational value creation, participatory system dynamics note: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.v abstract: There is no better place to start thinking of a world beyond growth than social housing. Originally devised as an affordable and secure form of tenure, social rented housing in England is now entangled in capitalist market dynamics and associated tensions between economic, social, and environmental targets. Degrowth proposes to reconcile these goals by moving away from the dominant economic growth paradigm, prioritising justice and well-being within planetary boundaries. Developing alternatives to omnipresent growth narratives requires engaging all actors involved in the management and delivery of social housing. Therefore, this study explores the compatibility of a degrowth agenda with that of housing associations (HAs), the largest social housing providers in England. In a workshop with four London-based HAs, we used participatory system dynamics (SD) to elicit perceptions of the interventions needed in the social housing system. Through degrowth and systems thinking frameworks, we then assessed the potential of the proposed interventions to effect change, and their alignment with approaches to creating degrowth value. Interventions at shallow leverage points in the system were more frequently linked to reducing resource use and addressing equality. Instead, the most transformative interventions were associated to promoting democratic governance and overcoming growth dynamics. Our findings highlight the potential of SD to guide interventions in the social housing system that address growth-driven structures and their systemic consequences. date: 2024-10-01 date_type: published publisher: System Dynamics Society official_url: https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2024/ oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2332532 isbn_13: 978-1-935056-33-1 lyricists_name: Pagani, Anna lyricists_id: APAGA31 actors_name: Pagani, Anna actors_id: APAGA31 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pres_type: paper publication: Proceedings of the 2024 International System Dynamics Conference pagerange: 1-5 event_title: International System Dynamics Conference 2024 event_location: Bergen, Norway event_dates: 4th-8th August 2024 book_title: Proceedings of the 2024 International System Dynamics Conference editors_name: Howick, S editors_name: Jalali, M editors_name: Rahmandad, H citation: Pagani, Anna; Walker, Alexander; Macmillan, Alexandra; Nita, Arfenia; Davies, Michael; Zimmermann, Nici; (2024) Leverage Points Towards Degrowth: Insights from an Exploratory Study with Four Large Housing Associations in London. In: Howick, S and Jalali, M and Rahmandad, H, (eds.) Proceedings of the 2024 International System Dynamics Conference. (pp. pp. 1-5). System Dynamics Society Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199485/1/P1205.pdf