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datestamp: 2025-03-13 17:16:40
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creators_name: Pagani, Anna
creators_name: Zimmermann, Nici
creators_name: Macmillan, Alex
creators_name: Zhou, Ke
creators_name: Davies, Michael
title: Systemic issues in the English social housing sector: mapping interconnected challenges faced by London-based housing associations
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F34
keywords: Social housing; housing
associations; systems
thinking; system
dynamics; leverage
points
note: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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abstract: The provision of good-quality social housing is crucial in addressing disparities in cities. However, in England—and particularly in London—the supply of social rent homes is threatened by interconnected pressures. The resulting complexity is difficult for housing providers to navigate, and interventions designed in response often reinforce, rather than alleviate, existing issues. Instead of tackling these issues in isolation, this paper seeks to provide a picture of their interconnections, supporting reflection on leverage points effecting change across the system. Using systems thinking, we developed six diagrams of the cause-and-effect relationships that underpin critical issues in the English social housing sector, as identified in the literature. These causal loop diagrams (CLDs) were then explored and enriched over a series of participatory activities involving four London-based housing associations and the authors of the source publications. The CLDs display the systemic effects of changes in politics and policies, and of the strategies devised in response—emerging from partial understandings of the system and the prioritization of different goals (e.g. viability, housing targets, speculation). The proposed leverage points challenge beliefs about the mechanisms required to address issues in the social housing sector, offering an alternative approach to the frequent revisions of housing policies.
date: 2025-03-07
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2025.2467093
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2368789
doi: 10.1080/02673037.2025.2467093
lyricists_name: Davies, Michael
lyricists_name: Zimmermann, Nicole
lyricists_name: Zhou, Ke
lyricists_name: Pagani, Anna
lyricists_id: MDAVI86
lyricists_id: NZIMM70
lyricists_id: KZHOU23
lyricists_id: APAGA31
actors_name: Zimmermann, Nicole
actors_id: NZIMM70
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Housing Studies
issn: 0267-3037
citation:        Pagani, Anna;    Zimmermann, Nici;    Macmillan, Alex;    Zhou, Ke;    Davies, Michael;      (2025)    Systemic issues in the English social housing sector: mapping interconnected challenges faced by London-based housing associations.                   Housing Studies        10.1080/02673037.2025.2467093 <https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2025.2467093>.       Green open access   
 
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