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Discourses about Australian social housing, social exclusion and employment: indications of the post-welfare State?

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posted on 2023-05-16, 21:43 authored by Arthurson, K, Keith JacobsKeith Jacobs
The dynamic between housing policy and wider welfare reform has been an important theme within housing scholarship. As a background this paper considers Jamrozik's contention of a transition in social policy from a welfare state to a post welfare paradigm through exploring the impact of ideological discourses for contemporary Australian social housing policy. Our approach combines an analysis of the discourses of social exclusion in two key housing policy documents and interviews with social housing tenants and professionals in South Australia. The analysis serves to illustrate the ways in which contemporary housing policy reflects and is shaped by competing ideological discourses. In particular, it makes explicit how the foundational discourses shaping Australian housing policy has changed considerably over recent years, reflecting, to a large extent, the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on the operation of government policy making.

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Publication title

Housing, Theory and Society

Volume

iFirst

Issue

iFirst

Pagination

1-14

ISSN

1403-6096

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

London, UK

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Copyright 2009 Taylor & Francis

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Urban planning

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