Discuss the role played by the housing system and housing policies in shaping patterns of sociology-spatial segregation in London Guide/description:
-Rich and poor at different social class groups live in different areas of the city and there are clear concentrations of wealth or poverty in different parts of the city; (class and income)
-In London, the way housing is organized (different tenures, how private housing works, how public housing is allocated, if there’s access to it, how expensive is the housing market, issues with it)
-Discuss how the structure of the housing system, the market and public policies (ex: existence of pub housing) mediate these patterns of segregation
-Key message: segregation is explained by income, educational level and individual capacity, but housing is a fundamental mediating factor.
-This is because how much you earn/your ethnicity/ your education will give you access/lack of access to certain types of housing more/less desirable in different parts of the city
-Housing system: different types of housing that exist in a society: in UK: social housing, socially rented housing, private housing for rent and private owner occupied housing (other subdivisions) and how each of these 3 types of tenure are subject to both market processes and/or public policies
Housing system is the diff private/public forms of housing that exist in society
For ex: ;and policy can explain why there is a big stock of one type and not the other (more private than affordable/social housing)
How policies influence patterns of housing supply, access and allocation
Does this channel some type of housing towards certain social groups, and does this reinforce existing unequal access to housing or not