Poverty Street addresses one of the UK's major social policy concerns: the poverty gap between the worst neighborhoods and the rest of the country. It is an account of neighborhood decline, a portrait of conditions in the poorest areas and an up-to-date analysis of the impact of the British government's neighborhood renewal policies.
Author(s): Ruth Lupton
Publisher: The Policy Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 244
POVERTY STREET......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of tables, figures and boxes......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of acronyms......Page 13
Bridgefields......Page 14
A widespread and growing problem......Page 18
Ideology and policy......Page 20
Thirty years of area-based policy......Page 22
Enduring problems and enduring questions......Page 25
The study and the areas......Page 28
Area characteristics......Page 35
Investigating area trajectories......Page 44
Summary......Page 49
Long histories of concentrated poverty......Page 52
Decline 1971-91......Page 59
The poverty map and the poverty gap......Page 74
Summary......Page 76
Area fortunes pull apart: Southside and West-City......Page 80
Uneven economic recovery......Page 83
The nature of work......Page 86
Unemployment and worklessness......Page 87
Inequality, social change and social exclusion......Page 93
Population drain and unpopular housing......Page 95
Population growth and ethnic concentration......Page 102
Home to the most marginalised and vulnerable......Page 106
Continuing trends, new developments and diverging fortunes......Page 108
Summary......Page 110
Inadequate levels of service provision......Page 112
Operational problems and poorer quality......Page 118
The barrier of mistrust......Page 120
Summary......Page 122
Strong but enclosed community......Page 124
Myriad networks......Page 127
‘Community’ shrinking under pressure......Page 129
Network containment and neighbourhood stigma......Page 132
Summary......Page 134
Histories of regeneration......Page 136
SRB and problems with regeneration policy......Page 137
SRB: inclusion through regeneration......Page 138
Lack of a strategic approach......Page 144
‘Regeneration’ and realism: the need for a broader regeneration agenda......Page 148
Summary......Page 151
Two phases of policy......Page 154
Area-based programmes......Page 155
The National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal......Page 157
Urban, regional and housing policy......Page 159
Tackling area deprivation in Wales......Page 161
Policy limitations......Page 162
Summary......Page 165
Back to Bridgefields......Page 168
Summary......Page 172
Services and facilities......Page 174
Resident involvement and resident frustration......Page 180
Better joined-up working......Page 182
Summary......Page 185
Two faces of population change: Middle Row and Overtown......Page 188
Rising house prices and inner-city polarisation......Page 191
Low demand and neighbourhood decline......Page 194
Economic growth and economic divergence......Page 199
Summary......Page 201
Improving housing......Page 204
Mixing tenure......Page 206
Tackling worklessness and achieving economic inclusion......Page 210
The persistence of poverty and exclusion......Page 215
Summary......Page 216
Structural causes of decline......Page 218
The sharp end of social change......Page 219
Management failure......Page 221
Social interaction and neighbourhood stigma......Page 222
‘Regeneration’: not up to the job......Page 223
A concerted response......Page 225
Economic growth and divergence......Page 226
Social exclusion and population change......Page 228
Established patterns of low-value housing......Page 229
Policy limitations and realistic futures......Page 230
Bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 248
