Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England

IAFRATI, STEVE; CLARE, NICK; LAWRENCE, HELEN

Abstract

Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing placements in government statistics alongside an overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households amongst such placements. In a context of neoliberalism, housing policy has become abstracted from contextual factors that shape experiences of housing. With housing increasingly commodified, this paper explores housing challenges beyond economic factors to include historical legacies and exclusion. Housing is therefore positioned as a conduit between people and place, with place understood as a spatial representation of social and economic networks. The fracturing of these networks illustrates a geographical manifestation of housing policy, crisis, and exclusion. This paper reflects on the social and economic context that drives such experiences and situates the overrepresentation of out of area housing for Black and minoritised households.

Citation

IAFRATI, S., CLARE, N., & LAWRENCE, H. (2024). Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England. Critical Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241274659

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 19, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Sep 6, 2024
• Publication Date: Sep 6, 2024
• Deposit Date: Jun 24, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 24, 2024
• Journal: Critical Social Policy
• Print ISSN: 0261-0183
• Electronic ISSN: 1461-703X
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241274659
• Keywords: Black and minoritised; Housing; Inequality; Local authority; Out of area
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/36562712
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02610183241274659