Miss CARLA REESON Carla.Reeson1@nottingham.ac.uk
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN LAW
Personalisation under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017: how personal are personal housing plans?
Reeson, Carla
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Abstract
This article explores the personalisation of homelessness services in the context of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. This ambitious piece of legislative reform introduced requirements on local housing authorities in England to assess an individual’s circumstances and develop personalised housing plans for people experiencing homelessness (s.3 HRA 2017, inserting s.189A Housing Act 1996). This article analyses research data (including 26 interviews) collected in 2018–2019 from ethnographic studies completed in two local authorities in the Midlands, across a period of four months in each site. Exploring the implementation of personalised housing plans in practice, this article investigates barriers to the application of the personalisation narrative, finding it operates as a tool of neoliberal governance rather than one of social justice. It asserts that if personalisation has the potential for more satisfactory and sustainable outcomes in preventing and relieving homelessness, then the inability for this narrative to manifest suggests the goal of the HRA 2017 in ‘reducing homelessness’ is being hampered.
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Reeson, C. (2024). Personalisation under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017: how personal are personal housing plans?. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 46(3), 390-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2024.2381993
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Jun 10, 2024 |
| Online Publication Date | Jul 27, 2024 |
| Publication Date | 2024 |
| Deposit Date | Oct 15, 2024 |
| Publicly Available Date | Oct 16, 2024 |
| Journal | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law |
| Print ISSN | 0964-9069 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-9621 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 390-412 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2024.2381993 |
| Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/38365599 |
| Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2024.2381993 |
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