All Outputs (5)

Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing (2025)
Journal Article
Iafrati, S. (2025). Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing. Critical Policy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2025.2476960

Whilst the conceptualization of a housing crisis has become a common narrative within politics, research, and the media, its nebulous nature can risk failing to recognize the breadth of experiences or its exact relationship to inequality. By looking... Read More about Losing touch: class, social capital, and out of area housing.

An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism (2024)
Journal Article
Iafrati, S., & Clare, N. (2024). An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism. Social Policy and Society, 23(4), 983-994. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746424000459

This paper argues that commodification of housing plays a key role in the reproduction of social and economic relations and contributes to debates by, firstly, recognising modern slavery as a fundamental intersection of economic and social vulnerabil... Read More about An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism.

Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England (2024)
Journal Article
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

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

Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain (2024)
Book
Gregory, L., & Iafrati, S. (2024). Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.9692658

Recognising diverse groups within society is a vital part of policy research and analysis, yet few texts have drawn together the breadth of experiences of welfare provision from a diverse group of citizens.

This book fills this gap, by exploring h... Read More about Diversity and Welfare Provision: Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain.

A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery (2023)
Journal Article
Clare, N., Iafrati, S., Reeson, C., Wright, N., Gray, C., & Baptiste, H. (2023). A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Journal of the British Academy, 11, 83-93. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011.083

This commentary focuses on the underexplored links between housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Despite significant anecdotal evidence, there is a pressing need for proper theorisation of the connections between housing situation a... Read More about A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery.