Huisvestingsonderzoek en -beleid in tijden van tevredenheid: bedenkingen na de internationale ENHR-conferentie 1994 in Glasgow
Abstract
Housing research and housing policy in times of contentment. Reflections after the international ENHR-Conference 1994 in Glasgow - From August 29lh till September 2nd 1994 the European Network for Housing Research had its Conference in Glasgow on the theme ’Housing. Making the connections’. The conference was held at the premises of the Centre for Housing Research and Urban Studies of the local university. About 250 scholars from all over the world attended the meetings. In this short review we focus in the first place the venue, the largest town of Scotland. Since the beginning of the industrialisation Glasgow has been a laboratory of urban planning and housing policy. Considering that the Labour party has been in power for more than sixty years, and that the housing conditions in some peripheral estates are presently in pretty bad shape, the question can rightly be asked whether good social intentions have not become an inhuman doctrine neglecting the real needs of the people. In the second place this review deals with the theme and debating topics of the conference. Starting from the conclusion that housing research and housing policy in the past were often fragmented, because spread over various disciplines and government departments, the organising committee aimed at making connections between housing, the economy, society as a whole, policies, and so on. When reviewing the actual debates we can conclude : 1) that few connections were established; 2) that there is a further decline of theoretical research on the one hand and a growth of empirical studies on the other hand; 3) that there is a growing interest in the housing problems of the rich combined with a decrease of concern for the housing needs of the poor.
How to Cite:
De Decker, P., (1995) “Huisvestingsonderzoek en -beleid in tijden van tevredenheid: bedenkingen na de internationale ENHR-conferentie 1994 in Glasgow”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 40(1), 78–87. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95195
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