ABSTRACT
The main aim of this chapter is to consider housing policy - specifically housing policy enacted in the period since 1980 - in relation to wider social policy and to suggest something of their combined effects. In this way it can be seen how housing policy, particularly that affecting people housed in the public sector, became enmeshed in processes of social disadvantage. It will then be possible to consider whether these changes were connected with an emergent new settlement of social welfare (see Chapters 1 and 2 in this volume).
