ABSTRACT
The major phases of housing policy designed to cope with Glasgow's, and Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal's (GEAR's), most obvious problems were directed at housing built between 1860 and 1910. In the east end, as in other older neighbourhoods, these buildings still reflect the land economics of the period when they were erected: the need to develop large volumes of housing for low and middle-income families, initially at work sites and then later along public transport routes. In Britain some academics have been dismissive of the importance of rehabilitation policies, believing that their impact has been minimal and largely restricted to helping upper- and middle-income households to gentrify working-class neighbourhoods. The chapter outlines the conditions for housing rehabilitation in GEAR and discusses policy instruments. It examines the impact of rehabilitation spending in GEAR. The rehabilitation of east end housing had therefore to be aimed at a distinctive, low-quality segment of the Glasgow housing market – much of it owner-occupied.
