ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by defining what is meant here by 'state-provided housing' and then examines the main objectives held for it and the roles it has performed in different countries and at different times. State-provided housing may be seen as a ladder to owner-occupation, enabling young households and others to have the low rents and security that enables them to prepare for access to owner-occupation. Tenant control of state-provided housing may take many forms that could overlap with the voluntary or third-sector provision and include models of collective ownership and control such as co-operatives or community land trusts. The chapter describes its main forms and the development processes involved as well as the management of the state housing stock and the different styles employed. The advantages and disadvantages of this form of state intervention are analysed and the findings compared with other forms of intervention. The chapter shows that the problems that have pursued state housing and its tenants in the neoliberal housing regimes.
