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Changing energy cultures? Household energy use before and after a building energy efficiency retrofit
(2020)
Rau, Henrike; Moran, Paul; Manton, Richard; Goggins, Jamie
Changing energy cultures? Household energy use before and after a building energy efficiency retrofit
(2020)
Rau, Henrike; Moran, Paul; Manton, Richard; Goggins, Jamie
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Government- and community-initiated energy retrofits of existing residential buildings abound across Europe. This paper argues that retrofitting initiatives need to extend their current emphasis on technical-material changes to include an equally strong focus on researching and potentially changing the energy-related expectations, aspirations and actual activities of those who inhabit and use these buildings. The concept of energy cultures serves as a useful heuristic to structure the analysis of household energy demand and internal environment. Covering three key elements of energy culture â 1) material conditions that relate directly to domestic energy use, 2) householdersâ attitudes, perceptions and norms concerning the use of energy and 3) observable everyday practices that use energy â , and their interactions, we examine data from 20 households in a social housing estate in Ireland collected before and after retrofitting. Overall, the results highlight the urgent need for...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/15697
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Combating social disadvantage in social housing estates: the policy implications of a ten year follow up study
(2014)
Fahey, Tony; Norris, Michelle; McCafferty, Desmond; Humphreys, Eileen
Combating social disadvantage in social housing estates: the policy implications of a ten year follow up study
(2014)
Fahey, Tony; Norris, Michelle; McCafferty, Desmond; Humphreys, Eileen
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This paper presents a policy-focused report on the research project 'Progress and Problems in Social Housing Estates: A ten-year follow-up study'. The project was carried out between late 2007 and early 2009 in seven local authority housing estates in Ireland and took the form of a follow-up to a study of the same estates which had been carried out in the period 1997-1999. The seven estates examined in the study are: Fatima Mansions and Finglas South in Dublin City; Fettercairn, Tallaght, in South County Dublin; Deanrock estate in Togher, Cork City; Moyross in Limerick City; Muirhevnamor in Dundalk and Cranmore in Sligo town
Combat Poverty Agency
Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Pobal
Author has checked copyright
AD 28/04/2014
Item was listed as a Technical Paper but seems to be a Working Paper so I changed it AD 28/04/2014
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5561
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Combating Social Disadvantage in Social Housing Estates:The policy implications of a ten-year follow-up study .
(2011)
McCafferty, Des; Fahey, Tony; Norris, Michelle; Humphreys, Eileen
Combating Social Disadvantage in Social Housing Estates:The policy implications of a ten-year follow-up study .
(2011)
McCafferty, Des; Fahey, Tony; Norris, Michelle; Humphreys, Eileen
http://hdl.handle.net/10395/1597
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Complicated Ideology is Costing the State its Social Housing.
(2016)
Sirr, Lorcan
Complicated Ideology is Costing the State its Social Housing.
(2016)
Sirr, Lorcan
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Credit should always be given where it’s due. Noel Dempsey therefore deserves a paragraph in Irish housing history for his innovative move in 2000, when, as environment minister, he decreed that developers must set aside one unit for social or affordable housing for every four they build.
https://arrow.dit.ie/beschrecmed/28
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Delivering Social Housing: An Overview of the Housing Crisis in Dublin
(2019)
Lima Holanda, Valesca
Delivering Social Housing: An Overview of the Housing Crisis in Dublin
(2019)
Lima Holanda, Valesca
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This paper explores the responses to the housing crisis in Dublin, Ireland, by analysing recent housing policies promoted to prevent family homelessness. I argue that private rental market subsides have played an increasing role in the provision of social housing in Ireland. Instead of policies that facilitate the construction of affordable housing or the direct construction of social housing, current housing policies have addressed the social housing crisis by encouraging and relying excessively on the private market to deliver housing. The housing crisis has challenged governments to increase the social housing supply, but the implementation of a larger plan to deliver social housing has not been effective, as is evidenced by the rapid decline of both private and social housing supply and the increasing number of homeless people in Dublin.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10036
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Exploring the housing needs of older people in standard and sheltered social housing
(2017)
Fox, Siobhán; Kenny, Lorna; Day, Mary Rose; O'Connell, Cathal; Finnerty, Joe; Timm...
Exploring the housing needs of older people in standard and sheltered social housing
(2017)
Fox, Siobhán; Kenny, Lorna; Day, Mary Rose; O'Connell, Cathal; Finnerty, Joe; Timmons, Suzanne
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Objective: Our home can have a major impact on our physical and mental health; this is particularly true for older people who may spend more time at home. Older people in social (i.e., public) housing are particularly vulnerable. Housing options for older people in social housing include standard design dwellings or specially designed “sheltered housing.” The most suitable housing model should be identified, with older people consulted in this process. Method: Survey of older people (aged ≥60) living in standard or sheltered social housing. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS Version 22. Results: Overall, 380 surveys were returned (response rate = 47.2%). All older people had similar housing needs. Those in sheltered housing were more satisfied with the physical home design and reported more positive outcomes. Older people in standard housing were less likely to have necessary adaptations to facilitate aging-in-place. Discussion: Older people in s...
http://hdl.handle.net/10468/3929
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Financing the Golden Age of Irish Social Housing, 1932-1956 (and the dark ages which followed)
(2019)
Norris, Michelle
Financing the Golden Age of Irish Social Housing, 1932-1956 (and the dark ages which followed)
(2019)
Norris, Michelle
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Simms120 Events in remembrance of Herbert George Simms
The period from the early 1930s to mid-1950s was the golden age of social housing in the Republic of Ireland. During these three decades social housing accounted for 55 per cent of all new housing built and the proportion of Irish households accommodated in this sector increased to an all-time high of 18.6 per cent by 1961. Unlike the rest of Western Europe the expansion of Ireland’s social housing sector did not coincide with a golden age of welfare state expansion. Indeed the Ireland’s social housing sector began to stagnate and contract just as its welfare state commenced a late blossoming in the 1970s. This paper looks to financing arrangements to shed light on these atypical patterns of social housing sector expansion and contraction. The argument offered here is that initially the arrangements used to fund social housing in Ireland were very similar to those used in the other Western European countries which const...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10597
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From asset based welfare to welfare housing? The changing function of social housing in Ireland
(2011)
Norris, Michelle; Fahey, Tony
From asset based welfare to welfare housing? The changing function of social housing in Ireland
(2011)
Norris, Michelle; Fahey, Tony
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This article examines a distinctive and significant aspect of social housing in Ireland – its change in function from an asset-based role in welfare support to a more standard model of welfare housing. It outlines the nationalist and agrarian drivers which expanded the initial role of social housing beyond the goal of improving housing conditions for the poor towards the goal of extending home ownership and assesses whether this focus made it more similar to the ‘asset based welfare’ approach to housing found in south-east Asia than to social housing in western Europe. From the mid-1980s, the role of Irish social housing changed as the sector contracted and evolved towards the model of welfare housing now found in many other western countries. Policy makers have struggled to address the implications of this transition and vestiges of social housing’s traditional function are still evident, consequently the boundaries between social housing, private renting and home ownership in Irel...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2971
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Funding incentives, disincentives and vulnerabilities in the Irish council housing sector
(2020)
Norris, Michelle; Hayden, Aideen
Funding incentives, disincentives and vulnerabilities in the Irish council housing sector
(2020)
Norris, Michelle; Hayden, Aideen
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This article examines the incentives and vulnerabilities generated by arrangements for funding local government-provided social housing in Ireland (aka council housing). These arrangements are unusual in a Western European context because the capital costs of providing this housing are almost entirely covered by central government grants, rather than non-governmental debt finance as is the norm elsewhere. Furthermore, no housing allowances are provided to council tenants in Ireland; rather affordability is ensured by charging rents which are linked (progressively) to tenants’ incomes. Although the character and development of Irish council housing has of course been shaped by macro level political, ideological, social and economic factors, the argument offered here is that funding arrangements have also exerted a strong independent influence. These arrangements render Irish council housing more vulnerable to retrenchment and residualization than the social housing funding arrangemen...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11568
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Housing for the future: a case for change
(2005)
Aidan, Hayden
Housing for the future: a case for change
(2005)
Aidan, Hayden
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There is evidence to suggest that housing over recent decades has not received the attention it deserves from policy makers. Policy can at best be described as ad hoc and reactive, based on a general assumption that markets can largely be relied upon to achieve housing objectives. There has arguably been greater concern in national strategy and partnership programmes for about the economic implications of housing availability and its effect on economic competitiveness than for the wider social role of housing and its importance for community. This paper attempts first to characterise current housing policy and then to document where it is failing. The likely future direction of policy, as revealed by new programme initiatives and by the analysis and recommendations of the recent NESC report (NESC 2004) is also analysed.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8781
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Housing in Dublin: report of Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses
(1914)
Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses
Housing in Dublin: report of Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses
(1914)
Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses
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The improvement of the Housing Conditions of the working classes in Dublin, dealt with in the Report of the Departmental Committee of the Local Government Board for Ireland, can be effected in two ways - 1) improving and better regulating existing houses, which are capable of being put in good repair, and by closing, and, if necessary, demolishing, houses which are, or are becoming, unfit for human habitation; and (2) by building new houses to accommodate those who have been or will be dispossessed from, existing houses. This Report has been prepared without waiting for the publication of the evidence taken by the Committee of the Local Government Board, and we defer the consideration of any Schemes for building New Dwellings until the full Report with Evidence, Appendix, and Maps, is available.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/7938
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Housing Market Volatility,Stability and Social Rented Housing: comparing Austria and Ireland during the global financial crisis
(2017)
Norris, Michelle; Byrne, M. (Michael)
Housing Market Volatility,Stability and Social Rented Housing: comparing Austria and Ireland during the global financial crisis
(2017)
Norris, Michelle; Byrne, M. (Michael)
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Since the 1970s the prevalence and duration of housing market booms has increased in developed countries as has the busts which followed them. These developments and particularly their occurrence in a large number of countries simultaneously were key contributors to the global financial crisis of 2008. The literature on this crisis has focused primarily on the role of mortgage markets and home-ownership in driving housing booms and busts and also on the countries which have experienced the strongest busts, particularly in the English-speaking world. Despite the large number of social rented dwellings in Western Europe, the role of this sector has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper aims to address these omissions by the interaction of social housing and the housing market in Ireland, which experienced a specular housing market boom in the 1990s and strong bust in the 2000s and Austria which has a long tradition of housing market stability. It argues that social hous...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8640
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New developments in Irish housing rights
(2011)
Kenna, Padraic
New developments in Irish housing rights
(2011)
Kenna, Padraic
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Housing rights in Ireland remain very much underdeveloped, while the State suffers from a major property price hangover. While housing production boomed in the new century, waiting lists for social housing have grown over the decade with the category where access was blocked through affordability problems increasing to over half of those included. The State promoted home ownership and market provided housing for the past three decades, with the result that market values have pervaded all aspects of housing, including a redefinition of social housing. Housing market rescue measures and support for failed financial institutions have press-ganged social housing in Ireland to mop up the oversupply of houses built and repay the large developer loans through recycling State guaranteed rents to poor tenants. Indeed, a new scheme, known as 'incremental ownership' promotes a new subsidised home ownership arrangement for what would have previously been rented accommodation. While, t...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1797
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Poverty in Ireland : the role of underclass processes
(2009)
Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Christopher T.
Poverty in Ireland : the role of underclass processes
(2009)
Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Christopher T.
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Rising levels of urban deprivation and a perception that poverty has become more concentrated in such areas and has taken on a qualitatively different character have provoked a variety of popular and academic responses. The potentially most fruitful set of hypotheses focus on the unintended consequences of social change. A combination of weak labour force attachment and social isolation are perceived to lead to behaviour and orientations that contribute to a vicious circle of deprivation. In examining the value of this conceptual framework in the Irish case we proceed by measuring directly the social psychological factors which are hypothesised to mediate the 'underclass' process. A significantly higher level of poverty is found in urban public sector tenant households. This finding cannot be accounted for entirely by socio-demographic differences. It is the assessment of this net or residual effect that is crucial to an evaluation of vicious circle explanations. Controlli...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1044
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Privatising Public Housing Redevelopment: grassroots resistance, co-operation and devastation in three Dublin neighbourhoods
(2016)
Norris, Michelle; Hearne, Rory
Privatising Public Housing Redevelopment: grassroots resistance, co-operation and devastation in three Dublin neighbourhoods
(2016)
Norris, Michelle; Hearne, Rory
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This paper examines variations in residents' responses to proposals to redevelop three public housing neighbourhoods in Dublin using Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and the outcomes their resistance achieved. In two of these neighbourhoods community representative structures were strong and although one community co-operated with the PPP plans and the other opposed them, both were broadly successful in achieving their campaign objectives. Community structures in the third case-study area were weak however and the imposition of PPP redevelopment devastated this neighbourhood which is now almost entirely vacant. This case study is employed to critique the literature on grassroots resistance to urban redevelopment and welfare state restructuring and social housing development policy in Ireland. The paper concludes that, contrary to many researchers’ assumptions, residents' political action and resistance can significantly influence on public housing redevelopment strategie...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7643
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Pro-cyclical social housing and the crisis of Irish housing policy: marketization, social housing and the property boom and bust
(2019)
Byrne, M. (Michael); Norris, Michelle
Pro-cyclical social housing and the crisis of Irish housing policy: marketization, social housing and the property boom and bust
(2019)
Byrne, M. (Michael); Norris, Michelle
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This article analyzes the role of social housing in Ireland’s property bubble and its experience of the global financial crisis. The article argues that over recent decades social housing has been transformed from a countercyclical measure which counterbalances the market into a procyclical measure which fuelled Ireland’s housing boom. The reform of social housing financing and acquisition mechanisms has embedded social housing in the boom/bust dynamics of the private housing system. Analyzing the shifting relationship between social and private housing is crucial to understanding the role of housing policy in Ireland’s property bubble as well as the current housing crisis. Despite being caused by problems in the private housing and financial systems, the crisis has had very negative consequences for social housing, thus producing a crisis across the housing system as a whole.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9698
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Quantitative evaluation of deep retrofitted social housing using metered gas data
(2019)
Beagon, Paul; Boland, Fiona; O'Donnell, James
Quantitative evaluation of deep retrofitted social housing using metered gas data
(2019)
Beagon, Paul; Boland, Fiona; O'Donnell, James
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Research into home energy retrofit is important because most existing homes will operate in 2050. A lack of funding or incentives often prevents home energy retrofit, particularly of social housing. This study analysed retrofitted Irish social housing and their gas meter data, including pre-payment meters that require regular “top-ups” purchased from shops. The data comprised records from 100 retrofit and control group homes throughout 2013–2015. A novel evaluation of retrofitted rented homes processed meter data into multiple metrics. Gas consumption is computed per house and weather correction is incorporated, enabling statistical testing of the retrofit. A “difference in difference” technique compared the retrofit and control groups. Gas consumptions of the most popular building type are plotted as distribution curves before and after retrofit. Subsequently the energy use intensity (kWh/m2/year) is computed per home; leading to calculation of the prebound effect. In social housin...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11000
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Reforming Local Authority Housing Management: The Case of Tenant Participation in Estate Management
(2016)
Norris, Michelle
Reforming Local Authority Housing Management: The Case of Tenant Participation in Estate Management
(2016)
Norris, Michelle
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For most of the period since the tenure was founded in the late 19 th century, the manage ment of local authority housing has been neglected by both central and local government. From the perspective of the former, new house building rather than management, has traditionally been the overriding concern. This attitude is not surprising in view of Ireland’s housing conditions which, until recent years, have compared unfavourably to other European Union (EU) countries both in terms of housing standards and number of dwellings per head (European Union, 2002). Nor is it atypical in the wider Europ ean context where central government influence on social housing has traditionally been exercised mainly by means of capital contributions to building costs, which has limited its control over and interest in housing management (Cole and Furbey, 1994). Ho wever, Ireland is unusual in the extent to which the main providers of social housing, have devoted scant attention to its management. This o...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7638
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Review of Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan
(2018)
Hegarty, Orla
Review of Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan
(2018)
Hegarty, Orla
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The Rebuilding Ireland Plan assumes capacity, competency and functioning systems in the construction sector and property market. As a priority these assumptions must be interrogated.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9389
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Social Housing
(2016)
Norris, Michelle
Social Housing
(2016)
Norris, Michelle
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This chapter sketches the most significant trends in the development of the social housing provision in this country from the mid 1800s, until the contemporary period. The opening part of the chapter examines the early housing legislation; explains how it shaped the system of social housing provision and assesses the contribution which social housing providers made to addressing housing need in urban and rural areas. In the second part of the chapter, a more in-depth examination of the development of the social housing sector during the last two decades is presented. This section concentrates on efforts to diversify the methods of providing social housing and the increasing focus on the part of central government on qualitative issues such as efficient housing management and the regeneration of difficult-to-let social rented estates, in addition to its traditional quantitative concern of ensuring that supply of social housing matches need. On the basis of this dis cussion, the concl...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7637
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Social housing, community development and the integration of immigrant communities: emerging challenges.
(2012)
McCafferty, Des; O'Connor, Siobhán
Social housing, community development and the integration of immigrant communities: emerging challenges.
(2012)
McCafferty, Des; O'Connor, Siobhán
http://hdl.handle.net/10395/1644
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Social housing, Galbally, Co Limerick
(2014)
O'Donnell, Sheila; Tuomey, John
Social housing, Galbally, Co Limerick
(2014)
O'Donnell, Sheila; Tuomey, John
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Galbally, Co Limerick, Republic of Ireland. Includes: text, ill, plans. Award winner
Deposited by bulk import
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6074
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Social Mobilisation for Housing Rights: A Qualitative Case Study Using Semi-structured Interviews
(2017)
Lima Holanda, Valesca
Social Mobilisation for Housing Rights: A Qualitative Case Study Using Semi-structured Interviews
(2017)
Lima Holanda, Valesca
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This methods case is a qualitative research study whose purpose is to explore social movements' strategies to pressure government for housing rights. It highlights the particular importance of explaining case selection in qualitative studies. In qualitative studies, especially, it is crucial to the validity of claims to justify why a specific case study, in a sea of other case studies, was chosen. In this methods case, I provide an account of one specific study I performed in Latin America on social mobilisation for housing rights at the local government level. It was an exploratory study conducted with members of a local housing council in the city of Maracanaú, Brazil. The case sheds light on purposive sample, as strategic social actors were chosen based on their ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9137
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Some social and economic aspects of housing?an international comparison
(1960)
O hUiginn, P.
Some social and economic aspects of housing?an international comparison
(1960)
O hUiginn, P.
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There are two points to be borne in mind in connection with the comparisons made in this paper. The first is that all comparisons based on international statistics are affected by the reliability and comparability of the different sets of figures and any conclusion drawn must, therefore, be regarded with reservation. On the other hand, a fair degree of comparability has now been achieved in the statistics used in this paper so that, in general, it may be taken that the comparisons made tend to give a picture of the actual situation which is broadly correct. Where necessary, attention is drawn here and there in connection with particular sets of figures to any known defect in comparability.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/4523
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Strengthening communities, building capacity, combating stigma: exploring the potential of culture-led social housing regeneration
(2016)
Carnegie, Anna; Norris, Michelle
Strengthening communities, building capacity, combating stigma: exploring the potential of culture-led social housing regeneration
(2016)
Carnegie, Anna; Norris, Michelle
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Culture-led regeneration has long been recognised as a mechanism of re-branding declining urban areas by providing cultural infrastructure, such as museums, galleries and theatres. Whilst often lauded for its potential to economically regenerate cities, the model has shown to have a less positive impact on marginalised households and neighbourhoods. This article explores the utilisation of culture-led regeneration in three disadvantaged Irish social housing estates and finds that it did generate benefits, but not the economic ones predicted by the main authors in this field. Rather its benefits were primarily social – it helped to combat stigmatisation, build local capacity and improve community cohesion. Levels of community participation in cultural activities were very strong in two of the case study neighbourhoods, but much weaker in the third less generously resourced neighbourhood, which raises questions about the levels of investment needed to ensure success and the long-term ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7929
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