Poverty Street

by Lupton, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9781861345363
• ISBN10: 1861345364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Policy Pr

Author Biography

Ruth Lupton is a Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Table of Contents

List of tables, figures and boxes	viii
Acknowledgements	x
List of acronyms	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Bridgefields	1	(4)
A widespread and growing problem	5	(2)
Ideology and policy	7	(2)
Thirty years of area-based policy	9	(3)
Enduring problems and enduring questions	12	(3)
one The 12 disadvantaged areas	15	(24)
The study and the areas	15	(7)
Area characteristics	22	(9)
Investigating area trajectories	31	(5)
Summary	36	(3)
two Historical poverty and the roots of decline	39	(28)
Long histories of concentrated poverty	39	(7)
Decline 1971-91	46	(15)
The poverty map and the poverty gap	61	(2)
Summary	63	(4)
three The 1990's: decline and divergence	67	(32)
Area fortunes pull apart: Southside and West-City	67	(3)
Uneven economic recovery	70	(3)
The nature of work	73	(1)
Unemployment and worklessness	74	(6)
Inequality, social change and social exclusion	80	(2)
Population drain and unpopular housing	82	(7)
Population growth and ethnic concentration	89	(4)
Home to the most marginalised and vulnerable	93	(2)
Continuing trends, new developments and diverging fortunes	95	(2)
Summary	97	(2)
four Management failure	99	(12)
Problems with public services	99	(1)
Inadequate levels of service provision	99	(6)
Operational problems and poorer quality	105	(2)
The barrier of mistrust	107	(2)
Summary	109	(2)
five Social interaction and neighbourhood stigma	111	(12)
Neighbourhood society	111	(1)
Strong but enclosed community	111	(3)
Myriad networks	114	(2)
'Community' shrinking under pressure	116	(3)
Network containment and neighbourhood stigma	119	(2)
Summary	121	(2)
six Attempts at regeneration	123	(18)
Histories of regeneration	123	(1)
SRB and problems with regeneration policy	124	(1)
SRB: inclusion through regeneration	125	(10)
Lack of a strategic approach 13I
'Regeneration' and realism: the need for a broader regeneration agenda	135	(3)
Summary	138	(3)
seven New Labour and neighbourhood renewal	141	(14)
Two phases of policy	141	(1)
Area-based programmes	142	(2)
The National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal	144	(2)
Urban, regional and housing policy	146	(2)
Tackling area deprivation in Wales	148	(1)
Broader social exclusion policies	149	(1)
Policy limitations	149	(3)
Summary	152	(3)
eight Making a difference?	155	(6)
Back to Bridgefields	155	(4)
Summary	159	(2)
nine Getting it together: new money and better partnerships	161	(14)
Signs of progress	161	(1)
Services and facilities	161	(6)
Resident involvement and resident frustration	167	(2)
Better joined-up working	169	(3)
Summary	172	(3)
ten Drivers of change: population, housing and the economy	175	(16)
Two faces of population change: Middle Row and Overtown	175	(3)
Rising house prices and inner-city polarisation	178	(3)
Low demand and neighbourhood decline	181	(5)
Economic growth and economic divergence	186	(2)
Summary	188	(3)
eleven New solutions?	191	(14)
Avoiding concentrations of poverty	191	(1)
Improving housing	191	(2)
Mixing tenure	193	(4)
Tackling worklessness and achieving economic inclusion	197	(5)
The persistence of poverty and exclusion	202	(1)
Summary	203	(2)
twelve The end of Poverty Street?	205	(16)
Structural causes of decline	205	(1)
The sharp end of social change	206	(2)
Management failure	208	(1)
Social interaction and neighbourhood stigma	209	(1)
'Regeneration': not up to the job	210	(2)
A concerted response	212	(1)
Economic growth and divergence	213	(2)
Social exclusion and population change	215	(1)
Established patterns of low-value housing	216	(1)
Policy limitations and realistic futures	217	(4)
Bibliography	221	(14)
Index	235