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The wobbly pillar? Housing and the British postwar welfare state (2003)
Journal Article
Malpass, P. (2003). The wobbly pillar? Housing and the British postwar welfare state. Journal of Social Policy, 32(4), 589-606. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279403007177

The image of housing as the wobbly pillar under the welfare state has been widely used in recent years, and is clearly an attractive metaphor in the present period as residualisation deepens and privatisation continues. However, this paper is concern... Read More about The wobbly pillar? Housing and the British postwar welfare state.

Private enterprise in eclipe? A reassessment of British housing policy in the 1940s (2003)
Journal Article
Malpass, P. (2003). Private enterprise in eclipe? A reassessment of British housing policy in the 1940s. Housing Studies, 18(5), 645-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030304258

Conventional analyses of housing policy in most European countries treat the 1940s as a decade when private enterprise was eclipsed by social housing programmes. As a result, private enterprise is also eclipsed in most accounts of housing and housing... Read More about Private enterprise in eclipe? A reassessment of British housing policy in the 1940s.

Wartime planning for post-war housing in Britain: The Whitehall debate, 1941-5 (2003)
Journal Article
Malpass, P. (2003). Wartime planning for post-war housing in Britain: The Whitehall debate, 1941-5. Planning Perspectives, 18(2), 177-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/0266543032000055757

The starting point for this article is the observation that planning for post-war housing policy has been a neglected area of study, especially in comparison with the attention given to housing during the First World War. Drawing on research in the o... Read More about Wartime planning for post-war housing in Britain: The Whitehall debate, 1941-5.