Equity of access is a key policy objective in publicly-funded healthcare systems. However,
observed inequalities of access by socioeconomic status may result from differences in …

Reforms giving users of public services choice of provider aim to improve quality. But such
reforms will work only if quality affects choice of provider. We test this crucial prerequisite in …

Few single policies have had a more profound impact on the modern British housing system
than the wholesale transfer of public housing to'new social landlords'-primarily Housing …

Driven by a concern about the negative side effects of ethnic concentration neighbourhoods,
many European governments aim to create more ethnically and socio-economically mixed …

Persistent segregation in deprived inner areas of British cities can be seen as both a
symptom and a cause of ethnic inequalities, and as an indicator of the failure of minority …

There is a wide interest in the effects of forced relocation in the context of urban
restructuring. This interest is also inspired by debates on gentrification and displacement …

The perception that new immigrants and migrants are unfairly advantaged in the allocation
of social housing is one of the most frequently cited injustices of new immigration in Britain …

Choice-based letting (CBL) has been widely introduced to the social housing sector in
England to give applicants more freedom in where they live. Concerns have been …

This paper seeks to inject a new dimension into comparative housing research by exploring
policy transfer in the case of choice-based lettings (CBL). Conceived in the Netherlands …

_ The United Kingdom and France are the only two European Union member states to have
introduced a right to housing that is enforceable through the courts. This paper investigates …