Social Housing; The Road to Freedom
Social Housing The Road to Freedom Image 1 Diogenes: “You will take no thought for marriage or children or native land: all that will be sheer nonsense to you, and you will leave the house of your fathers and make your home in a tomb or a deserted tower or even a jar.” . . . “Leading this life you will say that you are happier than the Great King.” — Lucian, Philosophies for Sale 9; trans. A. M. Harmon, Loeb ed., 1929 Social Housing is commonly treated as an overused, ill-defined term adorning many books, articles, magazines as well as The Housing and Regeneration Bill 10 . The adjective social is meant as a linguistic means of emphasizing its detachment from the private housing, with a boundary that remains ambiguously not impermeable. While trying to identify what social housing may stand for and the varying models it includes, need is the one element that seems to unify the different concepts involved. A cornerstone whose form and relevance has changed over time. need seem