Examining the social impact of social housing

Abstract

The impact of social housing in our Society needs to be constantly reviewed and analysed. Considering the massive amount of resources we put into the system, the State deserves a return on its investment in terms of quality of life and social wellbeing of the people using those services. It is useless investing so much money in that area and people remain at the bottom of the heap struggling to make ends meet, ostracised by the community and never managing to move from German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies’ renowned concept, Gesellschaft to Gemeinschaft. This study which was mainly a desk top research commissioned by the Housing Authority attempted to bring to the fore the main challenges we have in this sector. This study was another loop whereby the Faculty in collaboration with another of our stakeholders engages in this field of study by zooming into a particular phenomenon and present a number of proposals the commissioning agency can act upon.