Joe Penny
Biographic Data
| ID | 2046170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Penny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Penny |
| SIGNATURE | PENNY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7608-7630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Claiming Social Housing Futures
Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip’ leases, long‐term contractual arrangements between institutional investors and local authorities. Buildin…
Towards a Political Economy of Social Infrastructure
In this paper, we develop a situated and intersectional urban political economy approach to social infrastructure. This approach contrasts with a growing body of liberal urban geography, which offers an optimistic account of how shared spaces afford encounter and social connection. We present four arguments about why such outcomes cannot be assumed, which are informed by a case of contested redevelopment in the London borough of Haringey. First, …
Revenue Generating Machines”? London’s Local Housing Companies and the Emergence of Local State Rentierism
Since 2010, faced with deep austerity measures, 27 London councils have set up a housing company to acquire, develop, and manage housing. Following 40 years of privatisation, these council‐owned companies have been celebrated as a post‐neoliberal municipal alternative to the hegemony of market‐led urban policy. By developing commodified real estate and monetising rising land values, they promise to deliver well‐designed housing, generate long‐ter…
Grenfell’s provenance
Defend the Ten
In April 2016, 200 people in the London Borough of Lambeth occupied Carnegie Library, forcibly preventing its closure by a local council rolling-out deep austerity measures. The nine-day occupation was a high-point of 15 months of struggle to 'Defend the Ten' libraries in Lambeth against an austerity agenda the council sought to smoothly administer. Through an in-depth account of the struggle, this paper tells a story of the occupation foreground…
The new enclosure
The new enclosure: The appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain, by Brett Christophers." Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(2), pp. 286–288
The ambivalent and undecided (dis)order of things
As this double-issue was sent to the publishers, France was insurgent. Its peripheries and its cities have been incandescent with the riotous anger of the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ (or yellow, HiVis, jackets
Demolishing the Present to Sell off the Future? The Emergence of 'Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism' in London
This article introduces a new mode of urban entrepreneurialism in London through a study of the state-executed, speculative development and financialization of public land. In response to an intensifying housing crisis and austerity-imposed fiscal constraints, municipalities in London are devising entrepreneurial solutions to deliver more housing. Among these 'solutions' can be found the early signs of the state-executed financialization of publi…
Between coercion and consent
At a time of “austerity localism”, this paper explores how local authorities in London, England, are simultaneously addressing the dual pressures of delivering fiscal retrenchment and of enrolling citizens in new participatory public service arrangements, asking whether “these trends pull against one another, in opposite directions, or whether they are the tough and tender dimensions of a singular process: austerian management” Drawing on empiric…
Demolishing the Present to Sell off the Future? The Emergence of 'Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism' in London
This article introduces a new mode of urban entrepreneurialism in London through a study of the state-executed, speculative development and financialization of public land. In response to an intensifying housing crisis and austerity-imposed fiscal constraints, municipalities in London are devising entrepreneurial solutions to deliver more housing. Among these 'solutions' can be found the early signs of the state-executed financialization of publi…
Between coercion and consent
At a time of “austerity localism”, this paper explores how local authorities in London, England, are simultaneously addressing the dual pressures of delivering fiscal retrenchment and of enrolling citizens in new participatory public service arrangements, asking whether “these trends pull against one another, in opposite directions, or whether they are the tough and tender dimensions of a singular process: austerian management” Drawing on empiric…
Defend the Ten
In April 2016, 200 people in the London Borough of Lambeth occupied Carnegie Library, forcibly preventing its closure by a local council rolling-out deep austerity measures. The nine-day occupation was a high-point of 15 months of struggle to 'Defend the Ten' libraries in Lambeth against an austerity agenda the council sought to smoothly administer. Through an in-depth account of the struggle, this paper tells a story of the occupation foreground…
Revenue Generating Machines”? London’s Local Housing Companies and the Emergence of Local State Rentierism
Since 2010, faced with deep austerity measures, 27 London councils have set up a housing company to acquire, develop, and manage housing. Following 40 years of privatisation, these council‐owned companies have been celebrated as a post‐neoliberal municipal alternative to the hegemony of market‐led urban policy. By developing commodified real estate and monetising rising land values, they promise to deliver well‐designed housing, generate long‐ter…
Towards a Political Economy of Social Infrastructure
In this paper, we develop a situated and intersectional urban political economy approach to social infrastructure. This approach contrasts with a growing body of liberal urban geography, which offers an optimistic account of how shared spaces afford encounter and social connection. We present four arguments about why such outcomes cannot be assumed, which are informed by a case of contested redevelopment in the London borough of Haringey. First, …
Between coercion and consent
At a time of “austerity localism”, this paper explores how local authorities in London, England, are simultaneously addressing the dual pressures of delivering fiscal retrenchment and of enrolling citizens in new participatory public service arrangements, asking whether “these trends pull against one another, in opposite directions, or whether they are the tough and tender dimensions of a singular process: austerian management” Drawing on empiric…
The ambivalent and undecided (dis)order of things
As this double-issue was sent to the publishers, France was insurgent. Its peripheries and its cities have been incandescent with the riotous anger of the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ (or yellow, HiVis, jackets
Demolishing the Present to Sell off the Future? The Emergence of 'Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism' in London
This article introduces a new mode of urban entrepreneurialism in London through a study of the state-executed, speculative development and financialization of public land. In response to an intensifying housing crisis and austerity-imposed fiscal constraints, municipalities in London are devising entrepreneurial solutions to deliver more housing. Among these 'solutions' can be found the early signs of the state-executed financialization of publi…
The new enclosure
The new enclosure: The appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain, by Brett Christophers." Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(2), pp. 286–288
Grenfell’s provenance
Defend the Ten
In April 2016, 200 people in the London Borough of Lambeth occupied Carnegie Library, forcibly preventing its closure by a local council rolling-out deep austerity measures. The nine-day occupation was a high-point of 15 months of struggle to 'Defend the Ten' libraries in Lambeth against an austerity agenda the council sought to smoothly administer. Through an in-depth account of the struggle, this paper tells a story of the occupation foreground…
Revenue Generating Machines”? London’s Local Housing Companies and the Emergence of Local State Rentierism
Since 2010, faced with deep austerity measures, 27 London councils have set up a housing company to acquire, develop, and manage housing. Following 40 years of privatisation, these council‐owned companies have been celebrated as a post‐neoliberal municipal alternative to the hegemony of market‐led urban policy. By developing commodified real estate and monetising rising land values, they promise to deliver well‐designed housing, generate long‐ter…
Towards a Political Economy of Social Infrastructure
In this paper, we develop a situated and intersectional urban political economy approach to social infrastructure. This approach contrasts with a growing body of liberal urban geography, which offers an optimistic account of how shared spaces afford encounter and social connection. We present four arguments about why such outcomes cannot be assumed, which are informed by a case of contested redevelopment in the London borough of Haringey. First, …
Claiming Social Housing Futures
Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip’ leases, long‐term contractual arrangements between institutional investors and local authorities. Buildin…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Austerity (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)