Valerie Karn
Biographic Data
| ID | 83264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Karn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Karn |
| SIGNATURE | KARN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, at the University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Race and housing in a property owning democracy
The 1980s have witnessed a significant restructuring of housing tenure and widespread government support for the ideology of home ownership in Britain. This article examines the implications of market trends for ethnic minorities and looks at the changing strategies of ethnic minority housing purchasers. A complex picture of gains and losses emerges as more ethnic minorities buy into better neighbourhoods and young, white households begin to move…
Race, Class and State Housing: Inequality and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain
Home Ownership in the Inner City: Salvation or Despair
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Conflicts in organizational objectives: The management of local authorities’ mortgage arrears
Race, Class and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain
This article uses data from surveys of public housing applicants and tenants and from an ethnographic study of the procedures of a major British housing authority to explain the reasons for racially discriminatory housing allocations. It shows how central judgments of 'respectability' are to the allocation processes of housing departments, even when, officially, allocations are based on a system of 'housing need'. We trace how class and racial fa…
The Financing of owner-occupation and its impact on ethnic minorities
Property Values Amongst Indians and Pakistanis in a Yorkshire Town
The Anatomy of A Pogrom: An Outline Model with Special Reference to the Ibo in Northern Nigeria
Race, Class and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain
This article uses data from surveys of public housing applicants and tenants and from an ethnographic study of the procedures of a major British housing authority to explain the reasons for racially discriminatory housing allocations. It shows how central judgments of 'respectability' are to the allocation processes of housing departments, even when, officially, allocations are based on a system of 'housing need'. We trace how class and racial fa…
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Property Values Amongst Indians and Pakistanis in a Yorkshire Town
Race and housing in a property owning democracy
The 1980s have witnessed a significant restructuring of housing tenure and widespread government support for the ideology of home ownership in Britain. This article examines the implications of market trends for ethnic minorities and looks at the changing strategies of ethnic minority housing purchasers. A complex picture of gains and losses emerges as more ethnic minorities buy into better neighbourhoods and young, white households begin to move…
Home Ownership in the Inner City: Salvation or Despair
The Anatomy of A Pogrom: An Outline Model with Special Reference to the Ibo in Northern Nigeria
Property Values Amongst Indians and Pakistanis in a Yorkshire Town
The Financing of owner-occupation and its impact on ethnic minorities
Race, Class and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain
This article uses data from surveys of public housing applicants and tenants and from an ethnographic study of the procedures of a major British housing authority to explain the reasons for racially discriminatory housing allocations. It shows how central judgments of 'respectability' are to the allocation processes of housing departments, even when, officially, allocations are based on a system of 'housing need'. We trace how class and racial fa…
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Conflicts in organizational objectives: The management of local authorities’ mortgage arrears
Home Ownership in the Inner City: Salvation or Despair
Race, Class and State Housing: Inequality and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain
Race and housing in a property owning democracy
The 1980s have witnessed a significant restructuring of housing tenure and widespread government support for the ideology of home ownership in Britain. This article examines the implications of market trends for ethnic minorities and looks at the changing strategies of ethnic minority housing purchasers. A complex picture of gains and losses emerges as more ethnic minorities buy into better neighbourhoods and young, white households begin to move…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Finance (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 works)