Rent Benefits and Tenants' Attitudes. The Batley Rent Rebate and Allowance Study

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ID2112151
AutoresPeter F Taylor-Gooby (autor de correspondencia)
Año1976
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas33-48
Fecha de publicación1976-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400004487
OpenAlexW2146752588
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas8

This article discusses a study of the factors affecting rent rebate and allowance take-up carried out by Batley Community Development Project. The scope and limitations of an action-research approach in monitoring the impact of publicity, and the importance of attitudinal explanations of the take-up of means-tested benefits are discussed.The research shows that take-up is relatively low, especially in the case of private tenants, and little affected by experimental publicity. Take-up cannot be explained as a simple function of publicity initiatives. Complex attitudinal factors only disclosed in depth-interview affect the impact, relevance and credibility of campaigns. Such factors, and particularly stigma, are likely to limit the potential of publicity for raising the take-up of rent benefits

Action (physics) · Affect (linguistics) · Allowance (engineering) · Business · Credibility · Economics · Operations management · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Publicity · Scope (computer science) · Stigma (botany) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Marketing · Psychology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies