Social Housing

If you are interested in social housing whether this be from charities or the council, it could be a very interesting topic for a dissertation. Take a look at some of our examples:

Example social housing dissertation topic 1:

The changing nature of social housing architecture.

The pronouncement by Lloyd George in 1919 of the need for ‘homes for heroes’ did of course follow the Tudor Walters Report that had recommended a modern layout and a minimum size and number of rooms for social housing. Thereafter local authorities became the primary agents for the construction of social housing until the Thatcherite reforms of 1979 onwards. This dissertation charts the changing nature and needs of social housing in the twentieth century and how this has been shown in the architectural styles developed on such estates. Finally, it makes recommendations for future social housing, acknowledging the lessons of the past.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Chapman, T. and Hockey, J. (eds) (1999). Ideal homes? Social change and domestic life. London: Routledge.
• Ravetz, A. (2001). Council housing and culture: The history of a social experiment. London: Routledge.
• Taylor, P.J. (1979). “‘Difficult-to-let”, “difficult-to-live-in”, and sometimes “difficult-to-get-out-of”: An essay on the provision of council housing, with special reference to Killingworth’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 11(11), pp. 1305-1320.