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100			_9256 _aJacobs, Keith
245			_aGovernmentality as critique : _bthe diversification and regulation of the Australian housing sector
260			_bInternational Journal of Housing Policy, _c2015.
300			_a20 pages
500			_aKEYWORDS: Australian housing sector, regulation
520			_aAs the housing affordability crisis in Australia deepens, policy-makers have expended considerable resources in establishing new regulatory practices to enhance the role of the community housing sector. Ostensibly, the rationale for a new tier of regulation is to assure potential institutional investors (e.g. pension funds, investment trusts and banks) that community housing organisations are accountable and safe places to invest. Our paper adopts an alternative reading of diversity and housing regulation, drawing upon the governmentality thesis advanced by Michel Foucault in an empirical study about the early stages of regulation of affordable housing providers. Amongst our claims are: first, that policies to diversify and regulate the housing sector constitute a radical political project to commercialise welfare provision and second, these policies are likely to generate additional bureaucratic burdens and close off possibilities for progressive reform. The paper also considers the value of the governmentality approach for critical investigations in the field of housing.
524			_aTo cite this article: Keith Jacobs & Max Travers (2015) Governmentality as critique: the diversification and regulation of the Australian housing sector, International Journal of Housing Policy, 15:3, 304-322, DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2015.1046209
650		0	_9502 _aInvestment & Financialisaton _zAustralia
700			_9297 _aTravers, Max
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616718.2015.1046209 _yView item on publishers website
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