Ownership, Narrative, Things by Dave Cowan Helen Carr & Alison Wallace

Author:Dave Cowan, Helen Carr & Alison Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A further way in which shared owners were constructed as different occurred in Fixham. Fixham had a tenant reward scheme used to incentivise good behaviour or penalise poor behaviour, by enhancing or reducing the level of service to its rented tenants, respectively. For example, where a tenant engaged with Fixham’s activities and met rent payments, the tenant would receive an enhanced repairs or improvements service, while breaking agreements to repay rent arrears or being responsible for anti-social behaviour would mean improvements were delayed. Fixham staff found this scheme highly effective and were considering how a similar system could work for shared owners, but acknowledged that the incentives were problematic because they provided few services. What this exposed was the tension between renting and owning, and where shared ownership sat on this continuum. After all, if shared owners were owners, such a question would not have arisen—for traditional owners, community engagement was not sought or rewarded, and non-payment of service charges was penalised by the legal action available to them and as stipulated in the lease. This discussion in Fixham reflected its less binary approach to shared ownership expressed through its organisation of housing management. That is, although Fixham’s approach to housing management of shared ownership lay in its absence, its generic organisation meant that it was always experienced by way of comparison with other housing tenures. We see both organisations adopting this less binary perspective in the final section in this chapter.

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