Print Email Facebook Twitter ‘Active, young, and resourceful’: sorting the ‘good’ tenant through mechanisms of conditionality Title ‘Active, young, and resourceful’: sorting the ‘good’ tenant through mechanisms of conditionality Author Costarelli, I.S. (TU Delft Urban Studies; University of Milano-Bicocca) Kleinhans, R.J. (TU Delft Urban Studies) Mugnano, Silvia (University of Milano-Bicocca) Date 2020 Abstract Governments’ attempts to link the provision of welfare services to (more) responsible self-conduct of citizens (i.e. responsibilization) is seen as a distinctive feature of the post-welfare state. Responsibilization often requires welfare receivers to comply with specific duties or behavioural patterns (i.e. conditionality). Except for UK-based studies, little is known about responsibilization strategies of social housing tenants based on specific allocation policies or management approaches. To fill this gap, this paper examines recent cases of tenants’ responsibilization through conditionality, i.e. allocation of housing on the condition that receivers regularly engage in supportive activities, in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Milan (Italy). Through a qualitative methodology, this paper unpacks the use of conditionality as a means to increase tenants’ responsibilization. The paper contributes by showing both innovative aspects, such as eligibility criteria, obligations, accountability measures, and potential pitfalls connected to diverging expectations between tenants and professionals, and to specific context-related factors. Subject Social housingcomparative housingconditionalitysocial mixtenants responsibilizationwelfare state To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:13bb84f2-cbcd-45ef-9cc2-0f36c0724fbe DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2020.1759789 Embargo date 2020-11-13 ISSN 0267-3037 Source Housing Studies, 36 (2021) (8), 1250-1275 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 I.S. Costarelli, R.J. Kleinhans, Silvia Mugnano Files PDF 02673037.2020.pdf 2.77 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:13bb84f2-cbcd-45ef-9cc2-0f36c0724fbe/datastream/OBJ/view