The public housing sector is currently undergoing rapid change and many commentators are referring to the 'residualisation' of the sector.

This is the process of residualisation whereby sectarian population shifts have left behind some communities who are experiencing abandonment and isolation which itself conditions community relations values and attitudes.

Jack and Stepney (1995) note that the new methods of funding social services are aimed at cost containment, marketisation and a 'further residualisation of the public service' (p.35).

ACSWC and CHA hope Minister Abbott's announcement does not pre-empt any residualisation of the social safety net as has occurred in other countries.

This is part and parcel of the residualisation of the welfare state – the process by which it is becoming something that only those in the greatest need can look to receive help from.

His PhD, awarded in 1987 from the London School of Economics, was a study of socio-tenurial polarisation in London, focusing on residualisation and gentrification, and its inter-relationship with labour market restructuring.

Bill has also worked as a research fellow at the Open University, researching urban change in London, urban labour and housing markets, demographic change, residualisation of social, the housing tenure transformation process from renting to ownership.

Once more, general policies which are leading to the residualization of local authority housing are being reinforced by demographic trends.

The process of 'residualization' of the local authority sector has been discussed by a number of authors such as Forrest and Murie (1983).

Forrest and Murie have written on the 'residualization' of council housing as a tenure in consequence of policies and basal developments.