Planning for housing
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a classic ‘wicked problem’?
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Near-universal acknowledgement of a ‘housing crisis’:
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Different understandings of the problem
:
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Causation? Impacts? Mechanisms?
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Differences in stakeholder attitudes and interests
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Ideology, interests and practical experience?
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Constraints acting on the problem
:
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Huge local variation in broadly similar issue
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Interaction with other social, economic and environmental policy
areas
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Resources available to tackle the problem:
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Capacity in local authorities very low
Rittel, H.W. J. & Webber, M.M. (1973). "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning".
Policy Sciences
. 4: 155–169.