Between State and Market – Non-Profit Housing Organisations in Four National Contexts

This paper presents the results of an international collaborative study of non-profit housing involving researchers in four countries using a common methodology to a engage the leaders of non-profit organisations themselves in the research process. The paper draws on earlier work on the hybridisation of social housing provision (Mullins, Czischke and van Bortel 2013) and the competing logics of state, market and third sector. It uses a modified Delphi methodology to collect information from leaders of non-profit housing organisations in four countries about how their organisations are negotiating these hybrid influences on their strategy and operations. This method involves collation of responses to scaled surveys from panels of 15-20 organisations in each country, playing back the results to the participants and follow up depth interviews to explore and interpret the meanings of their responses.

Mullins, D, Czischke, D and van Bortel, G (2013) Hybridising Housing Organisations. Meanings, Concepts and Processes of Social Enterprise in Housing‏. Taylor and Francis.