Integrated Social Housing in Northern Ireland.

Studies of residential segregation in Northern Ireland have traditionally focused on historical accounts of its development, geographic measures of spatial distance and on ethnographic descriptions of enclaved communities. Analysis of the quantity, meaning and development of religiously integrated housing has received comparatively scant attention from academics and policy-makers. This paper reviews the extent of integrated housing, how it has been maintained in the social rented sector and looks at the possibilities for developing it as a specific policy objective. The paper concludes by suggesting that retarding sustained rates of segregation could connect housing in Northern Ireland to the task of closing social distance, equality and embedding the transition to post-conflict stability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]