'Bad tenants can pack their bags' : a critical discourse analysis of the marketisation and the moralisation of public housing policy

Social policy and the context in which it is practised and developed are undergoing significant transformations. Evidence of the increasing influence of the 'market' on social programs is placing considerable pressure on the logic and legitimacy of western welfare states. Welfare state models, characterised by state intervention, are now commonly cast as the villain in a story of welfare dependenc…