Whether hybrids are seen as 'magical or monstrous' (Blessing 2012) may depend on conceptualisation and meanings but also reflects the contingencies of economic cycles, policy regimes and sector characteristics within which hybridisation occurs. This international collection of new research on hybridising housing organisations provides a starting point for research and interpretation of the meaning of this apparently global trend in specific national, sector and organisational contexts.

This book was based on a special issue of Housing Studies.

1. Exploring the Meaning of Hybridity and Social Enterprise in Housing Organisations 2. Conceptualising Social Enterprise in Housing Organisations 3. The Quadruple Bottom Line and Nonprofit Housing Organizations in the United States 4. Entrenched Hybridity in Public Housing Agencies in the USA Mai Thi Nguyen, William M. Rohe and Spencer 5. Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Innovation and Diversity in Australian Not-for-Profit Housing Organisations 6. Expansion, Diversification, and Hybridization in Korean Public Housing 7. Negotiating Tensions: How Do Social Enterprises in the Homelessness Field Balance Social and Commercial Considerations? 8. Hybridity Enacted in a Large English Housing Association: A Tale of Strategy, Culture and Community Investment Means and Ends. Why Child Support Money is not Used to Meet Housing Costs 9. Magical or Monstrous? Hybridity in Social Housing Governance

David Mullins is Professor of Housing Policy, Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include housing governance, management and regulation, homelessness, third sector, hybrid organisations and social enterprises and public services. He is on the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Social Housing.

Darinka Czischke is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. She was Director of the CECODHAS European Social Housing Observatory from 2005-2010. Her research interests include social housing, social enterprise, social innovation and socio-spatial integration.

Gerard van Bortel is a researcher of housing studies at the OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology.