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1. Beyond Home Ownership

   Housing, Welfare and Society

   Edited by Richard Ronald, Marja Elsinga

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   In context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices. It considers owner-occupied housing in terms of diverse meanings and manifestations, but in...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
2. Housing Disadvantaged People?

   Insiders and Outsiders in French Social Housing

   By Jane Ball

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation, and even a legal action against the State to obtain a social home. Despite this, France is...

   Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Women and Housing

   An International Analysis

   Edited by Patricia Kennett, Kam Wah Chan

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities...

   Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
4. Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership

   By Chris Paris

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Despite the current recession, the frequency of second home ownership is still surprisingly high throughout the western world. While the UK and Ireland previously had lower occurrences of multiple dwellings compared to the rest of Europe, they are quickly catching up with a current surge in the...

   Published September 14th 2010 by Routledge
5. Housing, Markets and Policy

   Edited by Peter Malpass, Rob Rowlands

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   This book of specially commissioned essays by distinguished housing scholars addresses the big issues in contemporary debates about housing and housing policy in the UK. Setting out a distinctive and coherent analysis, it steers a course between those accounts that rely on economic theory and...

   Published July 19th 2009 by Routledge
6. Housing and Health in Europe

   The WHO LARES project

   Edited by David Ormandy

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health of inhabitants and their housing conditions,...

   Published April 26th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Hidden Millions

   Homelessness in Developing Countries

   By Graham Tipple, Suzanne Speak

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   This book explores the extent, causes and characteristics of homelessness in developing countries. Bringing together a major review of literature and empirical case studies, it is invaluable for those studying, researching or working in housing, homelessness, social policy or urban poverty. Drawing...

   Published March 2nd 2009 by Routledge
8. Housing, Care and Inheritance

   By Misa Izuhara

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Housing, Care and Inheritance draws on the author’s long-standing research into housing issues surrounding the ageing society, a phenomenon which is now a concern in many mature economies. If an adult child provides care for their elderly parent, should that person be rewarded? If so, should they...

   Published September 29th 2008 by Routledge
9. Housing and Social Transition in Japan

   Edited by Yosuke Hirayama, Richard Ronald

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of...

   Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge
10. Housing Transformations

    Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living

    By Bridget Franklin

    Series: Housing and Society Series

    Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating. This...

    Published June 5th 2006 by Routledge