Planning & Urban Design

Housing and Society Series

Series Editor: Ray Forrest, City University of Hong Kong and University of Bristol

This series aims to situate housing within its wider social, political and economic context at both national and international level. In doing so it will draw on the full range of social science disciplines and on mainstream debate on the nature of contemporary social change. The books are intended to appeal to an international academic audience as well as to practitioners and policymakers – to be theoretically informed and policy relevant.

For a full listing of books in the Housing and Society Series, click here

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Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a collection of...

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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...

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Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership

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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
Women and Housing

An International Analysis

Edited by Patricia Kennett, Kam Wah Chan

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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...

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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
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