1st Edition
Housing Boom and Bust Owner Occupation, Government Regulation and the Credit Crunch
By Peter King
Copyright 2010
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions. Over the past thirty years, the culture of property ownership has become so ingrained that policy makers, bankers and households have taken for granted that housing is a good investment and forgotten about the bust. Explaining how the current crisis in housing markets has arisen, this topical and sharp analysis considers the causes of... Read more
1. Housing is Not Finance 2. Really Private Finance 3. Lots of Bad Decisions 4. A Political Problem 5. On the Virtue of Benign Neglect 6. Conclusions: A Plea for Sanity
Biography
Peter King is Reader in Social Thought in the Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University, Leicester. The second edition of his book Understanding Housing Finance was published by Routledge in 2009.
