1st Edition

Housing Improvement and Social Inequality Case Study of an Inner City

By Paul N. Balchin Copyright 1979
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1979, this book discusses housing improvement, and particularly its effects upon the residential population of the inner areas of West London. The economic and social rationale is explained, and the role of landlords, developers and local authorities is analysed. The book concentrates both on the defects of the improvement process as a whole, and on the application of housing legislation within a specific geographical area. Housing improvement is related to the debate about the inequality of wealth by implicitly questioning who benefits and who loses from improvement policy.

     

    Biography

    Paul N. Balchin was formerly Reader in Urban Economics, University of Greenwich, UK.