1st Edition

Housing Policy in Developing Countries

Edited By Gil Shidlo Copyright 1990
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1990, this title asks, what has been the role of the state vis-à-vis housing policy in developing countries over the last few years? To date there had been no significant attempt to deal comprehensively with state intervention in the housing market in the developing world, most of the literature choosing to concentrate either on specific country studies or on single... Read more

List of Tables.  The Contributors.  Acknowledgements.  Housing and the State – An Overview.  1. Housing and the State in Mexico Priscilla Connolly  2. Housing Policy in Brazil Gil Shidlo  3. The State and Housing in Chile – Regime Types and Policy Choices Fernando Kusnetzoff  4. Housing in India – Observations on the Government’s Intervention Policies K. P. Bhattacharya  5. Housing Development and Reforms in China Joochul Kim  6. The New Towns in Egypt Gil Feiler  7. Housing Policy in Turkey Rusen Keles.  Index.

Biography

Gil Shidlo was, at the time of original publication, joint lecturer at the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Programme of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. He has widely written on the subject of housing and social policy in the developing world.