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Housing and Social Change in Europe and the USA
230 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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First published in 1988. This book argues that there is a growing structural crisis in the provision of housing in advanced capitalist countries and that the steady improvement in housing conditions since 1945 is unlikely to continue. The dilemmas facing housing policy makers can no longer be seen as concerned just with distributional questions but with problems generated by the restructuring of... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Housing Provision and Comparative Housing Research, Michael Ball; Chapter 3 The Changing Role of Social Rented Housing, Michael Harloe; Chapter 4 Owner-occupied Housing: a Tenure in Transition, Maartje Martens; Chapter 5 The Revolution in Mortgage Finance, Maartje Martens; Chapter 6 The International Restructuring of Housing Production, Michael Ball; Chapter 7 Towards a New Politics of Housing Provision, Michael Harloe;
Biography
Michael Ball is a Lecturer in Economics in the Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London, Michael Harloe is Reader in Sociology and Maartje Martens is Senior Research Officer both in the Department of Sociology, University of Essex.
