Preface. Part I: The Three Experiments in State Intervention to Improve the Supply of Houses, 1919–39 1. Background of Housing Policy 2. The First Experiment, 1919–23 3. The Second Experiment – Policy 4. The Second Experiment – Practice 5. The Second Experiment – The Contribution of Private Enterprise 6. The Second Experiment – The Contribution of Local Authorities. The Second Experiment – Epilogue 7. The Third Experiment, 1934–39 – The Return to a Sanitary Policy 8. The Third Experiment - Sanitary Policy in Practice 9. The Third Experiment – The Private Building Room Part II: The Unsettled Questions of Housing Policy, 1939–44 Introduction. 10. Unsettled Questions – The Purpose of Policy 11. Unsettled Questions – The Rent Question 12. The War and the Unsettled Questions 13. The War and the Lessons of the Past. Appendices 1. Housing Problems in Scotland 2. Statistical Notes and Tables.
Biography
Marian Bowley (1911–2002) was an economist and historian of economic thought.
