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Selling the Welfare State (Routledge Revivals) The Privatisation of Public Housing
296 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
296 Pages
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Routledge
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Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis in the book, however, is on the ways in which privatisation in housing links to other key changes in... Read more
1. Introduction: Privatisation and Housing 2. Council Housing - Historical Roots and Contemporary Issues 3. The Political Debate 4. Welfare Housing for Marginal Groups? 5. Financial and Electoral Aspects of Housing Privatisation 6. The Spatial and Social Pattern of Council House Sales 7. The Polarised City 8. Contextualising the Sale of Council Housing 9. Radical Centralism and Local Resistance 10. Rights to Buy and Beyond 11. Selling Whose Welfare? - Polarisation and Privatisation
Biography
Ray Forrest, Alan Murie
