1st Edition

The Myth of Affordable Housing

By Quintin Bradley Copyright 2026
170 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Affordable housing makes housing unaffordable. The Myth of Affordable Housing is a critique of the abject failure of affordable housing policies to address a global crisis of need. Affordability in housing has proved an excuse for unleashing financial speculation in real estate, channelling subsidies to profit landlords, developers, capital markets, and landowners. It is a regressive... Read more

List of Figures

1.     Prized or Priced

2.     Priceless Housing

3.     Price Is the Problem

4.     Value With No Values   

5.     Value and Viability

6.     The Devaluation of Need

7.     Abolish Price

Bibliography    

Index

Biography

Quintin Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Housing and Planning at Leeds Beckett University, and leads research into housing justice, community planning, and social movements. The Myth of Affordable Housing is the fruit of extensive research and engagement in housing rights campaigns and a career working to support and advise tenant-led organisations and residents engaged in housing and planning policy. A former investigative journalist, Quintin has published extensively in peer-reviewed international journals and is the author of Property, Planning and Protest published by Routledge in 2023, Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: power to the people? published by Policy Press in 2017 and The Tenants’ Movement published by Routledge in 2014.