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The Myth of Home Ownership: Private versus Public Choices in Housing Tenure book cover

1st Edition

The Myth of Home Ownership Private versus Public Choices in Housing Tenure

By J. Kemeny Copyright 1981
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1981, in this controversial study Dr Kemeny aims to show that owner-occupation is not an inherently superior form of housing tenure to renting. He questions the overwhelming emphasis upon owner-occupation in English-speaking countries as reflected by most politicians and many academics, and argues that the deep emotional commitment to home ownership has prevented both the... Read more

Introduction and Acknowledgements.  Part I: Elements of Comparative Housing Tenure  1. The Sociology of Housing: A Critique  2. Tenure and Housing Costs  3. Tenure Policies and Housing Costs  4. Tenure and Social Structure  5. Tenure, Politics and Market Power  Part II: Case Studies in Tenure: Sweden, Australia and Britain  6. Sweden: Cost-Renting in Crisis  7. Australia: Home-Ownership at Any Price  8. Britain: Tenure at the Cross-Roads  9. Towards Tenure-Neutral Housing Policy.  Conclusions.  Bibliography.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Jim Kemeny (1942–2020) studied in England and Sweden and lectured in Political Sociology at the University of Adelaide until 1979. At the time of original publication, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham.

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