1st Edition

Transforming Social Housing International Perspectives

Edited By Sasha Tsenkova Copyright 2021
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

The recent global crisis exposed vulnerabilities of housing markets pointing to the need to build resilience through better policy tools and sustainable provision of social housing. In the context of fiscal austerity, social housing is affected by changing politics, privatization and concentration of urban poverty. Transforming Social Housing: International Perspectives explores the differences... Read more

1. Social housing transformation: Policy and institutional landscapes

Sasha Tsenkova

2. Social Rented Housing in the (Dis)United Kingdom: Can Different Social Housing Regime Types Exist within the Same Nation State?

Mark Stephens

3. Quantifying a century of state intervention in rental housing in Germany

Konstantin A. Kholodilin

4.The Role of Nonprofits in Meeting the Housing Challenge in the United States

Rachel G. Bratt

5. The organizational challenges of mixed-income development: privatizing public housing through cross-sector collaboration

Mark L. Joseph, Robert J. Chaskin, Amy T. Khare and Jung-Eun Kim

6. Non-profit housing, a tool for metropolitan cohesion? The case of the Vienna–Bratislava region

Aurore Meyfroidt

7. Moving towards age-inclusive public housing in Singapore

Belinda Yuen

8. Transformative change: energy-efficiency and social housing retrofits in Canadian cities

Sasha Tsenkova

Biography

Sasha Tsenkova is Professor of Planning at the University of Calgary, Canada. She has over 150 publications addressing issues of urban sustainability, community planning and housing policy. Her scholarship is internationally recognised and she has won a number of prestigious awards for international scholars. Her current research focuses on social urbanism and the future of affordable housing in cities.