2nd Edition

Understanding Housing Finance Meeting Needs and Making Choices

By Peter King, Peter King Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

One of the biggest challenges for students of housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin the place of housing in the wider economy. By taking a political economy approach, Peter King's Understanding Housing Finance makes the basic principles of the subject accessible, without requiring detailed prior knowledge of economics or financial systems. The book explains housing... Read more
1. Understanding Housing Finance  2. Need, Choice and Responsibility  3. The Importance of Markets  4. Government Action  5. Influencing Markets  6. Controlling Housing  7. Complexity and Choice

Biography

Peter King is Reader in Social Thought in the Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of Private Dwelling (Routledge, 2004)