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West European Housing Systems in a Comparative Perspective.
West European Housing Systems in a Comparative Perspective gives an overview of the results of almost 20 years of international comparative housing research, carried out by the author and his colleagues at OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment. The articles give evidence of the transition...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
IOS Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Introduction; Defining a housing system; Theoretical approaches to international comparative analysis; Introduction; The convergence theory; Structures of housing provision and Harloe's theory on the social rental sector; Divergence theory; Evaluation; Research methods; Objective and research questions; Data and selection of countries; Introduction to the articles; References; Housing policy in seven European countries. The role of politics in housing; Introduction; Exogenous factors: demographic change and socio-economic limitations.
- Housing construction policyHousing policy between 1970 and 1990; an overview; Housing policy in the 1970s; Housing policy in the 1980s; Concluding remarks; References; The private rental sector in Western Europe. Development since the Second World War and prospects for the future; Introduction; Characterisation of the private rental sector; Developments of housing systems after the Second World War and consequences for the private rental sector; Similarities in developments; The decline of the private rental sector; Country-specific developments; The future of the private rental sector.
- The impact of the crisis (b) policy responses: (1) finance system measuresThe impact of the crisis (b) policy responses: (2) housing system measures; Explanation for variations in impacts (a) the economics of housing market volatility; Explanations for variations in impacts (b) housing system approaches; Dynamic versus static housing systems: the theory; Dynamic housing systems; Static housing systems; Dynamic versus static housing systems: the application to several countries; The countries classified by type of housing system; Dynamic versus static housing systems: stabilising factors.
- Owner-occupied housing sectorRental sector; Conclusions; References; Social rented housing in Western Europe. Developments and expectations; Introduction; A theoretical perspective on the development of the social rented sector: Convergence and divergence; Development of the policy context; Development of the position of the social rented sector in the housing market; The development of the character of the social rented sector and the consequences for the position of social landlords; The role of the social rented sector for various income categories.