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The emergence of Britain as a home-owning society has implications for how people think about housing. Housing is used: as a pension fund; to give resources for care needs; & to sponsor access to private education. This text argues that housing is at the forefront of public policy & as a pil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lowe, Stuart, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2011.
Colección:Policy and politics in the twenty-first century.
Temas:
2000-2099
Housing policy > Great Britain.
Housing > Great Britain.
Home ownership > Great Britain.
Logement > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Home ownership
Housing
Housing policy
Social policy
Bostäder.
Great Britain > Social policy > 21st century.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale > 21e siècle.
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Housing debate
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. The foundations
  • Introduction
  • Housing finance
  • Types of housing systems
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The idea of housing policy: the crisis of the late-Victorian housing market
  • Urbanisation and the private rental model of housing
  • The late-Victorian housing crisis
  • The birth of â€?housing policyâ€?
  • Who was going to house the workers?
  • Conclusion
  • 3. The birth of the home-owning society: the interwar years (1918â€?39)
  • Introduction
  • The consequences of warThe Addison Act and its relative failure
  • The rise of the suburbs
  • The suburban way of life
  • Housing the poor?
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Home-ownership comes of age: the post-war decades (1945â€?79)
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The post-industrial economy and housing
  • A new geography
  • Social housing residualisation
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Housing and welfare states
  • Introduction
  • The neglect of housing in the welfare state literature
  • From convergence to divergence
  • Kemenyâ€?s housing regimes
  • Varieties of capitalism
  • 7. The globalisation of the mortgage marketIntroduction
  • The globalisation of the mortgage market
  • National variations
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Towards asset-based welfare states
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • The longue durée and housing
  • The slow death of council housing
  • The death knell of social housing
  • And so, the home-owning society
  • Housing and the welfare state
  • And so, asset-based welfare
  • References
  • Index

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