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"The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and unintended consequences of the policy? H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murie, Alan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2016.
Colección:Policy Press shorts. Policy & practice.
Temas:
Public housing > Government policy > Great Britain.
Logement social > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Public housing > Government policy.
Urban communities.
Central / national / federal government policies.
Society.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • THE RIGHT TO BUY?
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • Outline of the book
  • 2. Selling public housing: precursors and preconditions
  • Introduction
  • Building and selling council houses before 1951
  • Discretionary sales, 1952-79
  • Conclusions
  • 3. a policy history of The Right to Buy, 1980-2015
  • Introduction
  • First steps
  • Strengthening the Right to Buy
  • Labour and the Right to Buy, 1997-2010
  • Coalition government 2010-15: reinvigorating the Right to Buy in England
  • Housing associations and the Right to Buy
  • Right to Buy in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • Conclusions
  • 4. Statistics and impacts of The Right To Buy
  • Introduction
  • Sales of public and social housing, 1980-2015
  • Properties and places
  • Discounts, property values and capital receipts
  • Changing tenures
  • Conclusions
  • 5. A policy commentary
  • Introduction
  • The Right to Buy
  • who was most likely to buy?
  • Financial advantages and risks for purchasers
  • Leaseholder issues
  • Abuses of the Right to Buy
  • Longer-term consequences: resales and access to housing
  • From the Right to Buy to private renting
  • Housing Benefit costs after the Right to Buy
  • Housing estates and housing conditions
  • Conclusions
  • 6. The next phase: extending the Right to Buy in England
  • Introduction
  • Policy debates
  • A Voluntary Right to Buy
  • Further policy development
  • Likely impact of Voluntary Right to Buy
  • Voluntary Right to Buy sales and replacement
  • Conclusions
  • 7. Conclusions: public and social housing: slow death or new beginnings?
  • Introduction
  • The Right to Buy?
  • Future prospects
  • Public housing's long goodbye
  • Localism and independence
  • Cost renting and private renting
  • Discounts and proportionality.
  • Alternatives to the Right to Buy
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Index.

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