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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lund, Brian, 1945- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Understanding welfare.
Subjects:
Housing policy > Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: One. Understanding housing policy
  • What is housing policy?
  • Understanding housing policy
  • Laissez-faire economics
  • Social reformism
  • Marxist political economy
  • Behavioural approaches
  • Social constructionism
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Two. Housing policy, continuity and change
  • Housing becomes a social problem
  • Housing, health and the public good
  • The slum
  • The housing issue circa 1906
  • Housing policy: 1915 to 1939
  • Labour 1945
  • 51: a planned solution
  • The Conservatives and housing policy, 1951
  • 61
  • Housing policy 1961 to 1979: consensus years?
  • Cities in the sky
  • `Thatcherism' and housing policy
  • New Labour
  • The coalition government (2010
  • 15)
  • The 2015 Conservative government
  • Devolution
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Three. Governing housing
  • The Westminster core executive
  • Note continued: Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
  • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
  • Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)
  • National Infrastructure Commission (NIC)
  • The English regional dimension
  • Local government
  • Housing associations
  • Tenant empowerment: exit and voice politics
  • The financial institutions
  • The construction industry
  • Private landlords
  • The European Union
  • Devolution
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Four.Comparative housing policy
  • Why compare?
  • Housing policies: five national case studies
  • USA
  • Germany
  • Sweden
  • Spain
  • The Czech Republic
  • The `convergence' thesis
  • Policy transfer
  • Housing outcomes (EU)
  • Housing outcomes (USA)
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Five. Need, demand and supply
  • Private landlordism
  • The 1919 Housing, Town Planning, etc. Act
  • A golden housebuilding age?
  • Note continued: The `numbers game'
  • Lean years
  • Housing requirements
  • Devolution and development
  • Promoting housing supply
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Six.`Affordable' housing
  • What is `affordable' housing?
  • Affordability in the 19th century
  • Standards and affordability
  • From producer to consumer subsidies
  • Housing benefit
  • Private landlord subsidies
  • The Right to Buy
  • Low-cost homeownership
  • Allocating social housing
  • Immigration and `social' housing
  • Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • Monitoring housing affordability
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Seven. Homelessness
  • What is homelessness?
  • The causes of homelessness
  • Homelessness: constructing a social problem
  • The 1948 National Assistance Act
  • The 1977 Housing (Homeless Persons) Act
  • `Perverse incentives' and the 1996 Housing Act
  • The 2002 Homelessness Act
  • Note continued: Preventing statutory homelessness
  • Rough sleeping
  • Homelessness: the coalition government
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Eight. Decent and sustainable homes
  • The slum
  • The 1930s clearance drive
  • The bulldozer returns
  • Clearance or improvement?
  • Income selectivity and home improvement
  • `Decent' homes
  • New Labour and sustainable homes
  • Overcrowding
  • Measuring overcrowding
  • Overcrowding: its impact
  • Bed and breakfast hotels
  • Houses in multiple occupation
  • The 2004 Housing Act
  • Regulating the private landlord sector
  • The coalition government
  • The 2015 Conservative government
  • England: progress and stability
  • Overcrowding
  • Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • Housing conditions in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Nine. Neighbourhood deprivation
  • Area-based programmes in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Note continued: Priority estates
  • Architectural determinism
  • New Labour and unpopular housing
  • Low demand
  • Balanced communities
  • New Labour and mixed communities
  • Mixed communities: do they work?
  • New Labour and neighbourhood deprivation: evaluation
  • The coalition government
  • The 2015 Conservative government
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Ten. Housing and social justice
  • What is social justice?
  • Social justice and social exclusion
  • Why is social justice in housing important?
  • Social class
  • Tenure
  • Property wealth
  • `Social' tenants
  • Housing and income distribution
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
  • Disability
  • Supported housing
  • Lifetime homes
  • Disabled Facilities Grants
  • The bedroom tax
  • Need and supply
  • Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
  • Overview
  • Questions for discussion
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Eleven. Conclusion: Let's be builders
  • Laissez-faire
  • Note continued: `Radical' social reformism
  • `Moderate' social reformism
  • Ameliorative social reformism
  • Marxist political economy
  • The behavioural approach
  • Social constructionism
  • Housing politics
  • Brexit
  • Let us be builders
  • Fixing our broken housing market
  • References.