Housing, markets and policy
By: edited by Peter Malpass and Rob Rowlands
Series: Housing and society series; Housing and society series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780203872819
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Ownership; Real Estate; Real property; Housing policy; Real estate business; General
Description: This book of specially commissioned essays by distinguished housing scholars addresses€ the big issues in contemporary debates about housing and housing policy in the UK. Setting out a distinctive and coherent analysis, it steers a course between those accounts that rely on economic theory and analysis and those that emphasise policy. It is informed by the idea that the 1970s was a pivotal decade in the second half of the twentieth century, and that since that time there has been a profound transformation in the housing system and housing policy in the UK. The contributors describe, analy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : transformation and change in housing / Peter Malpass and Rob Rowlands; title: Housing policy and the housing system in the 1970s / Christopher Watson and Pat Niner; title: A privileged state? : council housing as social escalator / Ray Forrest; title: The right to buy / Colin Jones; title: The evolution of stock transfer : privatisation or towards re-nationalisation? / David Mullins and Hal Pawson; title: The rise (and rise?) of housing associations / Peter Malpass; title: The transformation of private renting / Peter A. Kemp; title: Home ownership : where now? / Peter Williams; title: Meeting demand / Glen Bramley; title: Competitiveness and social exclusion : the importance of place and rescaling in housing and regeneration policies / Peter Lee; title: Sustainable communities : housing, dogma and the opportunities missed / Rob Rowlands; title: Rediscovering housing policy : back to the future? / Alan Murie; title: Conclusions and questions about the future / Chris Paris.