Housing the new Russia
By: Jane R. Zavisca
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780801450372; 9780801477379
Subjects: Social conditions; Residential real estate; Housing; Housing policy; Post-communism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a painful question; title: The Soviet promise : a separate apartment for every family; title: Transplant failure : the American housing model in Russia; title: Maternity capitalism : grafting pronatalism onto housing policy; title: Property without markets : who got what as markets failed; title: Disappointed dreams : distributive injustice in the new housing order; title: Mobility strategies : searching for the separate apartment; title: Rooms of their own : how housing affects family size; title: Children are not capital : ambivalence about pronatalist housing policies; title: To owe is not to own : why Russians reject mortgages; title: Conclusion : a market that could not emerge.