Housing Politics in the United Kingdom
Subtitle: Power, Planning and Protest
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781447327080
Subjects: Housing policy; Housing, great britain
Description: Affordable housing in the United Kingdom has become an ever more potent issue in recent years, as rapid population growth and a long-term lag in new housing construction have combined to making finding secure, affordable housing difficult for a broad range of people. This book uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism, and social constructionism to lay bare the historically entrenched power relationships among markets, planners, and electoral politics that have made this problem seem so intractable. --