Housing, Markets and Policy

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, analyse and explain aspects of that transformation, as a basis for understanding the present and thinking about the future. The analysis of housing is set within an understanding of the wider changes affecting the economy and the welfare state since the crises of the mid 1970s.

ISBN 0415477794   Pages 280 ISBN13 9780415477796 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 567 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Housing and Society Series Publication date 20 Jul 2009   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2009001428   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 363.5   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9780415477789

		List of illustrations
1		Introduction: transformation and change in housing by Peter Malpass and Rob Rowlands		1
2		Housing policy and the housing system in the 1970s by Christopher Watson and Pat Niner		17
3		A privileged state? Council housing as social escalator by Ray Forrest		37
4		The right to buy by Colin Jones		59
5		The evolution of stock transfer: privatisation or towards renationalisation? by David Mullins and Hal Pawson		76
6		The rise (and rise?) of housing associations by Peter Malpass		101
7		The transformation of private renting by Peter A. Kemp		122
8		Home ownership - where now? by Peter Williams		143
9		Meeting demand by Glen Bramley		161
10		Competitiveness and social exclusion: the importance of place and rescaling in housing and regeneration policies by Peter Lee		184
11		Sustainable communities: housing, dogma and the opportunities missed by Rob Rowlands		203
12		Rediscovering housing policy: back to the future? by Alan Murie		224
13		Conclusions and questions about the future by Chris Paris		245
		Index		259

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