Housing Markets and Policies Under Fiscal Austerity
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A most valuable overview of the responses of the housing sector in different countries to changing local priorities. This volume clearly demonstrates the substantial and uneven consequences of recent trends toward greater fiscal restraint.
L. S. Bourne, Center for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
The past 15 years have witnessed a period of fiscal austerity in North America and Western Europe. This period of financial restraint has been accompanied by shifts in government housing policy and private investment in housing. This important collection of original articles on the subject will be of great significance to geographers, urban planners, urban economists, and all others interested in recent trends in housing policy.
Risa Palm, Professor of Geography, University of Colorado
Table of Contents
Introduction by Willem van Vliet--
Housing in an Age of Austerity by Michael Harloe
Part I: The Privatization of Housing
Fiscal Reorientation, Centralization, and the Privatization of Council Housing by Ray Forrest and Alan Murie. The Privatization of Housing Renewal: Dilemmas and Contradictions in British Urban Policy by Tim Brindley and Gerry Stoker
Part II: National Perspectives
Housing Subsidies in a Period of Restraint: The Canadian Experience by J.David Hulchanski and Glenn Drover
Housing Policy in the United Kingdom: Efficient or Equitable? by Duncan Maclennan and Anthony J.O'Sullivan
Part III: Comparative Studies
The Rise of Competitive Mortgage Markets in the United States and Britan by Elizabeth A.Roistacher
Housing Provision and House Building in Western Europe: Increasing Expenditure, Declining Output? by Peter Ambrose and James Barlow
Part IV: Developments in Housing Tenure
Fiscal Austerity and the Expansion of Home Ownership in the United Kingdom by Michael C.Fleming and Joseph G.Nellis
Shared Housing as a Policy Alternative: The Australian Case by Patricia Klobus Edwards, Judith A.Jones, John M. Edwards
Part V: Housing Subsidies
The Aims and Effects of Housing Allowances in Western Europe by Michael J.Oxley
The Impact of High Rent-Income Ratios on Other Consumer Expenditures by Sherman Hanna and Suzanne Lindamood
Part VI: State Politics and Housing
Scarce State Resources and Unrestrained Processes in the Socialist City: The Case of Housing by Bronislaw Misztal and Barbara A.Misztal
Conservative Government Housing Policy in Britain, 1979-85: Economics or Ideology by Chris Hamnett
Part VII: Politics and Professional Expertise
The Changing Pattern of Professional Influence on Local Housing Policy by Barrie Houlihan
Politicians and Statisticians in Conflict: The 1980 United State Census by Harvey M.Choldin
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Aug 1987 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 276 |
| ISBN | 9780313254093 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Controversies in Science |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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