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  • Housing and Family Wealth

    Comparative International Perspectives

    Edited by Ray Forrest, Alan Murie ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing
    Originally published in 1995, this innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal wealth and the family in contemporary society. Reasserting the role of the family and informal networks in housing provision, it counteracts a tendency to view housing issues in the narrow terms of market and state provision.The contributions ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Housing Policy and the Housing System

    by Alan Murie, Pat Niner, Christopher Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing
    In the 1970s it was widely recognised that our planners and administrators were dealing not with a homogenous housing market but with a complex of housing sectors and sub-markets – with different locations, physical and social characteristics, tenures and costs. But although factual information was widely available from the Census and other official sources, our understanding of the true nature of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Housing Provision and Policy in the UK

    by Alan Murie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an accessible and in-depth account of housing provision and policy in the UK. The chapters describe each of the major housing tenures and how they have changed, emphasising the uneven development and implementation of housing policy over time and place. In doing so, the book builds on and adds to debates that are prominent in geography and social science disciplines and provides ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Home Ownership

    Differentiation and Fragmentation

    by Ray Forrest, Alan Murie, Peter Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership
    Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance. The book examines critically the evidence for and against the proposition that mass home ownership is contributing towards a more equal society. Wide-ranging in its coverage, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Right to Buy?

    Selling off public and social housing

    by Alan Murie ...
    The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and unintended consequences of the policy? How are the proposals to extend the policy in England likely to affect future housing provision and what ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Selling the Welfare State (Routledge Revivals)

    The Privatisation of Public Housing

    by Ray Forrest, Alan Murie ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis in the book, however, is on the ways in which privatisation in housing links to other key changes in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Housing and the New Welfare State

    Perspectives from East Asia and Europe

    by Richard Groves ...
    The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. With housing playing an increasingly important role in welfare provision, the new welfare state emerging in different parts of the world is being developed in the context of individual asset accumulation and the private ownership of housing. Housing and the New Welfare State shows ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Making Competitive Cities

    Edited by Sako Musterd, Alan Murie ...
    The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law). It provides significant new knowledge to the theoretical and practical understanding of the conditions necessary to stimulate "creative knowledge" ... Read more

    $118.00 USD

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  • The housing debate

    by Stuart Lowe ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected, especially when housing markets are so volatile. It will be essential reading for all students ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Against Landlords

    How to Solve the Housing Crisis

    by Nick Bano ...
    When landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done?Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions. Homelessness is at a new high. Yet ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment

    The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy

    by Tim Lankester ...
    In 1979, Margaret Thatcher’s new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In response, Thatcher pursued an economic policy which rejected the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists: a policy based on the doctrine of monetarism.Tim Lankester was the private secretary for economic affairs to Thatcher ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Finance for Housing

    An Introduction

    by Cathy Davis ...
    The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts as new bonds.Austerity programmes are designed to reduce the borrowing that governments undertook to stabilise failing banking systems but the UK's Coalition government is using 'austerity' as a cover to dismantle the welfare state. Housing is at the forefront of ... Read more

    $55.79 USD