Whose Housing Crisis?
Assets and Homes in a Changing Economy
Seiten
2019
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-4607-4 (ISBN)
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-4607-4 (ISBN)
Reconceiving the current housing crisis in England as a ‘wicked’ problem, this book situates the crisis in a broader range of socio-economic issues and calls for a change in how housing is produced and consumed.
At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of ‘growth’ for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.
At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of ‘growth’ for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.
Nick Gallent is Professor of Housing and Planning and the Head of the Bartlett School of Planning at UCL, UK.
1. The housing crisis
2. A wicked problem
3. Housing's economic context
4. Local pathways to crisis
5. Whose housing crisis?
6. An exit strategy
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.07.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4473-4607-6 / 1447346076 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4473-4607-4 / 9781447346074 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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