Peter King
Housing Policy Transformed
The Right to Buy and the Desire to Own
Buch
In an ideal world, shouldn't everyone have the security of owning their own home? Doesn't owning one's home improve housing stock, financial security, and civil society? If all this is true, why, in Britain, is the Right to Buy the Conservatives' effort to bring the opportunity of homeownership to a large number of people living in social housing such a contentious and vilified policy? Housing Policy Transformed is the first book in ten years which covers the ideological and conceptual issues around owner occupation and the continuance of the Right to Buy in Britain's post-Thatcher era. The book explores Britain's social, economic, and cultur…
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In an ideal world, shouldn't everyone have the security of owning their own home? Doesn't owning one's home improve housing stock, financial security, and civil society? If all this is true, why, in Britain, is the Right to Buy the Conservatives' effort to bring the opportunity of homeownership to a large number of people living in social housing such a contentious and vilified policy? Housing Policy Transformed is the first book in ten years which covers the ideological and conceptual issues around owner occupation and the continuance of the Right to Buy in Britain's post-Thatcher era. The book explores Britain's social, economic, and cultural peculiarities that led to the Right to Buy policy, and how it has managed to survive for 30 years. It looks at why there has been such a harsh critique of the Right to Buy policy from the Left and the negative effects that the Right to Buy policy (combined with Britain's Housing Benefit and the Homelessness Act) have had on social housin
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84742-213-2
- EAN: 9781847422132
- Produktnummer: 4586690
- Verlag: Policy Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B17.2 cm x D0.0 cm 399 g
- Abbildungen: No
- Gewicht: 399
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Peter King is Reader in Social Thought at the Centre for Comparative Housing Research, De Montfort University. His work has focused on the application of philosophical and theoretical models to housing issues and he has written widely on issues such as need, choice, rights, housing subsidies and the nature of home.
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