Home Ownership: Differentiation and Fragmentation

Williams. Peter

Forrest, Ray

Murie, Alan

Business & Money

Unwin Hyman

Home Ownership: Differentiation and Fragmentation (Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

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, the book discusses the changing nature and role of home ownership, wealth accumulation and housing, the relationship between social class and housing tenure, and policy development.

Home Ownership (Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy and Home Ownership)

Selling the Welfare State: The Privatisation of Council Housing

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

Council house sales, a much debated issue for many years, is now a policy in the process of implementation, the effects of which are being felt in a number of areas and are giving rise to concern. This book considers the whole question of council house sales and looks at how the debate about privatization has emerged historically. It discusses the so-called "marginalization" of council house tenants and explores the impact of council house sales on the private sector, where a more complicated, more stratified market now exists. It examines the privatization of council housing in the wider context of the restructuring of the welfare state and it argues that the item of most serious concern is that many residual council tenants are also victims of the restructuring process in other ways, in that they are also suffering from the cutbacks in other services.

Selling the Welfare State: The Privatization of Council Housing

This collection provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal sector 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 narrow terms of market and state provision. Highly international in perspective, the book addresses important policy questions and offers new theoretical insights into the way housing is embedded in the wider social structure.

Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives

Economics

Cengage Learning EMEA

This is an impressive account of Hong Kong's contemporary social and spatial structure, exploring issues of community, neighbourhood and social division. Hong Kong’s policy and political history, its essentially mono-cultural environment and its unique topography and built form have produced a rather different social milieu to make Hong Kong quite distinct from other major cities. In exploring these issues the book will also engage with a number of other topical debates in urban policy, social policy and sociology such as: <ul>
<li>What does community mean these days? </li> <li>Do people think of themselves as neighbourly and have a sense of local belonging in the midst of this dominant discourse of globalization and more diffuse social networks?</li> <li>What can we learn from Hong Kong as regards social and environmental sustainability?</li>
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The authors of this fascinating text fuse locally based research on Hong Kong neighbourhoods with more macro level urban political economy to produce a comprehensive and up-to-date account of social and behavioural change in what is one of the most widely recognized urban landscapes in the world.

Cohesion and Community in Contemporary Hong Kong (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)

La Grange, Adrienne

Yip, Ngai Ming

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Selling the Welfare State: The Privatisation of Public Housing (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 British society. The long trend for British social housing to become a welfare housing sector is related to evidence of growing social polarisation and segregation. Within this overall context, the book explores the uneven spatial and social consequences of the policy.

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 British society. The long trend for British social housing to become a welfare housing sector is related to evidence of growing social polarisation and segregation. Within this overall context, the book explores the uneven spatial and social consequences of the policy.

The Selling of the Welfare State: The Privatization of Council Housing

Routledge& Kegan Paul

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