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The Right to Buy is the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, but it is also the most successful. Unlike the many studies that have focused on the costs of the policy and sought to show its negative impact, this book seeks to understand the Right to Buy on its own terms. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us - instead of a policy that sought to do things for people, the Right to Buy allowed people to do things for themselves.
Price: $127.95
Pages: 136
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
07 January 2010
ISBN: 9781847422132
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Housing and homelessness
"...invigorates the reader and provides a fresh challenge to many of the assumptions
around the RTB." Rebecca Edwards in International Planning Studies
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.
Contents: Introduction; Owning things; What Mrs Thatcher did; What happened next; What is wrong with it?; What does it tell us?; Conclusions