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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 and practitioners of housing and those concerned with how social and public policy is being shaped in the 21st century.
Price: $26.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Series: Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Publication Date:
21 September 2011
ISBN: 9781847422736
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Housing and homelessness
'Stuart Lowe's The Housing Debate takes a refreshingly broad view of
housing and welfare. Rather than a balanced introduction for students to
current debates around housing and social policy, Lowe has a clear case to
make.' - Jake Eliot in Citizen's Income Newsletter
Stuart Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York. He is a political scientist interested particularly in housing policy, about which he has written extensively. His books include Urban Social Movements and Housing Policy Analysis (both Palgrave Macmillan) and a best-selling textbook with John Hudson, Understanding the Policy Process (The Policy Press). His recent research focuses on the relationship between housing and welfare state change.
The foundations; The idea of housing policy: the crisis of the late-Victorian housing market; The birth of the home-owning society: the interwar years (1918-39); Home-ownership comes of age (the post-war decades (1945-79); The post-industrial economy and housing; Housing and welfare states; The globalisation of the mortgage market;Towards asset-based welfare states; Conclusion.