Understanding Housing Policy (Second Edition) (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice) - Hardcover

Lund, Brian

 
9781847426321: Understanding Housing Policy (Second Edition) (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1847426328 ISBN 13: 9781847426321
Verlag: POLICY PR, 2011

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What are the major housing problems in contemporary Britain? How effective are the policies designed to tackle these problems? These are the central questions this book sets out to answer, using a critical approach to identifying housing problems and the formation of policy.Understanding housing policy is an up-to-date text on a rapidly changing policy field written by an author with extensive experience in implementing housing policy. The second edition of this best-selling text has been completely revised and includes a new chapter on the political processes involved in the construction and delivery of housing policies. In addition, the new edition:
  • reviews theoretical perspectives helpful in understanding the normative dimensions of housing policy;
  • examines explanations of policy development and implementation processes;
  • explores the development of housing policy in the United Kingdom;
  • contains a chapter on comparative housing policy;
  • examines a number of contemporary housing problems: affordability; homelessness; low demand and neighbourhood deprivation; overcrowding; multi-occupation; 'decent' homes and 'sustainable' housing.
  • devotes a chapter to the relationship between housing and social justice;
  • includes an assessment of the impact of New Labour's housing policies and the policy orientation of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition.
For more detailed information on this title, please go to the author's website http://housingpolicy.moonfruit.com

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Brian Lund, Visiting Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Verlag
POLICY PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847426328
ISBN 13 
9781847426321
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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