Whose Housing Crisis

Author : Nick Gallent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Housing
ISBN : 1447346106

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Whose Housing Crisis? by Nick Gallent Pdf

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing's social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of 'growth' for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.

Author : Gallent, Nick
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447346081

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Whose Housing Crisis? by Gallent, Nick Pdf

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of ‘growth’ for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.

Author : Gallent, Nick
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447345312

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Whose Housing Crisis? by Gallent, Nick Pdf

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of ‘growth’ for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.

Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642831337

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The Affordable City by Shane Phillips Pdf

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

Author : Peter Malpass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Housing
ISBN : OCLC:605967920

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The Housing Crisis by Peter Malpass Pdf

Author : Rachel G. Bratt,Michael E. Stone,Chester W. Hartman
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592134335

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A Right to Housing by Rachel G. Bratt,Michael E. Stone,Chester W. Hartman Pdf

An examination of America's housing crisis by the leading progressive housing activists in the country.

Author : Hearne, Rory
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447353935

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Housing Shock by Hearne, Rory Pdf

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wider inequality and threatening the economy. Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within the broader global housing situation by examining the origins of the crisis in terms of austerity, marketisation and the new era of financialisation, where global investors are making housing unaffordable and turning it into an asset for the wealthy. He brings to the fore the perspectives of those most affected, new housing activists and protesters whilst providing innovative global solutions for a new vision for affordable, sustainable homes for all.

Author : Peter Marcuse,David Madden
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784783563

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In Defense of Housing by Peter Marcuse,David Madden Pdf

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Author : Brian Lund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030041281

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Housing in the United Kingdom by Brian Lund Pdf

In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger ‘generation rent,’ to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom. Current differences reflect long-established cleavages in UK society, and help to explain why housing crises persist. Placing the UK crises in their global contexts, Lund provides a critical examination of proposed solutions according to their impacts on different pathways through the housing system. As the first detailed analysis of the multifaceted origins, impact and potential solutions of the housing crisis, this book will be of vital interest to policy practitioners, professionals and academics across a wide range of areas, including housing studies, urban studies, geography, social policy, sociology, planning and politics.

Author : Charles V. Bagli
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780142180716

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Other People's Money by Charles V. Bagli Pdf

A veteran New York Times reporter dissects the most spectacular failure in real estate history Real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of dollars when their much-vaunted purchase of Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in New York City failed to deliver the expected profits. But how did Tishman Speyer walk away from the deal unscathed, while others took the financial hit—and MetLife scored a $3 billion profit? Illuminating the world of big real estate the way Too Big to Fail did for banks, Other People’s Money is a riveting account of politics, high finance, and the hubris that ultimately led to the nationwide real estate meltdown.

Author : Ashok Bardhan,Robert H. Edelstein,Cynthia A. Kroll
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118144237

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Global Housing Markets by Ashok Bardhan,Robert H. Edelstein,Cynthia A. Kroll Pdf

A global look at the reasons behind the recent economic collapse, and the responses to it The speculative bubble in the housing market began to burst in the United States in 2007, and has been followed by ruptures in virtually every asset market in almost every country in the world. Each country proposed a range of policy initiatives to deal with its crisis. Policies that focused upon stabilizing the housing market formed the cornerstone of many of these proposals. This internationally focused book evaluates the genesis of the housing market bubble, the global viral contagion of the crisis, and the policy initiatives undertaken in some of the major economies of the world to counteract its disastrous affects. Unlike other books on the global crisis, this guide deals with the housing sector in addition to the financial sector of individual economies. Countries in many parts of the world were players in either the financial bubble or the housing bubble, or both, but the degree of impact, outcome, and responses varied widely. This is an appropriate time to pull together the lessons from these various experiences. Reveals the housing crisis in the United States as the core of the meltdown Describes the evolution of housing markets and policies in the run-up to the crisis, their impacts, and the responses in European and Asian countries Compares experiences and linkages across countries and points to policy implications and research lessons drawn from these experiences Filled with the insights of well-known contributors with strong contacts in practice and academia, this timely guide discusses the history and evolution of the recent crisis as local to each contributor's part of the world, and examines its distinctive and common features with that of the U.S., the trajectory of its evolution, and the similarities and differences in policy response.

Author : Conor Dougherty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525560227

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Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty Pdf

A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.

Author : Liam Halligan
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785904820

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Home Truths by Liam Halligan Pdf

The UK's chronic housing shortage is lowering the quality of life for millions, turning the British dream of home ownership into a cruel nightmare – not least for 'generation rent'. Countless vulnerable families are meanwhile being deprived of access to decent social housing, causing homelessness to spiral. In this searing polemic, Liam Halligan offers radical solutions to the most urgent political issue of our times. Fully updated, with a foreword from former Chancellor Sajid Javid and drawing on extensive interviews with Cabinet ministers, civil servants, leading developers and struggling homebuyers across the country, Home Truths is a no-holds-barred critique of the UK's housing crisis.

Author : Duncan Bowie
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447328490

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Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis by Duncan Bowie Pdf

This book analyses the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviewing the development of policy under successive UK Governments and presenting a specific critique of the current Conservative Government’s housing and planning reforms.

Author : Colenutt, Bob
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781447340492

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The Property Lobby by Colenutt, Bob Pdf

In this accessible and passionately argued book, Bob Colenutt goes to the roots of the long-term crisis in housing and planning in the UK. Providing a much-needed, in-depth critique of the nexus of power of landowners, house builders, financial backers and politicians that makes up the property lobby, this radical book reveals how this complex, self-serving and intimidating network perpetuates a cycle of low supply, high prices and poor building which has resulted in one of the biggest social and economic challenges of our time. With radical ideas for solutions, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in housing, planning and social justice.