Housing Politics in the United Kingdom

Power, Planning and Protest

Lund, Brian

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781447327110
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Stadtplanung & Stadtentwicklung

With rapid population growth, a long-term dearth in new housing construction, the emergence of 'generation rent' and rising homelessness, the issue of housing in the UK is considered complex, open-ended and intractable. Using insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism Housing Politics in the United Kingdom locates the contemporary 'housing question' in historically entrenched power relationships involving markets, planning, and territorial electoral politics. Written to complement the 3rd edition of the author's bestselling Understanding housing policy (forthcoming, 2017), this book will be essential reading for students of Housing, Social Policy, Social History, Urban Studies, Planning and Political Science.

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Table of contents

• Coverpage
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• one: Housing and politics
• two: Land politics
• three: Urban renewal: fencing the cities
• four: Private landlords: ‘Rachmans’ or ‘residential property-owners’?
• five: A property-owning democracy?
• six: Eclipsing council housing
• seven: Bending the ‘Third Arm’: politicians and housing associations
• eight: Homelessness politics
• nine: Devolution: where is the difference?
• ten: Conclusion: power, planning and protest
• References