Broken Cities - Inside the Global Housing Crisis

From Britain''s ''Generation Rent'' to Hong Kong''s notorious ''cage homes'', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. The social consequences have been profound, with a lack of affordable housing resulting in overcrowding, homelessness, broken families and, in many countries, a sharp decline in fertility.In , Deborah Potts offers a provocative new perspective on the global housing crisis arguing that the problem lies mainly with demand rather than supply. Potts shows how market-set rates of pay and incomes for vast numbers of households in the world''s largest cities in the global South and North are simply too low to rent or buy any housing that is legal, planned and decent. As the influence of free market economics has increased, the situation has worsened. Potts argues that the crisis needs radical solutions.With the world becoming increasingly urbanized, this book provides a timely and urgent account of one of the most pressing social challenges of the 21st century. Exploring the effects of the housing crisis across the global North and South, Broken Cities is a warning of the greater crises to come if these issues are not addressed.>

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Potts, Potts Deborah
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781786990549
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-054-9
• No. of pages: 462
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 216 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Stadtplanung, World, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Bevölkerung und Demographie, Sociology, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Politik und Staat, Humangeographie, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Zuwanderung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Africa, Soziologie / Bevölkerung, Siedlung, Stadt, Wanderung (soziologisch), Migration (soziologisch), Humangeografie, Geografie / Anthropogeografie, Anthropogeografie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, For higher / tertiary / university education, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents