Housing Crisis

This book offers a unique insight into the long history of the housing crisis, focusing on the development of the politics of the property-owing democracy, the growth of housing finance, the history of property crashes, and the rise and fall of a different vision of housing policy, which enabled far more people to realize their right to housing.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Property
Chapter 2: Housing the People
Chapter 3: Boom and Bust: The Growth of Housing Finance
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Rebecca Searle is Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Brighton, UK. She established the University of Brighton Housing Forum to bring together academics, community organisations and policy makers to collectively develop solutions to the housing crisis in Brighton.

Summary

This book explores the history of the politics of housing to provide a critical understanding of the contemporary housing crisis and inspire struggles for decent, affordable and secure homes today.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Searle, Searle Rebecca
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786616241
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-624-1
• Series: Polemics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Urban & municipal planning, Modern philosophy: since c 1800