European Integration and Housing Policy

This book presents a series of debates arising from the housing needs of different EU countries. The authors address key issues by examining in turn:
* the consequences of European integration for different housing markets * the impact of the Maastricht Treaty and other policy documents * the social consequences of integration including income distribution, homelessness and marginal housing estates
* current housing policy in the Nordic countries and in Eastern Europe.

List of contents

1: Introduction; 1: Markets; 2: Are Housing Finance Systems Converging Within the European Union?; 3: Housing Investment in Europe; 4: Uncertainty in European Housing Markets; 5: The Impact of European Integration on the Construction Industry; 2: Policies; 6: Fiscal Restraint and Housing Policies Under Economic and Monetary Union; 7: Planning, Housing and the European Union; 8: The Control and Promotion of Quality in New Housing Design; 3: Outcomes; 9: Housing, Tenure and International Comparisons of Income Distribution; 10: Paying for Owner-Occupied Housing; 11: Homelessness in the European Union; 12: Marginal Housing Estates in Europe; 13: Western European Housing Policies; 4: Diversity in the European Union; 14: The Nordic Countries; 15: European Integration and the East-Central European ‘Outsiders' 1

About the author

Mark Kleinman is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Walter Matznetter is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Vienna and Mark Stephens is Lecturer at the Centre for Housing Research and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow

Summary

This book explores member state disparities between demand and supply of subsidies and housing provision within the confines of European integration, demonstrating the complex nature of the issue.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mark Kleinman (Editor), Kleinman Mark (Editor), Walter Matznetter (Editor), Mark Stephens (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.1998
• EAN: 9780415170253
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17025-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 750 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Regional & area planning, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Regional and area planning, Civil engineering, surveying and building