Where the Other Half Lives - Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Glynn is a social and political geographer working at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in housing, social exclusion and multiculturalism and the editor of Where the Other Half Lives (Pluto, 2009). Klappentext Housing has become a hot topic. The media is filled with stories of individual housing hardship and of major property-related financial crises: of criling personal debts, rundown social housing, homelessness, mass demolitions, spiralling prices, unaffordability and the 'credit crunch'. This book links all these together through a radical analysis that puts housing at the heart of critical economic and political debate. The author shows that these problems arise from the fact that houses are no longer seen primarily as homes for living in, but rather as a source of profit. Case studies from the UK, the US and other western countries are set into a theoretical and historical overview of how housing has changed over several decades. The book also examines campaigns for better housing and explores possibilities for a different aroach to this most fundamental of human needs. Home is where the profit is

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Glynn
• Assisted by: Sarah Glynn (Editor), Glynn Sarah (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2009
• EAN: 9780745328584
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2858-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, Property & real estate, Welfare economics, Property and real estate