Housing policy transformed The right to buy and the desire to own
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2010
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781847422132
Publisert
2010-01-07
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Policy Press
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240 mm
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172 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Peter King is Reader in Social Thought at the Centre for Comparative Housing Research, De Montfort University. His work has focused on the application of philosophical and theoretical models to housing issues and he has written widely on issues such as need, choice, rights, housing subsidies and the nature of home.<p>"...invigorates the reader and provides a fresh challenge to many of the assumptions</p><p>
around the RTB." Rebecca Edwards in International Planning Studies</p>
The Right to Buy is the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, but it is also the most successful. Unlike the many studies that have focused on the costs of the policy and sought to show its negative impact, this book seeks to understand the Right to Buy on its own terms. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us - instead of a policy that sought to do things for people, the Right to Buy allowed people to do things for themselves.
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This book seeks to understand the Right to Buy, the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, on its own terms, rather than most studies which focus on its negative impact. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us.
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Contents: Introduction; Owning things; What Mrs Thatcher did; What happened next; What is wrong with it?; What does it tell us?; Conclusions
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781847422132
Publisert
2010-01-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Policy Press
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
172 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
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