Housing Policy and Economic Power: The Political Economy of Owner Occupation

by Professor Michael Ball, Michael Ball

Overview

Published in 2002, Housing Policy and Economic Power is a valuable contribution to the field of Human Geography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780416352801
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/20/1983
Series:	Up Series
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

Professor Michael Ball, Michael Ball

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations, List of tables, List of figure, Preface, Housing problems and owner occupation, 2 The origins of mass home ownership, 3 The modern speculative housebuilding industry, 4 Building for the new housing market, 5 Housing development and land dealing, 6 The housing production process and the crisis of production, 7 Land-use planning and speculative housebuilding, 8 The demise of planning control, 9 Owner occupiers: a social category and its consequences, 10 Building societies and the changing mortgage market, 11 The unstable housing market, 12 The political economy of owner occupation, 13 Towards new forms of housing provision, Appendix: The survey of housebuilding firms and planning authorities: research method, Notes, References, Index