Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim: Financial Globalization, Social Change, and the Housing Market

by Gary Dymski, Dorene Isenberg

Overview

This innovative book analyzes the changes that financial globalization is bringing about in the housing and home-finance markets of the United States, Japan, and South Korea, with special attention to the circumstances of women in obtaining housing, credit, and personal security. The book's focus on changes in the residential and housing finance markets serves as a window for an integrated examination of how the liberalization of national financial markets has affected the relationship among all players in each of the three economies - government, markets, and individual citizens. Through this examination Housing Finance Futures develops a new critical response to economic globalization based on a groundbreaking concept, the social efficiency of policy and market shifts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765606808
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2001
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gary Dymski, Dorene Isenberg

Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 1: United States: From Suburban Tract to Affordability Crisis; 2: Trading State-Led Prosperity for Market-Led Stagnation: From the Golden Age to Global Neoliberalism; 3: U.S. Housing Policy Transformation: The Challenge of the Market; 4: U.S. Housing as Capital Accumulation: The Transformation of American Housing Finance, Households, and Communities; 5: Women, Housing, and Housing Policy: Home, Job, and Credit in the United States; II: Japan: From Supply Shortage to Social Reproduction Crisis; 6: The Japanese Bubble: Domestic and International Aspects; 7: Housing Finance in Japanese Financial Instability; 8: Housing Provision and Marketization in 1980s and 1990s Japan: A New Stage of the Affordability Problem?; 9: Housing Finance and the Destabilization of Household Structure in Japan; III: South Korea: From Social Housing to Social Polarization; 10: The Peculiar Publicness of Housing in South Korea; 11: The Evolving Role of the Korean Government in Low-Income Housing; 12: Global Capitalism and the Transition in South Korean Housing Finance; 13: Women's Access to Housing in Korea; IV: Housing Crises and Housing Solutions; 14: Broadening Our Housing Options for a Changing and Diverse Population; 15: The Struggle to Struggle Together: The Case of Women, Labor, and Housing; 16: Housing-Centered Crises of Social Reproduction in the United States, Japan, and South Korea: Overview and Options