Finance for Housing
An Introduction
Distributed for Bristol University Press
- Contents
- Review Quotes

List of boxes, tables and reflections
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part One: Overview
1 Political choices and housing finance
2 The global financial crisis and the UK government’s role
Part Two: Tenure
3 Local authority general housing services and building work
4 Owner-occupation
5 The changing fortunes of council housing
6 Housing associations
7 The private rented sector
Part Three: Issues with housing costs
8 ‘Marginal’ owner-occupation
9 A variety of rents
10 Paying for housing with help from housing benefits
Part Four: Discussion
11 Is our housing system sustainable?
References
Index
“This timely book underlines why housing has moved from the periphery to the centre of social policy debates. I hope that it will be read by policy-makers and activists as well as students and academics.”
"The test of a civilised society is that everyone should have access to a decent home. In the post-war years a huge house building programme for local authorities was set up and this met a real need. Today we need a similar programme which would create jobs and help us to escape from the agony of austerity."
Political Science: Public Policy
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