Meeting the Housing Challenge: British Experience, European Lessons

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Volume 41 – Number 2

143 pages

Summary

The papers in this issue indicate that there are things that could be done to help solve some of the seemingly intractable problems that face the British housing system, but that current trends and policies are as likely to be moving in the wrong direction as in the right one.

Guest Editor: Martin Crookston

03 Aug 2015

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Contents

• Meeting the Housing Challenge: British Experience, European Lessons
  Martin Crookston
• Pushing on String: Demand and Supply
  Glen Bramley
• Why Don’t We Build Enough New Homes in England
  Pete Jefferys and Toby Lloyd
• Germany, Country of Tenants
  Florian Urban
• Playing Happy Families? Private Renting for Middle-Income Households with Children in London, Berlin and New York
  Kath Scanlon
• Meeting the British Housing Challenge: Dutch Experiences and Reflections
  Frank Wassenberg
• Asset Price Keynesianism, Regional Imbalances and the Irish and Spanish Housing Booms and Busts
  Michelle Norris and Michael Byrne
• From Social Housing to Subsidized Housing? Accommodating Low-Income Households in Europe
  Christine M.E. Whitehead
• The Rise and Fall of the Private Rented Sector in England
  David Rhodes
• Exploring the Impact of the Recession on British Volume Housebuilders: A Behavioural Analysis
  Sarah Payne
• The Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Programme – A Drop of Keynes in a Neo-Liberal Ocean?
  Ian Cole
• Scandinavian Housing Design Since the Mid 1990s: Selected Lessons from Practice
  Richard Simmons and Karin Krokfors
• The Future of City Living: How a Post-Industrial Area could become a Sustainable Neighbourhood for the Long Term
  Rachael Unsworth

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