A new introductory text offering a broad-ranging survey of contrasting political and theoretical perspectives and addressing a number of key issues; homelessness, sub-standard housing, problem estates, tenant power, race and gender and community care. Illustrates text with a selection of original documents. *Introductory text with clear explanations. *Original documents are used to illustrate the text. *Provides both political and theoretical perspectives.

Housing Problems and Housing Policy (Longman Social Policy in Britain Series)

History

Lund, Brian

Europe

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Understanding State Welfare: Social Justice or Social Exclusion?

This accessible and original text combines a systematic examination of the theories of welfare with an historical account of the evolution of the welfare state and its impact in promoting social justice. It identifies the principles governing social distribution and examines the rationales for these different distributive principles. This book also links the theories of distribution to the actual development of social policy and considers their outcomes. State Welfare will be essential reading for students of social policy. It provides a clear understanding of both theories of welfare and the history of the development of the British welfare state.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

This accessible and original text combines a systematic examination of the theories of welfare with an historical account of the evolution of the welfare state and its impact in promoting social justice. It identifies the principles governing social distribution and examines the rationales for these different distributive principles. This book also links the theories of distribution to the actual development of social policy and considers their outcomes. State Welfare will be essential reading for students of social policy. It provides a clear understanding of both theories of welfare and the history of the development of the British welfare state.

Postcard Collecting: A Beginner's Guide

Reflections of a Bygone Age

Affordable housing in the United Kingdom has become an ever more potent issue in recent years, as rapid population growth and a long-term lag in new housing construction have combined to making finding secure, affordable housing difficult for a broad range of people. This book uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism, and social constructionism to lay bare the historically entrenched power relationships among markets, planners, and electoral politics that have made this problem seem so intractable.

Housing Politics in the United Kingdom: Power, Planning and Protest

Policy Press

Understanding Housing Policy (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice)

What are the major housing problems in contemporary Britain, and how effective are the policies designed to tackle them? Since the second edition of Understanding Housing Policy was published in 2011, political and financial circumstances have transformed the answers to these questions. In this fully updated third edition, Brian Lund both explores how these policies developed and were implemented under the UK Coalition Government and looks ahead to the possible revisions under the new Conservative Government. Integrating the previous edition with new discussions of such subjects as the austerity agenda following the credit crunch, the impact of the Coalition Government’s housing policies, and new policy ideas, Lund offers keen insight into the pervasive impact of need, demand, and supply as applied to the housing market and austerity policies.

What are the major housing problems in contemporary Britain? How effective are the policies designed to tackle these problems? These are the central questions this book sets out to answer, using a critical approach to identifying housing problems and the formation of policy.Understanding housing policy is an up-to-date text on a rapidly changing policy field written by an author with extensive experience in implementing housing policy. The second edition of this best-selling text has been completely revised and includes a new chapter on the political processes involved in the construction and delivery of housing policies. In addition, the new edition:•reviews theoretical perspectives helpful in understanding the normative dimensions of housing policy;•examines explanations of policy development and implementation processes;•explores the development of housing policy in the United Kingdom;•contains a chapter on comparative housing policy;•examines a number of contemporary housing problems: affordability; homelessness; low demand and neighbourhood deprivation; overcrowding; multi-occupation; 'decent' homes and 'sustainable' housing.•devotes a chapter to the relationship between housing and social justice;•includes an assessment of the impact of New Labour's housing policies and the policy orientation of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition.For more detailed information on this title, please go to the author's website http://housingpolicy.moonfruit.com

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Housing Problems and Housing Policy (Longman Social Policy in Britain Series)

Understanding State Welfare: Social Justice or Social Exclusion?

Understanding State Welfare: Social Justice or Social Exclusion?

Postcard Collecting: A Beginner's Guide

Housing Politics in the United Kingdom: Power, Planning and Protest

Housing Politics in the United Kingdom: Power, Planning and Protest

Understanding Housing Policy (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice)

Understanding Housing Policy (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice)

Understanding Housing Policy (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice)

Understanding Housing Policy (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice)