The people's home? : social rented housing in Europe & America

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The people's home? : social rented housing in Europe & America

Michael Harloe

(Studies in urban and social change)

Blackwell, 1995

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [551]-578

Includes index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780631181828

Description

"The People's Home?" is an examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA. Exploring the relationship between broader societal changes (principally economic and political) and the changing nature of social housing provision over this period, Michael Harloe breaks new trails in the analysis of housing policy. The author identifies two dominant forms of social housing provision: "residual" and "mass". The former, he shows, predominates in periods of economic and political times of stability, while the latter becomes dominant in times of societal crisis of restructuring. The book ends by discussing the implications of this analysis for recent theories of welfare state development, or regimes of "welfare capitalism", and for the nature of state housing policies in such societies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Social housing and welfare capitalism. 1. Social housing and the `Social Question': housing reform before 1914. 2. The temporary solution: social housing after the Great War. 3. Social housing in the Depression. 4. The golden age: social housing in an era of reconstruction and growth. 5. Residualism revived: social housing in the contemporary era. 6. Social housing and theories of social policy.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631186427

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The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.

Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism. 1. Social Housing and the `Social Question': Housing Reform before 1914. 2. The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great War. 3. Social Housing in the Depression. 4. The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction and Growth. 5. Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary Era. 6. Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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