HAL PAWSON is Professorial Fellow at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.DAVID MULLINS is Professor of Housing Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• Modernizing Social HousingTracking Stock TransfersStock Transfer Motivations and ProcessesThe Politics of Stock TransferGovernance and Accountability ConsequencesOrganizational and Cultural Change in Stock Transfer LandlordsImpact on Housing Stock, Tenants and CommunitiesALMOs: Short Term Expedient or Long Term Alternative?Local Authorities and Housing After Stock Transfer.

'This detailed and comprehensive book ... traces the origins, evolution and impacts of [stock transfer], with particular attention to geographical differences, and policy divergence and convergence across the UK jurisdictions ... [A]n important and must-have publication for academics, policy makers, practitioners and students with an interest in stock transfer and social housing more generally' - Kim McKee, Housing Studies 'Written by leading experts in the field ... The book is scholarly, well informed by research ... [and] very clear and well-written ... [E]ssential reading for anyone wishing to understand the extent of change and the direction of travel for social housing [it also] raises an important and pertinent set of questions about the future of UK social housing' - Tony Manzi, Housing, Theory and Society 'After Council Housing is a really welcome addition to any housing studies library... essential reading' - Blair Badock, Urban Policy and Research '[T]his excellent book may well become a standard reference ... It is balanced and reaches reasonable conclusions based on evidence and considerable research experience' - Kenneth Gibb, Urban Studies '[I]nvaluable to housing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level ... an important contribution to contemporary housing scholarship.' Morag McDermont, Journal of Social Policy '...a comprehensive overview...' - Social Policy

HAL PAWSON is Professorial Fellow at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.DAVID MULLINS is Professor of Housing Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• Modernizing Social HousingTracking Stock TransfersStock Transfer Motivations and ProcessesThe Politics of Stock TransferGovernance and Accountability ConsequencesOrganizational and Cultural Change in Stock Transfer LandlordsImpact on Housing Stock, Tenants and CommunitiesALMOs: Short Term Expedient or Long Term Alternative?Local Authorities and Housing After Stock Transfer.

'This detailed and comprehensive book ... traces the origins, evolution and impacts of [stock transfer], with particular attention to geographical differences, and policy divergence and convergence across the UK jurisdictions ... [A]n important and must-have publication for academics, policy makers, practitioners and students with an interest in stock transfer and social housing more generally' - Kim McKee, Housing Studies 'Written by leading experts in the field ... The book is scholarly, well informed by research ... [and] very clear and well-written ... [E]ssential reading for anyone wishing to understand the extent of change and the direction of travel for social housing [it also] raises an important and pertinent set of questions about the future of UK social housing' - Tony Manzi, Housing, Theory and Society 'After Council Housing is a really welcome addition to any housing studies library... essential reading' - Blair Badock, Urban Policy and Research '[T]his excellent book may well become a standard reference ... It is balanced and reaches reasonable conclusions based on evidence and considerable research experience' - Kenneth Gibb, Urban Studies '[I]nvaluable to housing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level ... an important contribution to contemporary housing scholarship.' Morag McDermont, Journal of Social Policy '...a comprehensive overview...' - Social Policy

HAL PAWSON is Professorial Fellow at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.DAVID MULLINS is Professor of Housing Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• Modernizing Social HousingTracking Stock TransfersStock Transfer Motivations and ProcessesThe Politics of Stock TransferGovernance and Accountability ConsequencesOrganizational and Cultural Change in Stock Transfer LandlordsImpact on Housing Stock, Tenants and CommunitiesALMOs: Short Term Expedient or Long Term Alternative?Local Authorities and Housing After Stock Transfer.

'This detailed and comprehensive book ... traces the origins, evolution and impacts of [stock transfer], with particular attention to geographical differences, and policy divergence and convergence across the UK jurisdictions ... [A]n important and must-have publication for academics, policy makers, practitioners and students with an interest in stock transfer and social housing more generally' - Kim McKee, Housing Studies 'Written by leading experts in the field ... The book is scholarly, well informed by research ... [and] very clear and well-written ... [E]ssential reading for anyone wishing to understand the extent of change and the direction of travel for social housing [it also] raises an important and pertinent set of questions about the future of UK social housing' - Tony Manzi, Housing, Theory and Society 'After Council Housing is a really welcome addition to any housing studies library... essential reading' - Blair Badock, Urban Policy and Research '[T]his excellent book may well become a standard reference ... It is balanced and reaches reasonable conclusions based on evidence and considerable research experience' - Kenneth Gibb, Urban Studies '[I]nvaluable to housing students at undergraduate and postgraduate level ... an important contribution to contemporary housing scholarship.' Morag McDermont, Journal of Social Policy '...a comprehensive overview...' - Social Policy