Housing Law and Policy

DAVID COWAN is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. He has written many titles including: Homelessness: The (In-)Appropriate Applicant (Dartmouth, 1997) together with numerous articles on housing issues.

• Some Assumptions of Housing Lawyers: A Critique.- PART ONE: HOUSING AND REGULATORY FAILURE.- Regulatory Failure in the Private Rented Sector.- Regulating Home Ownership: Building Societies and the Housebuilding Industry.- Regulating the 'Voluntary Housing Movement': The Effect of Private Finance on 'Social' Housing.- Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government.- 'In Search of Voice': Putting the 'Social' Back into 'Social' Housing.- PART TWO: ACCESS TO HOUSING: NEED, AFFORDABILITY AND TENURE NEUTRALITY.- Homelessness.- Housing Need: The Case of Local Authority Waiting Lists.- RSLs and Housing Need.- Importing Housing Need? Asylum-seekers and 'Other Persons from Abroad'.- Access to the Private Rented Sector: Controlling Deregulation.- 'This is Mine! This is Private! This is Where I Belong!': Access to Home Ownership.- PART THREE: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: FROM DUE PROCESS TO CRIME CONTROL.- Conflicts and Manifest Absurdities: Security of Tenure.- Repairs and Unfitness: In Search of Reform.- Unlawful Eviction and Harassment.- Domestic Violence and the Regulation of Occupation Rights.- Recovery of Arrears: Cross-tenurial Comparisons.- Housing and Crime Control.