Housing Markets and Policies Under Fiscal Austerity

WILLEM VAN VLIET is Associate Professor of Urban and Community Studies at Pennsylvania State University and currently is a visiting professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

• Preface Introduction by Willem van Vliet-- Housing in an Age of Austerity by Michael Harloe Part I: The Privatization of Housing Fiscal Reorientation, Centralization, and the Privatization of Council Housing by Ray Forrest and Alan Murie. The Privatization of Housing Renewal: Dilemmas and Contradictions in British Urban Policy by Tim Brindley and Gerry Stoker Part II: National Perspectives Housing Subsidies in a Period of Restraint: The Canadian Experience by J.David Hulchanski and Glenn Drover Housing Policy in the United Kingdom: Efficient or Equitable? by Duncan Maclennan and Anthony J.O'Sullivan Part III: Comparative Studies The Rise of Competitive Mortgage Markets in the United States and Britan by Elizabeth A.Roistacher Housing Provision and House Building in Western Europe: Increasing Expenditure, Declining Output? by Peter Ambrose and James Barlow Part IV: Developments in Housing Tenure Fiscal Austerity and the Expansion of Home Ownership in the United Kingdom by Michael C.Fleming and Joseph G.Nellis Shared Housing as a Policy Alternative: The Australian Case by Patricia Klobus Edwards, Judith A.Jones, John M. Edwards Part V: Housing Subsidies The Aims and Effects of Housing Allowances in Western Europe by Michael J.Oxley The Impact of High Rent-Income Ratios on Other Consumer Expenditures by Sherman Hanna and Suzanne Lindamood Part VI: State Politics and Housing Scarce State Resources and Unrestrained Processes in the Socialist City: The Case of Housing by Bronislaw Misztal and Barbara A.Misztal Conservative Government Housing Policy in Britain, 1979-85: Economics or Ideology by Chris Hamnett Part VII: Politics and Professional Expertise The Changing Pattern of Professional Influence on Local Housing Policy by Barrie Houlihan Politicians and Statisticians in Conflict: The 1980 United State Census by Harvey M.Choldin Bibliography Index