Property Lobby

Bob Colenutt is an activist and commentator on housing and planning and a part-time Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

• Acknowledgements;Preface;Introduction – The Finance-Housebuilding complex;The Housing Shortage;The Housebuilding Business;Financing Housing Investment;The Property Lobby;Property Lobby Case Studies;The 2008 Crash Continues;Housebuilding and Affordable Housing;Social and Affordable housing sectors;Local Case Studies;Unblocking the Impasse;References;Bibliography;Index.

“The housing crisis stems from a new and unholy alliance of financial, developer and land-owning interests which this timely book uncovers and promises to fix as a central part of fixing the economy and society.” Michael Edwards, University College London