European Integration and Housing Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415170253 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str.

Mark Stephens; Walter Matznetter; Mark Kleinman

Opis

This volume features a series of debates which arise from individual countries' differing housing needs within the confines of European integration. Key issues are addressed in four principal sections. First, the consequences of European integration for different housing markets is examined. Charting the progress made towards the integration of housing finance markets and the development of a Europe-wide construction industry, explanations for the differing levels of housing investment are sought and the problems that arise from housing market volatility. Secondly, a series of policies are examined, including the impact that the Maastricht Treaty. Thirdly, the social consequences of European integration are examined assessing income, distribution, homelessness and marginal housing estates. The final section provides descriptive accounts of housing in the Nordic countries and in Eastern Europe. By exploring member state disparities between demand and supply of both subsidies and housing provision, the authors demonstrate that progress towards European integration in housing systems and poliicies is a complex yet crucial issue.

Recenzje

'This is an excellent contribution to the knowledge of housing in Europe and its likely evolution in the near future. It has many strengths and will be an important source for researchers interested in comparative housing studies. And I do think that the 15 chapters are a great contribution in answering the two main research questions considered by the editors. It is a book to be recommended to both academics and practitioners concerned with housing policy and practice in Europe.' - Tesq Vol 91, 2000

'Valuable not only as a 'book about Europe', but as an aid to placing national examples into a wider cross-national and EU-wide setting.' - Housing Studies

Spis treści

1: Introduction; 1: Markets; 2: Are Housing Finance Systems Converging Within the European Union?; 3: Housing Investment in Europe; 4: Uncertainty in European Housing Markets; 5: The Impact of European Integration on the Construction Industry; 2: Policies; 6: Fiscal Restraint and Housing Policies Under Economic and Monetary Union; 7: Planning, Housing and the European Union; 8: The Control and Promotion of Quality in New Housing Design; 3: Outcomes; 9: Housing, Tenure and International Comparisons of Income Distribution; 10: Paying for Owner-Occupied Housing; 11: Homelessness in the European Union; 12: Marginal Housing Estates in Europe; 13: Western European Housing Policies; 4: Diversity in the European Union; 14: The Nordic Countries; 15: European Integration and the East-Central European ‘Outsiders' 1

O autorze

Mark Kleinman is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Walter Matznetter is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Vienna and Mark Stephens is Lecturer at the Centre for Housing Research and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow