Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781786990549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 462 str.

Deborah Potts

Opis

Uncovers the origins of thehousing crisis across the global North and South, outlining the socialchallenges brought into the 21st century and the radical solutions needed to resolveit.

Spis treści

Foreword 1. The Dilemma of Affordable Housing and Big Cities 2. Mismatches between Incomes and Housing Costs: A Global Condition 3. Affordable Urban Housing and the Role of Basic Standards 4. Private Sector Urban Housing Provision: Formal And Informal 5. Squaring the Circle: Social Housing Programmes and Affordable Rents 6. Squaring the Circle: Affordable Urban Homeownership 7. Global Finance, Big Cities and Unaffordable Housing 8. Broken Cities: Unaffordable Housing as the Norm? 9. Broken Cities, Broken Households: The Demographic Impacts of Unaffordable Housing Conclusion Appendix