Homeownership, Renting and Society: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367877002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Sebastian Kohl

Opis

Using historical case studies on Germany and the USA, the book identifies three institutional domains on the supply-side of the housing market – urban land, housing finance and construction – that set countries on different housing trajectories and subsequently established differences that were hard to reverse in later periods.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

List of figures and tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: The historical origins and persistency of suburbanized versus compact cities

1.1 How Germany became a country of multi-unit buildings

1.2 How the US became urbanized in single-family-house cities

Chapter 2: Historical differences in housing finance

2.1 Germany: mortgage bank regime with non-profit associations

2.2 United States: Deposit-banking regime

Chapter 3: Fordist mass production and the Handwerk tradition of single-family houses

3.1 The German Handwerk production of single-family houses

3.2 Mass-produced single-family houses in the United States

Chapter 4: The broader picture of OECD countries: generalization of findings, horizontal ownership and homeownership ideology

4.1 Exploring the generalizability: from two cases to OECD countries

4.2 Differences in the legal tradition of horizontal ownership

4.3 The origins and country-differences of the homeownership idea

Conclusion

Appendix

References

　

O autorze

Sebastian Kohl is a researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.