Housing Disadvantaged People? : Insiders and Outsiders in French Social Housing

ISBN-13: 9780415554442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 360 str.

Jane Ball

Opis

Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. This book explores the French 'right to housing' which offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation, and even offers legal action against the State to obtain a social home.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Social Landlords and Insider Outsider Theory  2. Exploring the Function of Social Housing  3. The Historical Context: from Revolution to Rights  4. The Right to Housing in Context  5.Complex Institutions in the Grip of Change  6. Social Landlords and their Financing Problems  7. The Social Housing Allocation Process  8. Insiderness and Local Actors  9. Stigmatization and Outsiders  10. Housing Some of the Disadvantaged  Appendix 1: Methodological Detail  Appendix 2: Allocation Principles

O autorze

Jane Ball is a senior lecturer at Newcastle University where she teaches several law courses concerning the organization of people on land. After 14 years in English legal practice she spent another 14 years researching the French housing scene, using an applied mix of public and private law, economic theory and empirical study.