Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138388437 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Keith Jacobs

Opis

This book considers the most significant housing issues facing the West, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways housing accentuates social and economic inequality; and how suburban housing has transformed city life.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The enactment of housing policy: the example of the United States Chapter 3: A dream that turned into a nightmare? Homeownership policies and their implications Chapter 4: The demise of public housing? Chapter 5: Homelessness Chapter 6: Housing and the city Chapter 7: Waking up from the dream? The example of suburban development Chapter 8: Housing futures Chapter 9: Conclusion

O autorze

Keith Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published widely on housing and urban policy issues and is the author of The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy (1999), Social Constructionism in Housing Research (2004) edited with Jim Kemeny and Tony Manzi, Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia (2011), Between the Outback and the Sea: Cosmopolitanism and Anti Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia (2011) edited with Jeff Malpas, and House Home and Society (2016) with Rowland Atkinson and Towards a Philosophy of the City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives (2019) edited with Jeff Malpas.