Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781447328490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Duncan Bowie

Opis

This book analyzes the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviews the development of policy under the New Labour and Coalition Governments, and presents a specific critique of the current Conservative Government s housing and planning reforms. Demonstrating how successive governments have failed to achieve their objectives in this area, Duncan Bowie sets out a radical reform program based on an alternative set of policy priorities and delivery mechanisms. By focusing on the supply of sustainable, affordable housing, Bowie makes a timely argument for an integrated reform of policy on land, taxation, planning, and public investment."

Spis treści

Section 1: The context; Conservative government policy and the Housing and Planning Act 2016; Critiques of the current direction of government policy; The failure of governments since 1979 and the ideological continuities; Section 2: The crisis of housing supply; The housing deficit; Affordable by whom?; The wrong kind of homes; The ineffecient use of the existing stock; The failure of the English planning system; Section 3: There is an alternative; A radical programme for reform; Conclusion: The four key issues.