Understanding Housing Finance : Meeting Needs and Making Choices

ISBN-13: 9780415432948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 192 str.

Peter King

Opis

'Understanding Housing Finance' is an accessible and up-to-date introduction for those beginning their studies and will be a useful reference for more advanced students. It includes clear learning objectives and summaries in each chapter.

Among the biggest challenges for students of Housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin their practice. Peter King's Understanding Housing Finance is geared towards making the basic principles of housing finance accessible, without requiring detailed prior knowledge of economics and financial systems. Housing systems are complex and depend on a complex set of variables; and finance must be understood fully within the context of broader debates in housing and planning policy if it is to make complete sense. Increasingly, links between public and private finance are critical to making the finances work, and the book explains clearly how public-private partnerships of various kinds work, within an already complex financial set-up.

In the second edition, there will be a greater emphasis on the role of housing markets, together with concepts such as need and choice, which are central to current debates in social and public policy. Moving on from the social housing context, the new edition will feature much more about how markets work and the effects of government action in all tenures. While other Housing texts are deeply rooted in a specific country's systems, this text will appeal to international readers as well as UK based ones.

Spis treści

1. Understanding Housing Finance 2. Need, Choice and Responsibility 3.The Importance of Markets 4. Government Action 5. Influencing Markets 6. Controlling Housing 7. Complexity and Choice

O autorze

Peter King is Reader in Social Thought in the Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of Private Dwelling (Routledge, 2004)