Beyond Home Ownership : Housing, Welfare and Society

ISBN-13: 9780415585552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str.

Richard Ronald; Marja Elsinga

Opis

In the context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction  1. Beyond Home Ownership  Part 1: Demographic Change, Housing Wealth and Welfare  2. Housing and Demographic Change  3.The Housing Pillar of the Mediterranean Welfare Regime: Family, State and Market in the Social Production of Home Ownership in Italy  4. Home Ownership in Post-Socialist Countries: Between Macro Economy and Micro Structures of Welfare Provision  Part 2: Government, Markets and Policies  5. Home Ownership and Nordic Housing Policies in ‘Retrenchment’  6. Owner-Occupation in an Increasingly Uncertain World: The English Experience  7. Home Ownership as Public Policy in the USA  8. Home Ownership Risk and Responsibility Before and After the U.S. Mortgage Crisis  Part 3: Housing Ladders and Fading Dreams 9. The Shifting Housing Opportunities of Younger People in Japan’s Home-Owning Society  10. Home Ownership - Continuing or Fading Dream?