Building Communities (Routledge Revivals): The Co-operative Way - Softcover

Birchall, Johnston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138016632 ISBN 13: 9781138016637

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theoretical and historical framework that suggests that tenant control is the best way out of the still-problematic issue of housing policy.

Before the First World War, co-operative housing was poised to become a potent force in government policy, but instead municipal housing rose to prominence. However, alongside a growing crisis of confidence in state housing and a continued decline in the private rented sector, a new political consensus has emerged that has placed co-ops firmly at the top of the agenda.

Setting out the argument for collective dweller-control of housing, Birchall demonstrates that the arguments for co-operatives are strong, based on a broad spectrum of political thought. He charts the early and recent history of co-operative housing, and shows how they provide a flexible and stable means of meeting housing needs.

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Johnston Birchall

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138016632
• ISBN 13: 9781138016637
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238