Understanding housing policy (third edition) (Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice) - Softcover

Lund, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447330447 ISBN 13: 9781447330448

Publisher: Policy Press, 2017

Synopsis

Focusing on principles and theory and their application in the process of constructing housing policy, with boxed examples and case studies throughout, this fully revised 3rd edition addresses the range of socio-economic factors that have influenced UK housing policy in recent years. These include the austerity agenda, the Coalition government's housing policies, the 2015 Conservative government's policy direction, the evolving devolution agenda and housing supply.

About this title

Review:

An excellent historical and theoretical review of housing policy: thoughtful, well informed, critical, and up to date. --Chris Paris, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, on previous edition

An excellent update that puts current housing policy into an historical context. This will be very helpful to my students. --Alan Winter, London South Bank University

About the Author:

Brian Lund is Visiting Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has served as Housing Committee Chair of a large metropolitan housing authority and was an Open University Tutor for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of Housing Politics in the United Kingdom: power, protest and politics (Policy Press, 2016).

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1447330447
• ISBN 13: 9781447330448
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 368