Listing 1 - 10 of 185 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
In The Right to Buy, Alan Murie provides an authoritative account of the origins, development and impact of the policy across the UK and proposals for its extension in England (and decisions to end it in Scotland and Wales).
Choose an application
La reforma de la Ley del Suelo de 1980 y el Texto Refundido de 1992 introducen la técnica de la reserva de suelo como mecanismo de apoyo a la vivienda protegida.En principio,se trata de una solución asociada la configuración de la vivienda protegida como tipología de uso que permite calificar terrenos con este destino La segregación de una parte del suelo para destinarlo a viviendas protegidas en cierta forma significaba entronizar directamente desde el mismo planeamiento urbanístico, operaciones de vivienda, como lo habían sido históricamente las ciudades satélites de casas baratas, los poblados dirigidos, y los Polígonos Residenciales del INV, que se han examinado La obra, pretende analizar cómo la norma urbanística de aplicación, busca garantizar un mínimo del uso residencial generado en cada programa de desarrollo urbanístico destinado a viviendas de protección pública. Por ello, no se trata ya, al menos únicamente, de una medida de calificación directa de la vivienda o del bien, sino una garantía abstracta dirigida a reequilibrar un descompensado mercado de la vivienda en relación con los países de nuestro entorno.
Choose an application
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focusing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions with state apparatus specifically located within the urban space. The book adopts a praxeological approach to law that describes how inhabi
Choose an application
The 3rd edition of this bestselling textbook has been completely revised to address the range of socio-economic factors that have influenced UK housing policy in the years since the previous edition was published. The issues explored include the austerity agenda, the impact of the Coalition government’s housing policies, the 2015 Conservative government’s policy direction, the evolving devolution agenda and the recent focus on housing supply. The concluding chapter examines new policy ideas in the context of theoretical approaches to understanding housing policy: laissez-faire economics; social reformism; Marxist political economy; behavioural perspectives and social constructionism. Throughout the textbook, substantive themes are illustrated by boxed examples and case studies. The author focuses on principles and theory and their application in the process of constructing housing policy, ensuring that the book will be a vital resource for undergraduate and postgraduate level students of housing and planning and related social policy modules.
Choose an application
Choose an application
Choose an application
The provision and management of social housing for those who are unable to access the housing market is essential to the maintenance of the fabric of society. The social housing industry is vast and still growing. There are very few countries in the world where some form of subsidised housing does not exist, and the total number of social homes is likely to grow worldwide, as are the challenges of the sector.Paul Reeves takes a people-centred approach to the subject, describing the themes that have run through provision of social housing from the first philanthr
Choose an application
As housing moves up the UK political agenda, Brian Lund uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism to explore the political processes involved in constructing and implementing housing policy and its political consequences.
Choose an application
This book contains the description and evaluation of a profound housing system reform constituting part of the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy in the Czech Republic. It addresses two goals: to evaluate housing subsidies (reforms) by application of improved methods of welfare economics and, secondly, to list the main factors explaining the particular outcomes of selected reforms. The author applied methods of welfare economics for an evaluation of housing subsidies in a scale unique in housing studies. The analysis of underlying factors influencing formation of housing reforms brought new findings about the essence of transition in post-socialist countries.
Choose an application
Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of the most enigmatic social, political, and economic systems of the modern world. While Japan demonstrates many of the characteristics of some western housing and social systems, including mass homeownership and consumption-based lifestyles, extensive economic growth and rapid urban modernization has been achieved in balance with traditional social values and the maintenance of the family system. Helpfully divided into three sections, Housing and Social Transition in Japan: explores the dynamics of the development of the housing system in post-war Japan deals with social issues related to housing in terms of social aging, family relations, gender and inequality addresses the Japanese housing system and social change in relation to comparative and theoretical frameworks. As well as providing challenges and insights for the academic community at large, this book also provides a good introduction to the study of Japan and its housing, economic, social and welfare system generally.
Listing 1 - 10 of 185 | << page >> |
Sort by
|