Housing
We have a strong reputation for publishing in this area, demonstrated by our varied and solid backlist. Headed up by Brian Lund’s successful undergraduate textbook, Understanding housing policy (part of our Understanding Welfare series) now in its 3rd edition, our list reflects the dramatic shifts in housing and planning policies which have taken place over the last few decades and which are set to change significantly again in the current economic climate.
Home ownership in a risk society
A social analysis of mortgage arrears and possessions
The emergence of high levels of unsustainable home ownership has many consequences for social and public policy. Using a wide range of methodological strategies, including in-depth qualitative interviews, this book paints a rich empirical picture of the causes, socio-economic distribution and social consequences of mortgage arrears and possessions.
Two steps forward
Housing policy into the new millennium
This book makes a distinctive contribution to the debate on housing policy. Bringing together leading scholars from the fields of housing law and housing policy, it engages with the central concerns of policy and demonstrates that the parallel debates of housing studies and socio-legal studies can be strengthened by a fuller exchange of ideas.
Housing, social policy and difference
Disability, ethnicity, gender and housing
This book provides an overview of key social issues set in the context of housing. From minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated and deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective applicable to other aspects of welfare.
Managing public services innovation
The experience of English housing associations
Managing public services innovation provides an in-depth exploration of innovation and its management in the housing association sector. Drawing on longitudinal case studies and data sets, it explores techniques to develop evidence-based policy in the housing association sector, and makes recommendations for best practice.
Shelter is not enough
Transforming multi-storey housing
Estates of multi-storey housing present some of the most intractable problems for urban policy. Shelter is not enough is an up-to-date evaluation of the issues. Drawing on an analysis of past practice, a 'model framework' is defined which can help to create successful approaches for the regeneration of multi-storey housing.
Detroit and new urban repertoires
Imagining the co-operative city
Using Detroit as a case study, this important book argues that cycles of neoliberal policy-led expansion and contraction created hollow shells of once vibrant industrial centres, and explores the potential for large scale cooperative networks to promote urban regeneration and sustain local economies
