Housing policy transformed - The right to buy and the desire to own (Hardcover)

In an ideal world, shouldn't everyone have the security of owning their own home? Doesn't owning one's home improve housing stock, financial security, and civil society? If all this is true, why, in Britain, is the "Right to Buy" the Conservatives' effort to bring the opportunity of homeownership to a large number of people living in social housing such a contentious and vilified policy? Housing Policy Transformed is the first book in ten years which covers the ideological and conceptual issues around owner occupation and the continuance of the Right to Buy in Britain's post-Thatcher era. The book explores Britain's social, economic, and cultural peculiarities that led to the Right to Buy policy, and how it has managed to survive for 30 years. It looks at why there has been such a harsh critique of the Right to Buy policy from the Left and the negative effects that the Right to Buy policy (combined with Britain's Housing Benefit and the Homelessness Act) have had on social housin

General

Imprint:	Policy Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Peter King
Dimensions:	240 x 172 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-1-84742-213-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84742-213-6
Barcode:	9781847422132

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