Selling the Welfare State: The Privatisation of Public Housing
ISBN: 9781315822594
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Urban Studies; Economics Finance and Accounting; Urban Policy; Political Economy;

Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis in the book, however, is on the ways in which privatisation in housing links to other key changes in British society. The long trend for British social housing to become a welfare housing sector is related to evidence of growing social polarisation and segregation. Within this overall context, the book explores the uneven spatial and social consequences of the policy.


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