Government and Housing : Developments in Seven Countries

by Willem van Vliet

• ISBN13: 9780803936676
• ISBN10: 0803936672
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-07-01
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

The governmental role in housing provision varies significantly from one country to another, from one system to another, and has been in a process of change due to economic, political, and institutional determinants. The resulting actions, in particular, privatization and decentralization, have typically revolved around new roles of national government. Government and Housing addresses issues of housing policy for welfare states (Britain, Sweden, Israel) and capitalist countries more strongly oriented to private profit making (USA, Australia), as well as socialist nations (Hungary, Yugoslavia). This volume originated from the conference on Housing, Policy, and Urban Innovation (Amsterdam, 1988) under the auspices of the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International Sociological Association. International in scope with expert policy analysis, the contributors address such issues as: o decentralization and privatization of housing o deregulation of rental and public housing o developments in housing finance o current innovations in housing rehabilitation and redevelopment This important volume provides provocative insights and future research objectives for students and professionals in urban studies, development studies, policy studies, organizational studies, political science, and public administration. "A valuable resource for urban scholars....It will enlighten current work and spark further interest in housing policy. A good overview of the major issues....The editors have provided a useful collection of empirical studies and historical reviews." --Contemporary Sociology "van Vliet usefully provides a context of trends, and anaylses of those trends, as they have impacted on many industrialized countries." --Local Government Studies "Overall, this book provides interesting insight, especially into the issue of privatization. International comparative research can easily degenerate into superficiality, as the editors recognize: that this volume works well, for the most part, is a reflection of their efforts to provide coherence to what could otherwise have been a more obviously recycled set of conference papers. Sensibly priced. . .should be on the shelf of the specialist's personal library, and a supporting text for relevant courses." --Urban Geography

Table of Contents

The Decentralization and Privatization of Housing

PART ONE: THE DECENTRALIZATION OF HOUSING - Carolyn Teich Adams

Introduction - Marshall M A Feldman and Richard L Florida

Economic Restructuring and the Changing Role of the State in US Housing - Chris Paris

Local Government, the State and Housing Provision

Lessons from Australia - Lars Nord

National Housing Policy and Local Politics in Sweden

PART TWO: RENTAL HOUSING - Chester Hartman

Introduction - Mark Kleinman

The Future Provision of Social Housing in Britain - Richard P Appelbaum and Peter Dreier

Recent Developments in Rental Housing in the United States

PART THREE: PUBLIC HOUSING - Rachel G Bratt

Introduction - Hilary Silver

Privatization, Self-Help, and Public Housing Home Ownership in the United States - Elia Werczberger

The Privatization of Public Housing in Israel

PART FOUR: HOUSING FINANCE - Michael A Stegman

Introduction - Elizabeth A Roistacher

Housing Finance and Housing Policy in the United States; Legacies of the Reagan Era - Robert A Carter

Mortgage-Backed Securities, Inflation-Adjusted Mortgages and Real Rate Funding

Recent Initiatives in Housing Finance in Australia - Anthony D H Crook

Deregulation of Private Rented Housing in Britain

Investors' Responses to Government Housing Policy

PART FIVE: HOUSING REHABILITATION AND URBAN REDEVELOPMENT - John S Adams

Introduction - W Dennis Keating, Keith P Rasey and Norman Krumholz

Community Development Corporations in the United States

Their Role in Housing and Urban Redevelopment - David Chambers and Fred G Gray

Housing Rehabilitation in Contemporary Britain

The Evolving Role of the State

PART SIX: DEVELOPMENTS IN SOCIALIST ECONOMIES - Ivan Szelenyi

Introduction - J[ac]ozsef Heged[um]us and Ivan Tosics

Moving Away From the Socialist Housing Model; The Changing Role of Filtering in Hungarian Housing - Srna Mandic

Housing Provision in Yugoslavia

Changing Roles of the State, Market and Informal Sectors

CONCLUSION - Jan van Weesep

Directions in Housing Research