Housing Needs and Policy Approaches

by Van Vliet, Willem; Huttman, Elizabeth; Fava, Sylvia

• ISBN13: 9780822305873
• ISBN10: 0822305879
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Drawing upon research from six continents,Housing Needs and Policy Approachesanalyzes the social problems involved with providing housing in the industrialized nations and in the Third World. The book focuses on four areas of concern: current trends in housing in specific Western countries, the role of Western governments in creating this housing, housing provisions in less developed nations, and the relationship of societal structure and housing, particularly with respect to the decentralization of population occurring in many regions.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: An Overview	p. 1
Housing Needs: Implications of Household Composition	p. 17
The Effects of Household Formation on Housing Needs in Britain	p. 23
United States Rental Housing Practices Affecting Families with Children: Hard Times for Youth	p. 41
Housing the Extended Family in Sweden	p. 59
Residential Fit and Mobility among Low-Income, Female-Headed Family Households in the United States	p. 71
The Provision of Housing: The Role of the State	p. 89
Introduction	p. 90
Restructuring the Welfare State: Privatization of Public Housing in Britain	p. 97
State Intervention in Urban Housing Markets: Melbourne, 1945-80	p. 110
State Intervention and Alternative Tenure Patterns in Montreal	p. 128
Housing Young People in Israel: Public Policy and Private Preferences	p. 142
The Users' Perspective on Government Housing	p. 157
Policy Approaches to Social Housing Problems in Northern and Western Europe	p. 179
The: Provision of Housing: Self-Help Arrangements in Less-Industrialized Countries	p. 199
Introduction	p. 201
The Rise of Squatter Settlements: Roots, Responses, and Current Solutions Padmini Gulati	p. 206
Popular Housing in Brazil: A Review Licia Valladares	p. 222
Integrated Kampung Improvement Programs and Mutual Aid in Indonesia	p. 236
Housing the Poor in a Planned City: The Chandigarh Experience Ranvinder Singh Sandhu	p. 248
The Squatters' Perspective of Housing: An Egyptian View	p. 256
The Housing Environment: Societal Organization and Spatial Structure	p. 271
Segregation Trends in the Netherlands	p. 276
Societal Factors Shaping the Internal Structure of Finnish Cities	p. 291
Dutch Inner-City Housing in the Context of Revitalization Policies	p. 305
Egalitarian Possibilities in Housing: Norwegian Housing Policy Cedric Pugh	p. 314
References	p. 339
Index of Terms	p. 361
Index of Places	p. 364
Index	p. 367
Contributors	p. 373
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