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9780631186427

The People's Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe and America

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    9780631186427

  • ISBN10:

    0631186425

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-02-17
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.

Author Biography

Michael Harloe is Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. He is founder Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, published by Blackwell. Of his many books the most recent is Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World (Blackwell, 1992), co-edited with Susan Fainstein and Ian Gordon.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism
Social Housing and the 'social Question': Housing Reform before 1914
The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great War
Social Housing in the Depression
The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction and Growth
Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary Era
Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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