Government and housing: developments in seven countries / by Willem Van E Vliet

By:

Vliet, Willem van

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Urban affairs annual reviewsPublication details: Sage, 1990. New Delhi:Description: 293 pISBN:

9780803936676

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DDC classification:

363.58 GOV

Contents:

1.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; -- Part I The Privatization and Decentralization of Housing; -- 2.The Decentralization of Housing -- 3.Economic Restructuring and the Changing Role of the State in U.S. Housing -- 4.Local Government, the State, and Housing Provision: Lessons from Australia-- 5.National Housing Policy and Local Politics in Sweden-- 6.Rental Housing -- 7.The Future Provision of Social Housing in Britain -- Recent Developments in Rental Housing in the United States; Part III -- Public Housing. Chapter 7 -- 8.Privatization, Self-Help, and Public Housing Home Ownership in the United States -- Part IV The Privatization of Public Housing in Israel; -- 9.Housing Finance -- 10Housing Finance and Housing Policy in the United States: Legacies of the Reagan Era-- 11.Mortgage-Backed Securities, Inflation-Adjusted Mortgages, and Real-Rate Funding: Recent Initiatives in Housing Finance in Australia -- Part V Deregulation of Private Rented Housing in Britain: Investors' Responses to Government Housing Policy; -- 12.Housing Rehabilitation And Urban Redevelopment.-- 13.Community Development Corporations in the United States: Their Role in Housing and Urban Redevelopment -- Part VI Housing Rehabilitation in Contemporary Britain: The Evolving Role of the State;-- 14.Developments in Socialist Economies -- 15.Moving Away from the Socialist Housing Model: The Changing Role of Filtering in Hungarian Housing-- 16.Housing Provision in Yugoslavia: Changing Roles of the State, Market, and Informal Sectors; Conclusion-- Directions in Housing Research; Index; About the Contributors.

Summary: The contributors to this volume address such issues as the decentralization of housing, privatization of housing, deregulation of rental and public housing, developments in housing finance and current innovations in housing rehabilitation. International in scope, each discussion contains expert analysis of policy in countries as diverse as the UK, Australia, Yugoslavia, Israel and the US. The papers are taken from the conference on Housing, Policy and Urban Innovation (Amsterdam 1988) organized under the auspices of the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International.

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1.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; --
Part I The Privatization and Decentralization of Housing; --
2.The Decentralization of Housing --
3.Economic Restructuring and the Changing Role of the State in U.S. Housing --
4.Local Government, the State, and Housing Provision: Lessons from Australia--
5.National Housing Policy and Local Politics in Sweden--
6.Rental Housing --
7.The Future Provision of Social Housing in Britain --
Recent Developments in Rental Housing in the United States; Part III --
Public Housing. Chapter 7 --
8.Privatization, Self-Help, and Public Housing Home Ownership in the United States --
Part IV The Privatization of Public Housing in Israel; --
9.Housing Finance --
10Housing Finance and Housing Policy in the United States: Legacies of the Reagan Era--
11.Mortgage-Backed Securities, Inflation-Adjusted Mortgages, and Real-Rate Funding: Recent Initiatives in Housing Finance in Australia --
Part V Deregulation of Private Rented Housing in Britain: Investors' Responses to Government Housing Policy; --
12.Housing Rehabilitation And Urban Redevelopment.--
13.Community Development Corporations in the United States: Their Role in Housing and Urban Redevelopment --
Part VI Housing Rehabilitation in Contemporary Britain: The Evolving Role of the State;--
14.Developments in Socialist Economies --
15.Moving Away from the Socialist Housing Model: The Changing Role of Filtering in Hungarian Housing--
16.Housing Provision in Yugoslavia: Changing Roles of the State, Market, and Informal Sectors; Conclusion--
Directions in Housing Research; Index; About the Contributors.

The contributors to this volume address such issues as the decentralization of housing, privatization of housing, deregulation of rental and public housing, developments in housing finance and current innovations in housing rehabilitation. International in scope, each discussion contains expert analysis of policy in countries as diverse as the UK, Australia, Yugoslavia, Israel and the US. The papers are taken from the conference on Housing, Policy and Urban Innovation (Amsterdam 1988) organized under the auspices of the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International.

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