| Description |
1 online resource (v, 185 pages) : illustrations |
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Shorts. Policy & practice |
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Policy Press shorts. Policy & practice.
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| Contents |
RADICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE HOUSING SUPPLY CRISIS; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section One. The context; 1. Conservative government policy and the Housing and Planning Act 2016; Introduction; Starter homes; Right to Buy; Forced sale of vacant higher-value council homes; Pay to stay; Flexible tenancies; 'In principle' planning consent; Weakening of local authority planning; The overall impact of the 2016 Act; 2. Critiques of the current direction of government policy; Scapegoating social housing |
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The fetishisation of homeownershipThe failure of the market; The positive functions of social housing; 3. The failure of governments since 1979 and the ideological continuities; Section two. The crisis of housing supply; 4. The housing deficit; Economic and political factors; Financing the development sector, land-banking and housing output; The cost of land; Government subsidy; Planning obligations and the Community Infrastructure Levy; Location and form of new development; Infrastructure; Preconditions for new sustainable communities; 5. Affordable by whom?; 6. The wrong kind of homes |
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Built form and densityThe size of new homes; 7. The inefficient use of the existing stock; 8. The failure of the English planning system; Planning reform; Localism; Planning for growth; Development viability; Section Three; Section Three. There is an alternative; 9. A radical programme for reform; Forms of investment: bricks or benefits?; Socialising the private rented sector; Homeownership is not always the solution; Rebalancing the relationship between the public and the private sector; Resources and powers; Localism and spatial justice; The need for a new strategic approach |
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The basic principles for a new housing strategy; Some basic principles for a new approach to planning for housing supply; Key policy options; Summary of the required reform programme; Conclusion. The four key issues; Land, ownership, money and power; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book analyses the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviewing the development of policy under successive UK Governments and presenting a specific critique of the current Conservative Government's housing and planning reforms |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 20, 2017) |
| Subject |
Housing -- England
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Housing policy -- England
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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Housing
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Housing policy
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447336662 |
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1447336666 |
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1447328493 |
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9781447328490 |
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1447336682 |
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9781447336686 |
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1447336674 |
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9781447336679 |
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