From public housing to the social market : rental policy strategies in comparative perspective / / Jim Kemeny

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910170961603321
• Autore: Kemeny Jim.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• ISBN: 1-134-88889-9; 1-134-88890-2; 1-282-77757-2; 9786612777578; 0-203-03380-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.33/8; 363.585
• Soggetti: Rental housing; Rental housing - Government policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-190) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Profit markets and social markets; Markets as social institutions; German ordo-liberalism and the social market; Profit and social market rental strategies; On dominant views and research paradigms; The Romeo error in comparative renting; The anglo-saxon bias in comparative rental research; Ethnocentrism and implicit theory; On defining terms; Policy constructivism and the concept of maturation; From structural determinism to policy constructivism; The maturation process; Cost renting, maturation and policy strategyReconceptualising rental systems; Dualist and unitary systems compared; Power, ideology and rental market policy structuring; Three worlds of capitalism and two worlds of renting?; Power structures and rental markets; Introduction; Case studies in the maturation process; Choice of case studies; Sweden: Gavlegrdarna; Australia: the South Australian Housing Trust; Maturation and asset stripping: discounted sales; Command policies; New Zealand; Australia; Britain; Conclusions; Market policies; Sweden; ; The Netherlands; Germany; Switzerland; Introduction; Unitary rental markets: towards a systematisationThe dynamics of unitary rental markets; Unitary rental market dynamics and the Romeo error; Rental policy strategies as implicit agendas; The anglo-saxon hegemony and Eastern Europe; From command economy to the social market; The case against dualism; Reconstructing public renting; The role of profit renting; Subsidies; Housing allowances; Housing and other areas of social policy; Wider issues: housing and the welfare state; Housing and the welfare state; Summary and conclusions; Models of rental systems; Conclusions; Glossary of concepts; NotesReferences; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This work presents a conceptual framework to allow a critical study of comparative rental markets. The framework centres around the concept of the process of maturation of cost rental housing and two policies for handling this which have been adopted by industrial societies.