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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456752903321

Autore

King Peter <1960->

Titolo

Housing policy transformed : The right to buy and the desire to own / / Peter King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, OR : , : Policy Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4473-0251-6

1-282-56203-7

9786612562037

1-84742-214-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Disciplina

363.50941

Soggetti

Public housing - Government policy

Housing policy

Home ownership - Government policy

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Infrastructure

SOCIAL SCIENCE - General

Home ownership - Government policy - Great Britain

Housing policy - Great Britain - History

Public housing - Government policy - Great Britain

History

Electronic books.

Great Britain

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. 117-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Housing Policy Transformed; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Owning and using things; 3. What Mrs Thatcher did; 4. What happened next?; 5. What is wrong with it?; 6. What does it tell us?; 7. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book seeks to understand the Right to Buy, the most controversial



housing policy of the last 30 years, on its own terms, rather than most studies which focus on its negative impact. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us.