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Record Nr.

UNISA996210000303316

Autore

Harloe Michael

Titolo

The people's home? : social rented housing in Europe & America / / Michael Harloe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Cambridge. Massachusetts : , : Blackwell, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-282-31704-0

9786612317040

0-470-71282-1

0-470-71259-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (595 p.)

Collana

Studies in Urban and Social Change

Disciplina

363.5/85/094

Soggetti

Public housing - Europe - History

Public housing - United States - History

Housing policy - Europe - History

Housing policy - United States - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE PEOPLE'S HOME?: SOCIAL RENTED HOUSING IN EUROPE & AMERICA; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism; 1: Social Housing and the 'Social Question': Housing Reform Before 1914; 2: The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great War; 3: Social Housing in the Depression; 4: The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction and Growth; 5: Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary Era; 6: Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.