Finance for housing an introduction
The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts as new bonds. Austerity programmes are designed to reduce the borrowing that governments undertook to stabilise failing banking systems but the UK's Coalition gove...
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Bristol
Policy Press
2013
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Political choices and housing finance
- 2. The global financial crisis and the UK government's role
- 3. Tenure. Local authority general housing services and building work
- 4. Owner occupation
- 5. The changing fortunes of council housing
- 6. Housing associations
- 7. The private rented sector
- 8. 'Marginal' owner occupation
- 9. A variety of rents
- 10. Paying for housing with help from housing benefits
- 11. Discussion. Is our housing system sustainable?.