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The Future of Public Housing

Ongoing Trends in the East and the West

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Editors:
  1. Jie Chen

    1. School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

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  2. Mark Stephens

    1. School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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  3. Yanyun Man

    1. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

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  • The most comprehensive and in-depth updates of public housing programs worldwide

  • Will be of interest to both researchers and policymakers in their pursuit of better understanding and design of affordable housing policies and programs in the world

  • Uses both a theoretic and a comparative approach in the discussion of public housing policies and issues in the East and the West

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Public Housing in the East

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Transferability of Public Housing Policy Within Asia: Reflections from the Hong Kong-Mainland China Case Study

      • Rebecca L. H. Chiu
      Pages 3-12

    3. Public Housing in Mainland China: History, Ongoing Trends, and Future Perspectives

      • Jie Chen, Juan Jing, Yanyun Man, Zan Yang
      Pages 13-35

    4. Public Housing Programs and the Challenge of Household Affordability in Beijing

      • Zan Yang, Chengdong Yi, Wei Zhang
      Pages 37-48

    5. Public Housing in Shanghai: A Tool with Multiple Purposes

      • Ying Chang, Jie Chen
      Pages 49-64

    6. Challenges to Public Housing in Post-colonial Hong Kong

      • Ngai Ming Yip
      Pages 65-83

    7. Public Housing Policy in Taiwan

      • Chin-Oh Chang, Shu-Mei Yuan
      Pages 85-101

    8. The Story of Singapore’s Public Housing: From a Nation of Home-Seekers to a Nation of Homeowners

      • Yongheng Deng, Tien Foo Sing, Chaoqun Ren
      Pages 103-121

    9. New Experiments in Public Housing Supply in Seoul, South Korea: The Possibilities and Limits

      • Yeong-Hee Jang, Soo-Hyun Kim
      Pages 123-142

    10. Public Housing and Neoliberal Policy in Japan

      • Yosuke Hirayama
      Pages 143-161

  3. Public Housing in the West

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Public Housing in Europe and North America

      • Alan Murie
      Pages 165-180

    3. From Public Housing to Joint Ventures: Lessons from the U.S. Housing Policy Development

      • Lan Deng, Zhu Xiaodi
      Pages 181-197

    4. Social Housing in the United Kingdom

      • Mark Stephens
      Pages 199-213

    5. “Everyone Should Be Housed”: The French Generalist Model of Social Housing at Stake

      • Claire Lévy-Vroelant
      Pages 215-237

    6. Maturation of the Dutch Social Housing Model and Perspectives for the Future

      • Peter Boelhouwer
      Pages 239-257

    7. Understanding Variation in the Size of the Public Housing Sector Across Swedish Municipalities: The Role of Politics

      • Roger Andersson
      Pages 259-278

    8. “Unorthodox” Housing Policy in Hungary: Is There a Way Back to Public Housing?

      • József Hegedüs
      Pages 279-300

  4. Concluding Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301
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About this book

Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are exceptions, too. By including perspectives of scholars from across the world, this book provides new insights into public housing in its various forms. It contains in-depth chapters on public housing in five East Asian countries and six Western countries, together with three comparative overview chapters.

Reviews

“The book gives a good overview of the contrast in the development of public housing in Asian and emerging economies on the one hand and western countries on the other. Such a comparison is welcome, because most publications tend to focus on either the Asian or the western world. The cases in the book provide an interesting overview of the diverging strategies towards public housing in the east and the west.” (Jeroen van der Veer, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 31, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

    Jie Chen

  • School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Mark Stephens

  • College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

    Yanyun Man

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Future of Public Housing

  • Book Subtitle: Ongoing Trends in the East and the West

  • Editors: Jie Chen, Mark Stephens, Yanyun Man

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41622-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41621-7Published: 13 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51457-3Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41622-4Published: 26 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 310

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Economics, International Political Economy

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