Overview
- Fully documents the housing problems in the United Kingdom in territorial, demographic and class terms and critically analyses the available solutions
- Situates the UK housing crisis in a global context, relating it to the current political context, including Brexit and Trump
- Draws on the most up to date survey data from the English Housing Survey, the Scottish Household Survey, the Scottish House Conditions and the Welsh Housing Survey
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About this book
In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger ‘generation rent,’ to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom. Current differences reflect long-established cleavages in UK society, and help to explain why housing crises persist. Placing the UK crises in their global contexts, Lund provides a critical examination of proposed solutions according to their impacts on different pathways through the housing system. As the first detailed analysis of the multifaceted origins, impact and potential solutions of the housing crisis, this book will be of vital interest to policy practitioners, professionals and academics across a wide range of areas, including housing studies, urban studies, geography, social policy, sociology, planning and politics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Brian Lund, now retired, was Principal Lecturer in Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Housing in the United Kingdom
Book Subtitle: Whose Crisis?
Authors: Brian Lund
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04128-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04127-4Published: 10 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04128-1Published: 19 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 374
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Social Sciences, Social Policy, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Comparative Social Policy