Full Description
As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK Governments. Exploring the inter-relationship between housing, planning and land policies, Bowie puts forward a reform programme based on an alternative set of policy priorities and delivery mechanisms, arguing the case for an integrated approach to provide radical solutions to a growing crisis.
Contents
Section 1: The context;
Conservative government policy and the Housing and Planning Act 2016;
Critiques of the current direction of government policy;
The failure of governments since 1979 and the ideological continuities;
Section 2: The crisis of housing supply;
The housing deficit;
Affordable by whom?;
The wrong kind of homes;
The ineffecient use of the existing stock;
The failure of the English planning system;
Section 3: There is an alternative;
A radical programme for reform;
Conclusion: The four key issues.
