Full Description
This book exposes how deep-rooted political and economic forces continue to shape unequal housing outcomes in the UK. Moving beyond headlines and policy snapshots, it traces how global crises, austerity and shifting welfare regimes intersect to produce today's housing landscape.
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: Why There Is More to Housing Inequality Than Just Housing
2. New Labour and the Third Way: A New Millennium and the More Equal Society
3. 2007-2010, the Global Financial Crisis and a New Direction
4. Small Government and the 'Big Society'
5. Housing and Welfare Reforms
6. Core and Periphery
7. Housing Commodification and Financialisation
8. Grenfell Tower and Intersectionality
9. Housing Vulnerability and Social Cleansing
10. Hegemony and Housing
11. Reflections and the Direction of Travel
12. Conclusions