Housing wealth and welfare

✍ Scribed by Dewilde, Caroline;Ronald, Richard

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited;Northampton
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Series: New horizons in social policy series
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Both growth and unevenness in the distribution of housing wealth have become characteristic of advanced societies in recent decades. Housing Wealth and Welfare examines, in various contexts, how housing property ownership has become central both to household wellbeing and to the reshaping of social, economic and political relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents:1. Why housing wealth and welfare?Richard Ronald and Caroline DewildePART I OLD AND NEW CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF HOUSING AND WELFARE2. The rise and fall of Ireland's property based welfare state: Home ownership rates, policies and meanings in a historical perspectiveMichelle Norris3. Home ownership, housing policy and path dependence in Finland, Norway and SwedenBo Bengtsson, Hannu Ruonavaara and Jardar Sorvoll4. Housing wealth and welfare over the life courseStephan Koeppe and Beverley A. Searle5. Housing wealth and welfare state restructuring - Between Asset-Based Welfare and the Social Investment StrategyChristian LennartzPART II INSTITUTIONAL VARIEGATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSING, WELFARE PROVISION AND INEQUALITY6. Financial resilience and security: The impacts of the housing market downturn on low-income home owners in Northern IrelandAlison Wallace7. Trends in social inequalities regarding home ownership: A comparison of East and West GermanyKathrin Kolb and Sandra Buchholz8. Home ownership in post-socialist countries - The negative impact of the transition period on old-age welfareSrna Mandic and Maja Mrzel9. Experiences of home ownership and housing mobility after privatization in RussiaJane R. Zavisca and Theodore P. Gerber10. The changing nature of outright home ownership in Romania: Housing wealth and housing inequalityAdriana Mihaela SoaitaEpilogue Housing wealth and welfare: spatially and temporally contingent John DolingIndex

✦ Subjects

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General;Distribution (Economic theory);Home ownership;Social stratification;Electronic books

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