Coming to terms with owner occupation

In: Capital & class, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 15-44

Abstract

The debate over housing has tended to be confined to tenure choices and hence to consumption issues. The left has failed to confront the problems of owner occupation partly because it has accepted this limited terrain of debate and partly because it has adopted an economistic view of the link between tenure and voting behaviour. The author argues that an adequate strategy can only begin to be developed if we challenge structures of housing provision and the institutions involved.