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Volume 1. Essays on housing policy : the British scene / J.B. Cullingworth -- Volume 2. Housing and local government : in England and Wales / J.B. Cullingworth -- Volume 3. Rural housing: competition and choice / Michael Dunn, Marilyn Rawson and Alan Rogers -- Volume 4. The future of council housing / edited by John English -- Volume 5. Home ownership : differentiation and fragmentation / Ray Forrest, Alan Murie and Peter Williams -- Volume 6. Public housing in Europe and America / edited by J.S. Fuerst -- Volume 7. Cities, housing and profits : flat break-up and the decline of private renting / Chris Hamnett and Bill Randolph -- Volume 8. Private rented housing in the United States and Europe / Michael Harloe -- Volume 9. Housing policy in the developed economy : the United Kingdom, Sweden and the United States / Bruce Headey -- Volume 10. Housing policy in Britain : a history / A.E. Holmans -- Volume 11. The right to a decent house / Sidney Jacobs -- Volume 12. Building by local authorities : the report of an inquiry by the Royal Institute of Public Administration / Elizabeth Layton -- Volume 13. The housing crisis / edited by Peter Malpass -- Volume 14. State housing in Britain / Stephen Merrett -- Volume 15. Owner occupation in Britain / Stephen Merrett with Fred Gray -- Volume 16. Property before people : the management of twentieth-century council housing / Anne Power -- Volume 17. Hovels to high rise : state housing in Europe since 1850 / Anne Power -- Volume 18. A nation of home owners / Peter Saunders -- Volume 19. Housing and urban renewal : residential decay and revitalization in the private sector / Andrew D. Thomas -- Volume 20. The radical homeowner : housing tenure and social change / Ian C. Winter.

'Active ageing' has become core to ageing policy internationally. This paper argues that housing, and specifically home purchase, is fundamental to the governance of active ageing in liberal welfare states such as Australia, the UK, the US and Canada. Specifically, the paper expands understanding of how neoliberally inflected active ageing agendas are advanced in conjunction with housing consumption, and builds new knowledge of the governance of asset-based welfare, the investor subject, and housing marginality, showing how these practices and identities are governed temporally through ideas about what it means to age well. Arguments are advanced through analysis of Australian government ageing and age-connected housing strategies in the 20 years to 2015. These strategies construct three key connections between housing and ageing. First, housing is framed as a base (or location) for active ageing, with secure, appropriate and affordable housing depicted as enabling participation. Second, home ownership is positioned as an individual responsibility. In this framing home ownership becomes a 'choice' and means through which individuals can demonstrate responsibility by self-insuring against the fiscal risks of older age. Third, home ownership is connected to the activation of ideal ageing identities by enabling home owners as productive agers (the home as a form of income) and active consumers (home as a resource to fund prudential and age-defying consumption in older age). Significantly, in framing home ownership as an individual responsibility and choice the importance of structural factors shaping housing access are downplayed. This is a question of key geographical significance, foregrounding an interlinked agenda of not just how, but where, ageing should take place.

Norris M, Winston N. Home‐ownership, housing regimes and income inequalities in Western EuropeThis article compares the structural features of home‐ownership systems in European Union 15 (EU15) countries (home‐ownership rates, mortgages and public subsidisation of this tenure) with data on inequalities in outcomes (variations in home‐ownership access, risks and standards between income groups). Its purpose was to assess the relevance of the debate on the convergence and divergence of housing systems, which has dominated the comparative housing literature. The article concludes that, depending on the level of analysis adopted and the particular variables selected for examination, elements of both convergence and divergence are evident in Western European home‐ownership systems. The comparative housing literature has also largely failed to capture the key inter‐country cleavages in home‐ownership systems that are between the Northern and Southern EU15 countries. These shortcomings are related to methodological and conceptual problems in the literature.