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The literature about the consequences for welfare states of the economic developments of the last twenty-five years has tended to emphasise country differences. In contrast, interpretations of developments in social housing focus much more on similarities, with privatisation often being viewed as the common policy response. The author uses longitudinal data for thirteen countries to examine whether social housing is actually different in this respect. The analysis shows that, whereas in some countries there has been a reduction in social housing's share of total housing production, in other countries there has been an increase. These international differences are not explained by different demographic and economic developments. The author offers alternative explanations.

Extension of home ownership was a considered and central plank of the Thatcher election manifestoes; but those original aspirations have, to some extent, been modified over the course of the 1980s. Market structures and behaviour have changed following interest rate rises, there have been signs of crisis in falling prices and rising levels of mortgage default. (SJK)

The aim of this paper is to examine the investment record of the private rented sector as a way of understanding the prospects for private investment. A capital-asset-pricing model is used which enables investors, on the basis of the risk characteristics of investing in private rental housing, to quantify the rate of return they might require from investing in this sector. Aggregate data are used to show that in much of Britain fair rents have been greater than the target rate of return identified. It is argued that the reasons for disinvestment, as well as the challenge facing any policy initiatives which set out to attract new capital, are to be found in other characteristics of the sector, such as management costs, political risk, and the relationship with capital values in the owner-occupied sector. It is also argued that these additional characteristics are likely to have less of a negative influence on investment for middle-income, rather than low-income, tenants.

Housing and home ownership has been strongly embedded in East Asian socioeconomic and policy models. Based on the primacy of national economic growth objectives, it was promoted as a means of, on the one hand, contributing directly to economic growth through the motor of the construction industry, and, on the other, supporting a low-taxation, low-public-expenditure economy with minimal social protection measures based on the support of the family. In recent years, however, this housing pillar is facing new social, economic, political and demographic challenges, including a decline in the political authority of authoritarian states, the undermining of traditional developmental logic, fragmentation of families and household types and the growing volatility of housing markets. Most of these have been generated or exacerbated by intensified globalization and economic crises in recent years. Through contextual, conceptual and empirically focused chapters, nine of which deal with a different country - China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand - this book explores the development of housing policies and practices that have responded to dynamic socioeconomic and demographic restructuring.

This book provides an overview of the effects of home ownership, a housing sector that has grown rapidly in recent years in many countries, not least because this is normally encouraged by governments. The first part of the subtitle, 'Getting in', refers to processes in the development of the homeownership stock including problems of access, which in turn implies issues of affordability, the viability of financial institutions and subsidies. 'Getting from' indicates that this form of housing tenure may provide households with advantages such as wealth accumulation and independence that may not.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Asian Housing Policy: Similarities and Differences -- 2 Japan -- 3 Singapore -- 4 Hong Kong -- 5 Taiwan -- 6 Korea -- 7 Malaysia -- 8 Thailand -- 9 Indonesia -- 10 The South and East Asian Housing Policy Model -- Index.

Front Cover; Planning for Engineers and Surveyors; Copyright Page; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Table of Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Chapter 1. THE NATURE OF PLANNING AND PLANNERS; INTRODUCTION; THE DEFINITION OF PLANNING; THE PLANNERS; Chapter 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLANNING SYSTEM; THE HISTORY OF PLANNING; THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; THE PRESENT LEGISLATION; MANAGEMENT AND STAFFING IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 3. PEOPLE, LAND AND RESOURCES; INTRODUCTION; POPULATION; Housing; EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRY; THE USE OF LAND; UEBAN AREAS; New Towns; RURAL AREAS; NATURAL RESOURCES.

This book provides an overview of the effects of home ownership, a housing sector that has grown rapidly in recent years in many countries, not least because this is normally encouraged by governments. The first part of the subtitle, 'Getting in', refers to processes in the development of the homeownership stock including problems of access, which in turn implies issues of affordability, the viability of financial institutions and subsidies. 'Getting from' indicates that this form of housing tenure may provide households with advantages such as wealth accumulation and independence that may not be available to tenants. Finally, the last section 'getting out' refers to the risks associated with home ownership such as the fact that their tenure positions may be founded on their ability to meet loan repayments. This publication is a follow-up to Home ownership: Getting in, getting form and getting out, parts I and II, and is a result of the conference 'Building on home ownership; housing policies and social strategies' in Delft, organized by the ENHR working group Home ownership & Globalisation and hosted by OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Delft University of Technology. Part III provides an overview of the most recent research results in this field.