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The Politics of Scottish Housing Plans

Policy & Politics, 1984
The Scottish Housing Plan system was intended to bring about a radical change in the relationship between central and local government, by giving authorities greater scope to devise policies relative to local needs. In practice, Housing Plans provide a formal framework around which bargaining and negotiation takes place.
Midwinter, A., Keating, M., Taylor, P.
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The New Politics of Urban Housing

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2008
The significant changes in housing policy in the UK over the last three decades have been widely described and discussed. Public housing has moved away from centre stage because of privatisation and the decline in new public sector building. In the last decade there has been a renewed concern to provide affordable housing, but policy has not reverted ...
Alan Murie, Rob Rowlands
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Housing Policy and the Politics of Housing

1993
Governments have an enormously varied menu of housing policy options. They can stimulate housing construction through direct subsidies or tax concessions to builders, or by enhancing the relative attraction of investment in housing compared with other investment items (e.g. through the taxation treatment of such investment).
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Housing and politics

2016
This chapter argues that the ‘housing studies’ literature has had a propensity to concentrate on policy outcomes and the roles of industrialisation, capitalism and globalisation in determining continuity and change in housing policy. Such emphasis has meant that the influence of political processes, that is, the struggles to secure control, make ...
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Housing, Politics, and Architecture

2021
115 pages ; This thesis provides a synthesis of the course work and research that I pursued as a studentin the Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design program (M.S. AAD) at Cornell University. The thesis includes my design projects, works from elective courses, and architectural theories that were discussed during classes.
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The politics of housing

Housing in South Africa is a serious political issue around which communities have rallied continuously, accompanied by violent protests. CATHERINE NDINDA, UFO OKEKE UZODIKE and LOLITA WINNAAR examine the changing housing landscape by discussing issues of access and mobility.
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Housing Politics in the United Kingdom

2016
As housing moves up the UK political agenda, Brian Lund uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism to explore the political processes involved in constructing and implementing housing policy and its political consequences.
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The Politics of Housing Unmasked

Economic Affairs, 1986
Proposed economic reforms often neglect to take into account the interests of groups which have benefitted from establishing or maintaining the status quo. Martin Ricketts, Reader in Political Economy at the independent University of Buckingham, assesses the political pressures that have produced regulation of the housing market, and suggests reform ...
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The politics of housing: Squatters

Society, 1972
Squatting the illegal occupancy of property, is associated most commonly with developing countries. However, it has been recenth' used in Britain, Ireland and the United States as a tactic for protesting housing conditions and as a means of directly" acquiring housing. Although the total numbcr of dwel[ing units occupied by squatters only a few hundred
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The Politics of Race and Housing

Policy & Politics, 1991
This paper analyses the formulation, implementation and impact of race equality policies in relation to public sector housing. It argues that the development of such initiatives at the local state level is an important feature of the contemporary politics of race. It focuses specifically upon policies developed in two radical local authorities over the
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