By Paul Balchin
ISBN-10: 0203285913
ISBN-13: 9780203285916
ISBN-10: 0415135125
ISBN-13: 9780415135122
ISBN-10: 0415135133
ISBN-13: 9780415135139
Housing coverage in Europe offers a accomplished advent to the industrial, political and social problems with housing around the continent. The altering coverage and perform of housing in fifteen international locations from throughout Northern, Western, Southern and crucial Europe are defined, analyzed and in comparison. The ebook explains why diversified platforms of tenure are dominant in several teams of nations, and the level to which housing guidelines inside those international locations comply with various welfare platforms. It finds how owner-occupation has taken over from social housing because the selected procedure of tenure and the way this displays a political and monetary shift, from social democracy or communism to neo-liberalism throughout Europe.
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Moreover, the longitudinal perspective briefly outlined here shows that the composition and structure of the housing stock in terms of tenure have not changed significantly since the Second World War. Given the large proportion of the housing stock attributed to the rental sector it is instructive to examine the types of ownership within that sector. Analysis of Federal Census statistics indicates that at least two-thirds of the rental housing stock has been owned by private individuals. 7 per cent in 1990.
5 per cent in 1980. LAWRENCE simplistic interpretations of the relationships between housing costs and housing production, as well as ‘supply and demand’ in the housing sector. Renovation Fiscal measures for encouraging the construction of rental housing units at affordable rental costs are only applicable for newly constructed multi-family residential dwellings. However, public-welfare building authorities can purchase extant housing units using the basic rental reduction scheme if these flats are not in need of renovation or upgrading works.
At least during the early years of this stage, all ‘left of centre’ governments continued to employ object subsidies to promote largescale housebuilding particularly in the social sectors, for example the Swedish ‘one-million dwellings programme’ of 1964–75, before switching over to housing renewal and subject subsidies after the 1973 oil 16 INTRODUCTION I High degree of government involvement, particularly in order to alleviate housing shortages. II Greater emphasis on housing quality. III Greater emphasis on problems of housing distribution and targeting specific groups, and the withdrawal of the state in favour of the private sector.