Through the Roof

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-59660-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Housing is the defining issue of our time, driving a persistent affordability crisis, financial instability, and economic inequality. Through the Roof examines the crucial role of the state in shaping the housing markets of two economic powerhouses-the United States and Germany. The book starts with a puzzle: laissez-faire America has vigorously supported homeownership markets with generous government programs, while social democratic Germany has slashed policy support for both homeownership and rental markets. The book explains why both nations have adopted such radically different and unexpected housing policy approaches. Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews with policymakers, it argues that contrasting forms of capitalism-demand-led in the United States and export-oriented in Germany-resulted in divergent housing policies. In both countries, these policies have subsequently transformed capitalism itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reisenbichler, Alexander

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Discovering Housing-Based Growth in America; 3. Germany's Postwar Housing and Export Miracles; 4. Financializing the American Economy and Housing Market; 5. Path Shifting of German Housing Programs; 6. The Double Down: Nationalizing American Housing Finance; 7. The Double Back: Retrenching German Housing Programs; 8. Paradoxes of American and German Housing Policy.

Über Autor(innen)

Reisenbichler, Alexander
Alexander Reisenbichler is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His work explores the political economies of Western Europe and the United States, with a focus on housing, credit, and social policy.