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The UK Housing Crisis and the Failure of Policy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7704-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

With ever-decreasing affordability and availability of homes, the UK has a longstanding and complex housing crisis.

Rather than laying the blame on a particular group or cause, this book explains the root causes of our current housing situation and proposes useful ways forward. The author uses his experience of delivering housing policy in Greater Manchester to analyse the interlocking issues of demographic and social policy change, the financial and planning systems, the construction industry and the UK’s recent change of government.

Key reading for housing researchers and policy makers, this book analyses recent reform plans and the feasibility of achieving an effective and accessible UK housing landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winstanley, Charlie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: Defining the Housing Crisis

1. Housing Supply and the Shrinking Stock

2. Affordability

3. Quality

4. Community and Gentrification

Conclusion to Part 1

Part 2: Why Policy Is Failing

5. Delivery

6. Regional and Political Iniquities in Policymaking

7. Existing Stock Condition

8. Homelessness

9. Delivering Council and Social Housing

10. Home Ownership and House Price Inflation

11. A Failed Growth Model

Conclusion to Part 2

Part 3: How Do We Fix It?

12. Council & Social Housing

13. Controlling House Price Inflation

14. Regulate the Private Rented Sector

15. Housing Standards

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Charlie Winstanley is Programme Manager, Metro Mayor’s Programme at the Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy (RAMP) Project. He is a former political advisor and public and social policy specialist with a background in local government.