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Author:   David Cowan
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9780333718469

ISBN 10:   0333718461
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   17 August 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Some Assumptions of Housing Lawyers: A Critique PART ONE: HOUSING AND REGULATORY FAILURE Regulatory Failure in the Private Rented Sector Regulating Home Ownership: Building Societies and the Housebuilding Industry Regulating the 'Voluntary Housing Movement': The Effect of Private Finance on 'Social' Housing Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government 'In Search of Voice': Putting the 'Social' Back into 'Social' Housing PART TWO: ACCESS TO HOUSING: NEED, AFFORDABILITY AND TENURE NEUTRALITY Homelessness Housing Need: The Case of Local Authority Waiting Lists RSLs and Housing Need Importing Housing Need? Asylum-seekers and 'Other Persons from Abroad' Access to the Private Rented Sector: Controlling Deregulation 'This is Mine! This is Private! This is Where I Belong!': Access to Home Ownership PART THREE: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: FROM DUE PROCESS TO CRIME CONTROL Conflicts and Manifest Absurdities: Security of Tenure Repairs and Unfitness: In Search of Reform Unlawful Eviction and Harassment Domestic Violence and the Regulation of Occupation Rights Recovery of Arrears: Cross-tenurial Comparisons Housing and Crime Control.

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DAVID COWAN is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. He has written many titles including: Homelessness: The (In-)Appropriate Applicant (Dartmouth, 1997) together with numerous articles on housing issues.

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