Overview
Both growth and unevenness in the distribution of housing wealth have become characteristic of advanced societies in recent decades. This book examines, in various contexts, how central housing property ownership has become to household well-being as well as in reshaping social, economic and political relations.Expert contributors analyze the critical interactions between housing and wealth that lie at the heart of contemporary forms of capitalism, especially its global, neoliberal incarnation. Comparing and contrasting case studies from across the European continent, this book illustrates how these interactions are reshaping the function of housing as a welfare object, including how the financialisation and commodification of housing in the twenty-first-century has transformed its role and amplified distributional outcomes. Practical and engaging, Housing Wealth and Welfare is a must-read for researchers and students of housing studies, social policy, sociology, social geography and political science. It will also appeal to policy makers within national and supra-national organisations and institutions such as the European Union, Housing Europe and the International Monetary Fund. Contributors include: B. Bengtsson, S. Buchholz, C. Dewilde, J. Doling, T.P. Gerber, K. Kolb, S. Köppe, C. Lennartz, S. Mandic, M. Mrzel, M. Norris, R. Ronald, H. Ruonavaara, B.A. Searle, A.M. Soaita, J. Sørvoll, A. Wallace, J.R. Zavisca
Full Product Details
Author: Caroline Dewilde ,
Richard Ronald
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9781785360954
ISBN 10: 1785360957
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 24 February 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Housing Wealth and Welfare makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of home ownership's role in shaping contemporary welfare states.' -- Gavin Wood, RMIT University, Australia 'Home ownership has always been connected to both welfare and wealth, but the ties have been strengthened in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Now, the editors and authors of Housing Wealth and Welfare discuss the current state of affairs. They sketch different scenarios for different countries and cohorts but never lose touch of the general trends. Required reading for anyone interested in the various faces of home ownership.' -- Manuel B. Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium
`Housing Wealth and Welfare makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of home ownership's role in shaping contemporary welfare states.' -- Gavin Wood, RMIT University, Australia `Home ownership has always been connected to both welfare and wealth, but the ties have been strengthened in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Now, the editors and authors of Housing Wealth and Welfare discuss the current state of affairs. They sketch different scenarios for different countries and cohorts but never lose touch of the general trends. Required reading for anyone interested in the various faces of home ownership.' -- Manuel B. Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium `This is a very interesting edited volume comprising an introduction chapter reflecting on so-called housing asset-based welfare and nine chapters written by a nice selection of authors. . . I recommend scholars in the fields of social policy, political science, sociology, and geography to thoroughly study this book which provides a very good state of the art of housing asset-based welfare and an interesting collection of chapters explaining how housing, social policy, and financial markets interact.' -- International Journal of Housing Policy
`Housing Wealth and Welfare makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of home ownership's role in shaping contemporary welfare states.' -- Gavin Wood, RMIT University, Australia `Home ownership has always been connected to both welfare and wealth, but the ties have been strengthened in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Now, the editors and authors of Housing Wealth and Welfare discuss the current state of affairs. They sketch different scenarios for different countries and cohorts but never lose touch of the general trends. Required reading for anyone interested in the various faces of home ownership.' -- Manuel B. Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium
Author Information
Edited by Caroline Dewilde, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University and Richard Ronald, Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
