A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban … housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of the share of homeownership, and where little social housing exists, have …, cities in Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and France have housing markets that are much less commercialised and where a lot …

This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing …. Social housing estates - as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies (housing associations … concentrated poverty and other social problems. This latest phase of renewal has involved demolishing many social housing estates …

. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often …The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new … forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing Economics provides a long-term economic perspective on macro and …