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Housing Policy in Europe provides a comprehensive introduction to the economic, political and social issues of housing across the continent. The changing policy and practice of housing in fifteen countries from across Northern, Western, Southern and Central Europe are described, analyzed and compared. The book explains why different systems of tenure are dominant in different groups of countries, and the extent to which housing policies within these countries conform to different welfare systems. It reveals how owner-occupation has taken over from social housing as the chosen system of tenure

The book will inform a wide audience about the provision of rented housing in several European countries. The material is relevant to many housing, surveying and planning undergraduate and postgraduate courses which have a European housing element/option

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The housing situation in Europe -- The demographic background -- Relative standards of living -- The housing stock -- Tenure -- Conclusion -- 3 Housing policy in France -- Tenure -- Owner occupation -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 4 Housing policy in Germany -- Tenure -- Subsidies to investment -- The owner occupied sector -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 5 Housing policy in the Netherlands -- Tenure -- The owner occupied sector -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 6 Housing policy in Spain -- Owner occupation -- The rented sectors -- The costs of housing policy -- Conclusion -- 7 Housing policy in Sweden -- Owner occupation -- Co-operative housing -- The private rented sector -- The public rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 8 Housing policy in Britain -- Tenure -- The owner occupied sector -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 9 The Single Market and European integration -- A European housing policy? -- European funds -- Conclusion -- 10 A single market in mortgage finance? -- The economics of the Single Market -- Implementing the Single Market -- The Single Market in operation -- Conclusions -- 11 Housing and labour mobility -- The British housing market and population movement -- Housing, planning and regional policy -- The European Union and population movement -- Conclusion -- 12 The economics of European integration

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Housing Policy Analysis -- Introduction -- Themes and leitmotifs -- The structure of the book -- The policy analysis approach -- The boundaries of policy -- Policy networks and implementation analysis -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 2 The New Governance of Housing -- Introduction -- The origins of new governance -- The new governance of housing -- Other governance issues -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3 Housing, Home and Society -- Introduction -- Home and self-identity -- Home and domestic culture -- The twentieth-century experience of home -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 4 Housing Need -- Introduction -- The definition of housing need -- Measuring housing need -- The national housing needs models -- Delivery of the housing programme -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 5 Housing and Social Exclusion -- Introduction -- Agenda control and social exclusion -- Case study 1: low demand -- Case study 2: homelessness -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 6 Tenure Re-Structuring -- Introduction -- The origins of housing policy -- The inter-war years -- The consequences of the Second World War -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 7 The Sustainability of Home Ownership -- Introduction -- The sustainability of home ownership -- Low-income homeowners -- New patterns of insecurity -- Home ownership as a source of wealth -- Home owning and welfare state re-structuring -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 8 The Residualization of Rental Housing -- Introduction -- The changing face of the private rented sector -- The social housing sector -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 9 Comparative Housing -- Introduction -- Schools of comparative housing -- Tenure re-structuring in the OECD nations.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Central Themes of Rural Second Homes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Aims of the Book -- Past Literature and Themes -- Concepts and Data Sources -- Information on Second Homes -- Chapter 2: The Origins of Growth -- The Origins and Social Context of Growth -- Chapter 3: Ownership and Demand -- Introduction -- The Distribution of Demand -- Second Home Types -- Modelling Future Growth -- Modelling and Prediction -- Chapter 4: Economic Costs and Benefits -- The Analysis of Costs and Benefits -- House Price Inflation -- Initial Acquisition -- Property Speculation -- General Housing Stock Improvements -- General Expenditure -- Rates or Council Tax Contribution -- The Overall Contribution -- Chapter 5: Environmental and Social Impacts -- The Range of Environmental Impacts -- New Development and Conversion -- Social Impacts -- Competing Housing Groups -- Social Impacts, Social Groups and Attitudinal Research -- Community Unease and Socio-Linguistic Concerns -- Conclusions -- Part II: Policy and Practical Responses in Europe and the United Kingdom -- Chapter 6: European Perspectives -- Introduction -- Facts Through Figures -- Belgium -- Denmark -- Finland -- France -- Greece -- Spain -- Sweden -- Norway -- Other European States -- Chapter 7: Housing Policy Responses in the UK -- Economic and Social Development -- Housing Policy Options -- Providing Non-Market Housing -- 'Municipalising' Empty Properties -- Managing Private Properties -- Community Self-Build -- Improvement Grant Restrictions -- The Tax System -- Differential Rates or Council Tax -- Standard Purchase Levies and Restrictions on Mortgage Finance -- Property Licensing and the Creation of Housing Sub-Markets -- Planning and Development Control.

The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. With housing playing an increasingly important role in welfare provision, the new welfare state emerging in different parts of the world is being developed in the context of individual asset accumulation and the private ownership of housing. Housing and the New Welfare State shows that housing is becoming critical to asset-based welfare not only in Western Europe but also in the six East Asian housing systems that are a major focus of the book. Chapters by leading East Asian scholars provide analysis of housing policies in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Also examined are the 'four worlds' of welfare and housing; the causes and consequences of the shift from tenants to home owners in the old welfare states of Britain and other parts of Western Europe; and the growth of the property-owning welfare state as a theme running through contemporary policy in both East Asia and Europe.