Where the other half lives : lower income housing in a neoliberal world / edited by Sarah Glynn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

If public housing didn't exist, we'd have to invent it / Sarah Glynn -- Neoliberalism's home front / Sarah Glynn -- Regeneration as a Trojan horse / Sarah Glynn -- From popular capitalism to third-way modernisation : the example of Leeds, England / Stuart Hodkinson -- Getting rid of the ugly bits : the myth and reality of regeneration in Dundee, Scotland / Sarah Glynn -- The politics of housing under France's new right / Corinne Nativel -- Circumventing circumscribed neoliberalism : the 'system switch' in Swedish housing / Eric Clark and Karin Johnson -- Market rules : neoliberal housing policy in New Zealand / Laurence Murphy -- Going once, going twice : a short history of public housing in Australia / Peter Phibbs and Peter Young -- Destroyed by HOPE : public housing, neoliberalism and progressive housing activism in the US / Jason Hackworth -- Political marginalisation, misguided nationalism and the destruction of Canada's social housing systems / Jason Hackworth -- Fighting back : lessons from 100 years of housing campaigns / Sarah Glynn -- Homes for today and tomorrow / Sarah Glynn.

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Housing has become a hot topic. The media is filled with stories of individual housing hardship and of major property-related financial crises: of crippling personal debts, rundown social housing, homelessness, mass demolitions and spirallingprices.

English.

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