Neoliberal Housing Policy by Keith Jacobs

Neoliberal Housing Policy by Keith Jacobs

This book considers the most significant housing issues facing the West, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways housing accentuates social and economic inequality; and how suburban housing has transformed city life.

"In this essential book, Keith Jacobs offers a compelling global critique, based on evidence from several nations, of contemporary housing policies that fail to respond adequately to (and indeed exacerbate) the structural inequalities formed through international flows of capitalAn urgent wake up call for housing policy, practice and scholars." -John Flint, Professor of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, UK

"In this timely and important book, Keith Jacobs expertly dissects the nature and causes of the housing crises in advanced economies. His detailed and wide-ranging research illustrates how, since the 1970s, government housing policies have overwhelmingly favoured the already wealthy resulting in an ever-increasing proportion of the population being priced out of homeownership, and an intensification of displacement, division, homelessness and neglect of public housing." -Alan Morris, Professor at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Keith Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published widely on housing and urban policy issues and is the author of The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy (1999), Social Constructionism in Housing Research (2004) edited with Jim Kemeny and Tony Manzi, Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia (2011), Between the Outback and the Sea: Cosmopolitanism and Anti Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia (2011) edited with Jeff Malpas, and House Home and Society (2016) with Rowland Atkinson and Towards a Philosophy of the City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives (2019) edited with Jeff Malpas.

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ISBN 13	9781138388468
ISBN 10	1138388467
Title	Neoliberal Housing Policy
Author	Keith Jacobs
Series	Explorations In Housing Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2019-05-14
Number of pages	192
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