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The right to buy : analysis & evaluation of a housing policy / Colin Jones and Alan Murie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Real estate issues (Oxford, England)Publication details: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780470759646
  • 047075964X
  • 9780470759622
  • 0470759623
  • 1281321567
  • 9781281321565
  • 9786611321567
  • 661132156X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Right to buy.DDC classification:
  • 363.5/8/0941 22
LOC classification:
  • HD7333.A3 J66 2006eb
Other classification:
  • 71.83
Online resources:
Contents:
A policy for its time -- The right to buy in the UK 1980-2005 -- Unequal opportunities, time and place -- Transforming social housing -- Extending the owner occupied housing market -- Promoting the private rented sector -- Creating sustainable communities -- Housing management and housing quality -- The financial equation -- Policy transfer : international perspectives on housing privatisation -- A policy past its sell-by date? -- Learning from the right to buy.
Summary: An evaluation of the most enduring privatisation of the Thatcher era ... Written in an accessible style, this is a key reference for students and researchers in housing and planning; geography; and social policy. The book analyses the operation and impact of the right to buy policy (RTB). It includes a critique of the Housing Act and the 2001 Housing (Scotland) Act. The enactment of these changes under a Labour government affirms the continuance of the RTB. The authors take stock of its profound effect on housing policy, reversing the growth in social housing developed over the t.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-251) and index.

A policy for its time -- The right to buy in the UK 1980-2005 -- Unequal opportunities, time and place -- Transforming social housing -- Extending the owner occupied housing market -- Promoting the private rented sector -- Creating sustainable communities -- Housing management and housing quality -- The financial equation -- Policy transfer : international perspectives on housing privatisation -- A policy past its sell-by date? -- Learning from the right to buy.

Print version record.

An evaluation of the most enduring privatisation of the Thatcher era ... Written in an accessible style, this is a key reference for students and researchers in housing and planning; geography; and social policy. The book analyses the operation and impact of the right to buy policy (RTB). It includes a critique of the Housing Act and the 2001 Housing (Scotland) Act. The enactment of these changes under a Labour government affirms the continuance of the RTB. The authors take stock of its profound effect on housing policy, reversing the growth in social housing developed over the t.

English.

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