Housing and Communities
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Dwelling with Architecture
The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape. This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of...
Published March 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Living Over the Store
Architecture and Local Urban Life
The shop/house – the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings – appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a...
Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Sustainable Collective Housing
Policy and Practice for Multi-family Dwellings
Housing stocks provide much more than just shelter. Energy suppliers, pension fund managers and public transit providers are but a few of the many stakeholders that have a regulated interest in the non-shelter goods and services offered by housing. Such stakeholders and their activities...
Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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Beyond Home Ownership
Housing, Welfare and Society
Series: Housing and Society Series
In context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices. It considers owner-occupied housing in terms of diverse meanings and manifestations, but in...
Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Housing Policy in the United States
2nd Edition
The most widely used and most widely referenced "basic book" on Housing Policy in the United States has now been substantially revised to examine the turmoil resulting from the collapse of the housing market in 2007 and the related financial crisis. The text covers the impact of the crisis in depth...
Published February 1st 2010 by Routledge
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Housing Disadvantaged People?
Insiders and Outsiders in French Social Housing
Series: Housing and Society Series
Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation, and even a legal action against the State to obtain a social home. Despite this, France is...
Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
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The Real Cost of Poor Housing
(FB 23)
This report highlights weaknesses in existing models of the housing stock and proposes a new model which overcomes them....
Published February 14th 2010 by IHS BRE Press
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The Cost of Poor Housing in Wales
This publication demonstrates the continuing health and societal impacts of poor housing in Wales. Proportionately, there is considerably more poor housing in Wales than in England, with dangerous stairs and steps, and cold and damp homes being key problems. It is estimated that works targeted on...
Published July 14th 2011 by IHS BRE Press
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Housing Boom and Bust
Owner Occupation, Government Regulation and the Credit Crunch
Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions. Over the past thirty years, the culture of property ownership has become so ingrained that policy makers, bankers and households have taken for granted that housing is a good investment and forgotten about the bust. Explaining how the...
Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
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The Community Development Reader
2nd Edition
The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a...
Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Lifetime Homes Design Guide
EP 100
This design guide from Habinteg describes the design requirements for homes that will meet the changing needs of households. It uses the Lifetime Homes Standard's principles of inclusivity, accessibility, adaptability, sustainability and good value to provide design solutions that enable simple...
Published November 27th 2011 by IHS BRE Press
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Women and Housing
An International Analysis
Series: Housing and Society Series
In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities...
Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
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Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership
Series: Housing and Society Series
Despite the current recession, the frequency of second home ownership is still surprisingly high throughout the western world. While the UK and Ireland previously had lower occurrences of multiple dwellings compared to the rest of Europe, they are quickly catching up with a current surge in the...
Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
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Vacant Dwellings in England
The Challenges and Costs of Bringing Them Back into Use (FB 25)
This BRE Trust report examines the profile of vacant dwellings. It examines which dwellings remain vacant and why, explores their condition, compares factors leading to long-term vacancy and highlights barriers to bringing them back into use....
Published April 5th 2010 by IHS BRE Press