The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts

By Leonard Seabrooke

Book Overview

This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230230806
• ISBN13: 9780230230804
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"