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Broken cities : inside the global housing crisis, Deborah Potts

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1 online resource
Contents
  • Front Cover -- Half Title -- About the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Foreword -- 1: The dilemma of affordable housing and big cities -- Introduction -- Five key premises -- Housing processes across time and space: recognising the links -- 2: Mismatches between incomes and housing costs: a global condition -- Introduction -- Learning from southern Africa -- Urban incomes and hard limits on housing expenditure -- 3: Affordable urban housing and the role of basic standards -- Housing standards: the necessity of a double-edged sword
  • Informal housing and building standards -- What standards are appropriate? -- 4: Private-sector urban housing provision: formal and informal -- Formal-sector, large-scale, for-profit housing -- Variations in owning versus renting in the private sector -- Informal-market 'affordable' housing -- 5: Squaring the circle: social housing programmes and affordable rents -- Introduction -- Matching the gap between low incomes and market rents -- 6: Squaring the circle: affordable urban homeownership -- Subsidising homeownership
  • 'Recognising' informal and unplanned settlements: 'quiet encroachment' and homeownership -- Sidestepping informality: the site-and-service approach to homeownership -- Transferring public housing to homeowners -- 7: Global finance, big cities and unaffordable housing -- Introduction -- Commercialising the priorities of public housing authorities -- Middle-income poaching, downward raiding, regeneration and gentrification -- The subprime mortgage crisis and the 2008 financial crash: catastrophic feedback loops -- 8: Broken cities: unaffordable housing as the norm? -- Introduction
  • Policy responses: handouts for the middle classes and attacks on housing subsidies for the poorest -- Squaring the circle by squeezing the space -- 9: Broken cities, broken households: the demographic impacts of unaffordable housing -- Introduction -- Squaring the circle by squeezing the right to family life -- 10: Conclusion -- Trends in global income, urban demography and ideologies: a perfect storm for housing affordability? -- Appendix 1: Bloomberg Housing Affordability Index -- Appendix 2: Total housing cost overburden rate among low-income households in OECD countries -- Notes -- Index
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9781786990563
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Label
Broken cities : inside the global housing crisis
Title
Broken cities
Title remainder
inside the global housing crisis
Statement of responsibility
Deborah Potts
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
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Potts, Deborah
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Housing
  • Working class
  • Low-income housing
Label
Broken cities : inside the global housing crisis, Deborah Potts
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Publication
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Front Cover -- Half Title -- About the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Foreword -- 1: The dilemma of affordable housing and big cities -- Introduction -- Five key premises -- Housing processes across time and space: recognising the links -- 2: Mismatches between incomes and housing costs: a global condition -- Introduction -- Learning from southern Africa -- Urban incomes and hard limits on housing expenditure -- 3: Affordable urban housing and the role of basic standards -- Housing standards: the necessity of a double-edged sword
  • Informal housing and building standards -- What standards are appropriate? -- 4: Private-sector urban housing provision: formal and informal -- Formal-sector, large-scale, for-profit housing -- Variations in owning versus renting in the private sector -- Informal-market 'affordable' housing -- 5: Squaring the circle: social housing programmes and affordable rents -- Introduction -- Matching the gap between low incomes and market rents -- 6: Squaring the circle: affordable urban homeownership -- Subsidising homeownership
  • 'Recognising' informal and unplanned settlements: 'quiet encroachment' and homeownership -- Sidestepping informality: the site-and-service approach to homeownership -- Transferring public housing to homeowners -- 7: Global finance, big cities and unaffordable housing -- Introduction -- Commercialising the priorities of public housing authorities -- Middle-income poaching, downward raiding, regeneration and gentrification -- The subprime mortgage crisis and the 2008 financial crash: catastrophic feedback loops -- 8: Broken cities: unaffordable housing as the norm? -- Introduction
  • Policy responses: handouts for the middle classes and attacks on housing subsidies for the poorest -- Squaring the circle by squeezing the space -- 9: Broken cities, broken households: the demographic impacts of unaffordable housing -- Introduction -- Squaring the circle by squeezing the right to family life -- 10: Conclusion -- Trends in global income, urban demography and ideologies: a perfect storm for housing affordability? -- Appendix 1: Bloomberg Housing Affordability Index -- Appendix 2: Total housing cost overburden rate among low-income households in OECD countries -- Notes -- Index
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ybp99984579313
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource
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unknown
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Limited to one user at a time
Isbn
9781786990563
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unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
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unknown
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Label
Broken cities : inside the global housing crisis, Deborah Potts
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Front Cover -- Half Title -- About the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Foreword -- 1: The dilemma of affordable housing and big cities -- Introduction -- Five key premises -- Housing processes across time and space: recognising the links -- 2: Mismatches between incomes and housing costs: a global condition -- Introduction -- Learning from southern Africa -- Urban incomes and hard limits on housing expenditure -- 3: Affordable urban housing and the role of basic standards -- Housing standards: the necessity of a double-edged sword
  • Informal housing and building standards -- What standards are appropriate? -- 4: Private-sector urban housing provision: formal and informal -- Formal-sector, large-scale, for-profit housing -- Variations in owning versus renting in the private sector -- Informal-market 'affordable' housing -- 5: Squaring the circle: social housing programmes and affordable rents -- Introduction -- Matching the gap between low incomes and market rents -- 6: Squaring the circle: affordable urban homeownership -- Subsidising homeownership
  • 'Recognising' informal and unplanned settlements: 'quiet encroachment' and homeownership -- Sidestepping informality: the site-and-service approach to homeownership -- Transferring public housing to homeowners -- 7: Global finance, big cities and unaffordable housing -- Introduction -- Commercialising the priorities of public housing authorities -- Middle-income poaching, downward raiding, regeneration and gentrification -- The subprime mortgage crisis and the 2008 financial crash: catastrophic feedback loops -- 8: Broken cities: unaffordable housing as the norm? -- Introduction
  • Policy responses: handouts for the middle classes and attacks on housing subsidies for the poorest -- Squaring the circle by squeezing the space -- 9: Broken cities, broken households: the demographic impacts of unaffordable housing -- Introduction -- Squaring the circle by squeezing the right to family life -- 10: Conclusion -- Trends in global income, urban demography and ideologies: a perfect storm for housing affordability? -- Appendix 1: Bloomberg Housing Affordability Index -- Appendix 2: Total housing cost overburden rate among low-income households in OECD countries -- Notes -- Index
Control code
ybp99984579313
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Limited to one user at a time
Isbn
9781786990563
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote

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