Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"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 capital. An 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