ABSTRACT

Understanding Housing Finance offers a distinctive introduction to the subject. Instead of discussing housing finance in accounting or economic terms, this book considers housing finance politically. It is finance that makes housing consumption, housing management and housing development possible. But in order to understand housing finance we need to appreciate the mechanisms and principles which are at the heart of current policies.

chapter 1|11 pages

Understanding housing finance

chapter |1 pages

Further reading

chapter 2|10 pages

The state, the market and subsidies

chapter |6 pages

Arguments for object subsidies

chapter 3|15 pages

The development of housing subsidies

chapter 4|4 pages

Local authorities

chapter |2 pages

Central–local relations

chapter |6 pages

The end of localism

chapter |8 pages

Borrowing and credit

chapter |3 pages

Housing revenue

chapter |11 pages

Ring fencing

chapter 5|2 pages

Housing associations

chapter |2 pages

Housing Act 1988

chapter |3 pages

ACTIVITY 5.2

chapter |9 pages

Revenue before 1989

chapter |1 pages

ACTIVITY 5.4

chapter 6|17 pages

The private rented sector

chapter |1 pages

Further reading

chapter 7|1 pages

Owner occupation

chapter |10 pages

ACTIVITY 7.1

chapter |4 pages

ACTIVITY 7.2

chapter |3 pages

Financial deregulation

chapter |17 pages

Further reading

chapter 10|1 pages

Where to now?

chapter |7 pages

ACTIVITY 10.1