ABSTRACT
In this book we have been concerned with the exploration of a limited set of issues arising from a period of restructuring of the housing markets and policies of advanced capitalist countries. Our analyses are limited in two respects. First, because in a book of this length many issues have simply had to be ignored — for example private rental housing (but see Harloe, 1985), landownership and various aspects of changing demographic structures. Second, because many of the changes that we have described (and others that we have ignored) are still in progress. New structures and social relations of housing provision are still emerging, we can only now make a preliminary assessment of their patterns and consequences.
