ABSTRACT
This wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing is both policy-oriented and theoretical, drawing on a group of internationally-respected academics. It is also multidisciplinary, incorporating sociology, economics, social policy and human geography perspective. Its international perspective is rooted in its examination of issues such as economic insecurity and instability, social diversity, financial and social exclusion, sustainability, privatisation and state legitimacy, the interaction of the global and the local across three continents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|26 pages
Home-ownership in East and South East Asia: market, state and institutions
James Lee, Ray Forrest and Wai Keung Tam
chapter 5|21 pages
Housing and regulation theory: domestic demand and global financialization
Alan Smart and James Lee
chapter 7|20 pages
The making of home in a global world: Aotearoa/ New Zealand as an exemplar
Harvey Perkins and David Thorns
chapter 9|21 pages
Home-ownership and changing housing and mortgage markets: the new economic realities
Peter Williams
chapter 10|16 pages
From welfare benefit to capitalized asset: the re-commodification of residential space in urban China
Deborah S. Davis
chapter 11|22 pages
Banking the unbanked: connecting residents of social housing to the financial mainstream
Michael A. Stegman
chapter 12|19 pages
Social sustainability, sustainable development and housing development: the experience of Hong Kong
Rebecca L. H. Chiu