ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the divisions between housing research utilising theoretical frameworks focused upon consumption and production and those focused upon either agents or structure. It demonstrates some of the inadequacies of these frameworks and to show how the concept of social relations can provide a new perspective on housing which combines the best features of both. The book analyses how the various agents benefited through pre-sale arrangements. It explains how it is that housing finance is not simply an external environment which limits agents' alternatives. The book also demonstrates how the collection of agents' activities which are pursued for their own advantage create effects within a larger system or structural process and also analyses the growing tensions and the political and governmental response to them.
