Whose Housing Crisis?(English, Paperback, Gallent Nick)

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Whose Housing Crisis?(English, Paperback, Gallent Nick) is written by Gallent Nick and published by Bristol University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1447346076 (ISBN 10) and 9781447346074 (ISBN 13).

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing's social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of 'growth' for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track.