Home Ownership: Differentiation and Fragmentation - Couverture rigide

Forrest, Ray; Murie, Alan; Williams, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0044454449 ISBN 13 : 9780044454441

Editeur : Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

Images of home ownership in Britain today are often cosy in character and to a large extent, lack any critical awareness. This has encouraged even the most sophisticated commentators to focus upon the virtues of the tenure while neglecting both its weaknesses and most importantly, the ways in which it is changing. No longer a domain occupied exclusively by affluent middle-class families in semi-detached houses, the tenure is now characterized by enormous variety - of household types, income levels, property types, conditions, prices and most particularly, prospects. There is no one situation or trajectory for home owners or for home ownership and the purpose of this book is to examine the complex patterns within home ownership and the ways in which these are changing. In stressing this, the authors would emphasize that this is a book about Britain. There are parallels with other countries but, just as home ownership is not the same everywhere in the UK, it is certainly not the same as in other countries. Finally, it should be clear that this is not a book concerned only with the failures or the successes of home ownership. The authors have sought to provide a commentary and analysis that recognizes both successes and failures and the ways both of these contribute to its transformation.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The social and economic world around home ownership has changed considerably over the last half century or so. The rise of individual, mortgaged home ownership has been closely associated with so-called ‘golden age’ of post war capitalism which for many saw rising real incomes, widening employment opportunities and the spread of middle class lifestyles.  Home ownership, which was essentially a social project associated with notions of belonging, rootedness and the eclipse of class has become fully embedded in the evolving global financial system. Forrest charts the transformation of home ownership - what was home ownership? What has it become? And where is it going?

With a strong international orientation this book explores the importance of home ownership in shaping the post war landscape of advantage and disadvantage. It will examine the uneven and divisive impacts of accumulated housing wealth and show how economic, geo-demographic and policy shifts have combined to produce very different housing outcomes for different population cohorts. With reference to increased market instability (including the most recent global financial crisis), climate change, falling rates of home ownership among younger groups and changing lifestyles and aspirations, the book looks towards the future in relation to contemporary patterns of risk, generational fractures and the role of home ownership in the shaping of new social divisions.

Home Ownership provides a rounded and up to date account of the social, economic and political dimensions of the growth of individual home ownership. Addressing the period since the second world war, it includes key theoretical debates of the 1970s and 1980s which revolved around issues of the impact of home ownership on class divisions, social stratification and political orientation and shift them into the global, neo-liberal context of the present day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0044454449
• ISBN 13: 9780044454441
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible