David Cowan

Housing Law and Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

Housing Law and Policy goes beyond the usual sources of law in innovative ways. The author draws on socio-legal, economic and broader housing research in this critique of the development of both housing law and housing policy. In the three sections of the book he discusses the regulatory crisis affecting each housing tenure, access to housing, and finally individual housing rights in the context of a shift towards individual responsibility. The book takes an approach which is at once political, discursive and argumentative and will appeal to both students and professionals in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9780333718469
• ISBN-10: 0333718461
• Artikelnr.: 47669948

Autorenporträt

David Cowan is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Some Assumptions of Housing Lawyers: A Critique
PART ONE: HOUSING AND REGULATORY FAILURE
Regulatory Failure in the Private Rented Sector
Regulating Home Ownership: Building Societies and the Housebuilding
Industry
Regulating the 'Voluntary Housing Movement': The Effect of Private Finance
on 'Social' Housing
Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government
'In Search of Voice': Putting the 'Social' Back into 'Social' Housing
PART TWO: ACCESS TO HOUSING: NEED, AFFORDABILITY AND TENURE NEUTRALITY
Homelessness
Housing Need: The Case of Local Authority Waiting Lists
RSLs and Housing Need
Importing Housing Need? Asylum-seekers and 'Other Persons from Abroad'
Access to the Private Rented Sector: Controlling Deregulation
'This is Mine! This is Private! This is Where I Belong!': Access to Home
Ownership
PART THREE: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: FROM DUE PROCESS TO CRIME CONTROL
Conflicts and Manifest Absurdities: Security of Tenure
Repairs and Unfitness: In Search of Reform
Unlawful Eviction and Harassment
Domestic Violence and the Regulation of Occupation Rights
Recovery of Arrears: Cross-tenurial Comparisons
Housing and Crime Control.

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1. Locating housing law and policy; Part I. Regulation of Housing Tenure: 2. Regulating ownership; 3. Regulating private renting; 4. Regulating council housing; 5. Regulating private registered providers; Part II. Access to Housing: 6. Homelessness; 7. Allocation of social housing; 8. Eligibility; 9. Access to private rented housing; 10. Access to ownership; Part III. Rights and Responsibilities: 11. Security of tenure; 12. Unlawful eviction and harassment; 13. State and condition; 14. Arrears; 15. Anti-social behaviour; 16. Mandatory possession proceedings.

Rezensionen

'This is an excellent text, which adds greatly to Cowan's previous work on housing law in its societal, legal and political contexts. This monograph achieves its aims of providing an accessible socio-legal framework for students and practitioners to understand housing law.' Liam Thornton, Legal Studies