TY - GEN digital ID - 131559564 TI - Housing Economics : A Historical Approach AU - Meen, Geoffrey AU - Gibb, Kenneth AU - Leishman, Chris AU - Nygaard, Christian A. PY - 2016 SN - 9781137472717 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Social policy KW - Economics KW - Business management KW - Regional documentation KW - Economic geography KW - History KW - economie KW - geschiedenis KW - management KW - steden KW - welzijnsbeleid KW - sociaal beleid KW - anno 1800-1899 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131559564 AB - The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing Economics provides a long-term economic perspective on macro and urban housing issues, from the Victorian era onwards. A historical perspective sheds light on modern problems and the constraints on what can be achieved; it concentrates on the key policy issues of housing supply, affordability, tenure, the distribution of migrant communities, mortgage markets and household mobility. Local case studies are interwoven with city-wide aggregate analysis. Three sets of issues are addressed: the underlying reasons for the initial establishment of residential neighbourhoods, the processes that generate growth, decline and patterns of integration/segregation, and the impact of historical development on current problems and the implications for policy. ER -