This Handbook elucidates and critically appraises the key issues within housing studies from a multi-disciplinary framework. It looks at ideas from a retrospective approach, but also analyzes the future directions of research and theory in the area demonstrating how the study of housing can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Section 1 Housing Markets - Edited by Kenneth Gibb
• 1 Understanding Housing Markets: Real Progress or Stalled Agendas? - Duncan Maclennan
• 2 Housebuilding and Housing Supply - Michael Ball
• 3 Housing Behaviour - Maarten van Ham
• 4 Residential Mobility and the Housing Market - William A.V. Clark
• 5 Neighborhoods and Their Role in Creating and Changing Housing - George Galster
• Section 2 Approaches - Edited by David Clapham
• 6 The Neo-Liberal Legacy to Housing Research - Christine M.E. Whitehead
• 7 Institutional Economics - Kenneth Gibb
• 8 Social Geographic Interpretations of Housing Spaces - Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett
• 9 Social Policy Approaches to Housing Research - David Clapham
• 10 Social Constructionism and Beyond in Housing Research - David Clapham
• 11 A Review of Structurally Inspired Approaches in Housing Studies - Concepts, Contributions and Future Perspectives - Julie Lawson
• 12 Housing Politics and Political Science - Bo Bengtsson
• 13 People-Environment Studies - Roderick Lawrence
• Section 3 Context - Edited by William A.V. Clark
• 14 Housing and the Economy - Geoffrey Meen
• 15 Housing and Welfare Regimes - Walter Matznetter and Alexis Mundt
• 16 Housing Markets, the Life Course, and Migration Up and Down the Urban Hierarchy - Christopher Bitter and David A. Plane
• 17 Housing and Social Life - Ray Forrest
• 18 Housing: From Low Energy to Zero Carbon - Phillip Jones
• Section 4 Policy Issues - Edited by Kenneth Gibb
• 19 Homelessness - Suzanne Fitzpatrick
• 20 Affordable Housing - Chris Leishman and Steven Rowley
• 21 Housing Subsidies - Judith Yates
• 22 Ethnic Residential Segregation - Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects - Sako Musterd
• 23 Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighborhoods - Ronald van Kempen and Gideon Bolt
• 24 Managing Social Housing - Hugo Priemus
• Conclusion - David Clapham