Housing needs and policy approaches : trends in thirteen countries

Drawing upon research from six continents, Housing Needs and Policy Approaches analyzes the social problems involved with providing housing in the industrialized nations and in the Third World. The book focuses on four areas of concern: current trends in housing in specific Western countries, the role of Western governments in creating this housing, housing provisions in less developed nations, and the relationship of societal structure and housing, particularly with respect to the decentralization of population occurring in many regions.

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Housing is a basic human need. Written by specialists in the field, the essays in this collection, consisting chiefly of selected revised papers initially presented at the Tenth World Congress of Sociology, focus on current trends in household formation in Western countries and their implications in terms of housing requirements. Housing needs and preferences of citizens are examined in light of government interventions in the housing market and postwar public housing policies in Western Europe and Scandinavia. A review of approaches to the provision of housing in less developed countries stresses the limited role of government and greater reliance on self help arrangements. It emphasizes the need to coordinate housing aid programs and the potential of citizen participation in housing policy. Demographic, socioeconomic, and political factors impinging on housing policies are discussed, with special reference to Holland, Finland, and Norway. Based upon research from six continents and interdisciplinary in orientation, this collection provides international perspectives. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate readership.-D.A. Chekki, University of Winnipeg

Preface	p. ix
1 Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: An Overview	p. 1
I Housing Needs: Implications of Household Composition	p. 17
2 The Effects of Household Formation on Housing Needs in Britain	p. 23
3 United States Rental Housing Practices Affecting Families with Children: Hard Times for Youth	p. 41
4 Housing the Extended Family in Sweden	p. 59
5 Residential Fit and Mobility among Low-Income, Female-Headed Family Households in the United States	p. 71
II The Provision of Housing: The Role of the State	p. 89
Introduction	p. 90
6 Restructuring the Welfare State: Privatization of Public Housing in Britain	p. 97
7 State Intervention in Urban Housing Markets: Melbourne, 1945-80	p. 110
8 State Intervention and Alternative Tenure Patterns in Montreal	p. 128
9 Housing Young People in Israel: Public Policy and Private Preferences	p. 142
10 The Users' Perspective on Government Housing	p. 157
11 Policy Approaches to Social Housing Problems in Northern and Western Europe	p. 179
III The: Provision of Housing: Self-Help Arrangements in Less-Industrialized Countries	p. 199
Introduction	p. 201
12 The Rise of Squatter Settlements: Roots, Responses, and Current Solutions Padmini Gulati	p. 206
13 Popular Housing in Brazil: A Review Licia Valladares	p. 222
14 Integrated Kampung Improvement Programs and Mutual Aid in Indonesia	p. 236
15 Housing the Poor in a Planned City: The Chandigarh Experience Ranvinder Singh Sandhu	p. 248
16 The Squatters' Perspective of Housing: An Egyptian View	p. 256
IV The Housing Environment: Societal Organization and Spatial Structure	p. 271
17 Segregation Trends in the Netherlands	p. 276
18 Societal Factors Shaping the Internal Structure of Finnish Cities	p. 291
19 Dutch Inner-City Housing in the Context of Revitalization Policies	p. 305
20 Egalitarian Possibilities in Housing: Norwegian Housing Policy Cedric Pugh	p. 314
References	p. 339
Index of Terms	p. 361
Index of Places	p. 364
Index	p. 367
Contributors	p. 373

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