Housing Improvement and Social Inequality

Case Study of an Inner City
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-04133-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Housing Gentrification and Regional Inequality

Originally published in 1979, this book discusses housing improvement, and particularly its effects upon the residential population of the inner areas of West London. The economic and social rationale is explained, and the role of landlords, developers and local authorities is analysed. The book concentrates both on the defects of the improvement process as a whole, and on the application of housing legislation within a specific geographical area. Housing improvement is related to the debate about the inequality of wealth by implicitly questioning who benefits and who loses from improvement policy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balchin, Paul N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Urban Housing Renewal 3. Housing Stress in Inner London 4. Housing Rehabilitation in Inner London 5. The Relationship Between the Distribution of Improvement Grants and Socio-Economic Indicators in West London 6. The Distribution of Improvement Grants in the General Improvement and Housing Action Areas of West London 7. Socio-Economic Change in the General Improvement and Housing Action Areas of West London 8. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul N. Balchin was formerly Reader in Urban Economics, University of Greenwich, UK.