Housing Wealth and Welfare

社会政策联赛的新视野s

Edited by Caroline Dewilde, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University and Richard Ronald, Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Both growth and unevenness in the distribution of housing wealth have become characteristic of advanced societies in recent decades. Housing Wealth and Welfare examines, in various contexts, how housing property ownership has become central both to household wellbeing and to the reshaping of social, economic and political relations.

‘Housing Wealth and Welfare makes a timely and important contribution to our understanding of home ownership’s role in shaping contemporary welfare states.’
– Gavin Wood, RMIT University, Australia

‘Home ownership has always been connected to both welfare and wealth, but the ties have been strengthened in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Now, the editors and authors of Housing Wealth and Welfare discuss the current state of affairs. They sketch different scenarios for different countries and cohorts but never lose touch of the general trends. Required reading for anyone interested in the various faces of home ownership.’
– Manuel B. Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium

‘This is a very interesting edited volume comprising an introduction chapter reflecting on so-called housing asset-based welfare and nine chapters written by a nice selection of authors. . . I recommend scholars in the fields of social policy, political science, sociology, and geography to thoroughly study this book which provides a very good state of the art of housing asset-based welfare and an interesting collection of chapters explaining how housing, social policy, and financial markets interact.'
– International Journal of Housing Policy