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Housing Transitions Through the Life Course
Andrew Beer
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Description for Housing Transitions Through the Life Course
Hardcover. Lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. This important contribution to the literature argues that how we think about households and their housing needs to be recast to acknowledge this changed environment and provide a more powerful conceptual framework. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JKS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 522.
The housing we live in shapes individual access to jobs, health, well being and communities. There are also substantial differences between generations regarding the type of housing they aspire to live in, their attitudes to housing costs, the nature of their households and their attitudes to different tenures. This important contribution to the literature draws upon research from the UK, Australia and the USA to show how lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. It also considers how the global financial crisis has differentially affected housing markets across the ... Read more
The housing we live in shapes individual access to jobs, health, well being and communities. There are also substantial differences between generations regarding the type of housing they aspire to live in, their attitudes to housing costs, the nature of their households and their attitudes to different tenures. This important contribution to the literature draws upon research from the UK, Australia and the USA to show how lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. It also considers how the global financial crisis has differentially affected housing markets across the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847424280
SKU
V9781847424280
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Andrew Beer
Andrew Beer is a Professor in Geography at the University of Adelaide. His interests include the relationship between housing and the life course, regional economic development policies and homelessness. Debbie Faulkner is a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Adelaide. She has published widely on issues of housing and ageing, demographic ... Read more
Reviews for Housing Transitions Through the Life Course
"A major contribution to housing studies and to the wider welfare state literature" Journal of Social Policy "The book furthermore illuminates a number of fundamental issues and trends, and lays bare a whole range of underlying causal mechanisms. As such, it has the potential to inspire a stream of future research." International Journal of Housing Policy