What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing? - Paperback

by Rowland Atkinson (Author), Keith Jacobs (Author)

By taking aim at the 'property machine' and its opposition to the social and everyday needs of the majority of the population, the authors analyse some of the key social and economic forces and the broad range of policies that have shaped and responded to Britain's housing crisis. Before concluding with a series of innovative proposals that would allow for the establishment of a fairer and more equal society and a more stable economic future.

Author Biography

Rowland Atkinson is Research Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield. His work focuses on housing and city life, with a particular emphasis on inequalities and social divisions. His most recent publications include: Alpha City (Verso 2020), Urban Criminology (with Gareth Millington, Routledge 2018), Domestic Fortress (with Sarah Blandy, Manchester University Press 2016) and House, Home and Society (with Keith Jacobs, Palgrave 2016). Keith Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania. His most recent publications include: House, Home and Society (co-authored with Rowland Atkinson, Palgrave 2016), an edited collection with Jeff Malpas, Philosophy and the City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives (Rowman and Littlefield 2019) and Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective (Routledge 2019).