Housing Law and Policy

Housing Law and Policy goes beyond the usual sources of law in innovative ways. The author draws on socio-legal, economic and broader housing research in this critique of the development of both housing law and housing policy. In the three sections of the book he discusses the regulatory crisis affecting each housing tenure, access to housing, and finally individual housing rights in the context of a shift towards individual responsibility. The book takes an approach which is at once political, discursive and argumentative and will appeal to both students and professionals in the field.

Some Assumptions of Housing Lawyers: A Critique.- PART ONE: HOUSING AND REGULATORY FAILURE.- Regulatory Failure in the Private Rented Sector.- Regulating Home Ownership: Building Societies and the Housebuilding Industry.- Regulating the 'Voluntary Housing Movement': The Effect of Private Finance on 'Social' Housing.- Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government.- 'In Search of Voice': Putting the 'Social' Back into 'Social' Housing.- PART TWO: ACCESS TO HOUSING: NEED, AFFORDABILITY AND TENURE NEUTRALITY.- Homelessness.- Housing Need: The Case of Local Authority Waiting Lists.- RSLs and Housing Need.- Importing Housing Need? Asylum-seekers and 'Other Persons from Abroad'.- Access to the Private Rented Sector: Controlling Deregulation.- 'This is Mine! This is Private! This is Where I Belong!': Access to Home Ownership.- PART THREE: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: FROM DUE PROCESS TO CRIME CONTROL.- Conflicts and Manifest Absurdities: Security of Tenure.- Repairs and Unfitness: In Search of Reform.- Unlawful Eviction and Harassment.- Domestic Violence and the Regulation of Occupation Rights.- Recovery of Arrears: Cross-tenurial Comparisons.- Housing and Crime Control.