The right to buy and the desire to Own

By: Peter King

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Hardcover | 1 July 2010

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In an ideal world, shouldn't everyone have the security of owning their own home? Doesn't owning one's home improve housing stock, financial security, and civil society? If all this is true, why, in Britain, is the "Right to Buy" the Conservatives' effort to bring the opportunity of homeownership to a large number of people living in social housing such a contentious and vilified policy? Housing Policy Transformed is the first book in ten years which covers the ideological and conceptual issues around owner occupation and the continuance of the Right to Buy in Britain's post-Thatcher era. The book explores Britain's social, economic, and cultural peculiarities that led to the Right to Buy policy, and how it has managed to survive for 30 years. It looks at why there has been such a harsh critique of the Right to Buy policy from the Left and the negative effects that the Right to Buy policy (combined with Britain's Housing Benefit and the Homelessness Act) have had on social housin

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"When I showed Mrs Thatcher figures suggesting she should give away all council housing to tenants her instant reply was 'people will not value them unless they pay at least something for them'. These and many more memories of RTB came flooding back as I read King's exceptionally good book." John Blundell, formerly Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs. "...invigorates the reader and provides a fresh challenge to many of the assumptions around the RTB." Rebecca Edwards in International Planning Studies

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Owning and using things	p. 15
What Mrs Thatcher did	p. 47
What happened next?	p. 63
What is wrong with it?	p. 85
What does it tell us?	p. 103
Conclusions	p. 113
Bibliography	p. 117
Index	p. 121
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