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This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery, examines what this means for the changing relationship between local and central government and provides new ways of thinking about meeting housing need within and beyond the UK.

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Introduction: local government in England and the twin crises of austerity and housing; Local government, housing and planning in the UK: a history; Challenging austerity? Why have local authorities been taking their own action? Overcoming austerity effects through local authority direct action? Austerity’s legacy? Risk, opportunity and a new form of central–local relations?

Reviving Local Authority Housing Delivery

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 18 November 2020
      ISBN-13 9781447355748
      978-1447355748
      ISBN-10 1447355741
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery, examines what this means for the changing relationship between local and central government and provides new ways of thinking about meeting housing need within and beyond the UK.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: local government in England and the twin crises of austerity and housing; Local government, housing and planning in the UK: a history; Challenging austerity? Why have local authorities been taking their own action? Overcoming austerity effects through local authority direct action? Austerity’s legacy? Risk, opportunity and a new form of central–local relations?

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