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The complex and self-serving nexus behind the UK's housing crisis is laid bare in this passionate book from Bob Colenutt. Investigating the network of landowners, house-builders, financial backers and politicians, he reveals how we have been forced to accept the cycle of low supply and high prices, and proposes solutions to the housing emergency.

Trade Review
“The housing crisis stems from a new and unholy alliance of financial, developer and land-owning interests which this timely book uncovers and promises to fix as a central part of fixing the economy and society.” Michael Edwards, University College London

Table of Contents
The finance-housebuilding complex The housing shortage The housebuilding business Financing housing investment The property lobby Shaping national housing and planning policy The 2008 financial crash continues The housebuilders and affordable housing How the social and affordable housing sectors got swallowed Local case studies Unblocking the impasse

The Property Lobby

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 8 April 2020
      ISBN-13 9781447348160
      978-1447348160
      ISBN-10 1447348168
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Regional and area planning Housing and homelessness Political structure and processes

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The complex and self-serving nexus behind the UK's housing crisis is laid bare in this passionate book from Bob Colenutt. Investigating the network of landowners, house-builders, financial backers and politicians, he reveals how we have been forced to accept the cycle of low supply and high prices, and proposes solutions to the housing emergency.

      Trade Review
      “The housing crisis stems from a new and unholy alliance of financial, developer and land-owning interests which this timely book uncovers and promises to fix as a central part of fixing the economy and society.” Michael Edwards, University College London

      Table of Contents
      The finance-housebuilding complex The housing shortage The housebuilding business Financing housing investment The property lobby Shaping national housing and planning policy The 2008 financial crash continues The housebuilders and affordable housing How the social and affordable housing sectors got swallowed Local case studies Unblocking the impasse

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