Housing markets and the global financial crisis : the uneven impact on households / edited by Ray Forrest and Ngai-Ming Yip.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Households, homeownership and neoliberalism / Ray Forrest -- Effects of the recent credit cycle on homeownership rates across households : what we know and what we expect / Doug Duncan and Cesar Costantino -- The credit crunch in the UK : understanding the impact on housing markets, policies and households / Peter Williams -- Housing in Iceland in the aftermath of the global financial crisis / J{u2BEE} R{u2D6E}ar Sveinsson -- Housing wealth, debt and stress before, during and after the Celtic Tiger / Michelle Norris and Nessa Winston -- Housing in the Netherlands before and after the global financial crisis / Richard Ronald and Kees Dol -- Housing policy and the economic crisis : the case of Hungary / J{u2BFA}sef Heged赳 -- The impacts of the global financial crisis on housing and mortgage markets in Australia : a view from the vulnerable / Mike Berry, Tony Dalton and Anitra Nelson -- Rebuilding housing polices in response to the current crisis : is homeownership the solution? / David Thorns -- The global financial crisis and its impact on households : the case of urban Vietnam / Hoang Huu Phe -- Housing policy issues in South Korea since the global economic crisis : aspects of a construction-industry-dependent society / Soo-hyun Kim -- Towards a post-homeowner society? : homeownership and economic insecurity in Japan / Yosuke Hirayama -- Business nearly as usual : the global financial crisis and its impacts on households in Hong Kong / Ngai-Ming Yip -- The impact of the financial crisis on China's housing market / Jianping Ye and Chao Sun -- Concluding discussion : where to now? / Ray Forrest -- Appendix: selected key indicators.

Housing markets were at the centre of the recent global financial turmoil. In this study, a multidisciplinary group of leading housing analysts from the USA, Europe, Asia and Australasia explore the impact of the crisis within and between countries.