The SAGE handbook of housing studies / edited by David F. Clapham, William A.V. Clark and Kenneth Gibb.

SECTION ONE: HOUSING MARKETS -- Understanding Housing Markets: Real Progress or Stalled Agendas? / Duncan MacLennan -- Housebuilding and Housing Supply / Michael Ball -- Housing Behaviour / Maarten van Ham -- Residential Mobility and the Housing Market / William A.V. Clark -- Neighborhoods and their Role in Creating and Changing Housing / George Galster -- SECTION TWO: APPROACHES -- The Neo-Liberal Legacy to Housing Research / Christine M.E. Whitehead -- Institutional Economics / Kenneth Gibb -- Social Geographic Interpretations of Housing Spaces / Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett -- Social Policy Approaches to Housing Research / David Clapham -- Social Constructionism and Beyond in Housing Research / David Clapham -- A Review of Structurally Inspired Approaches in Housing Studies: Concepts, Contributions and Future Perspectives / Julie Lawson -- Housing Politics and Political Science / Bo Bengtsson -- People-Environment Studies / Roderick Lawrence -- SECTION THREE: CONTEXT -- Housing and the Economy / Geoffrey Meen -- Housing and Welfare Regimes / Walter Matznetter and Alexis Mundt -- Housing Markets, the Life Course, and Migration Up and Down the Urban Hierarchy / Christopher Bitter and David A. Plane -- Housing and Social Life / Ray Forrest -- Housing: From Low Energy to Zero Carbon / Phillip Jones -- SECTION FOUR: POLICY ISSUES -- Homelessness / Suzanne Fitzpatrick -- Affordable Housing / Chris Leishman and Steven Rowley -- Housing Subsidies / Judith Yates -- Ethnic Residential Segregation: Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects / Sako Musterd -- Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighborhoods / Ronald van Kempen and Gideon Bolt -- Managing Social Housing / Hugo Priemus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This Handbook elucidates and critically appraises the key issues within housing studies from a multi-disciplinary framework. It looks at ideas from a retrospective approach, but also analyzes the future directions of research and theory in the area demonstrating how the study of housing can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. The book comes with a comprehensive introductory chapter and individual chapter introductions. It is divided into four parts: markets; approaches; context; and policy. With an international team of contributors, the Handbook is a stimulating, wide-ranging read that will be a useful source and reference for academics and researchers in geography, urban studies, sociology, social policy, economics, and political science. -- Résumé de l'éditeur.