Housing Law and Policy

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Some Assumptions of Housing Lawyers: A Critique....Pages 13-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Regulatory Failure in the Private Rented Sector....Pages 57-83
Regulating Home Ownership: Building Societies and the Housebuilding Industry....Pages 84-103
Regulating the ‘Voluntary Housing Movement’: The Effect of Private Finance on ‘Social’ Housing....Pages 104-132
Purposive Regulation: The Case of Local Government....Pages 133-167
In Search of Voice — Putting the ‘Social’ Back into ‘Social Housing’....Pages 168-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Homelessness....Pages 198-227
Housing Need: The Case of Local Authority Waiting Lists....Pages 228-256
Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) and Housing Need....Pages 257-281
Importing Housing Need? Asylum-seekers and Other ‘Persons from Abroad’....Pages 282-304
Access to the Private Rented Sector: Controlling Deregulation....Pages 305-325
‘This is Mine! This is Private! This is where I belong!’:Access to Home Ownership....Pages 326-361
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Conflicts and Manifest Absurdities: Security of Tenure....Pages 369-398
Repairs and Unfitness: in Search of Reform....Pages 399-422
Unlawful Eviction and Harassment....Pages 423-446
Domestic Violence and the Regulation of Occupation Rights....Pages 447-461
Recovery of Arrears: Cross-tenurial Comparisons....Pages 462-488
Housing and Crime Control....Pages 489-518
Back Matter....Pages 519-522