The Property Lobby: The Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Epigraph -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 The Finance-housebuilding Complex -- The Scale Of The Crisis -- Market Dependency -- Scapegoating Planning -- Community Action -- Financialisation Of The Social Housing Sector -- Who Benefits? -- The Property Lobby -- A Property-dependent Economy -- Message Of The Book -- 2 The Housing Shortage -- The Fallacy Of The Numbers Game -- The Decline In Affordable Housing -- The 'affordability' Label Is Now Meaningless -- Taking The Long View -- Estate Regeneration What About Quality? -- Geography Of Shortages -- Conclusion -- 3 The Housebuilding Business -- The Business Model -- Profit Margin -- Fees -- Land Valuation -- Land Banks -- Grants And Subsidies -- Conclusion -- 4 Financing Housing Investment -- The Scramble For Land -- Rocketing Land Prices -- Mortgage Dependency -- Housing Becomes Commercial Property -- Prices And Politics -- Conclusion -- 5 The Property Lobby -- The Country Land And Business Association (cla) -- The Land Promoters And Developers Federation (lpdf) -- The Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors (rics) The Home Builders Federation (hbf) -- Landlords -- Commercial Property -- The British Property Federation (bpf) -- The Association Of Real Estate Funds -- Uk Finance -- The Property Lobby In Local Government -- Political Party Donations And Interests -- Conclusion -- 6 Shaping National Housing And Planning Policy -- New Labour's Growth Areas Programme, 2000-10 -- The National Planning Policy Framework (nppf) 2012 And Its Capture By The Property Lobby -- The Property Lobby And Viability Assessment -- Conclusion -- 7 The 2008 Financial Crash Continues Why Does The Uk Housing Market Create Boom And Bust? -- The Bail-out -- Scapegoating Town Planning -- Austerity As Bail-out -- Conclusion -- 8 The Housebuilders And Affordable Housing -- The Battle Over Planning Obligations -- Speculation In Land -- Developer Resistance To Tenure Mix -- Why Local Authorities Give In -- Loopholes And Get-out Clauses -- Affordable Housing Obligations Have Failed -- Conclusion -- 9 How The Social And Affordable Housing Sectors Got Swallowed -- A World Away -- Light At The End Of The Tunnel Or More Spin? -- Conclusion -- 10 Local Case Studies -- Oxford North Barking, East London -- Conclusion -- 11 Unblocking The Impasse -- The Housing Shortage Is No Accident -- The Power Of The Property Lobby -- The Politics Of The Housing Crisis -- The Housing Crisis Is Also A Planning Crisis -- 'good' Developers Will Not Help Either -- A National Housing Drive -- The Imperative Of Land Reform -- Revolutionising The Build-for-sale Market -- Scare Stories -- Learning From The Past -- Above All -- None Of This Will Happen Unless ... -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover Bob Colenutt. Electronic Reproduction. New York Available Via World Wide Web.