Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives

This innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and crossnational persepctive on the links between housing, personal sector wealth and the family in contemporary society. Reasserting the role of the family and informal networks in housing provision, it counteracts a tendency to view housing issues in narrow terms of market and state provision. Highly international in perspective, the book addresses important policy questions and offers new theoretical insights into the way housing is embedded in the wider social structure.