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Between the unimaginable and the unthinkable: pathways to and from England's housing crisis

Gallent, N; Durrant, D; Stirling, P; (2018) Between the unimaginable and the unthinkable: pathways to and from England's housing crisis. Town Planning Review , 89 (2) pp. 125-144. 10.3828/tpr.2018.8. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper provides a critical perspective on England’s housing crisis, characterised here as a concentration of wealth in residential property which is driving up prices and reducing access to the homes that people need. Housing has become a wealth machine and government has arguably lost sight of its social function. It is important that planning draws a functional distinction between housing as an asset and housing as a social good. The paper ends by considering how a decoupling of housing’s ‘home’ and ‘asset’ functions might be achieved through land-use policy.

Type: Article
Title: Between the unimaginable and the unthinkable: pathways to and from England's housing crisis
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2018.8
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2018.8
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: housing, credit, wealth, privatisation, investment, justice, England
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10025890
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