Housing and the New Welfare State: Perspectives from East Asia and Europe
| By: | Murie, Alan |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754644408 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409491064 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. With housing playing an increasingly important role in welfare provision, the new welfare state emerging in different parts of the world is being developed in the context of individual asset accumulation and the private ownership of housing. Housing and the New Welfare State shows that housing is becoming critical to asset-based welfare not only in Western Europe but also in the six East Asian housing systems that are a major focus of the book.
Chapters by leading East Asian scholars provide analysis of housing policies in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Also examined are the 'four worlds' of welfare and housing