The housing debate

'Stuart Lowe's The Housing Debate takes a refreshingly broad view of housing and welfare. Rather than a balanced introduction for students to current debates around housing and social policy, Lowe has a clear case to make.' - Jake Eliot in Citizen's Income Newsletter
"Very clear and concise overview of key developments in housing policy. Provides an excellent introduction to housing studies." Tony Manzi, University of Westminster
"The Housing Debate ... provides readers with a solid historical, geographic and theoretical foundation." British Politics and Policy at the LSE blog, March 2012
"Concise and very clear discussion of contemporary and historical developments in housing policy" Tony Manzi, University of Westminster
"We are increasingly having to rely on housing wealth to fund many aspects of our life including retirement when recent experience of the housing market shows that this can be a risky strategy. This book offers a timely re-assessment of the role of housing in social policy. " David Clapham, Cardiff University
"By giving us both the longterm and the big picture Stuart Lowe illuminates both the importance of housing to wider debates about welfare and the divides and contradictions inherent in today's housing debates." Caroline Hunter, University of York
“In this highly readable and well-informed text, Stuart Lowe makes a compelling case for the central role played by housing in modern welfare state regimes...a key resource for students of social policy, economics and housing studies. Overall, it represents a major contribution to housing studies and to the wider welfare state literature.” Journal of Social Policy