Understanding Housing Finance offers a distinctive introduction to the subject. Instead of discussing housing finance in accounting or economic terms, this book considers housing finance politically. It is finance that makes housing consumption, housing management and housing development possible. But in order to understand housing finance we need to appreciate the mechanisms and principles which are at the heart of current policies.
..."an accessible introduction to the system of housing finance that presently operates in England. [A] good place for the student to start in order to locate housing finance in a wider policy context." -Urban Studies, October 1, 2002 "This text covers the development of housing finance by concentrating on the main political mechanisms." -Business Horizons Sept-Oct 2002