This handbook takes on one of the most pressing issues of today's society - the question of housing. It is a cutting-edge edited volume about the (somewhat disputed) interrelationship between housing and the wider welfare state.

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Martin Grander is Associate Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at Malmö University and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Environment Studies in Housing and Welfare.

Mark Stephens is Ian Mactaggart Chair in Land, Property and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow. He also leads the international theme in the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE). Much of his contribution to this book was undertaken during his appointment as Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Design, The University of Sydney.

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This handbook takes on one of the most pressing issues of today's society - the question of housing. It is a cutting-edge edited volume about the (somewhat disputed) interrelationship between housing and the wider welfare state.

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Acknowledgements

List of tables and figures

Foreword

List of contributors

1. Introduction. Martin Grander and Mark Stephens

PART I. UNDERSTANDING HOUSING AND WELFARE

2. Understanding housing and welfare. Martin Grander and Mark Stephens

3. Understanding the relationship between housing and welfare. Martin Grander and Mark Stephens

PART II. HOUSING AND WELFARE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

4. Housing and welfare in England. Michael Marshall, Stephen Hincks and Ryan Powell

5. Housing and welfare in the United Sates. J. Rosie Tighe and Patrick Grogan-Myers

6. Housing and welfare in Australia. Kath Hulse, Piret Veeroja and Zoë Goodall

7. Housing and welfare in Sweden, Norway and the wider Nordic region. Jardar Sørvoll, Carina Listerborn and Matilda Sandberg

8. Housing and welfare in conservative Central Europe: The cases of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Steffen Wetzstein

9. Housing and welfare in Italy. Daniela Leonardi

10. Housing and welfare in Catalonia, Spain. Melissa García-Lamarca

11. Housing and welfare in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Alexander Kalyukin and Alexander Puzanov

12. Housing and welfare in East-Central Europe the case of Hungary. József Hegedüs

13. Housing and welfare in China. Julie Tian Miao

14. Housing and welfare in the wider Latin American context: The Chilean experience. Valentina Abufhele and Nicolás Angelcos

15. Housing and welfare in South Africa. Elelwani Mmbadi, Lochner Marais and Job Gbadegesin

PART III. HOUSING AND WELFARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

16. Changes in housing and welfare a global analysis. Martin Grander and Mark Stephens

17. The embeddedness of housing in the welfare regime. Martin Grander and Mark Stephens

18. Conclusions: Welfare regimes in the 21st century: From labelling to explaining. Martin Grander and Mark Stephens