The privatization of council housing

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-135

  Ginsburg, Norman ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demunicipalization; Housing transfers; Marketization; New Labour

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; HOUSING POLICY; PRIVATIZATION; SOCIAL HOUSING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12844272227     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018305048970     Document Type: Article

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