Exploring 'Housing asset-based welfare'. Can the UK be held up as an example for Europe?

Housing Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 669-692

  Toussaint, Janneke ^a   Elsinga, Marja ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asset based welfare; Cross country comparison; Homeownership; Housing equity; Security

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING CONDITIONS; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING PROVISION; MORTGAGE LENDING; SECURITY; WELFARE IMPACT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349733040     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673030903083326     Document Type: Article

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