The Right to Buy: Examination of an exercise in allocating, shifting and re-branding risks

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-36

  Blandy, Sarah ^a   Hunter, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

courts; government; homeownership; re branding; Right to Buy; risk

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING POLICY; HOUSING PROJECT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

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EID: 84872740783     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018312457869     Document Type: Article

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