Round the Houses: Homeownership and Failures of Asset-Based Welfare in the United Kingdom

New Political Economy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 386-405

  Montgomerie, Johnna ^a   Büdenbender, Mirjam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

asset based welfare; debt; finance led growth; financialisation; Great Britain; homeownership; households; housing

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING FINANCE; HOUSING MARKET;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84928532933     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2014.951429     Document Type: Article

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