The Sage Handbook of Housing Studies

Housing emerged as a subdiscipline of economics in 1970s Britain, during a time when policymakers and researchers were trying to draw expertise from various perspectives to tackle housing problems. This handbook provides a survey of the field, offering a reference and a springboard for further work pertaining to housing markets, approaches, context, and policy issues. Twenty-four contributions address such topics as residential mobility, neighborhoods, the neo-liberal legacy to housing research, social geographic interpretations, social policy approaches to housing research, people-environment studies, the economy and the environment, homelessness, subsidies, and ethnic residential segregation, among other topics. The three editors are affiliated as follows: David F. Clapham (Cardiff U., UK), William A.V. Clark (geography, UCLA), and Kenneth Gibb (U. of Glasgow, Scotland). Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)