Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.

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Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe; Contents; Preface; The Authors; 1 Introduction; Scope of this book; Some basic concepts; Structure of this book; Bibliography; 2 Are Southern Housing Systems Different?; Introduction; Tenure patterns in southern Europe; Countries of home owners; One home in two houses: high proportion of secondary homes; Housing access, family cycles and residential mobility; Production and promotion of housing; Conclusion; 3 Urbanisation and Housing Systems in Southern Europe; Introduction

The articulation between urbanisation and industrialisation: the pivotal role of housingDemographic patterns, family and housing; Similarity and difference in south European housing processes and urban patterns; 4 Welfare Systems in Southern Europe; Introduction; Welfare systems and institutional complexes; Welfare regimes, welfare states and welfare activities; Esping-Andersen and welfare regimes; Welfare regimes: Groups of countries or ideal-typical construct?; Applying the concept of welfare regimes to housing; Castles and families of nations; Setting the south in a European context

Is there a separate southern welfare system?Civil administration, dualistic labour markets and familialism; The southern European welfare system; 5 Family and Housing; Family, tradition and culture; Regional specificity in family, housing structures and practices; The place of the family in the southern development model and welfare system; Demographic parameters and trends; Household cycles and housing; Family solidarity contextualised or the circumstantial role of the family; Family strategies for housing: northern and southern Europe; Aggressive and defensive housing strategies

New conditions and changing context for family solidarityConclusion: Family solidarity, housing and social cohesion; 6 Public Action in Housing; Concepts; Ideologies, political systems and conception of public action in housing; Distinctive features of public action in housing in southern Europe; Conclusions: public action versus state action; 7 Conclusions; The distinctiveness of southern European housing systems; Theorising housing provision: lessons from southern Europe; The future of southern housing systems; References; Index

The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized. However, much of this analysis is rooted without question in the welfare states of northern Europe - there has been almost no research published in English on the provision of housing in southern Europe. Such research as exists deals with specific feature of housing policy, invariably in a single country. There is probably a.

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