The People's Home?

The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.

Preface. Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism. 1. Social Housing and the `Social Question': Housing Reform before 1914. 2. The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great War. 3. Social Housing in the Depression. 4. The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction and Growth. 5. Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary Era. 6. Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy. Notes. Bibliography. Index.