Housing allowances in comparative perspective /

Housing allowances in comparative perspective / / Peter A. Kemp.

Housing allowances have become increasingly important policy instruments in the advanced welfare states. Operating at the interface between housing and social security policy, they provide means-tested assistance with housing costs for low income households. In the present era of fiscal austerity, s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
VerfasserIn:
Kemp, Peter A.,
MitwirkendeR:
Elsinga, Marja,
Hulse, Kath,
Kemp, Peter A.,
Kofner, Stefan,
Lux, Martin,
Newman, Sandra J.,
Priemus, Hugo,
Satsangi, Madhu,
Steele, Marion,
Sunega, Petr,
Thorns, David C.,
Åhrén, Per,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • Housing allowances in context
  • Housing allowances and the restructuring of the Australian welfare state
  • The New Zealand experience of housing allowances
  • Canadian housing allowances
  • Housing allowances American style: the Housing Choice Voucher programme
  • Housing Benefit in Britain: a troubled history and uncertain future
  • Housing allowances in France
  • Housing allowances in Germany
  • Housing allowances in the Netherlands: the struggle for budgetary controllability
  • Housing allowance systems in Sweden
  • Housing allowances in the Czech Republic in comparative perspective
  • Housing allowances in the advanced welfare states
  • Index

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