The social construction of social housing
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1993
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Harloe, Michael
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Urban Research Program. Research School of Social Science. Australian National University.
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In a recently published study of housing in the EC countries, Roger
Quilliot, the French socialist former Minister of Housing, refers to the
high level of poverty and housing need in Europe (Ghekiere, 1991). Fifty
million of the EC's 337 million population are poor and mainly badly
housed and between 3 and 5 million actually homeless. Clearly, recent
years have seen the re-emergence of a major shortage of affordable
housing. In many countries, some housing issues are again appea~g in
the political agenda . Concerns include the social, political and racial
turmoil which surrounds some peripheral grands ensembles in France, the
crisis of mortgage foreclosures and repossessions in the UK, the racially
tinged conflict over access to and ownership of housing in reunified
Germany and, most common of all perhaps, the rising tide of
homelessness.
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