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‘Many people are asking whether Britain took the wrong road to housing
lower-income families. This well documented history of what a number of
other European countries did enables this question to be answered.’
Brian Abel-Smith, Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics.
Hovels to high rise traces how governments became involved in replacing
industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete
estates; how huge inflows of rural and foreign migrants ended up
reoccupying slums, then being housed in the poorest estates; how
governments set up rescue programmes to reverse spiralling conditions on
the worst estates; and how state-sponsored housing made a significant
comeback in all countries at the outset of the 1990s.
Using detailed research on five countries—France, Germany, Britain,
Denmark and Ireland—and carried out with close reference to the central
housing bodies in each area, Anne Power highlights the convergence in
housing experience between the countries and the lessons that can be
learnt. By describing the historical foundations of the developments in
housing structure, covering the different traditions of inner-city
development, tenant-oriented housing, co-operatives, mass-rented building,
rural and suburban owner-occupation, private landlords, and large local
authority projects, she provides a comprehensive study of housing systems
in each country showing that despite the differing backgrounds the
problems are often the same. She looks at the attempts governments have
made to fund state housing initiatives that try to avoid the development of
ghettos found so often in America. As the similarities and differences
throughout Europe are explored and the changing structure of social
housing is charted, the author is able to draw a picture of European-wide
political commitment to urban integration, while warning that there is still a
trend towards polarization that will affect the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic
urban societies of the future.

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