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Comparative Housing Research*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Michael Harloe  and
Maartje Martens
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Abstract

The paper reviews major examples of comparative housing research which have been published in the last twenty years and suggests that the dominant approach — grounded in pluralism and convergence theory — which they exhibit is inadequate. Future studies need to be both more detailed and wider in scope, examining the dynamic of the interrelations between the institutions and the social forces involved in the provision of housing. Such a perspective is briefly developed and related to current developments in the housing markets and policies of some advanced capitalist societies. The paper concludes with a discussion of some of the practical problems of cross-national housing research.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 255 - 277
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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