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Housing Shock : The Irish housing crisis and how to solve it / Rory Hearne ; foreword by Leilania Farha.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447353928
  • 1447353927
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Housing Shock : The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve ItDDC classification:
  • 363.509417 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7336.A3 H43 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables, boxes, figures and images -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface: housing, home,and COVID-19 -- 1. Introduction: a new housing crisis -- 2. Generation Rent -- 3. Homelessness: the most extreme inequality -- 4. The normalisation of homelessness -- 5. Working for social justice: community, activism and academia -- 6. The neoliberal roots of the current crisis -- 7. The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs -- 8. Inequality and financialisation
9. The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation -- 10. The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all -- 11. The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all -- 12. A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all -- References -- Index -- Back cover
Summary: Hearn contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context and examines its origins in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Using real voices and stories, he shows how the crisis is having profound impacts on equality, wellbeing and health.
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Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables, boxes, figures and images -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface: housing, home,and COVID-19 -- 1. Introduction: a new housing crisis -- 2. Generation Rent -- 3. Homelessness: the most extreme inequality -- 4. The normalisation of homelessness -- 5. Working for social justice: community, activism and academia -- 6. The neoliberal roots of the current crisis -- 7. The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs -- 8. Inequality and financialisation

9. The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation -- 10. The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all -- 11. The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all -- 12. A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all -- References -- Index -- Back cover

Hearn contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context and examines its origins in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Using real voices and stories, he shows how the crisis is having profound impacts on equality, wellbeing and health.

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