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Guide to Further Reading Guide to Further Reading The volume of literature concerned with housing in Britain has grown enormously in recent years, and there is now also an expanding body of comparative work. This guide to further reading identifies important books which are readily accessible, and lists them under a series of headings which reflect an attempt to cover the scope of housing studies. In using this guide, however, it is important to remember that classifications of this kind are inevitably arbitrary to some extent, and the headings used here do not represent watertight categories: books are mentioned under the most appropriate heading, and some appear more than once. Reference should also be made to the various journals which regularly publish on housing issues. Academic journals include: Housing Studies, Urban Studies, Policy and Politics, Journal of Social Policy, Area, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Professional journals include: Housing Review, Roof, Housing, Inside Housing, Social Housing, Agenda, and Housing Today. The Council of Mortgage Lenders publishes a quarterly, Housing Finance, which contains articles on private housing and a mass of valuable statistics on mortgages and house prices. This journal continues the series previously published as the Building Societies Bulletin. In addition, organisations such as the Institute of Housing, CHAS and Shelter regularly produce useful pamphlets and other publications on housing topics. Academic institutions such as CURS (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham), SPS (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol), the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, and the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, publish working papers and occasional papers on housing and related issues. A useful addition to the housing literature is the book by Douglas Robertson and Pat McLaughlin (Looking into Housing: A Practical Guide to Housing Research, Chartered Institute of Housing, 1996). This fills a gap for students planning dissertations and practitioners with research projects to carry out. The housing system P. Balchin's Housing Policy: An Introduction (Routledge, 3rd edn, 1995) provides a useful complement to Housing Policy and Practice, including as it does chapters on investment and the house building industry as well as the main housing tenures. A new book edited by Balchin and Rhoden (Housing: The Essential Foundations, Routledge, 1998) provides an up-to-date introduction to the field, as do Social Housing: An introduction (Longman, 1998), by Stephen Harriott and Lesley Matthews, and Housing and Public Policy, edited by Alex Marsh and David Mullins (Open University Press, 1998). An excellent summary of developments over the last quarter of the twentieth century is provided by John Hills in the second edition of The State of Welfare, edited by Glennerster and Hills (Oxford University Press, 1998). Mary Smith's Guide to Housing (Housing Centre Trust, 3rd edn, 1989) offers a wide-ranging 281 282 Guide to Further Reading but largely uncritical survey of the housing system in Britain, including contributed chapters on Scotland and Northern Ireland (but not Wales). It is unfortunate that Housing Policy (Penguin, 1982) by D. Donnison and C. Ungerson is now out of date and out of print. There are a number of other general books which are now of largely historical value only: A. Murie, P. Niner and C. Watson, Housing Policy and the Housing System (Allen & Unwin, 1976); J. B. Cullingworth, Essays on Housing Policy (Allen & Unwin, 1979); S. Lansley, Housing and Public Policy (Croom Helm, 1979). Similarly dated but still potentially useful are the three parts of the Technical Volume which accompanied the Green Paper (Housing Policy: A Consultative Document, HMSO, 1977). These contain discussions and statistical data on all the main tenures, and can be updated by reference to the regular statistical series such as Housing and Construction Statistics (which appear quarterly and in an annual volume covering the last 10 years). Report of the Inquiry into British Housing (NFHA, 1985) contained much valuable material and interesting, if contentious, interpretation. (See also the two accompanying volumes of Evidence and Supplement and the Second Report, 1991.) During the 1980s, alternatives to the dominant perspective on housing were developed by, for instance, the Labour Housing Group, which published Right to a Home in 1984 (Spokesman). This was followed up by pamphlets from the LHG, such as Manifestofor Housing (1985) and A Housing Vision for the 1990s (1988). A later collection of essays by LHG members was edited by Jane Darke (The Roof Over Your Head, Spokesman, 1992). Meanwhile right-wing academics also made their contributions, among them P. Minford, P. Ashton and M. Peel, The Housing Morass (lEA, 1987)and J. Black and D. Stafford, Housing Policy and Finance (Routledge, 1988). In this context it is appropriate to mention Alice Coleman's highly influential Utopia on Trial (Hilary Shipman, 1985). The book presents a popularised account of research on council flats in London, and amounts to a polemic against public housing. Whereas Coleman located the housing problem in the public sector, the collection edited by P. Malpass clearly set out a wider perspective on housing in the mid-1980s: The Housing Crisis (Croom Helm, 1986). A book which is distinguished by its explicitly theoretical objectives is Jim Kemeny's Housing and Social Theory (Routledge, 1992). A valuable reminder of the differences within the British housing system is provided by the book edited by Hector Currie and Alan Murie on Housing in Scotland (Chartered Institute of Housing, 1996). The history of housing and housing policy The best general introduction to housing problems and policy responses up to 1914 is still E. Gauldie's Cruel Habitations (Allen & Unwin, 1974), which should be read in conjunction with J. N. Tarn's Five Per Cent Philanthropy (Cambridge University Press, 1973) and J. Burnett's A Social History of Housing 1815-1985 (David & Charles, 2nd edn, 1985). See also M. Daunton, A Property Owning Democracy? (Faber, 1987) for a short account of the history on housing in Britain. There continues to be interest in the housing management work of Octavia Hill, and the best modern biography is by Gillian Darley (Octavia Hill: A Life, Constable, 1990); enthusiasts should also consult the very useful edition of Hill's essays and letters to her fellow workers, edited by Robert Whelan (Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1998). Guide to Further Reading 283 A very useful addition to the literature is the collection of articles edited by John Goodwin and Carol Grant, Built to Last? Reflections on British Housing Policy (Shelter, revised edition, 1997). Another useful collection of essays, conceived to commemorate the centenary of the passing of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 is A New Century of Social Housing, edited by Lowe and Hughes (Leicester University Press, 1991). Patrick Nuttgens' book based on his television series, Home Front (BBC, 1989), covers a lot of ground in a very accessible form, in contrast to the massive historical survey of housing policy by Alan Holmans, Housing Policy in Britain: A History (Croom Helm, 1987). This is immensely thorough within the areas covered, but it gives little attention to the years before 1914 and stops in the late 1970s, and it is not an easy read. More advanced students of nineteenth-century housing should refer to D. Eng­ lander's excellent study of Landlord and Tenant in Urban Britain, 1838-1918 (Clar­ endon Press, 1982) and M. Daunton's House and Home in the Victorian City (Edward Arnold, 1983). More focused studies are provided by A. Wohl's major work on housing and poverty in London, The Eternal Slum (Edward Arnold, 1977) and A. Jackson's Semi­ Detached London (Allen & Unwin, 1973) which looks at suburban housing develop­ ment. Michael Harloe's massive comparative study of social housing in Europe and the USA (The People's Home?, Blackwell, 1995) can be profitably read just for its British content. M. Swenarton, Homes Fit for Heroes (Heinemann, 1981) and L. Orbach, Homes for Heroes (Seeley, Service, 1977) between them give a good account of the key events during and just after the First World War, but reference should also be made to the papers in J. Melling (ed.), Housing, Social Policy and the State (Croom Helm, 1980); these cover the period from about 1885 to 1939 and are based on local case studies, with, in most instances, a strong theoretical content. The interwar period is dealt with in M. Daunton, Councillors and Tenants: Local Authority Housing in English Cities, 1919-1939 (Leicester University Press, 1984). This includes four local case-studies and is rich in fascinating historical detail. Two important but difficult-to-obtain studies dealing with housing policy between the wars are M. Bowley's Housing and the State (Allen & Unwin, 1945) and J. R. Jarmain's less well-known Housing Subsidies and Rents (Steven, 1948). Their work has been drawn upon by subsequent writers such as A. Nevitt, Housing, Taxation and Subsidies (Nelson, 1966), R. A. Parker, The Rents of Council Houses (Bell, 1967) and S. Merrett, State Housing in Britain (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), who are all concerned with post-1945 developments as well. Nevitt's book is now of limited value and Parker's book has been superseded by P. Malpass, Reshaping Housing Policy: Subsidies, Rents and Residualisation (Routledge, 1990). Merrett's book is still the most comprehensive and authoritative historical account of the development of public housing. A number of writers have provided historical studies of particular issues within a narrow period of time. For example, K. Banting has looked at private sector rent policy in the years after the Conservatives' 1957 Rent Act, and the process that Jed to Labour's response, the 1965 Rent Act, in Poverty, Policy and Politics (Macmillan, 1979).
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