Drawing on research from the US, the UK, and Australia, this study focuses on dramatic changes (since 2005) in how people live and want to live at various stages of life. Beer and Faulkner (both: geography, U. of Adelaide, Australia)--with contributions from two associates, Chris Paris and Terry Clower--discuss housing markets and policy, including the international context and policy transfer; housing needs of younger, mid-life, older adults, and disabled individuals; and economic restructuring and the marginalized. The concluding chapter looks at the housing market over the next decades. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. This important contribution to the literature argues that how we think about households and their housing needs to be recast to acknowledge this changed environment and provide a more powerful conceptual framework.
The housing we live in shapes individual access to jobs, health, well being and communities. There are also substantial differences between generations regarding the type of housing they aspire to live in, their attitudes to housing costs, the nature of their households and their attitudes to different tenures. This important contribution to the literature draws upon research from the UK, Australia and the USA to show how lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. It also considers how the global financial crisis has differentially affected housing markets across the globe, with variable impacts on the long term housing transitions of different populations.
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