Michael Harloe 
The People’s Home? [EPUB ebook] 
Social Rented Housing in Europe and America

Preface.
Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism.
1. Social Housing and the `Social Question’: Housing Reform
before 1914.
2. The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great
War.
3. Social Housing in the Depression.
4. The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction
and Growth.
5. Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary
Era.
6. Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Michael Harloe is Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. He is founder Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, published by Blackwell. Of his many books the most recent is Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World (Blackwell, 1992), co-edited with Susan Fainstein and Ian Gordon.