The Future of Public Housing

Part I. Public Housing in the East

1. The Transferability of Public Housing Policy Within Asia: Reflections from the Hong Kong-Mainland China Case Study
Rebecca L. H. Chiu

2. Public Housing in Mainland China: History, Ongoing Trends, and Future Perspectives
Jie Chen, Juan Jing, Yanyun Man, Zan Yang

3. Public Housing Programs and the Challenge of Household Affordability in Beijing
Zan Yang, Chengdong Yi, Wei Zhang

4. Public Housing in Shanghai: A Tool with Multiple Purposes
Ying Chang, Jie Chen

5. Challenges to Public Housing in Post-colonial Hong Kong
Ngai Ming Yip

6. Public Housing Policy in Taiwan
Chin-Oh Chang, Shu-Mei Yuan

7. The Story of Singapore’s Public Housing: From a Nation of Home-Seekers to a Nation of Homeowners
Yongheng Deng, Tien Foo Sing, Chaoqun Ren

8. New Experiments in Public Housing Supply in Seoul, South Korea: The Possibilities and Limits
Yeong-Hee Jang, Soo-Hyun Kim

9. Public Housing and Neoliberal Policy in Japan
Yosuke Hirayama

Part II. Public Housing in the West

10. Public Housing in Europe and North America
Alan Murie

11. From Public Housing to Joint Ventures: Lessons from the U.S. Housing Policy Development
Lan Deng, Zhu Xiaodi

12. Social Housing in the United Kingdom
Mark Stephens

13. “Everyone Should Be Housed”: The French Generalist Model of Social Housing at Stake
Claire Lévy-Vroelant

14. Maturation of the Dutch Social Housing Model and Perspectives for the Future
Peter Boelhouwer

15. Understanding Variation in the Size of the Public Housing Sector Across Swedish Municipalities: The Role of Politics
Roger Andersson

16. “Unorthodox” Housing Policy in Hungary: Is There a Way Back to Public Housing?
József Hegedüs

Part III. Concluding Part

17. Reflections
Ray Forrest

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Public Finance & Economics, Political Economy