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Title:State & Housing in Ireland : Ideology, Policy & Practice
Series:(William Thompson Series for Democratic Social Studies & International Social Policy)
Author:Cathal O'Connell
ISBN:1600217591 : 9781600217593
Illustrations:tables
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:190
Weight: .606 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - June 2007
List Price: 52.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Housing: Ireland (including the Republic)


Despite dealing with housing as one of the core issues of individuals' well-being and life situation, Cathal O'Connell's subject matter -- and approach -- is oriented towards an issue that is going far beyond the question of well-being, living standards and redistribution issues. Housing, or more generally, accommodation is a fundamental expression -- and building block -- of societies, and as such it has to be understood as core issue of socialisation, i.e. of the mode in which a society builds up its own identity and integrity. Thus, the lesson from O'Connell's systematically researched, deeply and in details informed work is reaching far beyond national housing issues. And it is in this sense that they are an important contribution to explain as well some of the general challenges of European integration.

Preface; Foreword: Housing in Ireland: What Living Rooms Tell about the World (Peter Herrmann); Introduction; Housing Policy and Home Making in Ireland; Chapter One: Housing, Poverty and Mortality: The Origins of State Housing in Ireland; Chapter Two: Independence, Austerity and Housing in Free State Ireland; Chapter Three: The Drive Against Slum Housing: Second Class Homes for Second Class Citizens?; Chapter Four: Retreat, Retrenchment, and Residualisation in Irish Social Housing; Chapter Five: Housing Management and Tenant Participation: A Policy Review; Chapter Six: Reform and Responsibility: Critical Perspectives on Tenant Participation; Chapter Seven: Selling the Collective Home: Tenant Purchase and Local Authority Housing in Ireland; Chapter Eight: The State and Promotion of Home Ownership in Ireland; Chapter Nine: Irish Social Housing in the Comparative Context; Chapter Ten: State or Market? Meeting Social Housing Needs in Twenty-First Century Ireland; Bibliography; Index.