Table of Contents

1: A brief history of social housing
2: The provision and disposal of social housing
3: Social housing: its allocation, the rights and status of its tenants
4: The legalities of housing finance, rents and subsidies
5: Housing and relationships
6: Homelessness
7: Housing standards
8: Multi-occupancy and overcrowding
Index

About the Author

David Hughes, LLB (Liverpool), LLM (Cantab), FRSA, Professor of Law, Environmental Law Institute, De Montfort University, Leicester Stuart Lowe, BA (Hons), Dip. Applied Social Studies (Community Development and Organisation) (Wales), PhD (Sheffield), Senior lecturer in Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York