European Integration and Housing Policy

<p>This book presents a series of debates arising from the housing needs of different EU countries. The authors address key issues by examining in turn:<br> * the consequences of European integration for different housing markets * the impact of the Maastricht Treaty and other policy documents * the social consequences of integration including income distribution, homelessness and marginal housing estates<br> * current housing policy in the Nordic countries and in Eastern Europe.</p> 1: Introduction; 1: Markets; 2: Are Housing Finance Systems Converging Within the European Union?; 3: Housing Investment in Europe; 4: Uncertainty in European Housing Markets; 5: The Impact of European Integration on the Construction Industry; 2: Policies; 6: Fiscal Restraint and Housing Policies Under Economic and Monetary Union; 7: Planning, Housing and the European Union; 8: The Control and Promotion of Quality in New Housing Design; 3: Outcomes; 9: Housing, Tenure and International Comparisons of Income Distribution; 10: Paying for Owner-Occupied Housing; 11: Homelessness in the European Union; 12: Marginal Housing Estates in Europe; 13: Western European Housing Policies; 4: Diversity in the European Union; 14: The Nordic Countries; 15: European Integration and the East-Central European ‘Outsiders' 1