Housing, social policy and difference

"... an exceptionally well written and thoughtful book, successfully pulling together for discussion a variety of exclusionary experiences." Housing Studies "... amply succeeds in its aim of showing the extent of 'difference' in housing ... The chapters on social regulation in housing, disability and race deal impressively, and in a most scholarly fashion, with a vast amount of material and constitute valuable and up-to-date reviews of these topics for housing and social policy students." Journal of Social Policy "... a well-constructed and challenging contriburion to housing studies, and one that should be widely read." Canadian Journal of Urban Research "What is achieved is a considered, theoretically aware and well informed approach for understanding the pratical implications of welfare systems and social diversity within the increasingly salient context of housing. Their distinct theoretical approcah to agency and institutional power illustrates will the comlexity of the interaction of 'difference' and the welfare state, with difinitive cases being identified and explicated in terms of housing and disability, ethnicity and gender. Overall this book is impressive in both its contribution to the theoretical debate and its analysis of the housing context in the UK and the issues facing policy makers and practitioners. The writing is simultaneously academic and accessible ."Canadian Journal of Urban Research "... impressive in both its contribution to the theoretical debate and its analysis of the developments in the housing context in the UK and the issues facing policy makers and practitioners." HSA Newsletter "The book amply succeds in its aim of showing the extent of 'difference' in housing. No one could fail to be impressed by the wealth of evidence that Harrison cites in this regard.... The chapters on social regulation in housing, disability and rece deal impressively, and in a most scholarly fashion, with a vast amount of meterial, and constitute valuable and up-to-date reviews of these topics for housing and social policy students."HSA Newsletter