Originally published in 1945, the purpose of Housing and the State, 1919–1944 was not to lay down what the scope of housing policy should be after the war in Great Britain, or what particular building programme should be adopted. The aim was rather more modest, it was to describe and explain some of the more important conditions which must be satisfied if certain types of housing policy were to be successful. It was only if the main difficulties and problems were known that a sensible choice could be made between them. It was this method of approaching the housing question that lead the author into a discussion of housing policy between 1919 and 1939. During these years the local authorities built over a million houses. This was perhaps the outstanding peace time experiment in state intervention in this country in the provision of a necessity of life, which had formerly been supplied almost exclusively by independent private enterprise. Today it can be read in its historical context.
By:
Marian Bowley
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781041137351
ISBN 10: 1041137354
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Housing
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 18 November 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Adult education
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Primary
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Preface. Part I: The Three Experiments in State Intervention to Improve the Supply of Houses, 1919–39 1. Background of Housing Policy 2. The First Experiment, 1919–23 3. The Second Experiment – Policy 4. The Second Experiment – Practice 5. The Second Experiment – The Contribution of Private Enterprise 6. The Second Experiment – The Contribution of Local Authorities. The Second Experiment – Epilogue 7. The Third Experiment, 1934–39 – The Return to a Sanitary Policy 8. The Third Experiment - Sanitary Policy in Practice 9. The Third Experiment – The Private Building Room Part II: The Unsettled Questions of Housing Policy, 1939–44 Introduction. 10. Unsettled Questions – The Purpose of Policy 11. Unsettled Questions – The Rent Question 12. The War and the Unsettled Questions 13. The War and the Lessons of the Past. Appendices 1. Housing Problems in Scotland 2. Statistical Notes and Tables.
Marian Bowley (1911–2002) was an economist and historian of economic thought.
