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008			090401t1995 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
035			_a(Sirsi) u62421
041			_aeng
100			_aKleinman, M.
245			_aMeeting housing needs through the market : an assessment of housing policies and the supply/demand balance in France and Great Britain
260			_c1995
350			_a0
490			_aHousing Studies _v10(1) January 1995, 17-38(22)
520			_aIn Britain and France, housing policy has become more market-orientated. This paper examines what this has meant for the balance between supply and demand and for progress in meeting housing needs. Projections for how housing needs and the demand/supply balance will develop in the 1990s are also analysed. Several common issues are identified : the existence of unmet housing needs, problems of indebtedness, the limits to the expansion of owner occupation, problems of social housing finance, and concerns about the decline of the private rented sector. There are also important differences between the two countries : housing output remains at a higher levels in France than in Britain; deregulation of housing finance has gone further in Britain than in France; and in France there remains a greater recognition by government that housing is a national responsibility. In both countries, the `marketisation` of housing policy means that housing outcomes have become more dependent on factors ex
650			_aDEMOGRAPHY
650			_aHOUSING POLICY
650			_aSUPPLY AND DEMAND
690			_aHOUSING
690			_aOVERSEAS-EUROPE
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c38793 _d38793