# Social Housing in Europe II. A review of policies and outcomes (LSE, Dec 2008)

* **Social Housing in Europe II. A review of policies and outcomes**
* Edited by Kathleen Scanlon and Christine Whitehead. Published by the London School of Economics (LSE) in December 2008
* Available as a PDF file on the International Union of Tenants site: <http://www.iut.nu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Social-Housing-in-Europe-II.pdf>
* **Summary**:
  * This book is a sequel to and builds on Social Housing in Europe, published in 2007 by LSE London. That first book was descriptive, and aimed to give an overview of thesocial housing sector in nine European countries \[Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden] in a format accessible to the non-specialist. This  second  book  explores  in  more  depth  some  of  the  themes  thatemerged from the first. (...)
  * Within each country there is an ongoing debate about social housing policy.  These debates  usually  centre  on  the  particular  national  experience,  with  little  reference  to developments  even  in  neighbouring  countries.
  * But  as  Social  Housing  in  Europe showed, **the social housing sectors in all European countries are facing similar pressures:**
    * **from  immigration  and  demographic  trends,**
    * **from  European  regulation,**
    * **from increased aspirations and the rise of owner-occupation**.
  * Discussions  within  the  group  of  researchers  that  contributed  to  Social  Housing  in Europe showed that there were several topic areas we wanted to investigate further that could contribute to the European discussion.
  * This book thus looks again at social housing  in  the  same  nine  countries,  but  it  is  organised  thematically  rather  than  by country. The sections are entitled
    * **Perspectives: historical, economic and legal background to social housing;**
    * **Transformation: tenure change, innovative forms of social housing  and  shifts  in  financing;**
    * **Regeneration:  social  housing  and  its  role  in  urban renewal;**
    * **Impacts: empirical work on the effects of particular social-housing policies in particular cities and European policy.**
    * **Finally, there is an Overview**.
* **Keywords**: social housing, national regulations, EU regulations, European Union, EU, European Commission, EC, narrow definition, vulnerable populations, universalism, Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden