Last updated on 14/10/2024
Housing: approaches to policy
by Trevor Locke
References
Much of the research conducted when writing this book was done on-line. To help readers locate articles and documents, the references below are available on my blog [Locke 2015], in a format that allows links to be clicked on to bring up the sources.
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Centre for Housing and Support, 2015, Good practice service, www.chs.ac.uk/index.php?page=_Good_Practice_Service&id=2033
Chartered Institute of Housing, 2015, About practice online, www.cih.org/practiceonlineabout
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Corbyn, Jeremy, 2015, Tackling the housing crisis, d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/jeremyforlabour/pages/106/attachments/original/1438782182/housing.pdf?1438782182
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de Castella, Tom, 2015, Why can’t the UK build 240,000 houses a year?, BBC News magazine, www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30776306
Dean, Lewis, 2015, UK housing market: Rents outgrow house prices in England and Wales amid Summer Budget warning, in International Business Times, www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-housing-market-rents-outgrow-house-prices-england-wales-amid-summer-budget-warning-1511284
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Department for Communities and Local Government, 21 November 2011, Policy paper Laying the foundations: a housing strategy for England. UK Government. www.gov.uk/government/publications/laying-the-foundations-a-housing-strategy-for-england–2
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Department for Communities and Local Government, May 2015, Policy paper. 2010 to 2015 government policy: rented housing sector. UK Government. www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-rented-housing-sector/2010-to-2015-government-policy-rented-housing-sector
Dorling, Danny, 2015, All That Is Solid. How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It,. Penguin Books.
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Eccles, Louise, 2014, Over 40? Then you CAN’T have a mortgage: Banks are now rejecting borrowers who would still be paying off loan in retirement, The Daily Mail, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2848026/Over-40-t-mortgage-Lenders-rejecting-borrowers-paying-loan-retirement.html#ixzz3mNkhU2RT
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Evans, David, 1992, Local Area Profiles of Crime: neighbourhood crime patterns in context (Trevor Locke with Norman Davidson, University of Hull), Chapter 3 in: Crime, Policing and Place: Essays in environmental criminology. Edited by David J Evans et al. 1992. Routledge.
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