The Property Lobby by Bob Colenutt - ISBN: 9781447340492
Hardcover
The complex and self-serving nexus behind the UK’s housing crisis is laid bare in this passionate book from Bob Colenutt. Investigating the network of landowners, house-builders, financial backers and politicians, he reveals how we have been forced to accept the cycle of low supply and high prices, …

The Property Lobby

The Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis

$224.88

  • Hardcover

    196 pages

  • Release Date

    8 April 2020

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Summary

In this accessible and passionately argued book, Bob Colenutt goes to the roots of the long-term crisis in housing and planning in the UK.

Providing a much needed, in depth critique of the nexus of power of landowners, house builders, financial backers and politicians that makes up the property lobby, this radical book reveals how this complex, self-serving and intimidating network perpetuates a cycle of low supply, high prices and poor building which has resulted in one of the bigg…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781447340492
ISBN-10:1447340493
Author:Bob Colenutt
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Imprint:Policy Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:196
Release Date:8 April 2020
Weight:440g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
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Critics Review

“The housing crisis stems from a new and unholy alliance of financial, developer and land-owning interests which this timely book uncovers and promises to fix as a central part of fixing the economy and society.” Michael Edwards, University College London

About The Author

Bob Colenutt

Bob Colenutt is an activist and commentator on housing and planning, and a part-time Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

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