The Tenants' Movement: Resident involvement, community action and the contentious politics of housing (Housing and Society Series)

Bradley Quintin

ISBN 10: 0415720265 / ISBN 13: 9780415720267

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2014

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pp. 200.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tenants' Movement: Resident involvement, community action and the contentious politics of housing (Housing and Society Series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415720265
• ISBN 13: 9780415720267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Tenants' Movement is both a history of tenant organization and mobilization, and a guide to understanding how the struggles of tenant organizers have come to shape housing policy today. Charting the history of tenant mobilization, and the rise of consumer movements in housing, it is one of the first cross-cultural, historical analyses of tenants’ organizations’ roles in housing policy.

The Tenants' Movement shows both the past and future of tenant mobilization. The book’s approach applies social movement theory to housing studies, and bridges gaps between research in urban sociology, urban studies, and the built environment, and provides a challenging study of the ability of contemporary social movements, community campaigns and urban struggles to shape the debate around public services and engage with the unfinished project of welfare reform.

About the Author

Quintin Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Planning and Housing Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.