Housing Economics A Historical Approach
The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whi
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Housing Economics
Geoffrey Meen • Kenneth Gibb • Chris Leishman • Christian Nygaard
Housing Economics A Historical Approach
Geoffrey Meen Department of Economics University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom
Kenneth Gibb School of Social and Political Sciences University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom
Chris Leishman School of the Built Environment Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Christian Nygaard Department of Economics University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-47270-0 ISBN 978-1-137-47271-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-47271-7
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Preface
The cover illustration1 depicts the Long Alley almshouses in what is now the Oxfordshire town of Abingdon; the almshouses were first built in 1446 by two medieval guilds, the Fraternity of the Holy Cross and the Guild of Our Lady.2 The former received a Royal Charter in 1441, although it appears to have been in existence as a voluntary organisation for much longer, whereas records of the latter date back to 1247. The Fraternity operated as a mutual self-help society with assistance provided to its members suffering sickness or poverty; its objectives were partly religious, but also secular with an involvement in major civic infrastructure projects. A part of its Royal Charter mandate was to make provision for ‘thirteen poor sick and impotent men and women’ and Long Alley was built to meet the requirement. The Fraternity thrived through the fifteenth century, but both Guilds were supp
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