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The influence of private finance on the provision of social housing in England

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This paper is one output of a research project entitled ‘The management of housing risk’ funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The authors are grateful to the Foundation for their continuing support. They would also like to thank those people who kindly took part in the research. The usual disclaimers apply. An earlier version of this paper was prepared for ‘Housing policy in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s: transformation in the East, transference from the West’, ENHR Conference in Budapest, Hungary, 7–10 September 1993, organized by Metropolitan Research Institute and Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Pryke, M., Whitehead, C. The influence of private finance on the provision of social housing in England. Neth J of Housing and the Built Environment 9, 357–379 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02496525

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