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While most of this book is devoted to a critique of the efficiency of housing policy as a vehicle for achieving some traditional aims of social policy, this chapter centres on perhaps the most contentious of these aims, the alleviation of social disadvantage. We argue that patterns of inequality are much more entrenched than is traditionally allowed for in the market model of provision, and we examine the extent to which housing mediates, sustains or ameliorates some wider aspects of deprivation.
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© 1990 David Clapham, Peter Kemp and Susan J. Smith
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Clapham, D., Kemp, P., Smith, S.J. (1990). Housing Disadvantage. In: Housing and Social Policy. Studies in Social Policy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20676-6_3
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