Review of Nodoka Nagayama, Doitsu Jyūtaku Mondai no Shakai Keizaishi teki Kenkyū: Fukushi Kokka to Hieiri Jyūtaku Kensetsu (Study on the Socio-economic History of Housing Problems in Germany: Welfare State and Non-profit Housing)

Satoshi Baba ()
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Satoshi Baba: The University of Tokyo

Chapter Chapter 8 in Economic History of Cities and Housing, 2017, pp 121-125 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this book is to clarify the characteristics of German housing problems in the 1920s. In the introduction the author shows some fundamental viewpoints. Firstly, she points out that German housing problems in the 1920s should be divided into three components: (1) the deficiency of the housing for low-income classes including manual workers after 1850 (the old type); (2) the deficiency of housing for young couples after World War I (the new type); (3) the housing problem for large families and war victims (the specific type). Secondly, the author takes notice the non-profit (public utility) housing organizations that constructed small housing units and did not aim to make a profit. Thirdly, the author concentrates on researching the case of the city of Solingen where non-profit housing was built most actively among the cities in Germany at that period. Moreover the author stresses some characteristics of the German welfare state, namely: (1) cities were its driving forces; (2) the post-World War I demographic transformation of generations and household composition forced the formation of welfare state; (3) a wide range of social strata was its beneficiary.

Keywords: Welfare State; Housing Policy; Homeless People; Household Composition; Housing Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4097-9_8

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