The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use.
For housing to be provided as a human need, land must be recognised as a common right.
Property, Planning and Protest is a compelling new investigation into public opposition to housing and real estate development. Its innovative materialist approach is grounded in the political economy of land value, and it recognises the conflict between communities and real estate capital as a struggle over land and property rights. Property, Planning and Protest is about a social movement struggling for democratic representation in land-use decisions. The amenity groups it describes champion a democratic plan-led system that allocates land for social and environmental goals. Situating this movement in a history of land reform and common rights, this book sets out a persuasive new vision of democratic planning and affordable housing for all.
Author(s): Quintin Bradley
Series: Explorations in Housing Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 162
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: The Politics of Housing Supply
The Home Voter Myth
A Materialist Inquiry
Liquid Real Estate
A Struggle Over Land
Collective Action and Private Property
Property Rights and Planning Publics
The Town Planning Movement
In Defence of Planning
Unruly Publics
Contentious Politics
The Possibilities of Change
Chapter 2: Land as a Financial Asset
Supply-Side Stories
Deregulating Property Rights
Usurping Democratic Planning
Rigging the Zoning Game
Land Markets in Housing Development
Rent Theory
Artificial Scarcity in Housebuilding
Landownership and Monopoly Rent
Chapter 3: Housing Need or Greed
Land as a Fictional Commodity
Housing as a Hostage
Planning for Housing Need
Public Housing and Public Land Value
Dispossession and Displacement
The Theft of Land
From Need to Affordability
Planning for Market Demand
Housing Targets and Affordability Metrics
The Redistribution of Property Rights
Chapter 4: The Inclusive Rights of Property
Protest and Property Rights
Exclusion and Inclusion
An Ideology of Improvement
Derivative Rent
Expropriation from the Land
Common Rights and the Town Planning Movement
The Defence of Green Belt as Common Heritage
Who Has the Right to What?
A Claim to Common Rights
Common Land and the Public Interest
Chapter 5: Housing as a Collective Concern
Land Value and Unearned Income
Land Value as Common Property
Community Land Value Capture
Better Life from Betterment
Private Capture of Land Value
The Fetishization of Housing
Democratic Planning for Housing
Participation in Housing Decisions
Chapter 6: Down to Earth
The Nature of Having
Property and Reciprocity
Land Is Not Property
Community Landownership
Obligations of Stewardship
Planning for Citizens‘ Control
Property Rights Wrong
Planning against Property
Bibliography
Index
