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This chapter focuses on the underlying social-psychological value orientations associated with housing policies in northern European countries, primarily Britain, West Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden, and the impact of changing government ideologies in a period of continued recession. Recession-related factors, including slowed growth and government deficits, are fostering a fiscal austerity philosophy and an increasing conservative orientation of so-called welfare state governments. Thus, governments are changing from long-term postwar Labor-Social Democrat party control to Conservative control in Britain and West Germany, to politically divided coalition rule in Denmark and the Netherlands, and to a more conservatively oriented Socialist rule in Sweden. Increasingly, conservative governmental value orientations are instrumental in reshaping housing policies, especially decreasing state subsidization of massive new housing construction.
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Huttman, E.D. (1985). Transnational Housing Policies. In: Altman, I., Werner, C.M. (eds) Home Environments. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2266-3_13
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