{"product_id":"the-myth-of-affordable-housing-quintin-bradley-9781041039174","title":"The Myth of Affordable Housing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAffordable housing makes housing unaffordable.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Affordable Housing\u003c\/i\u003e is a critique of the abject failure of affordable housing policies to address a global crisis of need. Affordability in housing has proved an excuse for unleashing financial speculation in real estate, channelling subsidies to profit landlords, developers, capital markets, and landowners. It is a regressive strategy to maintain demand without reducing price. \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Affordable Housing\u003c\/i\u003e is an evaluation of affordability as a policy goal, and it investigates the political economy of housing from a Marxist perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe displacement of need by affordability has made market price the standard against which all goals are valued. It is this act of valuation that guides the book's critique of affordability, and it is the value form of affordable housing, its production, circulation and exchange, that provides its trajectory. Just like any other commodity, so-called affordable housing creates value and surplus value in production to realise value as money in exchange. \u003cem\u003eThe Myth of Affordable Housing\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the failure of price to effectively fulfil socially needed goals, and it maps out a revolutionary new strategy to bring decent housing for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be essential reading for postgraduate and undergraduate students, as well as researchers, working in the areas of housing policy, urban studies, and planning, surveying, construction, and real estate management.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Quintin Bradley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1041039174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781041039174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Quintin Bradley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49148405252351,"sku":"9781041039174","price":233.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-myth-of-affordable-housing-quintin-bradley-9781041039174","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}