Title
Privatization and Social Change: Housing Policy in the United States, Sweden and the Netherlands
Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
Recent European public programs focused on universal provision have become more individualized in the face of budgetary restrictions and ever-expanding global bureaucracies. The housing sector exemplifies these changes, and demonstrates how and why governments choose to incorporate market mechanisms to increase efficiency and reduce spending. I argue that European public housing sectors are becoming increasingly similar to that of the American system, and that it is a combination of evolving policy and social attitudes that makes this possible; that an increasing tolerance for inequality and a rise in individualism relates to the privatization of housing markets and emerging social problems.
Recommended Citation
Schweigert, Joseph, "Privatization and Social Change: Housing Policy in the United States, Sweden and the Netherlands" (2008). Sociology Honors Projects. 12.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/soci_honors/12
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