The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. With housing playing an increasingly important role in welfare provision, the new welfare state emerging in different parts of the world is being developed in the context of individual asset accumulation and the private ownership of housing. Housing and the New Welfare State shows that housing is becoming critical to asset-based welfare not only in Western Europe but also in the six East Asian housing systems that are a major focus of the book. Chapters by leading East Asian scholars provide analysis of housing policies in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Also examined are the 'four worlds' of welfare and housing; the causes and consequences of the shift from tenants to home owners in the old welfare states of Britain and other parts of Western Europe; and the growth of the property-owning welfare state as a theme running through contemporary policy in both East Asia and Europe.

Chapter 1 Four Worlds of Welfare and Housing, Richard Groves, Alan Murie, Christopher Watson; Chapter 2 The Singapore Model of Housing and the Welfare State, Sock-Yong Phang; Chapter 3 The State-managed Housing System in Hong Kong, K Y Lau; Chapter 4 The State and Housing Policy in Korea, Shin-Young Park; Chapter 5 Housing and State Strategy in Post-War Japan, Yosuke Hirayama; Chapter 6 From Socialist Welfare to Support of Home-Ownership: The Experience of China, Ya Ping Wang; Chapter 7 Taiwan's Housing Policy in the Context of East Asian Welfare Models, Pui Yee Connie Tang; Chapter 8 From Tenants to Home-Owners: Change in the Old Welfare States, Richard Groves, Alan Murie, Christopher Watson; Chapter 9 The Property Owning Welfare State, Richard Groves, Alan Murie, Christopher Watson;