Cover -- Housing policy and economic power -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1 Housing problems and owner occupation -- 2 The origins of mass home ownership -- 3 The modern speculative housebuilding industry -- 4 Building for the new housing market -- 5 Housing development and land dealing -- 6 The housing production process and the crisis of production -- 7 Land-use planning and speculative housebuilding -- 8 The demise of planning control -- 9 Owner occupiers: a social category and its consequences -- 10 Building societies and the changing mortgage market -- 11 The unstable housing market -- 12 The political economy of owner occupation -- 13 Towards new forms of housing provision -- Appendix: The survey of housebuilding firms and planning authorities: research method -- Notes -- References -- Index.