Introduction to Accessible Housing -- Housing for All: From Rhetoric to A Reality Check on Slum Statistics for operationalising the Flagship missions in India -- India’s poor and better-off urban citizens: Cycles of proximity and segregation -- Housing Inequality by Social Groups, Gender, and...

The purpose of this chapter is to survey recent research on housing markets and policy in what used to be called the “second” and “third” worlds. We adopt the labels “transition” economies to refer to countries as disparate as Russia and Vietnam, and “developing” to refer to...

This chapter examines certain of the developments in the application of economic theory and in empirical and policy analysis with respect to housing markets in general and urban housing markets in particular. The majority of the material refers to US and UK experience with some English language...