英国房屋政策的废黜外文翻译.docVIP

本科毕业设计（论文） 外 文 翻 译 原文： The unravelling of housing policy in Britain. ABSTRACT This paper reviews developments in British housing policy in the last 17 years, arguing that policies which were put in place in the early 1980s have unravelled in the mid-1990s. The analysis concentrates on three main themes in contemporary British housing policy: the promotion of individual home ownership, the deregulation of private renting and the shift from bricks and mortar subsidy to means tested forms of assistance with housing costs. The conclusion points to the tensions between housing policy and social security policy, and the difficulties for both home ownership and rented housing strategies arising from profound changes in the labour market. INTRODUCTION Housing provision in Britain continues to be distinct from other countries in Europe and the US, most obviously in the relatively high level of rented housing provided by local authorities and the relatively small private rented sector. However, in recent years Britains experience of housing market recession and an increasingly residualised and problematised social rented sector has been shared by a number of other countries, to a greater or lesser extent, and, despite the distinctive features of British housing policy, there are certain common themes in the policy responses that have been generated. THE HOUSING MARKET This section outlines the cycle of slump, boom and slump which has affected the British housing market since 1980, and highlights the differences between the more interventionist policies of the period up to the early 1990s and the less interventionist policy stance of the mid-1990s. It all began to go wrong for the government in the summer of 1988, following the Chancellors budget announcement of the impending end of multiple tax relief (this was an anomaly under which unmarried couples had each been able to claim interest relief on up to ￡30 000 of mortgage debt). Advance notice of the withdrawal of t