Subject(s): Housing policy -- Housing Development -- Housing finance -- Housing policy - origin and variations : European paradigm -- Undertaking comparative housing policy studies -- Policy options and frameworks : Range of policy options, distinctiveness of housing -- Policy of what ends : Organizing theoretical perspectives, theories of increasing similarities, theories of increasing dissimilarity, welfare state retrenchment -- Exploring whole housing system : Convergence approaches, divergence approaches, retrenchment -- Housing development and construction : Development - construction stages, developer types, development types and welfare regimes -- Housing finance : Finance for development, finance systems for home ownership, deregulation and convergence, EU and single market -- Housing subsidies : Home ownership, social housing, private renting, volume and distribution of subsidies -- Home ownership : Structure of housing provision, statistical trends, explaining variation in size -- Social housing : Public or voluntary provision -- private renting : Historical background, national variations -- Which policy work best : Evaluating government rhetoric, evaluating outcomes