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Cover of Markets, States and Housing Provision: Four European Growth Regions Compared
This study compares housing provision over the 1980s in high growth regions in Britain (Berkshire), France (Southern Greater Paris and Toulouse) and Sweden (Northern Greater Stockholm). The results show higher levels of efficiency in the Swedish case, and to a lesser extent in the French areas, produced by state intervention to open up housing land and finance markets. This has counteracted market tendencies to short term planning, underinvestment speculative behaviour and boom/slump patterns. It has also allowed diversity in housing production where markets fail to recognise the longer term social and economic benefits of a variety of produce and tenures.