This book points at both the causes and the consequences of the shortage of affordable housing and provides an integrated economic and legal view of how housing production is dependent on housing finance, which in turn means that legal conditions and the sovereign state play an active role.

Alexander Styhre is chair of organization theory and management, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Introduction: Affordable housing for all, and other political ambitions Part I: Institutional conditions 1. Affordable housing policies 2.The credit formation process and the role of housing production and financing Part II: Empirical cases 3. The institutional setting and the design and methodology of the study 4. Ambiguous policy objectives and their consequences: Urban development project goals, their legitimacy, and the role of professional ignorance 5. Housing welfare and the value of amenities 6. What needs to be done?: The challenge to provide affordable housing