Housing policy, wellbeing and social development in Asia

Using case study examples from countries including China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors contextualize housing policy development in terms of both global and local socio-economic and political changes.

They then investigate how policy changes have shaped and reshaped the housing wellbeing of the local people and the social development within these places, which they argue should constitute the core purpose of housing policy.