Housing markets were at the centre of the recent global financial turmoil. In this study, a multidisciplinary group of leading housing analysts from the USA, Europe, Asia and Australasia explore the impact of the crisis within and between countries.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Households, homeownership and neoliberalism / Ray Forrest -- Effects of the recent credit cycle on homeownership rates across households : what we know and what we expect / Doug Duncan and Cesar Costantino -- The credit crunch in the UK : understanding the impact on housing markets, policies and households / Peter Williams -- Housing in Iceland in the aftermath of the global financial crisis / Jón Rúnar Sveinsson -- Housing wealth, debt and stress before, during and after the Celtic Tiger / Michelle Norris and Nessa Winston -- Housing in the Netherlands before and after the global financial crisis / Richard Ronald and Kees Dol -- Housing policy and the economic crisis : the case of Hungary / József Hegedüs -- The impacts of the global financial crisis on housing and mortgage markets in Australia : a view from the vulnerable / Mike Berry, Tony Dalton and Anitra Nelson -- Rebuilding housing polices in response to the current crisis : is homeownership the solution? / David Thorns -- The global financial crisis and its impact on households : the case of urban Vietnam / Hoang Huu Phe -- Housing policy issues in South Korea since the global economic crisis : aspects of a construction-industry-dependent society / Soo-hyun Kim -- Towards a post-homeowner society? : homeownership and economic insecurity in Japan / Yosuke Hirayama -- Business nearly as usual : the global financial crisis and its impacts on households in Hong Kong / Ngai-Ming Yip -- The impact of the financial crisis on China's housing market / Jianping Ye and Chao Sun -- Concluding discussion : where to now? / Ray Forrest -- Appendix: selected key indicators.