Expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of public and private sectors, form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe.

Richard Turkington is executive director of Housing Vision and honorary research associate at the Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. Christopher Watson is a former director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies and a member of the Housing and Communities Group in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham.