A Decent Home: Planning, Building, and Preserving Affordable Housing

ISBN-13: 9781932364590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 384 str.

Alan Mallach

Opis

As more and more families lose their homes to foreclosure, affordable housing is very much in the public eye. Across the country, lawmakers and community development organizations scramble to create affordable, decent places to live for the millions in need. Yet affordable housing remains poorly understood and widely controversial, with even experienced professionals finding it difficult to navigate the maze of legal and financial complications that surround it. With "A Decent Home," housing expert Alan Mallach disentangles the issues and breaks down the jargon, offering professionals and educated laypersons a comprehensive picture of what affordable housing is, how it works, and how it is planned and developed. Mallach examines the most important issues and controversies surrounding affordable housing including social, economic, and political considerations and provides readers with the information and insight to develop thoughtful, responsible opinions about an issue that is hotly contested both nationally and in individual communities around the nation."

Spis treści

1. The Case for Affordable Housing 2. Affordable Housing in the United States: A Short History 3. Designing Affordable Housing 4. Finding Sites and Gaining Approval for Affordable Housing 5. Making the Numbers Work: Financing Affordable Housing 6. Developing Affordable Housing, Step-by-Step 7. Concentration and Opportunity: Undoing the Exclusion of Affordable Housing 8. Affordable Housing, Community Development Corporations, and Neighborhood Revitalization 9. The Risks and Rewards of Affordable Home Ownership 10. Preserving Affordable Housing 11. Homelessness and Affordable Housing 12. Inclusionary Housing: Using the Market to Create Affordable Housing 13. Policies, Politics, and the Future of Affordable Housing in the United States

O autorze

Alan Mallach, FAICP, is a nonresident senior fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and a visiting scholar of the Community Affairs Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.