The Affordable Housing Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415669382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 592 str.

Elizabeth Mueller

Opis

This reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground.

Spis treści

Part 1: Conflicting Motivations for Housing Policy in the US  Part 2: Conflicting Views of Causes of Housing Problems, Proper Focus of Assistance  Part 3: Low Income Homeownership – Historical and Current Perspectives  Part 4: Shifting Emphases in the Provision of Affordable Housing: Production, Vouchers and Preservation  Part 5: Competing Goals: Revitalization of Poor Neighborhoods versus Moving to Opportunity?  Part 6: Development Regulations and subsidies as Cause, Solution to Housing Problems  Part 7: Housing and Race: Enduring Challenges, Debated Strategies  Part 8: What Next? The Future of Housing Policy

O autorze

J. Rosie Tighe is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University where she teaches courses on poverty, housing, and other urban issues. She holds a PhD in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin and a MA in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.　Her research focuses on affordable housing policy and planning as well as equity planning in "shrinking" cities. Elizabeth J. Mueller is an associate professor of community and regional planning and social work at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is interested in the ways that public actions shape the social, economic and political opportunities and experiences of vulnerable communities within cities. Her current work focuses on the tensions between current city planning and housing goals.