1st Edition
Affordable Housing in the United States
Contents
Book Summary
Acknowledgments
PART I: Introduction
Chapter 1 What is Affordable Housing?
PART II: Understanding Affordable Housing
Chapter 2 The Housing Stock in the U.S.
Chapter 3 Deconstructing Affordability
Chapter 4 Historical Perspectives on Affordable Housing
Chapter 5 Race and Affordable Housing
Chapter 6 Housing Instability
PART III: Providing Access to Affordable Housing
Chapter 7 Sectors and Actors Involved in the Provision of Affordable Housing
Chapter 8 Supply Side Housing Assistance
Chapter 9 Demand Side Housing Assistance
Chapter 10 Affordable Homeownership
Chapter 11 Regulatory Strategies to Provide Access to Affordable Housing
PART IV: Case Studies
Chapter 12 Chicago, IL
Chapter 13 San Antonio, TX
Chapter 14 Seattle, WA
PART V: The Path Forward
Chapter 15 An Affordable Housing Roadmap
Index
Biography
Gregg Colburn is an Associate Professor in the Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, at the University of Washington. He enjoys teaching courses in housing, economics, and finance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research focuses on housing policy, housing markets, housing affordability, and homelessness. He is also actively engaged in community efforts to address the acute housing crisis in the Puget Sound region. He is the author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem (2022).
Rebecca Walter is an Associate Professor in the Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, at the University of Washington. Her research is focused on policy innovation in low-income housing. She emphasizes a spatial analytical approach to examine how housing policies either expand opportunity or perpetuate inequality for low-income households. Most of her work is applied as it involves direct engagement with public housing authorities and non-profit housing providers.
"Recent economic upheavals, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have focused attention on the millions of households across the United States that face housing instability and the racially uneven impacts of securing and paying for housing. Affordable Housing in the United States offers a timely contribution to understand the structural drivers of housing unaffordability and the various policies and regulations that can incentivize or impede affordable housing delivery...The book provides a comprehensive overview of the affordable housing landscape and an expert synthesis of recent housing research [and] is a meaningful contribution to the field of housing studies and an invaluable read for students, policymakers, and housing advocates alike."
Jenna Davis, University of California, Berkeley, review for the Journal of the American Planning Association
