688 Pages
by
Routledge
688 Pages
by
Routledge
683 Pages
by
Routledge
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president's cabinet and the college curriculum.The editors of this book have... Read more
Introduction; I: Politics; 1: Social Class and Housing Reform; 2: The Homebuilders’ Lobby; 3: The Rise of Tenant Organizations; 4: Boardwalk and Park Place; 5: Beyond URLTA; 6: Alternative Strategies for the Urban Ghetto; 7: The Case Against Urban Desegregation; 8: The Courts and Desegregated Housing; 9: Public Housing; 10: The Politics of Housing; II: Social Aspects; 11: The Balanced Community; 12: Equal Status, Housing Integration, and Racial Prejudice; 13: The Effects of Poor Housing; 14: An Alternative to a Density Function Definition of Overcrowding; 15: Determinism by the Urban Environment; 16: Fear and the House-as-Haven in the Lower Class; 17: Environmental Preferences of Future Housing Consumers; III: Economics; 18: The Journey to-Work as a Determinant of Residential Location; 19: A Competitive Theory of the Housing Market; 20: The Determinants of Dwelling-Unit Condition; 21: Effect of Housing Market Segregation on Urban Development; 22: An Economic Analysis of Property Values and Race (Laurenti); 23: The Ghetto Makers; 24: The New Regulation Comes the Suburbs; 25: Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending; IV: Production; 26: The Causes of Recent Instability in the Housing Sector; 27: Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; 28: Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production; 29: Efficiency in the Construction Industry; 30: Regulatory Barriers to the Diffusion of Innovation: Some Evidence from Building Codes; 31: Restrictive Union Practices; 32: Reducing the Cost of New Construction; 33: Trade Union Discrimination in the Pittsburgh Construction Industry; 34: Federal Income Taxation and Urban Housing; V: Policies and Programs; 35: The Bias of American Housing Policy; 36: Federal Housing Policy: A Political-Economic Analysis; 37: The Social Utility of Rent Control; 38: Public Housing and the Poor; 39: Section 235 of the National Housing Act: Homeownership for Low-income Families?; 40: Housing Assistance for Low- and Moderate-Income Families; 41: A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program; 42: Using the Lessons of Experience to Allocate Resources in the Community Development Program; 43: Neighborhood Revitalization; The Experience and the Promise; 44: Effects of the Property Tax in Urban Areas; 45: Municpal Housing Code Enforcement and Low-Income Tenants; 46: How to Understand a Subsidized-Honsing Syndication; 47: The Private Sector and Community Development: A Cautious Proposal; 48: Toward a New Federal Housing Policy; 49: The Lessons of Pruitt-Igoe; 50: Income Strategy and Housing Supply; 51: Housing and Public Policy Analysis
Biography
Chester Hartman
