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The Business of Affordable Housing: Case Studies of the Commercial Supply of Affordable Homes book cover

1st Edition

The Business of Affordable Housing Case Studies of the Commercial Supply of Affordable Homes

By Alexander Styhre Copyright 2024
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of homeownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society, and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical studies of housing development and construction companies or building societies that actively work to supply this asset class in the economy. There are... Read more

Part I: The institutionally embedded production of affordable housing 1. The housing question: political deliberations and policymaking in financialized housing markets 2. The welfare consequences of housing policy Part II: To supply commercially affordable housing: how to align policies and practices 3. The methodology of the study 4. To acquire buildable land: collaborating with municipality agencies and their officials 5. The mundanity of cost cutting: the value of small wins in affordable housing production 6. Affordable housing and the aesthetic imperative: who gets to decide what to be built? 7. Meaning and social contributions in affordable housing production: the perceived value of work that matters 8. To supply affordable homes: theoretical contributions and policy implications

Biography

Alexander Styhre is chair of management and organization, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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