Housing category: 85 books
Housing America
Building Out of a Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Housing policy not only aff ects all Americans' quality of life, but has a direct impact on their fi nancial well being. About 70 percent of American households own their own homes, and for most, their homes represent the majority of their net worth. Renters are aff ected by housing policy. Even the...
Challenges of the Housing Economy
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This timely book addresses key challenges faced by policy makers and the house-building industry in a post-credit crunch world. It examines the implications for households, the housing market, the economy, as well as for government's policy choices.
Challenges of the Housing Economy: an international...
Race, Housing and Community
Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book provides an important new contribution to debates around housing policy and its impact on community cohesion.
There has never been a more prescient time to discuss these concepts: the book provides an interpretation of housing, race and community cohesion in a highly politicized and...
by Amy M. McClain
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) initiated the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) as a means of preserving affordable housing and infusing capital funds to address a growing backlog of capital needs among the nation's public housing and Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation...
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?
In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing,...
All That Is Solid
How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking new book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect...
Neo-Socialist Property Rights
The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized...
by David Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
An innovative and timely guide to housing law that integrates the disciplines of law and public policy so that readers see how the subject fits together – both the letter of the law and the way it is practised. The innovative three-part structure covers all the topics of a typical Housing Law module...
by Amy M. Glassman, Nydia M. Pouyes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
After providing a brief background on general fair housing laws to provide context for these new developments, this book provides an overview of disparate impact, AFFH, the Equal Access Rule, a proposed HUD rule on hostile housing environments, and the potential impact on housing providers and their counsel.
by Dr David Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice. It acts as a source of reference for anyone studying or working in the housing field; from social policy studies to town planning.
Housing: Participation and Exclusion
Collected Papers from the Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference 1997, University of Wales, Cardiff
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Published in 1998, current themes in housing are explored in this collection of papers. The gamut of issues surrounding participation, such as tenant participation or decision-making participation, together with the forces leading to exclusion, such as in relation to ethnic minorities, are examined....
The Eminent Domain Revolt:
Changing Perceptions a New Constitutional Epoch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ryskamp provides an up-to-the-minute report on the law and politics of eminent domain after the Supreme Court's (in)famous Kelo v. New London decision of June of 2005. All the states are just beginning to debate reforming their eminent ...
What a City Is For
Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.
Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world. This book explores international examples of the property rights tensions involved in attempting to develop denser, more sustainable cities through compulsory acquisition of property. The case studies...