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Cover of Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities
by Douglas Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme. Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal...
Cover of Understanding Government Budgets
by R. Mark Musell
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

Budgets in the United States follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of government finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the thousands of governments in the country, between federal, state, and local levels. Understanding Government Budgets offers...
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Nine Months at Ground Zero

The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other

by Glenn Stout, Charles Vitchers, Robert Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006

Hours after two airplanes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Charlie Vitchers, a construction superintendent, and Bobby Gray, a crane operator, headed downtown. They knew their skills would be crucial amid the chaos and destruction after the towers fell. What they...
Cover of The housing debate
by Lowe, Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011

The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected,...
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Dispatches Against Displacement

Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars

by James Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement...
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Private Financing of Public Transportation Infrastructure

Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships

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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

This book discusses a unique combination of best practices and lessons learned, including evaluation and transparency issues not found elsewhere in other texts. Given that P3s are evolving and changing, it contains the most up to date information and review of relevant sources. Other topics that have...
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The Road to Renewal

Private Investment in the U.S. Transportation Infrastructure

by Richard R. Geddes
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011

Despite record levels of government spending, America's transportation system is plagued by traffic congestion, decaying infrastructure, and politicization of transportation funding-leading to calamities such as the 2007 collapse an interstate highway bridge over the Mississippi River and political...
Cover of The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

Since publication of the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Housing in 1998, many issues have assumed special prominence within this field and, indeed, within the global economy. For instance, the global economic meltdown was spurred in large part by the worst subprime mortgage crisis we’ve seen in...
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Subprime Cities

The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets

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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012

Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent 'subprime' mortgage crisis. Provides an even-handed and detailed analysis of mortgage...
Cover of Race and Real Estate
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015

Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States. Rather than simply rehearsing the standard account of how blacks were historically...
Cover of Regulating the Poor

Regulating the Poor

The Functions of Public Welfare

by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012

Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of...
Cover of Housing: Where’s the Plan?
by Kate Barker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a ‘housing crisis’ in the UK. The housing market has worked well for many people (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of their homes), which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for...
Cover of Restless Citizens
by Udoh Elijah Udom
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010

Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees. Written by Dr. Udoh E. Udom, a retired senior official in the World Health Organization, the book is a robustly critical but deeply informed view of all aspects of UN employment. Excerpted from the foreword by David Antill, School of Law, University of Leicester - UK Words: 60
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The Community Economic Development Movement

Law, Business, and the New Social Policy

by William H. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002

While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and...
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