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Chasing the American Dream
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ISBN: 1501731130 9781501731136 9780801445538 0801445531 9780801473616 0801473616 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Providing decent, safe, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families has been an important public policy goal for more than a century. In recent years there has been a clear shift of emphasis among policymakers from a focus on providing affordable rental units to providing affordable homeownership opportunities. Due in part to programs introduced by the Clinton and Bush administrations, the nation's homeownership rate is currently at an all-time high.Does a house become a home only when it comes with a deed attached? Is participation in the real-estate market a precondition to engaged citizenship or wealth creation? The real estate industry's marketing efforts and government policy initiatives might lead one to believe so. The shift in emphasis from rental subsidies to affordable homeownership opportunities has been justified in many ways. Claims for the benefits of homeownership have been largely accepted without close scrutiny. But is homeownership always beneficial for low-income Americans, or are its benefits undermined by the difficulties caused by unfavorable mortgage terms and by the poor condition or location of the homes bought?Chasing the American Dream provides a critical assessment of affordable homeownership policies and goals. Its contributors represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives and offer a thorough understanding of the economic, social, political, architectural, and cultural effects of homeownership programs, as well as their history. The editors draw together the assessments included in this book to prescribe a plan of action that lays out what must be done to make homeownership policy both effective and equitable.Contributors: Eric S. Belsky, Harvard University; Charles C. Bohl, University of Miami; Rachel G. Bratt, Tufts University; J. Michael Collins, Policy Lab Consulting Group, LLC; Walter Davis, Statistics New Zealand; Mark Duda, Harvard University; Avi Friedman, McGill University; Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota; Roberto G. Quercia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Carolina Katz Reid, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Nicolas Retsinas, Harvard University; William M. Rohe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael A. Stegman, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University; Harry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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Where the other half lives
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ISBN: 1783715499 1849644063 9781849644068 074532858X 9780745328584 0745328571 9780745328577 9781783715497 9780745328577 9780745328584 Year: 2009 Publisher: London New York, NY New York, NY

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Home is where the profit is.

Political legitimacy and housing
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ISBN: 041516690X 1134705999 1280328959 0203076184 9780203076187 9786610328956 6610328951 9780415166904 9781134705993 9781134705948 1134705948 9781134705986 1134705980 Year: 1997 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party. Beng-Huat Chua accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, he explains in this incisive analysis, is seen neither as a consumer good (as in the US) nor as a social right (as in the social democracies of Europe). The author goes on to look at the ways in which Singapore's planners have dealt with the problems of creating communities in a modern urban environment. He concludes that the success of the


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Inclusionary housing
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ISBN: 1558443819 1558443304 9781558443815 9781558443303 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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This report illustrates how local governments can realize the full benefit of inclusionaryhousing policies, which require developers of new market-rate real estate to providesome affordable units for lower-income residents. Policy makers, practitioners, and localleaders will learn how to build public support, use data to inform program design,establish reasonable expectations for developers, and ensure long-term program quality.


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The creation of a federal partnership
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ISBN: 1438433344 1441680489 9781441680488 9781438433349 9781438433332 1438433336 9781438433349 Year: 2010 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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New perspective on state-level housing policy, how its role has grown in relation to the federal role.


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Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing
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ISBN: 9781784787394 1784787396 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Verso

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A narrative history of council housing-from slums to the Grenfell Tower. Urgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life. In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history of Britain. Rooted in the ambition to end slum living, and the ideals of those who would build a new society, Municipal Dreams looks at how the state's duty to house its people decently became central to our politics. The book makes it clear why that legacy and its promise should be defended. Traversing the nation in this comprehensive social, political and architectural history of council housing, Boughton offers a tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates-some happily ordinary, some judged notorious. He asks us to understand their complex story and to rethink our prejudices. His accounts include extraordinary planners and architects who wished to elevate working men and women through design; the competing ideologies that have promoted state housing and condemned it; the economic factors that have always constrained our housing ideals; the crisis wrought by Right to Buy; and the evolving controversies around regeneration. Boughton shows how losing the dream of good housing has weakened our community and hurt its most vulnerable-as was seen most catastrophically in the fire at Grenfell Tower.


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A new home
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ISBN: 3954891972 3954896974 9783954896974 9783954891979 Year: 2014 Publisher: Hamburg, Germany

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Homeless young adults represent a failure of the U.S. social services system to prevent new generations of homeless people. However, several organizations are working in concert with communities and governments to combat this problem through transitional housing programs that target young adults ages 18 to 24. Many of these programs mirror the new urban development trend of mixed-income housing, and place transitional houses inside stable neighborhoods that are either affluent or mixed-income themselves. While these programs represent monumental commitments in terms of resources, they also rep


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Het Lange Koord tussen Portefeuillebeleid en Investeringen van Woningcorporaties
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ISBN: 1282601024 9786612601026 9051995245 9789051995244 9051995237 9789051995237 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam IOS Press

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Sinds de financiële verzelfstandiging van de Nederlandse sociale-huursector in de jaren 80 en 90 van de vorige eeuw hebben woningcorporaties een grotere beleidsverantwoordelijkheid gekregen wat betreft de ontwikkeling van hun woningbestand. Dit heeft geleid tot een verhoogde activiteit in het ontwikkelen van portefeuillebeleid en tot de opkomst van systematische methoden om dit beleid te concretiseren in investeringskeuzen op complex- of woningniveau, zoals renoveren, verkopen, slopen of 'gewoon' onderhouden. Dit boek gaat in op de vraag, in hoeverre het ontwikkelde portefeuillebeleid van woni

At home with density
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ISBN: 1282705385 9786612705380 9882200311 9789882200319 9622096018 9789622096011 9622096026 9789622096028 Year: 2003 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press

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Hong Kong has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and is one of the most prosperous societies , but much of the population lives in low quality, high-density housing. Through qualitative interviews with long-term residents of public housing, this book explores residents' experience of high-density space.


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Competition between social and private rental housing
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ISBN: 129933346X 1614991936 9781614991939 1614991928 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam IOS Press

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In the context of shifting regulatory approaches and changing provision structures in many Western rental housing systems, the notion of competition between social and private rental housing has received increasing attention from practitioners and academic researchers. This thesis explores and theorises the concept of inter-tenure competition in order to advance understanding of what it means in local and national market realities, as well as in business and political practices. Results indicate that competition in mixed markets is a complex matter, much of which is explained by the distinctive properties of social and private rental services. Inter-tenure competition is shown to be the interplay of structural and political conditions, individual and organisational business goals, and the perceptions and strategic decisions of both providers and consumers. The results suggest that the degree of competition relates to specific points in time and is mainly a question of which rental market segment one is looking at.

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