E. Jay Howenstine

Housing Urban America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, ASummary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature.Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aldine de Gruyter / Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 1980
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1272g
• ISBN-13: 9780202320113
• ISBN-10: 0202320111
• Artikelnr.: 26177016

Autorenporträt

Chester Hartman

Inhaltsangabe

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