Housing Urban America (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hartman, Chester

• Format: ePub

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 683
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351514897
• Artikelnr.: 49258982

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