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Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Second Edition
(February 2014)
The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010
Kevin Fox Gotham - Author
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Updated second edition examining how the real estate industry and federal housing policy have facilitated the development of racial residential segregation.
Traditional explanations of metropolitan development and urban racial segregation have emphasized the role of consumer demand and market dynamics. In the first edition of Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development Kevin Fox Gotham reexamined the assum...(Read More) |
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The Federal Government and Urban Housing, Third Edition
(May 2012)
R. Allen Hays - Author
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A comprehensive history of U.S. housing policy that illuminates the political struggles that have accompanied the nation’s effort to assist those citizens who are in desperate need of decent, affordable housing.
Since its initial publication, The Federal Government and Urban Housing, Third Edition has become a standard reference on the history of housing policy in the United States. It remains a uni...(Read More) |
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The Creation of a Federal Partnership
(November 2010)
The Role of the States in Affordable Housing
Margaret M. Brassil - Author
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New perspective on state-level housing policy, how its role has grown in relation to the federal role.
With the ongoing recession and housing crisis, it has never been more important to understand the federal and state governments’ roles in affordable housing. The Creation of a Federal Partnership takes a fresh look at the history of national and state housing policy by examining the role played ...(Read More) |
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Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development
(July 2002)
The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000
Kevin Fox Gotham - Author
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Examines how the real estate industry and federal housing policy facilitate the development of racial residential segregation.
Traditional explanations of metropolitan development and urban racial segregation have emphasized the role of consumer demand and market dynamics. In Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000, Kevin Fox Gotham reexamines the assumptions behind these e...(Read More) |
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It Takes a Neighborhood
(January 2002)
Strategies to Prevent Urban Decline
David J. Wright - Author
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The Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, a comprehensive community building program in ten neighborhoods from nine mostly mid-sized cities, is examined in It Takes a Neighborhood. Wright shows what was learned through NPI about the value of focusing on working-class neighborhoods, as well as how to think about and structure community building efforts generally. The lessons gained from NPI about engaging established, networked community organ...(Read More) |
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Shelter and Society
(April 1998)
Theory, Research, and Policy for Nonprofit Housing
C. Theodore Koebel - Editor
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An in-depth examination of the non-profit housing sector that covers theory, research, and policy.
Dissatisfied with the performance of government and the for-profit sector in the provision of low-income housing, housing policymakers have increasingly turned to the nonprofit sector. The nonprofit housing sector, despite its small size in the United States and its serious problems with production and management capacity,...(Read More) |
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New Life at Ground Zero
(July 1997)
New York, Home Ownership, and the Future of American Cities
Charles J. Orlebeke - Author
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Presents a lively in-depth look at the efforts and struggles of the New York City Housing Partnership to build moderate and middle-income housing in New York City.
Not long ago, the South Bronx and other devastated New York City neighborhoods had become legendary as the worst urban war zones, so infamous that busloads of foreign tourists would ask to be taken there to snap pictures of the rubble. What's more, the...(Read More) |
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Under One Roof
(July 1996)
Issues and Innovations in Shared Housing
George C. Hemmens - Editor
Charles J. Hoch - Editor
Jana Carp - Editor
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"This book offers intriguing stories and useful analysis about housing generally and housing for particular groups whose needs are often not well served by the market. It also addresses more fundamental questions regarding the culture, values, and politics of American society in general. The message that currently unconventional forms of housing can and do meet real needs, and that many forces restrict such housing development, is important." -- Gre...(Read More) |
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Selling Cities
(August 1995)
Attracting Homebuyers Through Schools and Housing Programs
David P. Varady - Author
Jeffrey A. Raffel - Author
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Shows that cities can be revitalized by attracting and retaining the middle class through schools and housing programs.
"This book offers empirical insights to a critical urban policy issue: Can central cities attract middle-class homeowners? The analysis is thorough, the data interpretation is well balanced and non ideological, and the policy recommendations user-friendly. The argument that cities can do something about decline is an ...(Read More) |
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The Federal Government and Urban Housing
(March 1995)
Second Edition
R. Allen Hays - Author
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This book provides a complete picture of federal housing and community development policy during the last sixty years. Since the first edition was published in 1985, the quality and quantity of published works on U.S. housing policy have increased considerably. But this book still stands out from other works in the breadth of its coverage and analysis. This second edition covers virtually every major program that has attempted to provide housing for...(Read More) |
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