The Federal Government and Urban Housing

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The Federal Government and Urban Housing
Second Edition

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R. Allen Hays - Author

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Hardcover - 348 pages

Release Date: March 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2325-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2325-7

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Paperback - 348 pages

Release Date: March 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2326-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2326-4

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Summary

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 disadvantaged persons and compares and contrasts their underlying approaches to housing problems. It also examines the impact of major community development programs--urban renewal and Community Development Block Grants--on urban housing. The coverage of U.S. housing policy extends through the first year of the Clinton administration.

Most notably, Hays calls into question the generally negative appraisal of housing programs that is widespread in the public policy and urban politics literature. He shows that although most of these programs have experienced major problems, none has been an unqualified failure, and most have improved the housing conditions of millions of people. Placing the federal government's attempts to deal with housing problems within a broader analytical framework by relating them to long and short-term political changes, Hays argues that the political variable with the most impact on the course of housing policy has been ideology--in particular, the ideological orientations of the various presidential administrations during the past sixty years.

R. Allen Hays is Professor of Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa. His other published research covers such topics as urban renewal, housing rehabilitation, intergovernmental relations, transportation policy, and government policies promoting home ownership.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction

1. Power, Ideology, and Public Policy

2. The Ideological Context of Housing Policy

3. Housing Markets and Submarkets

4. Federal Housing Assistance from the Depression to the Moratorium: 1934-1973

5. New Directions in Housing Subsidies: 1973-1980

6. The Growth of the Federal Role in Community Development

7. Community Development Block Grants

8. Retrenchment and Recovery: From Reagan to Clinton

9. Federal Housing Policy: Past, Present and Future

References

Index

Related Subjects

Housing
Political Science
Public Policy
Social & Cultural History
Urban Studies
Urban & Regional Planning
Urban Sociology

25850/25892(CM//)

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