The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning
The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning

Author: Katrin B. Anacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1317282698

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The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies. This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.

Public Housing
Public Housing

Author: Judy A. England-Joseph

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1999-12

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0788184601

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The nation's 1.3 million public housing units, annually receive appropriations of nearly $6 billion, including almost $3 billion to subsidize the operating budgets of nearly 3,200 local public housing authorities. To determine whether the resources provided to public housing authorities could be used more efficiently and effectively, this report reviews the use of private contractors in the public housing industry. This report is based on a mail survey to a sample of about 1,200 housing authorities, and on meetings with public housing experts, private management companies, public housing residents, and officials of HUD. Charts and tables.

Managing Affordable Housing
Managing Affordable Housing

Author: Bennett L. Hecht

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1996-04-26

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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This book shows how to implement strategies for successfully managing affordable housing. It is the first book to combine property management with economic development--a new strategy that uses the resources of housing developments to create more stable communities.

Reclaiming Public Housing
Reclaiming Public Housing

Author: Lawrence J. Vale

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9780674008984

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Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.