Housing Affordability
Class Textbooks
- Housing Policy in the United States by Alex F. SchwartzISBN: 9780367563905Publication Date: 2021-04-01There is a print copy available of this book for checkout, and another on Open Reserve on the third floor for use in the library
- Fixer-Upper by Jenny SchuetzISBN: 9780815739289Publication Date: 2022-02-22This book is available for both checkout in print and online
- Homelessness Is a Housing Problem by Gregg Colburn; Clayton Page AldernCall Number: onlineISBN: 9780520383784Publication Date: 2022-03-15This book is available online through the library
- Arbitrary Lines by M. Nolan GrayCall Number: onlineISBN: 9781642832556Publication Date: 2022-06-21This book is available online through the library.
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondCall Number: onlineISBN: 0553447440Publication Date: 2016This is available online
- Triumph of the City by Edward GlaeserCall Number: in print or onlineISBN: 9781594202773Publication Date: 2011-02-10This book is available in print and online through the library.
- The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico MorettiISBN: 9780547750149Publication Date: 2012-05-22Available in print through the library.
Books on Affordable Housing
- The Federal Government and Urban Housing by R. Allen HaysCall Number: eBookA 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.
- The Geography of Opportunity: race and housing choice in metropolitan America by Xavier de Souza BriggsCall Number: eBookPersistent patterns of segregation by race and income still exist in housing and schools, along with a growing emphasis on rapid metropolitan development (sprawl) that encourages upwardly mobile families to abandon older communities and their problems. This dual pattern is becoming increasingly important as America grows more diverse than ever and economic inequality increases.
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind: homeless children and families in small-town America by Yvonne VissingCall Number: eBook and printHomelessness in small towns and rural areas is on the rise. Drawing on interviews with and case studies of three hundred children and their families, with supporting statistics from federal, state, and private agencies, Vissing illustrates the impact this social problem has upon education, health, and the economy.
- The Business of Affordable Housing by Alexander StyhreISBN: 9781032559551Publication Date: 2024-05-01Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of homeownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society, and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical studies of housing development and construction companies or building societies that actively work to supply this asset class in the economy. There are several reasons for this condition, including the "thin market" for such business activities. This book offers a case study that includes two Swedish housing development companies that have targeted a market niche for affordable homes that few other companies and market actors are concerned with. One company is part of a major construction company conglomerate which produces prefabricated housing modules to better serve the low-end niche of the housing market. The other company is a municipality-owned housing development company that acts on the basis of market practices and rules but that also on policymakers' stated ambition to provide affordable homes for the residents in the municipality, the largest municipality in a major Swedish metropolitan area. Taken together, the study of these two companies provides first-hand insights into how the production of affordable homes takes place in a real-world economy. The book is of relevance for a variety of readers, including graduate students, management scholars, policymakers, and management consultants.
- The Economics of Affordable Housing by Alexander StyhreCall Number: onlineISBN: 9781003244417Publication Date: 2022-11-23The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in diverse regions and countries. At the same time, over the entire post-World War II period, there has been a notable endemic shortage of affordable housing in many advanced economies. This book points at both the causes and the consequences of this circumstance and provides an integrated economic and legal view of how housing production is dependent on housing finance, which, in turn, means that legal conditions and the sovereign state play an active role. Further, the book contributes to the literature from two otherwise partially separated disciplines - housing and urban development studies on the one hand and the institutional centrality of the finance industry in the contemporary economic system on the other. The author asserts that although somewhat assimilated due to the ambitions of policy makers to optimize social and economic welfare for their constituencies, the combining of these two realms of expertise generates many favourable outcomes, but also some costs derived from finance industry instabilities. The book connects theoretical perspectives and provides an empirical explanation for how affordable housing is generated in an actual real world economy context. The book will be relevant to the work of a number of academic disciplines including economics, government studies, housing policy and urban planning, social geography and law and society.
- Understanding Affordability by Geoffrey Meen; Christine WhiteheadISBN: 9781529211863Publication Date: 2020-08-05For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists - and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks to tackle one of today's most important socio-economic issues. Housing unaffordability arises from complex forces and a prerequisite to effective policy is understanding the causes of rising house prices and rents and the interactions between housing, housing finance and the macroeconomy. The authors challenge many of the conventional wisdoms in housing policy and offer innovative recommendations to improve affordability.
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