The Hidden Costs of Housing
Author : Californians for Housing
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Dwellings
ISBN :
Author : Californians for Housing
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Dwellings
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2009
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Citizens Housing and Planning Council (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Accessory apartments
ISBN :
Author : George C. Hemmens
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791429051
This book reviews the status of shared housing in the U.S. housing market, establishes a research and policy agenda on shared housing as a contribution to the national effort to improve housing affordability and quality, and argues for changing public policy to support it.
Author : Matthew Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1789621089
Reconstructing Public Housing unearths Liverpool's hidden history of radical alternatives to municipal housing development and builds a vision of how we might reconstruct public housing on more democratic and cooperative foundations. In this critical social history, Matthew Thompson brings to light how and why this remarkable city became host to two pioneering social movements in collective housing and urban regeneration experimentation. In the 1970s, Liverpool produced one of Britain's largest, most democratic and socially innovative housing co-op movements, including the country's first new-build co-op to be designed, developed and owned by its member-residents. Four decades later, in some of the very same neighbourhoods, several campaigns for urban community land trusts are growing from the grassroots - including the first ever architectural or housing project to be nominated for and win, in 2015, the artworld's coveted Turner Prize. Thompson traces the connections between these movements; how they were shaped by, and in turn transformed, the politics, economics, culture and urbanism of Liverpool. Drawing on theories of capitalism and cooperativism, property and commons, institutional change and urban transformation, Thompson reconsiders Engels' housing question, reflecting on how collective alternatives work in, against and beyond the state and capital, in often surprising and contradictory ways.
Author : Colenutt, Bob
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1447348168
In this accessible and passionately argued book, Bob Colenutt goes to the roots of the long-term crisis in housing and planning in the UK. Providing a much-needed, in-depth critique of the nexus of power of landowners, house builders, financial backers and politicians that makes up the property lobby, this radical book reveals how this complex, self-serving and intimidating network perpetuates a cycle of low supply, high prices and poor building which has resulted in one of the biggest social and economic challenges of our time. With radical ideas for solutions, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in housing, planning and social justice.
Author : Susan J. Popkin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813528335
Describes what it is like to live in some of the worst neighborhoods in the United States and discusses what government officials can do to improve the safety and quality of public housing developments.
Author : James S. Burling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1510781935
A century of policy mistakes ruined America’s cities and created an unprecedented housing crisis. For many families, homelessness is no longer someone else’s problem. It is right around the corner, a real threat in their own immediate future. Our housing crisis is the result of a long history of government policies, court cases, and political manipulation. While these disparate causes make up a tangled web, they have one surprising root: the attack on private property rights. For more than a century, government policies and court decisions have attacked, undermined, and eroded private property rights. Whether it be exclusionary zoning, eminent domain abuse, rent control, or excessive environmental regulations, the cumulative impact of these assaults on private property is that it’s become increasingly difficult—or even impossible—to build adequate housing supplies to meet market demands. We are fast approaching a time when millions of typical Americans will, quite literally, have nowhere to live. Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America’s Housing Crisis, takes readers through the history of how we got here. With stories going back to the Civil War, the early twentieth century, and the ill-fated “urban renewal” movement of the 1950s, Nowhere to Live reveals how the government layered mistake upon mistake to create the current crisis. It also provides a way out: not by government fiat, but through the restoration of private property rights.
Author : Peter J. Wallison
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 159403866X
The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced the Dodd-Frank Act, the most comprehensive financial-system regulation since the New Deal. There is evidence, however, that the Dodd-Frank Act has slowed the recovery from the recession. If insufficient regulation caused the financial crisis, then the Dodd-Frank Act will never be modified or repealed; proponents will argue that doing so will cause another crisis. A competing narrative about what caused the financial crisis has received little attention. This view, which is accepted by almost all Republicans in Congress and most conservatives, contends that the crisis was caused by government housing policies. This book extensively documents this view. For example, it shows that in June 2008, before the crisis, 58 percent of all US mortgages were subprime or other low-quality mortgages. Of these, 76 percent were on the books of government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in 2007 and 2008, they drove down housing prices and weakened banks and other mortgage holders, causing the crisis. After this book is published, no one will be able to claim that the financial crisis was caused by insufficient regulation, or defend Dodd-Frank, without coming to terms with the data this book contains.
Author : George Sternlieb
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Housing
ISBN :