Housing

Author : Jim Silver,Josh Brandon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Housing policy
ISBN : 155266791X

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Poor Housing by Jim Silver,Josh Brandon Pdf

"There is, in all of Canada, a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and a great deal of inadequate, and often appalling, housing. This has been the case for many decades. The poor condition of their housing adds to the weight of the complex poverty that poor people endure-their health is likely to worsen, their children's education may be adversely affected, their neighbourhoods may be prone to violence. However, the federal government has almost always been ideologically opposed to public investment in low-income housing, moreso now than earlier federal governments. The irony is that the social costs of poor housing and its attendant complex poverty with which it is typically associated are greater than the costs of investing in subsidized, social housing and associated anti-poverty measures. It is long past time that we set in motion the means by which this problem can finally be solved. Poor Housing examines some of the consequences of the dogged persistence of poor housing for low-income people using Winnipeg as a case study, and it looks at some innovative community-based strategies that have been and are being tried in an attempt to solve at least some aspects of the problem."--

Author : Daniel G. Parolek
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830545

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Missing Middle Housing by Daniel G. Parolek Pdf

Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.

Author : Greg Suttor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773548589

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Still Renovating by Greg Suttor Pdf

Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affordable homes and solutions to homelessness, housing is once again an important issue. In Still Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the story of the rise and fall of Canadian social housing policy. Focusing on the main turning points through the past seven decades, and the forces that shaped policy, this volume makes new use of archival sources and interviews, pays particular attention to institutional momentum, and describes key housing programs. The analysis looks at political change, social policy trends, housing market conditions, and game-changing decisions that altered the approaches of Canadian governments, their provincial partners, and the local agencies they supported. Reinterpreting accounts written in the social housing heyday, Suttor argues that the 1970s shift from low-income public housing to community-based non-profits and co-ops was not the most significant change, highlighting instead the tenfold expansion of activity in the 1960s and the collapse of social housing as a policy priority in the 1990s. As housing and neighbourhood issues continue to flare up in municipal, provincial, and national politics, Still Renovating is a valuable resource on Canada’s distinctive legacy in affordable housing.

Author : Peter Marcuse,David Madden
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784783563

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In Defense of Housing by Peter Marcuse,David Madden Pdf

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Author : Brian Lund
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447330448

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Understanding Housing Policy by Brian Lund Pdf

What are the major housing problems in contemporary Britain, and how effective are the policies designed to tackle them? Since the second edition of Understanding Housing Policy was published in 2011, political and financial circumstances have transformed the answers to these questions. In this fully updated third edition, Brian Lund both explores how these policies developed and were implemented under the UK Coalition Government and looks ahead to the possible revisions under the new Conservative Government. Integrating the previous edition with new discussions of such subjects as the austerity agenda following the credit crunch, the impact of the Coalition Government's housing policies, and new policy ideas, Lund offers keen insight into the pervasive impact of need, demand, and supply as applied to the housing market and austerity policies.

Author : Alex Bozikovic,Cheryll Case,John Lorinc,Annabel Vaughan
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770565937

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House Divided by Alex Bozikovic,Cheryll Case,John Lorinc,Annabel Vaughan Pdf

Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects “stable” residential neighborhoods with high property values. House Divided is a citizen’s guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this anthology unpacks the affordability crisis and offers innovative ideas for creating housing for all ages and demographic groups. With charts, maps, data, and policy prescriptions, House Divided poses tough questions about the issue that will make or break the global city of the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : UCR:31210023590787

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1980 Census of Housing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Housing
ISBN : UCR:31210011559042

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Current Housing Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642831337

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The Affordable City by Shane Phillips Pdf

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCR:31210014043440

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Section 8 Housing by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Housing
ISBN : UCR:31210015721911

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The Housing Authorization Act of 1976 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development Pdf

Author : Kıvanç Kılınç,Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253039880

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Social Housing in the Middle East by Kıvanç Kılınç,Mohammad Gharipour Pdf

As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both gleaming postmodern projects and bare-bones urban housing structures—in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their impact on identities, communities, and class. While architects may have envisioned utopian or futuristic experiments, these buildings were often constructed with the knowledge and skill sets of local workers, and the housing was in turn adapted to suit the modern needs of residents. This tension between local needs and national aspirations are linked to issues of global importance, including security, migration, and refugee resettlement. The essays collected here consider how culture, faith, and politics influenced the solutions offered by social housing; they provide an insightful look at how social housing has evolved since the 19th century and how it will need to adapt to suit the 21st.

Author : Trivess Moore,Andréanne Doyon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789819927609

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A Transition to Sustainable Housing by Trivess Moore,Andréanne Doyon Pdf

This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Housing
ISBN : UIUC:30112084819355

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National Housing Act as Amended and Provisions of Other Laws Pertaining to the Federal Housing Administration by United States Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fort Smith Metropolitan Area (Ark.)
ISBN : MINN:30000003254178

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1990 Census of Population and Housing by Anonim Pdf