Rethinking Rental Housing

Author : John Gilderbloom,Richard P. Appelbaum
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877225389

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Rethinking Rental Housing by John Gilderbloom,Richard P. Appelbaum Pdf

In recent years, almost daily media attention has been focused on the plight of the homeless in cities across the United States. Drawing upon experiences in the U.S. and Europe, John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum challenge conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing markets and provide policy alternatives directed at the needs of low- and moderate-income families. Rethinking Rental Housing is a ground-breaking analysis that shows the value of applying a broad sociological approach to urban problems, one that takes into account the basic economic, social, and political dimensions of the urban housing crisis. Gilderbloom and Appelbaum predict that this crisis will worsen in the 1990s and argue that a "supply and demand" approach will not work in this case because housing markets are not competitive. They propose that the most effective approach to affordable housing is to provide non-market alternatives fashioned after European housing programs, particularly the Swedish model. An important feature of this book is the discussion of tenant movements that have tried to implement community values in opposition to values of development and landlord capital. One of the very few publications on rental housing, it is unique in applying a sociological framework to the study of this topic.

Author : John Ingram Gilderbloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Housing policy
ISBN : OCLC:1036807638

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Rethinking Rental Housing by John Ingram Gilderbloom Pdf

Author : George Fallis,C.D. Howe Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Housing policy
ISBN : NWU:35556025970906

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Home Remedies by George Fallis,C.D. Howe Institute Pdf

As part of a series of volumes on reforming Canadian social policy, this volume offers a compilation of essays discussing various aspects of Canadian housing policy. The essays examine the potential role of federal social housing policy within a major reform of Canada's social security system; the issue of affordable housing at an affordable social cost, including the role of nonprofit social housing, municipal zoning, and secondary suites; lessons to be learned from Ontario's housing policy regarding rent controls, housing subsidies, and private sector housing development; the concept of urban villages; and the finding of common ground among the various interest groups within the housing sector.

Author : Nicolas P. Retsinas,Eric S. Belsky
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815774129

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Revisiting Rental Housing by Nicolas P. Retsinas,Eric S. Belsky Pdf

Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Government policies and programs continue to grapple with problematic issues, however, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, concentrated poverty, substandard housing stock, and the unmet needs of the disabled, the elderly, and the homeless. In R evisiting Rental Housing, leading housing researchers build upon decades of experience, research, and evaluation to inform our understanding of the nation's rental housing challenges and what can be done about them. It thoughtfully addresses not only present issues affecting rental housing, but also viable solutions. The first section reviews the contributing factors and primary problems generated by the operation of rental markets. In the second section, contributors dissect how policies and programs have—or have not—dealt with the primary challenges; what improvements—if any—have been gained; and the lessons learned in the process. The final section looks to potential new directions in housing policy, including integrating best practices from past lessons into existing programs, and new innovations for large-scale, long-term market and policy solutions that get to the root of rental housing challenges. Contributors include William C. Apgar (Harvard University), Anthony Downs (Brookings), Rachel Drew (Harvard University), Ingrid Gould Ellen (New York University), George C. Galster (Wayne State University), Bruce Katz (Brookings), Jill Khadduri (Abt Associates), Shekar Narasimhan (Beekman Advisors), Rolf Pendall (Cornell University), John M. Quigley (University of California–Berkeley), James A. Riccio (MDRC), Stuart S. Rosenthal (Syracuse University), Margery Austin Turner (Urban Institute), and Charles Wilkins (Compass Group).

Author : Shamubeel Eaqub,Selena Eaqub
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780908321049

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Generation Rent by Shamubeel Eaqub,Selena Eaqub Pdf

The decline of home ownership has struck at the heart of the Kiwi dream – so perhaps it is time to fashion a new one. House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. Generation Rent calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand’s identity. In this BWB Text, Shamubeel and Selena Eaqub investigate how we ended up here, and what can be done to ensure all New Zealanders – home owners and renters alike – live in affordable and secure housing.

Author : Ira Gary Peppercorn,Claude Taffin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821397985

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Rental Housing by Ira Gary Peppercorn,Claude Taffin Pdf

This book aims to bring rental housing to the forefront of the housing agenda in countries around the world and to provide general guidance for policy makers on how to develop or redevelop a sound rental sector.

Author : Josh Ryan-Collins,Toby Lloyd,Laurie Macfarlane
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786991218

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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Josh Ryan-Collins,Toby Lloyd,Laurie Macfarlane Pdf

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, financial instability and growing inequalities - are intimately tied to the land economy. Looking at the ways in which discussions of land have been routinely excluded from both housing policy and economic theory, the authors show that in order to tackle these increasingly pressing issues a major rethink by both politicians and economists is required.

Author : William C. Apgar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Rental housing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114240109

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Rethinking Rental Housing by William C. Apgar Pdf

Author : J Kemeny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134888900

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From Public Housing Soc Market by J Kemeny Pdf

Jim Kemeny develops a conceptual framework to present a critical study of comparative rental markets. The framework centres around the concept of the process of maturation of cost rental housing and two policies for handling this which have been adopted by industrial societies. These are, firstly, the Anglo-Saxon "dualist" system, seen in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and secondly, the Germanic "unitary market" system, seen in Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Using a comparative approach based around international case studies, Jim Kemeny shows how each system stems from different power structures, is governed by different policy strategies, and is informed by different ideological views of how markets operate. Offering a radical critique of the orthodox view, it is argued that the time is now right for English-speaking nations to abandon state control over cost renting but allow to it to compete directly with profit renting, as in the "unitary market" model. International in scope, this volume should be of interest to researchers in housing, sociology and related fields.

Author : Neil Gray
Publisher : Transforming Capitalism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Housing
ISBN : 1786605759

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Rent and Its Discontents by Neil Gray Pdf

The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century. With the decimation of social housing and the resurgence of a profoundly exploitative private housing market, the contemporary political economy of housing now shares many distressing features with the situation one hundred years ago. Starting with a re-appraisal of the Rent Strikes, this book asks what housing campaigners can learn today from a proven organisational victory for the working class. A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies of current urban resistance, seeking to make a vital contribution to the contemporary housing question in a time of crisis.

Author : University of Toronto. Centre for Urban and Community Studies
Publisher : Centre for Urban & Regional Studies University of Birmingham
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000100279763

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Finding Room by University of Toronto. Centre for Urban and Community Studies Pdf

Author : Patrick Condon
Publisher : James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN : 1777456002

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Sick City by Patrick Condon Pdf

Sick City is a call to action prompted by the crisis that crippled our cities, the pandemic. But the pandemic has brought the issues of race, inequality and unaffordability to the forefront as well, illustrating how all of these ills can be traced to unequal access to urban land. Patrick Condon walks the reader through that history, proving that most of these problems are rooted in the inflation of urban land value - land that is no longer priced for its value for housing but as an asset class in a global market hungry for assets of all kinds. The American wage earner who is most affected by COVID is also the worst hit by the surging price of urban land which has made the essential commodity of housing increasingly inaccessible. Not only does Condon dive deep into myriad and credible references to prove these points, but he also wraps up the conversation with some eminently practical and widely precedented policy actions that municipalities can enact - policy tools to establish housing justice at the same time slow the flow of land value increases into the pockets of land speculators.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 3870 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780080471716

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International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home by Anonim Pdf

Available online via SciVerse ScienceDirect, or in print for a limited time only, The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Seven Volume Set is the first international reference work for housing scholars and professionals, that uses studies in economics and finance, psychology, social policy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, law, and other disciplines to create an international portrait of housing in all its facets: from meanings of home at the microscale, to impacts on macro-economy. This comprehensive work is edited by distinguished housing expert Susan J. Smith, together with Marja Elsinga, Ong Seow Eng, Lorna Fox O'Mahony and Susan Wachter, and a multi-disciplinary editorial team of 20 world-class scholars in all. Working at the cutting edge of their subject, liaising with an expert editorial advisory board, and engaging with policy-makers and professionals, the editors have worked for almost five years to secure the quality, reach, relevance and coherence of this work. A broad and inclusive table of contents signals (or tesitifes to) detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues. This seven-volume set contains over 500 entries, listed alphabetically, but grouped into seven thematic sections including methods and approaches; economics and finance; environments; home and homelessness; institutions; policy; and welfare and well-being. Housing professionals, both academics and practitioners, will find The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home useful for teaching, discovery, and research needs. International in scope, engaging with trends in every world region The editorial board and contributors are drawn from a wide constituency, collating expertise from academics, policy makers, professionals and practitioners, and from every key center for housing research Every entry stands alone on its merits and is accessed alphabetically, yet each is fully cross-referenced, and attached to one of seven thematic categories whose ‘wholes' far exceed the sum of their parts

Author : Randy Shaw
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520976184

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Generation Priced Out by Randy Shaw Pdf

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists in over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis. From San Francisco to New York, Seattle to Denver, and Los Angeles to Austin, Generation Priced Out challenges progressive cities to reverse rising economic and racial inequality. Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Shaw also demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America.

Author : Jim Kemeny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134924387

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Housing and Social Theory by Jim Kemeny Pdf

Studies in housing have often concentrated on an abstract institutionalised approach isolated from the broader base of the social sciences. This book is the first to treat housing as a subject of social theory. It provides a critique of current research and theorises housing in relation to political science, social change and welfare developing a case study to illustrate these applications. By being sometimes controversial, this book will stimulate debate among housing theorists and sociologists alike. The Author is currently Senior Research fellow at the Swedish Institute for Building Research and Docent in Sociology at Uppsala University. He has written widely on Housing, Urban Studies and Sociology and his books include THE MYTH OF HOME OWNERSHIP and THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN NIGHTMARE.